NEPHEWS - Twinning Programme

The main goal of twinning is the transfer of knowledge, including organizational and technical skills, between a new user and an experienced research group.

In a NEPHEWS Twinning Programme experienced user groups volunteer to host new users during their experiments, while similar scientific interests guarantee that the new users can gain “tailor-made” first-hand experience. This will facilitate the development of their own scientific programme at NEPHEWS facilities and the submission of their own subsequent scientific proposals. In the best case a twinning campaign is the starting point of a long-term collaboration. Each new user in the Twinning Programme will spend about a week with the host user group, being directly involved in the experiment conducted on-site. For the twinning guests the travel and subsistence costs are covered by the NEPHEWS project.

For more detailed information on the twinning programme click HERE to visit the NEPHEWS webpage.

Eligibility of researchers

We support scientists at every level of their scientific career

First Stage Researcher (up to the point of PhD)
Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)
ndependent researcher
Leading researcher, assistant/associate/full professor or equivalent

Priority criteria

NEPHEWS has a special focus on offering support to users from 8 selected countries, other EU Widening countries and countries without direct access to large scale research infrastructures in their country. Widening countries are countries with low participation rates in FP7 and H2020 projects. The list of widening countries is comprised of 15 member states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia).

Access priorities

First, financial support for travel and accommodation will be offered to users whose affiliation and nationality comes from one of the 8 selected countries (Estonia, Finland, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine).
Secondly, financial support for travel and accommodation will be offered to users whose nationality comes from one of the 8 selected countries (Estonia, Finland, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine).
In addition, support will be offered to users whose nationality is from other Widening countries or in countries without large scale research infrastructures.
In the next step, support will be offered to subsequent groups of qualified users (if the available amount of support allocated in the project is not used).

Financial support

The Twinning programme covers

Travel expenses (one round trip/person)
Accommodation at the HZB guesthouse (up to 7 days)