Application form (to be copied to your PC, filled and sent back)

First Name:

Family Name:

Institution:

Country

email:

(years since you obtained a PhD):

Holding a PhD is absolutely not necessary for applying

Motivation letter with the following mandatory sections:

i. Briefly describe your role/ contribution in conservation

ii. Expected benefits from this workshop

iii. Do you have opportunity to sum up this workshop to colleagues? Where and how?

iv. Are you involved in policy making?

v. What case(s) would you bring to this Training School to be analysed and have an answer from genetics?

Fill in and send to: adriana.vella@um.edu.mt by December 8^th 2019

Eligibility: anyone interested, regardless of being researchers or practitioner but affiliated to an Institution, from any COST Full Members / COST Cooperating Member countries, MC Observer from National Neighbour Countries and from Approved European RTD Organisations. People selected will be invited through the eCOST portal and will receive a grant for attending the Training School.

Final decisions about selected trainees will be released by December 15^th 2019

Evaluation criteria

criteria points note

ITC* 1

ECI § 1

Motivation max 8 increment of 0.5

§ <8 yrs from PhD

In case of tie, preference will be given to the youngest

In the final evaluation gender balance will be carefully taken into account.

*Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, the North Republic of Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey