What is DynEurBraz


DynEurBraz is an exchange program between Europe and Brazil.
 The program exchange concerns researchers in fundamental mathematics. The topic is
the study of dynamical systems. Dynamical systems represent the mathematical way to
study chaos. One of the sources of inspiration was the strange attractors discovered by
meteorologists (the famous "butterfly effect"). This exchange program concerns a large
part of the European experts in that topic. As Brazil stands for the one of the strongest country in
dynamical systems, the aim of this program is to allow a deep transfer of knowledge from
Brazil to Europe and a long term cooperation between the best European researchers and
their highly renowned Brazilian pairs. 
This exchange program will give each researcher the opportunity to work in groups on
their specific topics but also to benefit from knowledge developed in interconnected topics.
To this purpose the project has been divided in the following three broad categories (Workpackage):
Quasi-periodic dynamics, Hyperbolic dynamics and Bifurcation theory.
 







The program involves the following institutions


Europe :


Brazil :


The program has funds for 146 months from Europe to Brazil and 57 months from Brazil to Europe.
The application requires 80 months from Brazil to Europe funded by other means.

IRSES funding is only aimed at exchange of seconded researcher for a duration of entire number of months. For each month, the seconded researcher get 1710 euros. This is a fixed-price including the travel and subsidence costs of the researcher. It is however not excluding other supports.


Here is the initial table of programmed missions per institution :

paris-sud = CNRS





This initial program is however flexible. Hence, each member of one of the mentionned institutions can use the funds to visit any institution (in the other continent): missions from Europe to Brazil or Brazil to Europe.  If you are member of one of these institution and want to use the funds to go from Europe to Brazil or Brazil to Europe, please contact the member of the steering commitee of your own Institution:


Europe:
Imperial (Jeroen Lamb)
Warwick (Sebastian van Strien)
Pisa (Stefano Marmi)
Brest (Renaud Leplaideur, overall coordinator) (renaud.leplaideur [at] univ-brest.fr)
CNRS (Jérôme Buzzi)
Brazil:
IMPA (Marcelo Viana)
UNICAMP (Marco AntonioTeixeira)
UFRJ (Samuel Senti)
UFF (Isabel Rios)
UFAL (Krerley Oliveira)



What is a mission and who can benefit by funds ?


A mission has a duration equal to full number of months. The same person cannot have more than 12 months of missions.

A mission can be split into two pieces, but in any case the reimbursements can only be based on full-month equivalent. Meaning that if a researcher stays 2 weeks, S/He (or an equivalent researcher) must compensate and complete the remaining time to achieve the full time equivalent month.

Every member of the partner institutions can benefit of funds (already allocated to the institutions), if he/she already has a salary. Funds cannot be allocated to people without incomes (in relation with the research work).

Here the up-dated (as well as possible) information on missions  supported by DynEurBraz. Here, the up-dated table of missions supported by DynEurBraz.



How does the Steering Commitee work


1) The steering committee approves by default all changes in the program (for IRSES funded missions) suggested by steering committee members that involve missions of less than 6 months which involve previously named people, unless the total amount of missions exceeds the total (4-year) budget of a given node. 

2) For any mission, the scientific coordinator is informed (by the beneficiary or by a steering committee member)  about a mission (normally at least a week) before it is taking place. The scientific coordinator can then pro forma verify that such a mission is automatically approved by the above decision of the steering committee. If he sees a problem with any announced mission, the entire steering committee will be involved.

3) If missions involve new staff (not previously mentioned in any paperwork), then such staff should be explicitly announced to the scientific coordinaor (by e-mail). If he thinks the new staff is not eligible, the entire steering committee will be involved.

4) If missions are for 6 months or more, and it was not already in the original schedule, the entire steering committee will be asked its approval at least two months before the mission.

5) Every twelve months, the steering committee is given the opportunity to assess the activity and make proposals to change node-budgets to address mismatches of supply-and-demand of funds.

6) For the votes, the rule is "no show=no vote".

7) These rules may be adaped, if during the ongoing project evaluations it turns out that the guidelines are not efficient as set.




Paperwork

For European researchers :


For each mission, there is some paperwork to do:

  1. Prior to the secondment period, the seconded researcher sends to the member of the steering committee from his/her institution  a certificate (P1) from the researcher’s Home organisation signed by its duly authorised representative mentioning:

    - The name and forename and function of the selected seconded researcher

    - The name of the researcher’s laboratory, department
    - The number of secondment months allowed
    - The name of the Host institution

  2. After the secondment period, the Host organisation shall provide within thirty (30) calendar days, the beneficiary with a certificate (P2) proving that the secondment period has been done mentioning the previous details.

  3. After the secondment, the seconded researcher has to send a scientific report (P3) on the visit to the scientific coordinator.


A model  of document P1 (e.g. the document used at UBO) can been found here.

A model of items for Scientific report can been found here in open format (Open Office) and here in .DOC.

Remind that all partners have to keep records of your secondments and all justification documents.

For Brazilian researchers who want to use DynEurBraz funds :



  1. Prior to the secondment period, the seconded researcher sends to the scientific coordinator  a certificate (P1) from the researcher’s Home organisation signed by its duly authorised representative mentioning:

    - The name and forename and function of the selected seconded researcher

    - The name of the researcher’s laboratory, department
    - The number of secondment months allowed
    - The name of the Host institution

  2. Prior to the secondment period, send to the scientific coordinator your Bank details (International Bank Account Number, Bank Identifier Code…).

  3. After the secondment period, the Host organisation shall provide within thirty (30) calendar days, the beneficiary with a certificate (P2) proving that the secondment period has been done mentioning the previous details. Send a copy to the scientific coordinator.

  4. After the secondment, the seconded researcher has to send a scientific report (P3) on the visit to the scientific coordinator.



How to get the money ?

For researchers from European partner, this has to be seen directly with your institution.


For Brazilians, you shall be paid by the administrative coordinator (UBO). You have to send the original documents  (P1 and P2) for the payment of your secondments  according to article 8 of the Partnership Agreement.  Payment shall be made on receipt of the original documents within a period of thirty (30) calendar days prior to the secondment period.




Other activities of the Steering Commitee




The Steering Commitee  may reattribute missions from Europe to Brazil among European partners.
Each year, the scientific coordinator provides the Eruopean Commission with a scientific report.


Conferences co-organized by DynEurBraz



International Conference on Dynamical Systems. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Jacob Palis

Búzios, Rio de Janeiro,  25/02/10 - 05/03/10:


http://www.impa.br/opencms/pt/eventos/store/evento_1002?link=6


1st Brazilian School on Dynamical Systems

February 01-11, 2010 at the Institute of Mathematics at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, Brazil :

http://www.im.ufal.br/ebsd/english/index_en.html