Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration between researchers. The aim of a STSM as defined by COST Vademecum is to contribute to the scientific objectives of a COST Action. These Missions aim at strengthening the existing COST Actions by allowing scientists to go to an institution or laboratory in another COST country to foster collaboration, to learn a new technique or to take measurements using instruments and/ or methods not available in their own institution/ laboratory.
The following table shows the scenarios available to eligible STSM applicants:
Application
Applications should be submitted according the procedure detailed below:
Step 1: An eligible STSM applicant can submit a request for a STSM through the on-line registration tool at http://www.cost.eu/STSM
Applications should be submitted at least 1 month before the mission starts, to allow enough time for processing the request
Step 2: Formal STSM application and annexes
You are required to send by email the following documents to the Action MC Chair or the STSM Manager (+ Cc a.baldini@unibo.it) :
- A letter of invitation from a senior researcher affiliated to the Host institution
- STSM application form
- A motivation letter including a work plan detailing the proposed activities
- A support letter / email from the Home Institution
- A full C.V. (including a list of academic publications – if applicable)
Step 3 – Assessment of the STSM
The MC Chair or STSM coordinator assessed your request
Step 4 – Approval from the Management Committee
The MC Chair or STSM coordinator informed the Grant Holder that the proposed STSM has been approved
Step 5– Notification letter from the Grant Holder
The Grant Holder sent you a formal Grant Notification letter
Step 6– Start of the Mission
After the reception of the Grant notification letter, you can start your mission
Note: all STSM activities must occur in their entirety within one Grant Period.
After the STSM
After completing your mission is required to submit the following list of documents to the Action MC Chair or the STSM coordinator (+ Cc a.baldini@unibo.it) for approval:
- A scientific report
- An official letter/ email from a senior researcher affiliated to the Host Institution formally accepting the scientific report
The STSM Grantee has 30 calendar days from the end date of the mission to submit the documents, the failure to do so will effectively cancel the grant.
Payment of the Grant is subject to the scientific report being approved by the Action Chair and/ or the appointed STSM Coordinator/ Committee and a senior researcher affiliated to the Host institution. This formal acceptance of the scientific report has to be sent to the Grant Holder for archiving purposes.
Further information and rules
Applicants are strongly encouraged to read the detailed information provided by COST.
- Full details on COST Vademecum– Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) section 7. Please read the COST Vademecum carefully!
- In addition, for further information we recommended to visit the COST website: Short Term Scientific Missions
List of completed STSMs 2019/2020
- Stefan Pratschner, TU Wien, Austria
Period: From 2019-05-08 to 2019-06-28 STSM Title: User Separability in Distributed Massive MIMO Systems
Host Institution: EURECOM, Biot Sophia Antipolis cedex, France
- Erich Zöchmann, Institute of Telecommunications, Austria
Period: From 2019-05-14 to 2019-05-22 STSM Title: Millimetre Wave Over-the-Air Testing with Measured Channels
Host Institution: NTNU, Norway
- José A. del Peral-Rosado, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Period: From 2019-06-10 to 2019-06-21 STSM Title: Exploitation of 3D deterministic channel models for realistic hybrid 5G and GNSS positioning simulations
Host Institution: Ericsson Research, Sweden
- Jacek Kibilda, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Period: From 2019-07-02 to 2019-08-02 STSM Title: New Measures of Service Reliability for Shared Mobile Networks
Host Institution: Paris-Saclay University, France
- Dragan Vasiljevic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Period: From 2019-09-05 to 2019-09-24 STSM Title: Experimental evaluation of joint routing and scheduling algorithm in 6TiSCH WSN networks
Host Institution: Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
List of completed STSMs 2018/2019
- Cedomir Stefanovic, Aalborg University, Denmark
Period: From 2018-06-23 to 2018-06-30 STSM Title: Utilization of Advanced RFID Physical Layer Modeling for the Design of Advanced Reception/Transmission Algorithms
Host Institution: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Croatia
- François Rottenberg, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Period: From 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 STSM Title: Channel equalization algorithm for FBMC-OQAM under strong channel selectivity
Host Institution: Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain
- Jordi Vilà-Valls, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
Period: From 2018-09-29 to 2018-10-28 STSM Title: Robust Bayesian Parametric/Nonparametric Statistical Inference for Indoor Localisation, Tracking and Navigation
Host Institution: Northeastern University, United States
- Akashkumar Rajaram, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Period: From 2018-12-03 to 2018-12-17 STSM Title: Modulation based Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer
Host Institution: National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
- Vasilii Semkin, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium
Period: From 2019-01-06 to 2019-01-12 STSM Title: Air-to-ground channel characterization at mmWave frequencies
Host Institution: University of Bologna, Italy
- Slawomir Ambroziak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Period: From 2019-02-18 to 2019-03-01 STSM Title: Simulation of polarised off-body channels with dynamic users
Host Institution: University of Lisbon – Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
- Anastasia Golskaia, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Russian Federation
Period: From 2019-03-18 to 2019-03-29 STSM Title: SLA-based network slicing analytical modelling
Host Institution: nstituto Superior Tecnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Eduard Sopin, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Russian Federation
Period: From 2019-03-18 to 2019-03-22 STSM Title: Analytical modelling of the mobile computing offloading
