The COST Action CA21128 PROBONO  offers the opportunity of reimbursement grant for up to 30 trainees.

According to COST rules, trainees eligleble to recieve financial support are only:
Individuals affiliated to a legal entity in COST Full/Cooperating Member, Near Neighbour Countries (NNC) or to a European RTD organisation. (see https://www.cost.eu/Country_Organisations_Table).
COST Full Members: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary*, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, The Netherlands, The Republic of North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine*, and United Kingdom. (* with restrictions)
COST Near Neighbour Countries (NNC): Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, the Faroe Islands, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia.

If you able to fulfill the above requirement, you can follow the next steps to apply for a CA21128-PROBONO scholarship until 28^th of April 2025.

• Participate in the Action ProBono, in Working Group 1 or/and orthers, by following the procedure described at https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21128 (you need to have/create an account to e-COST)
• Request for financial support by sending an email with your CV and a motivation letter to WG1-Leader, Dr I. Fitilis, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Use as subject "Request for scholarship" and you will recieve an automatic confirmation reply. 
• By 15^th of May, you will be informed by email if you are selected for a scholarship.
• Before the school, the awarded applicants will receive an official invitation from the e-Cost platform. 

The reimbursement includes travel support and daily allownce amount. 
The travel support is up to a maximum of 350€ for the long-distance travel expenses (>100km) from your location to the school venue and return, and you will reimbursement the amount you actually spent if it is less than 350€.
A fixed daily allowance of 70€/day is provided to support trainees for accomodation, meals and other expenses during their stay. 
The COST rules for Travel Reimbursement wil be applied

Please notice: reimbursement will be done after the school ends, which means that participants will need to pay in advance to be reimbursed afterwards.