Grants
RELINK² Grant Calls Are Now Open!
The COST Action CA23114 “RELINK² – Regaining linkage? Digital technologies improving civic engagement, political organisations and democracy” is pleased to announce the launch of its first round of grant opportunities for Action members.
Eligible applicants are invited to submit their proposals.
These instruments aim to strengthen cross-national cooperation, increase scientific capacity, and accelerate dissemination and impact of Action outputs.
We encourage applicants to consult the guidelines carefully before submitting.
For questions or support, please contact the Grant Award Coordinator via the portal.
YRI Conference Grants
Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grants (YRI CG): supporting early-career researchers wishing to present work related to RELINK² themes at high-level conferences.
ITC Conference Grants
ITC Conference Grants: enabling researchers from Inclusiveness Target Countries: to participate in international scientific conferences relevant to the Action.
Dissemination Conference Grant
Dissemination Conference Grants: supporting presentations that promote the Action’s scientific achievements to audiences beyond the Action.
Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)
Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs): funding exchange visits to host institutions within the network to foster collaboration, transfer knowledge, and advance scientific objectives.
Virtual Mobility Grants (VM)
Virtual Mobility Grants (VM): supporting remote collaboration and the development of virtual tools, activities, or outputs contributing to Action deliverables.
Open Research Europe (ORE)
While the digital transformation of public institutions and political organisations has substantially improved their capacity to reach and engage citizens, this is an uneven phenomenon, and digital transformations do not always strengthen inclusion. Extensive access to the internet and changes in education policies all aim to reduce digital divides. Nevertheless, there are still digitally marginalised groups with difficulties accessing new technologies and, more importantly, with lack of digital skills needed, particularly in digital political environments.
This collection compiles contributions exploring the nature and quality of links between citizens on the one side and public institutions and political organisations on the other. Contributions can take a normative, conceptual and/or empirical perspective and focus on different settings where state and political actors interact with citizens. This includes a wide array of inter- and transdisciplinary work that addresses digitalization or on the contrary intentional non-digitalization.
While this collection is mainly connected to the Cost-Action RELINK² (CA23114), it also intends to showcase research from other European funded projects centring around the following topics:
- European, national, regional or local level (e.g. smart cities, impact of DSA etc.)
- political parties and civil society organisation (e.g. e-campaigning, e-recruiting)
- e-voting and i-voting,
- digital democratic innovation,
- e-government,
- state provided e-services,
- nudging and user-interfaces of political platforms and applications