4-D Topography Evolution in Europe: Uplift, Subsidence and Sea Level Change - The Geoscience of Coupled Deep Earth - Surface Processes (TOPO-EUROPE)

EUROCORES stands for ‘ESF European Collaborative Research Scheme´, a grant scheme managed by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The ESF has 78 members organisations from 30 different countries: academies, research organisations and research funding agencies, including NWO.

Within the EUROCORES programme TOPOEUROPE four research topics have been defined:

1. Monitoring the Earth System operating on a wide range of special and temporal scales
2. Imaging and characterising the deep earth
3. Dynamic topography reconstruction
4. Process modelling and validation

Rationale of this programme and more information is available on the ESF website www.esf.org./topoeurope

The research council for Earth. And Lifesciences considers this programme as a contribution to the NWO theme Sustainable Earth and their policy line for Geodynamics, Topography and Geohazards.

Extra Information

Information on how to apply for his TOPO-EUROPE programme is available on the ESF website www.esf.org./topoeurope

General remarks

NWO/ALW will participate in TOPO-EUROPE with a max. of 7 – 8 individual projects. NWO/ALW will only fund individual projects that are of top-quality (receiving judgment “excellent”). NWO/ALW will only fund the NL-part of Collaborative Research Projects when other funding agencies, involved in this CRP, all fund their national individual project(s) as well. NWO/ALW will fund the projects in the Netherlands according to national funding conditions. The costs of an individual project amounts to approximately € 210,000 (salary of PhD-student for 4 years or salary of post doc position for 3 years, including a bench fee for the total period of around € 10,000/y)

Specific Requirements

Criteria for eligibility, funding criteria etc. are the same as those valid for the “ALW Open programme” The guidelines for this programme are to be found at http://www.nwo.nl/ subsidiewijzer.nsf/pages/NWOP_5N7GAQ However for this programme a Dutch researcher may apply once as a programma leader and once as a programme participant

Procedure

The review procedure is handled by the ESF. Eventually the NWO research council for Earth- and Lifesciences will decide upon the projects to be funded. This decision will be based on the priority rating received from the ESF.

Contacts

• Drs. B.J.H. Westerop (Bernard)
  phone: +31 (0)70 344 06 37, fax: +31 (0)70 381 90 33, e-mail: b.westerop@nwo.nl