The COST Action EUPopLink (CA23102) announces a call for applications for Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITC) conference grants. These grants are aimed at supporting researchers, including PhD students from Participating ITCs and NNCs to attend related conferences, events or conduct activities on the topic of the Action that are not organised by the COST Action.

Content and Focus:

The COST Action EUPopLink (CA23102) announces a call for applications for Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI) conference grants. YRI Conference Grants are limited exclusively to Young Researchers and Innovators for the presentation of their own work at conferences. 

The YRI Conference Grant: 

• Serves COST Excellence and Inclusiveness Policy; 

• Supports Young Researchers and Innovators to establish a strong network and increase 

Dissemination Conference Grants provide financial support for Action Participants to deliver oral presentations on the work of the Action at high-level conferences. These events must be organized by a third party (i.e., not organized or co-organized by the COST Action).

Objectives:

The COST Action EUPopLink (CA23102) announces a call for applications for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs). STSMs support short research visits aimed at fostering new collaborations and inspiring research among EUPopLink partners.

Duration and Location

All STSM activities must be completed by May 31, 2026.

Content and Focus

STSMs will focus on:

EUPopLink (CA23102) will conduct a cross-national mass survey across participating countries to study attitudes and dynamics related to Euroscepticism and populism, alongside a complementary expert survey. To ensure high-quality, comparable data across national contexts, we invite researchers and practitioners with relevant expertise to support the translation and adaptation of the questionnaires and to assist with the practical organization of the surveys in their respective countries.

The EUPopLink COST Action (CA23102) invites applications from master’s students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scholars to attend a Training School dedicated to the study of the linkage between populism and Euroscepticism. These two phenomena can be seen as two sides of the same coin. Both typically denote feelings of resentment against remote and unresponsive elites, and a dislike of undemocratic and untransparent decision-making procedures.