CA23130 – Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity (BridgeQG)

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Funding opportunities

The Action offers several funding opportunities which are listed below with all the relevant details for applicants. Please pay attention to these and check whether a call is open or not before applying.

Funding mechanisms include:

  • Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM)
  • Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference Grants (ITC-CG)
  • Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grants (YRI-CG)
  • Dissemination Conference Grants (D-CG)

There is no call opened at this time. The next call is expected early 2026.

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Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM)

According to COST Annotated rules, “The STSM grant funds a visit to a host organization located in a different country than the country of affiliation by a researcher or innovator for specific work to be carried out and for a determined period of time.”

STSM grants will be awarded with priority to Action members planning to visit members of different WGs with respect to their own. This decision is meant to improve the communication and collaboration between the different research areas involved in the Action.

Please note that STSM grantees may request up to 50% prepayment of the approved grant. This pre-payment is subject to the availability of funds and approval by the Action. The prepayment must be asked for sending an email to the Action Chair  and to the Grant Holder Manager. Please also note that the grant will be paid directly to the successful applicant and not to their institution.

We kindly request that grantees provide a picture taken during their STSM. This picture will be used to highlight the Action activities on social media, and will improve the exposure of the grantee and of the host.

In case an article is published in relation with the STSM, the grantee will have to acknowledge the support of the Action.



Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference Grants (ITC-CG)

According to COST Annotated rules, “ITC Conference grant funds an oral presentation of their own work within the scope of the Action by an Action Participant affiliated to a legal entity located in an Inclusiveness Target Country / Near Neighbour Country in a high-level conference fully organized by a third party, i.e. not organized nor co-organized by the COST Action.”

A Conference Grant (CG) is a contribution to the overall travel, accommodation, meal expenses and registration fees of the selected grantee. It is a fixed financial contribution which takes into consideration the budget request of the applicant and the outcome of the evaluation of the application by the GECom. Please note that a CG does not necessarily cover all the expenses related to participating in a given conference. Please also note that the grant will be paid directly to the successful applicant and not to their institution.

We kindly request that grantees provide a picture of themselves at the conference they attend. This picture will be used to highlight the Action activities on social media, and will improve the exposure of the grantee.

In case a proceeding is published, the grantee will have to acknowledge the support of the Action.

 

Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grant (YRI-CG)

According to COST Annotated Rules, “YRI Conference grant funds a presentation (poster/oral presentation) of their own work by a Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI) in a high-level conference fully organized by a third party, i.e. not organized nor co-organized by the COST Action.”

COST regulations define a YRI as someone under the age of 40, or who has reached or will reach 40 the year of the application.

A Conference Grant (CG) is a contribution to the overall travel, accommodation, meal expenses and registration fees of the selected grantee. It is a fixed financial contribution which takes into consideration the budget request of the applicant and the outcome of the evaluation of the application by the GECom. Please note that a CG does not necessarily cover all the expenses related to participating in a given conference. Please also note that the grant will be paid directly to the successful applicant and not to their institution.

We kindly request that grantees provide a picture of themselves at the conference they attend. This picture will be used to highlight the Action activities on social media, and will improve the exposure of the grantee.

In case proceedings are published, the grantee will have to acknowledge the support of the Action.

Dissemination Conference Grant (DCG)

According to COST Annotated Rules, “Dissemination Conference grant funds an oral presentation by an Action Participant of the work of the Action in a high-level conference fully organized by a third party, i.e. not organized nor co-organized by the COST Action.”

To emphasize the more important piece of information in the sentence above: the purpose of a dissemination talk  is to present the work of the Action as a whole, and not the activities of the applicant.

A Conference Grant (CG) is a contribution to the overall travel, accommodation, meal expenses and registration fees of the selected grantee. It is a fixed financial contribution which takes into consideration the budget request of the applicant and the outcome of the evaluation of the application by the GECom. Please note that a CG does not necessarily cover all the expenses related to participating in a given conference. Please also note that the grant will be paid directly to the successful applicant and not to their institution.

We kindly request that grantees provide a picture of themselves at the conference they attend. This picture will be used to highlight the Action activities on social media, and will improve the exposure of the grantee.

In case proceedings are published, the grantee will have to acknowledge the support of the Action.

Important Information

Applications must be done through the e-COST internet portal. No application sent directly by email will be considered.  The Grant Awarding process in e-COST is described in more detail in the Grant Awarding User guide.

Applicants do not have to be Action members, i.e. members of any of the Action Working Groups (WGs), except for dissemination conferences. However, the ranking of applications will give a higher priority will be given to Action registered members (to apply, visit https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23130/).

Applications will be reviewed by the Grant Evaluation Committee (GECom) of the Action and decision will be made within the given deadlines. The GECom consists of the Grant Awarding Coordinator (GAC), the Action Chair (invited member), and two representatives from each WG who are not WG leaders or vice-leaders. GECom members
can apply for a grant, but in that case they will not be part of the awarding process and they will have to disclose any conflict of interest.

Applications will be evaluated by checking for the criteria listed above. As a general rule, a higher priority will be given to Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI), female researchers, and researchers from ITCs.

Only applications received before the call’s deadline  will be considered for a grant.

Due to the limited available funds for grants for each “Grant Period”,  for some applications, only a portion of the requested funding may be granted. Full funding may still be possible, depending on the applicant’s specific situation.

Applicants shall not apply to different types of conference grants (ITC Conference Grants, Dissemination Conference Grants) in the same Grant Period.

Grantees for Conference Grants must acknowledge the COST Action, COST Association, and EU support by using their respective logos at least once on the title page.

In case proceedings are published, the Action should be acknowledged.

Applications must specify what is/are the science WG/WGs in the framework of which the activities or conference contributions are foreseen.

