DELOS Researcher Exchange Program

The exchange of researchers between organizations working on joint projects is certainly one of the most effective ways to achieve integration of the working teams and exchange of skills and results. To facilitate the implementation of such exchange programs, DELOS is providing some funding to cover the additional expenses that might be required for the exchange.  

In order to take advantage of this opportunity, the following steps have to be performed:

1. the sending organization will agree with the receiving organization the purpose and the duration of the visit ;
2. the sending organization will send a request for support to its cluster coordinator, specifying the duration and the expected results of the visit (one or two pages at most), and attaching the agreement of the receiving partner;
3. the cluster coordinator will estimate the relevance of the visit for the Joint Program of Activities and, if in agreement, will forward the request to the Scientific Board;
4. the Scientific Board will approve the request (or reject with motivations) within two weeks from receipt of the request;
5. the visiting researcher will start the visit within one month from approval;
6. at the end of the visit, the visiting researcher will send a brief report of the results achieved to the his/her cluster coordinator;
7. the visiting researcher will request reimbursement from ERCIM, following the ERCIM rules.

Although the Researcher Exchange Program is mainly intended to facilitate integration among DELOS members, the DELOS contribution can be granted also in cases where the sending organization is not a DELOS member (the receiving organization has to be a member). Of course, also in this case the purpose of the visit has to be relevant to the DELOS Program of Activities (see "Work Programme"). 

    
If you are not a DELOS member, and are interested in participating to the DELOS activities, either through the Researcher Exchange Program, or through joint research, please send a proposal for cooperation to the chair of the DELOS Scientific Board, Dr. Costantino Thanos ( ).

Further information on the DELOS Researcher Exchange Program can be found in the official guidelines [pdf].

Exchanges in 2004

1. Giuseppe Amato (CNR-ISTI) visited the Masaryk University of Brno (MUNI) 
   [Read Report]  
    
2. Enrico Bertini (University of Rome 1, ROMA1), visited the Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) 
   [Read Report]
    
3. Ludger Bischofs (Kuratorium OFFIS e.V., OFFIS) visited the University for Health Sciences Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT)
   [Report not available]
    
4. Marco Degemmis (University of Bari, UNIBA) visited the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FHG/IPSI) 
   [Read Report]
      
5. Georgia Koutrika (University of Athens, UOA)  visited the Technical University of Crete (TUC) 
   [Read Report]
    
6. Harald Krottmaier (Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, IICM) visited the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
   [Read Report]
    
7. Carlo Meghini (CNR-ISTI) visited the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
   [Read Report]

Exchanges in 2005

1. Leonardo Candela (CNR-ISTI) visited the University for Health Sciences Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT)
   [Read Report]
     
2. Franca Debole (CNR-ISTI) visited the Technical University of Crete (TUC)
   [Read Report]
     
3. Doris Divotkey (Vienna University of Technology, TUW) visited Kuratorium OFFIS e.V. (OFFIS)
   [Report not available]
     
4. Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, UNIPD) visited the University of Rome 1 (ROMA1)
   [Read Report]
     
5. Arne Jacobs (University of Bremen, TZI) visited the Technical University of Crete (TUC)
   [Read Report]
     
6. Carlo Meghini (CNR ISTI) visited the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
   [Read Report]
     
7. Diego Milano (University of Rome 1, ROMA1) visited the University of Edinburgh (UEDIN)
   [Read Report]
     
8. Claudia Plant (University for Health Sciences Medical Informatics and Technology, UMIT) visited the University of Athens (UOA)
   [Report not available]
     
9. Carl Rauch (Vienna University of Technology, TUW) visited the Nationaal Archief (NANETH)
   [Read Report]
     
10. Ansgar Scherp (Kuratorium OFFIS e.V., OFFIS) visited the Vienna University of Technology (TUW)
    [Read Report]
      
11. Chrisa Tsinaraki (Technical University of Crete, TUC) visited the University of Florence (UNIFI)
    [Read Report]

Exchanges in 2006

1. Yeal Dubinsky (University of Rome 1, ROMA1) visited the Technical University of Crete (TUC)
   [Read Report]
     
2. Ingo Frommholz (University of Duisburg, UNIDU) visited the University of Padua (UNIPD)
   [Read Report]
     
3. Alessandro Martin (University of Milan, UNIMI) visited the Technical University of Crete (TUC)
   [Read Report]
     
4. Carlo Meghini (CNR-ISTI) visited the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
   [Read Report]
     
5. Nicolas Spyratos (Université Paris-Sud XI, UPSXI visited the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
   [Read Report]