Het netwerk 'European architecture beyond Europe' streeft naar een betere kennis van de verspreiding van Europese architectuur over de wereld, in het bijzonder in de context van de kolonialisering tijdens de 19de en 20ste eeuw. Het netwerk focust daarom op connecties, discours en materiële sporen in een uiteenlopende reeks geografische en linguïstische contexten, in Westerse en niet-Westerse omgevingen. De bilaterale koloniale context (bijv. Franse architectuur in Algerije of Bristse architectuur in Indië) wordt daarbij gezien als slechts één aspect van een breder en meerduidig historisch fenomeen. Architectuurgeschiedenis en geografische studies worden gecombineerd om meer complexe verspreidingspatronen en relaties bloot te leggen en te analyseren.
Dit netwerk wordt financieel ondersteund als 'COST Action'. Binnen deze structuur is er financiering beschikbaar voor kortetermijn wetenschappelijke missies rond 'European architecture beyond Europe':
Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) for COST Action IS0904 'European architecture beyond Europe'
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is one of the longest-running European instruments supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe. From 2011-2014 COST financially supports the action 'European architecture beyond Europe'.
The aim of this action is to produce a broader understanding of the worldwide spread of European architecture across empires during the nineteenth and twentieth century by focusing on its vectors, connections, semantics and materiality in a large range of geographic and linguistic contexts engaging both Western and non-Western environments. The challenge of 'European architecture beyond Europe' is to contribute to the writing of a global history of modern European culture, including overseas expansions and transnational dynamics in its scope.
Within the framework of COST and 'European architecture beyond Europe' there is a possibility for particularly (yet not exclusively) young scientists to apply for the funding of costs related to travel and subsistence for a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM). See: www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_stories/Short-Term-Scientific-Missions
A STSM (min. 1 week i.e. 5 working days, max. 3 months) is aimed at strengthen the existing networks by allowing scientists to go to an institution or laboratory in another COST member state to foster collaboration, to learn new techniques or use instruments and/or methods not available in their own institution/laboratory.
'European architecture beyond Europe' welcomes proposals that enhance collaborative research within the network and activities that contribute to research on one of the topics of the Action's thematic working groups. See: www.architecturebeyond.eu/category/working-groups/
Applying for a STSM
• Applicants can use the on-line registration tool to register their request for an STSM: https://e-services.cost.eu/w3/index.php?id=91
• This filled out application form, together with a detailed work plan (max. 5 pages) and a complete curriculum vitae can be send to dr. Tom Avermaete, STSM coordinator of COST Action 'European architecture beyond Europe': t.l.p.avermaete@tudelft.nl
• The application will be assessed by the STSM Assessment Panel which advices the Management Committee whether or not to grant the application.
• There is no specific submission deadline: applications can be submitted continuously.
• When submitting an application applicants need to specify to which of the thematic working groups the proposed mission belongs and how the planned activities and the selection of the hosting institution contributes to this aim.
Relevant websites
• COST: www.cost.esf.org/
• COST Short-Term Scientific Missions: www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_stories/Short-Term-Scientific-Missions
• European architecture beyond Europe: www.architecturebeyond.eu/
• European architecture beyond Europe Working Groups: www.architecturebeyond.eu/category/working-groups/
• STSM European architecture beyond Europe STSM: www.architecturebeyond.eu/activities/calls/call-for-proposals/
Bron: http://www.architecturebeyond.eu/activities/calls/call-for-proposals/