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Call for applications: 27th March

The EASST Fund supports a range of activities such as the organisation of conferences, network meetings, seminars, workshops, etc. These can be either online or in-person or a combination of both.

The Spring call for activities seeking funds from EASST has a deadline of 27th March. For more information and to apply visit EASST Fund.

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EASST Fund aims to promote national and cross-national community building within EASST, advance new questions, topics and perspectives in science and technology studies, as well as enable collaboration with non-academic actors publicly engaged in science and technology.

EASST wishes to support a range of activities such as the organisation of conferences, network meetings, seminars, workshops, etc. These can be either online or in-person or a combination of both.

We welcome network and community-building activities organised by, or leading to, the creation of national and regional academic associations or other academic and non-academic initiatives committed to the promotion of scholarly and public engagements with science and technology in the European region. Examples of activities supported in previous rounds: STS Austria launch event in Vienna, Spanish STS network (esCTS) annual meetings, Technosciences of Post/Socialism conference in Budapest, Mattering Press open-access STS publishing initiative.

We similarly encourage the organisation of workshops and small conferences within Europe with the potential of making significant theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the field. Examples of supported activities from previous rounds: STS Perspectives on Energy conference in Lisbon, Does History Matter? Techno-sciences and their historically informed policies conference in Athens, STS and Development workshop in Amsterdam.

EASST especially invites applications from parts of Europe where EASST activities and membership are under-represented (Southern and Eastern Europe). We offer up to a maximum of €1500 for successful applicants.

The proposed activities can be fully or partially funded by EASST. There are no quotas for the announced support categories.

There are usually two deadlines per year on 1 November and 1 March, announced on the website and via Eurograd and social media.

 

Applications

    • Applications should only be submitted by EASST members.
    • Applications should specify the category applied for and include a description of the proposed activity, addressing the criteria below. They should also include the proposed venue, date, organisers and expected number and profile of participants (when applicable) along with a budget specifying how the funds requested will be allocated.

The key considerations in assessing the applications are the following:

  • Community building on the national and cross-national level, and reaching to a European audience
  • Particular emphasis is given to novel network initiatives, especially in countries underrepresented in EASST (Southern and Eastern Europe)
  • Novel academic questions, new collaborations, and reaching beyond academia.
  • Innovative initiatives in academia (e.g., open access publishing) and public engagement in science and technology.
  • Open activities accessible for a wide array of participants and reaching a broad audience.
  • Feasibility and value-for-money. We particularly welcome initiatives with limited access to other potential sources of funding.
 
A sub-group of EASST Council assesses the applications and makes a recommendation to the elected Council members who make the final decision. This sub-group comprises:
  • Sarah Rose Bieszczad, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, (CWTS), Leiden University, Netherlands
  • Michela Cozza, Organization and Management Department, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  • Richard Tutton, Science and Technology Studies Unit, University of York, UK.
 

If you have any questions about the EASST Fund please contact Richard Tutton at richard.tutton(at)york.ac.uk

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EASST Funds 2021-22

EASST Funds 2021-22

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The following projects were granted EASST funds:

6th STS Italia Summer School “Disentangling Futures: Promises, Scenarios, Experiments Lead Applicant: Paolo Magaudda (STS Italia / University of Padova, PaSTIS Research Unit). Co-applicants: Marc Audétat (University of Lusanne, STS Lab), Philippe Sormani (University of Lusanne, STS Lab), Stefano Crabu (University of Padova, PaSTIS Research Unit), Paolo Giardullo (STS Italia & University of Padova, PaSTIS Research Unit), Federico Neresini (University of Padova, PaSTIS Research Unit). 

International Multimodal Workshop with special focus on researching and publishing strategies for multimodal interventions in the field of migration, borders and security technologies., April 2022  Lead applicant: Ildikó Plájás (Leiden University). Co-applicants: Nina Amelung (University of Lisbon), Pedro Neto (University of Lisbon), Koen Leurs (Utrecht University). See PDF of workshop abstracts and the final roundtable webpage.

Online Seminar Series on Socio-Technical Integration Research: Building knowledge, skills, and community Lead applicant: Mareike Smolka (Maastricht University, NL), Co-applicants: Erik Fisher, Cynthia Pickering (Arizona State University, US), Michiel van Oudheusden (KU Leuven, BE), Miklós Lucovics (University of Szeged, HU), Alan Tkaczyk (University of Tartu, EE), Mone Spindler (University Tübingen, DE), Alexandra Hausstein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE), Antonia Bierwirth (Tecnalia Centre of Applied Research and Technology Development, ES), Steven Flipse (TU Delft, NL), Peter Stegmaier (University of Twente, NL)

5th Conference Trends of the Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal (10th Anniversary of the Thematic Section on Knowledge, Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association) and follow-up event Lead applicant: Maria Strecht Almeida. Co-applicants: Ana Raquel Matos, Pedro Xavier Mendonça, Andrés Spognardi, António Carvalho, and Filipa Queirós

Knowledge Exchange Workshop between the Social Studies of Outer Space (SSOS) Network and the European Space Agency (ESA). Lead applicants: A.R.E. Taylor, Tamara Alvarez, Michael Clormann, Denis Sivkov, Matjaz Vidmar. Co-applicants: Mark McCaughrean (European Space Agency), Vitali Braun (European Space Operation Centre), Bernard Foing (European Space Agency). 

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Activities supported by the EASST Fund 2018

  • Workshop ‘Participant Observation and Collaboration in STS Ethnography: Generating Methodographic Sensibilities for Science & Technology Studies’. April 2018, Berlin, Germany.
  • Workshop ‘How can Science and Technology Studies help to reflect on the political crisis associated with refugees and asylum seekers?’ September 2018, jointly hosted by the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra and the ERC-project EXCHANGE, University of Minho, Portugal.
  • Workshop ‘Precision Medicine in a Changing Population: The Italian Context’. March 2018, Campus Ifom-IEO, Milan, Italy.
  • Workshop ‘STS/HTS Research: Bioeconomy, Biotechnology, Medical Technologies’. April 2018, Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece.
  • ‘A Walk on the Edge: Collaborative ethnography of Câmara de Lobos’. May 2018, Câmara de Lobos, Madeira.
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Activities supported by the EASST Fund 2017

  • Workshop ‘Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences’. This is the first thematic workshop to be organised by the newly founded association, STS Austria. February 2017 at IFF, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Wien.
  • Workshop ‘What can STS do for Democracy’. November 2017 at Aalborg University, Copenhagen.
  • Workshop ‘Making Futures: Green Alternatives and STS Interventions’. November 2017 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
  • 3 day book sprint ‘Science and Technology on the Periphery: A Manifesto’. October 2017 at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.