ESTRO GUIDE 2017

3.3 ESTROGRANTS

ESTROMobility Grants Also called ESTRO Technology Transfer Grants (TTG)

ESTRO Mobility Grants (ESTRO Technology Transfer Grants, TTG) are for you if you want to visit another institute to learn about or gain experience with a technique, equipment or its application that is not easily available in your own institute and which would be useful to you and your department in future studies or clinical treatments. TARGET GROUP ESTRO members who are specialists or trainee radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation therapists (RTTs) or biologists are all eligible for TTGs. In addition to individual applications, ESTRO encourages teams of physicists or oncologists together with radi- ation therapists to apply together, where appropriate. Although TTGs are primarily aimed at people in a relatively early stage of their career, many exceptions are made for more senior professionals who wish to learn a specific technique or application. SCOPE • ESTRO will cover travel and accommodation for a visit to another institute with the expertise or technique to be learned • Salaries will not be covered • Visits of one to three weeks • Total budget of € 1,500 - € 2,000 per project (max € 2,500) • The term “Technology Transfer” can be broadly interpreted but the main idea is to facilitate exchange of expertise or technical know how between institutes.

ESTRO BUDGET A yearly budget of € 50,000 is available for these grants.

APPLICATION FOR TTG • Two application deadlines occur per year (spring and autumn) and are announced on the website of ESTRO (under the top tab “Careers”), as well as by ESTRO Flash reminders. • Application forms are available on the website and the following information is required: - a short, clear description of the project aim and methodology

- indication of the likely benefit of the visit to the applicant and his/her institute - letters of support from the applicant’s department head and from the host institute

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