Grants and awards

The AIL announces every 3 years the grant of the Collaborative Research Project for Young-AIL, with the main objective of promoting scientific exchange between Young-AIL and creating interactions that allow advancing in the knowledge of Iberian Limnology. The directors of the project will be the young AIL whose proposal is selected by the jury, but once the decision has been made, participation will be open to all members of the Young-AIL group who are interested, for which the AIL and the directors of the selected project open a period for receiving expressions of interest. The choice of the subsidized project has as its main criteria the generation of collaboration between young Iberian limnologists and the scientific interest of the proposal.

AIL research projects:

Young members of any SIBECOL society, students or postdoctoral students who defended their doctoral thesis up to 6 years before the publication of this call, may apply. Submitted projects must be designed to include a large number of participants, but must also be feasible with a low number of participants. This call has the following characteristics:

• Original research on any aspect of inland water ecology and involve as many youth members from different institutions as possible.
• The project must be completed within two years of the team's constitution; the publication of scientific results is not included in this period.
• This 4th call for projects has an available budget of 4,500 euros (VAT included) for carrying out the selected project, which may be supplemented with funds provided by the participants.

The call will be open from April 1 to June 30, 2022 (23:59 UTC+1). To be considered, project proposals must follow the regulations of the respective call and be presented in the format of an application form. Please, carefully consult the regulations and the evaluation criteria of each call. To send your proposals, send an email with all the required information to the Secretary of the respective Company:

AIL projects: secretaria@limnologia.net

Download the application form.

In the last call, the selected project was: Urbanization effects on the relationship between microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (URBIFUN), presented by Míriam Colls and Ferran Romero, from the Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua.