EUTOPIA EURSS 2021

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The following form must be completed by you (the applicant) and your Home Institution Academic Supervisor. Confirmation from your Host/Second Supervisor is also required.

For more information before you apply, read the EURSS Student Guidance Notes and the Presentation Guidelines .

Please read through the form in its entirety to familiarise yourself with its requirements before you begin to fill it out.

To protect against accidental loss of your responses, we recommend that you complete your answers in a word processor before copy and pasting them in when completing the form, rather than working directly on the form.

First name

Last name

Student ID

Part 1 – Project Details (to be completed by the applicant)

Title of research project

What is your project? Explain your project to an interdisciplinary non expert audience (max 1000 characters)

How do you plan to carry out your project? (max 1000 characters)

How does your project fit in to the research culture of your home department? (e.g. contributing to the knowledge base, community, internationally) (max 1000 characters)

What do you hope to gain from doing a EUTOPIA URSS research project? (max 1000 characters)

Why have you selected your particular Host/Second supervisor? What advantages will carrying out a research project abroad bring to you and to your research? (max 1000 characters)

Home Institution Project Department/Centre

Name of Home Institution academic supervisor (do not include title, Professor, Dr

Name of Host Institution additional supervisor

Host Institution Department/Centre

Proposed start date of project

Proposed end date of project

Where do you plan to travel to? Please list all countries/cities Please note that you will be required to provide a full travel itinerary and risk assessment

What is the estimated cost to carry out the project ? (€1500 max)

Please include a breakdown of your anticipated costs that your bursary would support (e.g. accommodation, travel, living costs) The bursary cannot be used to purchase project-related equipment or services (e.g. laboratory consumables or other equipment, photocopying, library access cards).

Yes

If yes, please state the year, your reasons for wanting to do another project and the additional skills and experience you hope to gain from EUTOPIA URSS project.

Ethics consideration – you may want to discuss this with your supervisor before completing

What are the ethical considerations of your project if any? (e.g. NHS, social care, human participants, data/tissue etc). If necessary discuss this with your supervisor (max 500 characters)

If ethics approval is required please provide details of how you will manage this (max 500 characters)

All successful EUTOPIA URSS applicants may be invited to participate in other opportunities to showcase their research at exhibitions and events, such as the International Conference of Undergraduate Research. This may involve passing your details and project information onto other departments within the University of Warwick. If you do not wish your details shared, please tick here.

No, I do not wish for my details to be shared with other departments

Terms & Conditions of Application

Please note your application will be refused if you do not/cannot agree with all the Term & Conditions.

I am the student wishing to take part in this EUTOPIA URSS project. By ticking the box I give my consent that I have read and agree to the Terms & Conditions set out by the URSS.

Part 2 – Departmental Support (to be completed by your Home Institution Academic Supervisor)

Yes

Please note that if the project is successful we will require full travel assessment details.

Yes

If yes, what is the research project?

How many students will be working on the project? Please provide the name of all the applicants working on the project so we can assess the applications together by the same review pair

Supporting information from the supervisor about the project

How do you think this project will contribute to (a) the student’s learning and development and/or (b) the research culture of the project department? (max 1000 characters)

What support will the student receive from the project department? (e.g. academic/post doc/phd supervision, lab facilities, desk space etc)

Would this project be feasible if the proposed travel plans had to be cancelled due to Covid-19 or other circumstances? Could reasonable alterations be made to allow for virtual mobility? (Please note that this will not affect the success of the application

Part 3 – Host/Second supervisor Support

Please attach a letter or email from your host/second supervisor confirming that they agree with your research proposals and have the capacity to support your project.

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Privacy notice

The University of Warwick will process your personal data provided in this online form for the purpose of processing your application for a EUTOPIA Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Funding decisions will be made by a panel consisting of members from each of the EUTOPIA universities: CY Cergy Paris University, Vrije University Brussels, University of Warwick, University of Ljubljana, University of Gothenburg and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Your application will be shared with these universities for the purposes of assessing your application and, if successful, awarding funding.

The legal basis for processing this personal data is: a) to take steps at your request with a view to there being a contract between the University and you and to perform the contract afterwards and b) you give consent. By submitting this form you are deemed to have consented to the processing of your personal data for some or all of the purposes described above. Where personal data is processed with your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you do withdraw your consent then you will need to contact URSS@warwick.ac.uk . Please note that you are not obliged to provide your personal data to us, but if you choose not to do so then you will not be considered for Scholarship.

Your personal data will not be shared or disclosed to any third parties external to the University of Warwick, except with the EUTOPIA universities listed above. Your personal data will not be transferred outside of the EEA and will be kept securely by the EUTOPIA universities. Successful applications will be kept for seven years according to the University of Warwick’s retention schedule. Unsuccessful scholarship applications will be deleted up to three months after a funding decision has been communicated to you.

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