The list of WGs is as follows:

  • WG1. High-energy quantum gravity theory;
  • WG2. High-energy quantum gravity experiment;
  • WG3. Low-energy gravitational effects in quantum systems;
  • WG4. Low-energy high-precision experiment;
  • WG5. Connection between low-energy and high-energy quantum gravity.

The grant funds will be issued directly to the grantees, and not to their institutions. Recipients must initially cover their expenses using personal funds. The payment of the grant will be done upon successful review and approval of comprehensive justification and reporting documentation .

Grant Evaluation Committee Members

Prof Nikolaos Mavromatos
Prof Jose Manuel Carmona
Dr Denise Boncioli
Dr Sami Caroff
Prof Leon Loveridge
Dr Thomas Galley
Dr Sandro Donadi
Dr Anna Pachol
Dr Tomasz Trzesniewski

List of financed STSMs and conference gtants

Grantee First Name Grantee Last Name Primary Institution Country Grant Start Date Grant End Date Type Title Host
Sandro Donadi The Queen’s University of Belfast United Kingdom 08/06/2025 14/06/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Non-interferometric tests of gravitational decoherence Matteo Fadel, ETH Zürich, CH
Jean Thibaut Aix-Marseille University France 13/10/2025 17/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Cartan geometry and Lie algebroids, investigating applications to renormalization and resolution of curvature singularities Tomi Koivisto, Institute of Physics (IoP), EE
Aleksandra Gočanin Faculty Of Physics Of The University Of Belgrade Serbia 01/04/2025 31/05/2025 Virtual Mobility Development of the Action’s website and social media presence.
Guilherme Franzmann Stockholm University Sweden 15/06/2025 21/06/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Disentangling tensor product structures Antoine Soulas, Austrian Academy of Sciences – INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM OPTICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION VIENNA, AT
Alberto Rosales de Leon University of Lodz Poland 23/06/2025 27/06/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Synergies for LIV searches with CTAO and modelling of intrinsic source effects Julien Bolmont, LPNHE, FR
Goran Djordjevic University of Nis, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics Serbia 12/10/2025 22/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Primordial black hole production in the holographic braneworld Andjelo Samsarov, Institut Rudjer Boskovic, HR
Sara Rufrano Aliberti Scuola Superiore Meridionale Italy 25/09/2025 25/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Asymptotic Safety in Generalized Proca Theories Alessia Platania, Niels Bohr Institute, DK
Drazen Glavan FZU Czechia 22/06/2025 25/06/2025 Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference Modulation of quantum gravitational wave signal from inflation during radiation era Conference country: CH
Anna Horvath HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics Hungary 21/09/2025 03/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Effects of strong gravity on particles in general relativity and Kaluza–Klein spacetime Aneta Wojnar, University of Wroclaw, PL
Aneta Wojnar University of Wrocław Poland 14/06/2025 21/06/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Crystals’ Structure in Quantum Gravity Models Anna Pachol, University of South-Eastern Norway, NO
Ara Ioannisian A I Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory Armenia 31/08/2025 07/09/2025 Inclusiveness Target Countries Conference The ratio of gamma /pi^0 production rates in neutrino-nucleus interactions at the Delta resonance mass region Conference country: GB
Tomislav Terzić University of Rijeka, Faculty of Physics Croatia 27/09/2025 05/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Influence of QG phenomenological models on particle shower development Denise Boncioli, Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, IT
Tadeusz Adach Uniwersytet Wroclawski Poland 06/06/2025 13/06/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission CPT invariance in kappa-deformed field theory Giacomo Rosati, Cagliari University, IT
Matteo Fadel Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Switzerland 24/09/2025 03/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Developments on non-interferometric tests of gravitational decoherence Sandro Donadi, Università di Palermo, IT
Maykoll Reyes Hung Universidad de Zaragoza Spain 28/09/2025 08/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission First steps implementing the collinear approximation in LIVPropa Rafael Alves Batista, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne University, FR
Mustafa Senay Bartin University Türkiye 14/07/2025 18/07/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity Aneta Magdalena Wojnar, Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław, PL
Christoph Andreas Ternes INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso Italy 20/07/2025 25/07/2025 Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Quantum Decoherence in Neutrino Experiments Conference country: VN
Marc Schiffer Radboud University Netherlands 13/07/2025 19/07/2025 Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Asymptotic safety at GR24 Conference country: GB
Simone Cepollaro Scuola Superiore Meridionale Italy 01/07/2025 10/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Frame-Dependent Quantum Resources: Entanglement and Magic under QRF Transformations Caslav Brukner, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna), AT
Zakaria BELKHADRIA Université de Genève Switzerland 23/10/2025 31/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Shadows of regular/hairy black holes as a probe of low-energy theories of quantum gravity Diego Rubiera-Garcia, Department of Theoretical Physics & IPARCOS: Faculty of Physical Sciences Complutense University of Madrid, ES
Zakaria BELKHADRIA Universita Degli Studi Di Cagliari Italy 09/07/2025 19/07/2025 Young Researcher and Innovator Conference talk : A New Model of Spontaneous Black Hole Scalarization Induced by Curvature and Matter Conference country: GB
Adriano Barreto Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 23/06/2025 27/06/2025 Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Energy Localization and Fluctuations in Cat and Gaussian States of a Scalar Field (working title) Conference country: IT
Markus B. Fröb Universität Leipzig Germany 02/06/2025 07/06/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Thermal fluctuations in quantum gravity: noise kernel and stochastic gravity Dr Paolo Meda, Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Matematica, IT
Pietro Pellecchia Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II Italy 01/10/2025 21/10/2025 Short-Term Scientific Mission Phenomenological Signatures of Emergent Cosmology from Group Field Theory Daniele Oriti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES