Hello, I want to clarify that anyone in the world can participate, but the funds will first be distributed to European researchers, and only then researchers from outside Europe.
Still, we would welcome your support, and also i think being a part of the action is the best way to find out about what is happening, especially if you could fund your own travel for instance. Best, Brett On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM Brett Buttliere <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Some of us are planning a COST Action <https://www.cost.eu/> application, > which is an EU networking grant, to support meetings, workshops, and > working groups over the next 4 years. > > We currently have working groups about: > > - GLAMs > - impact metrics > - developing standard international teaching materials > - increasing diversity on Wiki > - Wiki-in-residence > - Wiki and AI, and others > > Basically we are trying to create spaces in Europe for Wiki Researchers to > meet, exchange, and plan future projects. The current draft of the > application is here > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O9Kv0DqQyMXoNu8WOOreG5VmVE8Z8QNr0cg5qHrCrcY/edit?tab=t.0>. > we are open to all comments. > > We are looking especially to support with funding young (under 40), > non-central, and minority participants, but essentially the more > co-authors and support for the proposal, the better. There is no > obligation to attend the events or do any work - the COST Action is > explicitly not about doing work, but presenting work. > > We are meeting today at 4pm, here, <https://meet.google.com/bym-vjak-sdy> > if you want to hear more, or you can just reply to me, and I can invite you > through the COST platform, it is really simple to indicate support. > > We would be happy to have you join us, and to support your work where > feasible. > > These grants are for ~ 600,000 over 4 years, for meetings, but then result > in an average of 5 million euros for the network over the years, so it > would be really good I think. > > Best, and thank you, > Brett Buttliere > University of Warsaw > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
