Vigoni workshops

Format

Each trilateral workshop consists of a series of three scientific meetings, organized at the rate of one meeting per year. They will all take place at Villa Vigoni (located on the shores of Lake Como). The participants in the Workshops form a core group of 12 (minimum) to 16 (maximum) researchers coming, if possible in a balanced way, from the three partner countries and from different institutions within the same country. This group will remain the same for all meetings.

The submission of the project and the coordination of each workshop are ensured by a group of three researchers active respectively in France, Germany and Italy. The project leaders guarantee that they have an institutional affiliation (university, research organization, etc.) for the duration of the proposed project.

Early career researchers

The participation of researchers at the beginning of their career is highly desirable. In order to facilitate the submission of a project, postdocs (up to 6 years after the defense of the thesis) may choose to submit their application in a reduced format. This variant is only possible if at least two of the three project leaders and at least half of the participants are in the post-doctoral phase defined above. In this case, the conditions are as follows: support for two years for two (instead of three) meetings and with a group of 9 (minimum) to 12 (maximum) participants; each of the three partner countries must be represented by at least 2 (if there are more than 9 participants, by at least 3) persons.

Furthermore, in this case, the institutional affiliation of the project leaders is only required for the first year after the acceptance of the project. For the second year, it must be justified during the first year; if this is not possible, the coordination of the project must be transferred to another member of the group who is himself in the post-doctoral phase defined above and who has the institutional affiliation required for the second year of the project.

The two-year variant for postdocs will be implemented from the 2021 call, initially for a duration of three years.

Guests

A limited circle of invited researchers (maximum 2 per meeting) may be added to the meetings, who do not necessarily come from Germany, Italy or France. The funds provided by the three partner institutions do not, however, include these guests, with the exception of the DFG, which allows the German coordinators of the Trilateral Workshops to also finance participants from countries other than Germany, France and Italy, provided that their participation is scientifically motivated. However, this will not lead to an increase in the total amount allocated.

• 1 call per year
• 6 projects selected
• 19 research institutions involved
• 36 000€ of funding granted