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 :
Imperial College (England)
Univeristy of Warwick (England)
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy)
CNRS (France)
Université de Brest (France)-administrative coordinator
Brazil :
IMPA (Rio de Janeiro)
Unicamp (São Paulo)"
UFRJ ( Rio de Janeiro)
UFAL (Maceio-Brazil)
UFRG (Porto Alegre)
UFF (Niteroi)
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 :
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)
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.
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.
For each mission, there is some paperwork to do:
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
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.
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.
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
Prior to the secondment period, send to the scientific coordinator your Bank details (International Bank Account Number, Bank Identifier Code…).
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.
After the secondment, the seconded researcher has to send a scientific report (P3) on the visit to the scientific coordinator.
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.
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.
Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, 25/02/10 - 05/03/10:
http://www.impa.br/opencms/pt/eventos/store/evento_1002?link=6
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