COST 258: Short-term scientific missions

Mark Huckvale (mark@phonetics.ucl.ac.uk)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:10:11 +0000

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>From: Eric Keller <eric.keller@imm.unil.ch>
>Subject: COST 258: Short-term scientific missions=20
>
>Dear COST 258 members,
>
>In preparation of our spring Management Committee Meeting (MCM) at Porto, I
>invite all interested participants to prepare requests for short-term
>scientific missions. Within the limits of our budget, such missions can be
>supported on COST 258 funds, if they serve the purposes of the COST 258 MoU
>(i.e. mainly, if their purpose is to further the understanding of prosodic
>and/or signal quality improvements in speech synthesis).
>
>The following rules apply:
>
>* Your country has signed the MoU, and you work in a laboratory that is
>actively participating in the the Action. You visit a participating
>laboratory in a different country which has also signed the MoU. Both
>sending and receiving laboratory must approve the mission.
>
>* The duration is a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of 1 month.
>
>* Total cost of a mission cannot exceed 1500 ECUs. 70% is paid in advance
>of mission, 30% upon detailed statement received no later than 4 weeks
>after the mission. Typical refund rules apply: applicable train fare for
>trips below 400 km (or car, calculated at same rate), and economy airfare
>if trip is over 400 km.
>
>* Applications are receivable any time, but must be approved by the
>Management Committee Meeting (i.e., at one of our two meetings a year).
>
>* Please address written (paper) requests to myself at address below at
>least two weeks before the MCM. Requests should state scientific motivation
>of mission and objective pursued, as well as relevant particulars. A
>typical application will generally not exceed three A4 pages in length and
>should be written in a language familiar to a number of MCM executive
>members (typically English).
>
>Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
>
>With my best wishes to all,
>
> Eric Keller, chair, COST 258
>
>Prof. Eric Keller
>Laboratoire d'analyse informatique
>de la parole (LAIP) - Lettres
>Universit=E9 de Lausanne eric.keller@imm.unil.ch
>1015 Lausanne http://www.unil.ch:8080/imm/
>Suisse/Switzerland ftp://eliot.unil.ch/pub/LAIP/speech/LAIPTTS/
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