Host Institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Pawel Kulakowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Period: From 2019-03-29 to 2019-04-10 STSM Title: Communication interfaces for medical chips in patients bodies suitable for early detection of infections
Host Institution: Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
- Sidney Golstein, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Period: From 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-30 STSM Title: Experimental validation of Physical Layer Security using SISO and MISO configurations
Host Institution: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Tijana Devaja, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Period: From 2019-04-07 to 2019-04-20 STSM Title: Implementation of algorithms or designs in Software Defined Radio (SDR) nodes, in order to evaluate diverse communication scenarios using FIT/CortexLab radio testbed
Host Institution: CitiLab (CortexLab), INSA, Lyon, France
List of completed STSMs 2017/2018
- Hussein Chour, Centrale Supelec- campus de rennes, Cesson Sevigne, FR
Period: From 01/04/2018 to 30/04/2018 STSM Title: Full Duplex device-to-device communication
Host Institution: TU Dresden- Communications Laboratory, DE
- Rooderson Martines de Andrade, Instituto de Telecomunicação, Covilhã, PT
Period: From 16/04/2018 to 20/04/2018 STSM Title: Implementação de soluções de baixa complexidade híbrido analógico-digital em CAP-MIMO
Host Institution: Department of Signal Theory and Comunications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, ES
- Kenan Turbic, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT
Period: From 05/02/2018 to 16/02/2018 STSM Title: Polarised Off-body Channel Measurements with Dynamic User
Host Institution: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, PL
- Josef Kulmer, Graz University of Technology, Graz, AT
Period: From 10/01/2018 to 14/02/2018 STSM Title: Elaboration and description of multipath propagation for mmWave
Host Institution: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SE
- Navuday Sharma, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, IT
Period: From 05/10/2017 to 10/01/2018 STSM Title: Tactile Internet enabled Drone Control over LTE for Ultra-Dence Cloud Drone Networks
Host Institution: National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, RU
- Manijeh Bashar, University of York, York, UK
Period: From 05/10/2017 to 10/01/2018 STSM Title: 5th Generation (5G) Communications: Parameterizing COST2100 at 60 GHz and Simplified user scheduling for Massive MIMO
Host Institution: Aalto University, Espoo, FI
- Pablo Padilla de la Torre, University of Granada, Granada, ES
Period: From 15/09/2017 to 15/12/2017 STSM Title: Characterozation and design of mm-wave antennas for 5G
Host Institution: KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm, SE
- Angel Palomares, Universidad de Granada, Granada, ES
Period: From 15/11/2017 to 30/11/2017 STSM Title: Short PhD Stay at KTH
Host Institution: KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm, SE
- Paweł Kosz,Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, PL
Period: From 18/09/2017 to 29/09/2017 STSM Title: Simulations of the radio channel in off-body communications in a passenger ferry environment
Host Institution: Instituto Superior Técnico INESC-ID/INOV, 1000-029 Lisboa, PT
- Markus Hofer, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, AT
Period: From 29/05/2017 to 12/06/2017 STSM Title: Measurement and Characterization of a Real-Time Channel Emulator based on a Software Defined Radio
Host Institution: Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund (SE)
- Carl Gustafson, Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, Sweden
Period: From 02/05/2017 to 19/05/2017 STSM Title: Power-efficient and reliable mm-wave communications in dynamic environments
Host Institution: Electrical Engineering Department, Ghent University, Belgium
List of completed STSMs 2016/2017
- Balde Mamadou Dialounké, IETR, France
Period: From 17/04/2017 to 23/04/2017 STSM Title: Spatial Consistency in 5G Radio Channel Propagation mm-wave Spectrum
Host Institution: Aalto University, Espoo Finland, Finland
- Fardin Derogarian Miyandoab, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Period: From 06/04/2017 to 23/04/2017 STSM Title: Performance Evaluation of MCF (minimum cost forwarding) and SRMCF (source routing MCF) routing protocols over 6TiSCH (IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e)
Host Institution: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Marco Zoli, University of Bologna, Italy
Period: From 03/04/2017 to 15/04/2017 STSM Title: Multi-bands MIMO dual-Pol measurements and characterization of Radio Propagation for future 5G and B5G Wireless systems
Host Institution: Institute for Communications Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- Kun Chen Hu, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Period: From 06/04/2017 to 13/04/2017 STSM Title: Implementation and measurement of 5G waveform candidate using OpenAirInterface
Host Institution: Eurecom, Biot, France
- Margot Deruyck, Universteit Gent, Belgium
Period: From 27/03/2017 to 08/04/2017 STSM Title: Introducing Multiple UAV Trajectories in UAV-Aided B5G Networks
Host Institution: DEI, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Wei Fan , Aalborg University, Denmark
Period: From 26/02/2017 to 04/03/2017 STSM Title: Over-the-air performance evaluation of massive MIMO antenna systems in anechoic chambers
Host Institution: Keysight Technologies, Oulu, Finland
- Gordana Gardasevic, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Period: From 06/11/2016 to 26/11/2016 STSM Title: Experimental Characterization of Joint Scheduling and Routing algorithm over 6TiSCH
Host Institution: DEI, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Petar Šolić, FESB, University of Split, Croatia
Period: From 07/11/2016 to 11/11/2016 STSM Title: Impact of Radio Channel on the Performance of ALOHA-based Medium Access Control Schemes
Host Institution: Aalborg University, Aalborg (DK)
- Gerald Artner, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
Period: From 09/10/2016 to 15/10/2016 STSM Title: Concealed, Chassis Integrated, Pattern Reconfigurable, Automotive Antenna
Host Institution: Institute of Radio Frequency Engineering and Electronics (IHE), at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- Davy Gaillot, University of Lille1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Period: From 30/5/2016 to 24/5/2016 STSM Title: Characterization and Modeling of the MIMO Radio channel in the W-band Host Institution: Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), Murcia, Spain