Short description

The ELECTRA REX Mobility scheme proposes a methodology for the operation of a researcher exchange programme, incorporating scheduled calls for applications, online application submission, exchange selection, commissioning, reporting and review. 

Main technical features

The ELECTRA REX scheme offers assistance to support transnational and international researcher exchanges to or from the research project partners and EERA Joint Programme members, that complements and enhances the collaborative smart grids research undertaken within the joint programme. Through a series of managed REX Calls, applications are invited for one of three types of exchange: Global Exchange, European Exchange, Intra-ELECTRA Exchange. The successfully selected applicants are provided funding for the additional costs of travel, accommodation, and subsistence associated with the exchange visit, and support for participation in an international ELECTRA REX workshop aligned with a technical conference. These workshops provide an opportunity for exchange researchers to share experiences of mobility as well as disseminate their results through their international co-authored papers.
The call-based methodology supports an iterative process of call preparation and issuing, application review and commissioning, and reporting and evaluation, with the latter supporting feedback into the subsequent calls. The combination of targeted joint publications and the web-hosted abstracts as exchange deliverables provides a useful focus on seeking valuable results in the collaboration between researcher and host. Furthermore, the implementation of host and researcher questionnaires provides valuable oversight and learning from each of the exchange calls, with collated lessons learned incorporated into subsequent calls.

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