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<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>For all CEE, GEE and LERN members<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>The CEE Committee is delighted to announce another funding
round. The grant round, however, will be the last to be financed through
as award from the University of London Vice Chancellors' Development fund made
to the CEE in 2007. The aim of the grant scheme is to foster collaborative
research across the CEE's participating institutions. In today's world, the
importance of understanding ecology and evolution goes far beyond academic
curiosity. With its breadth of membership, the CEE is in a unique position to
provide the cross-disciplinary research necessary to make genuine progress in
the field. The small grant scheme will contribute to realising potential
cross-institutional synergies.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=heading11><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Our aim is to assign several small grants to
groups of researchers that span two or more member institutions. Funding can be
sought for a variety of activities, including small research projects,
workshops, meetings between scientists in view of writing a review, setting up
an international collaboration or preparing a grant application. Grants are
assessed following the criteria listed at the end of this
document.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=heading11><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Applications will be assessed by the CEE
Committee, whose membership covers the diverse areas of the CEE’s interests and
the different member institutions. For further details and application forms
visit the CEE's grants and funding page <A
title=http://www.ceevol.co.uk/grants-and-funding/
href="http://www.ceevol.co.uk/grants-and-funding/">here</A>, for direct queries
e-mail <A title=mailto:cee@ucl.ac.uk href="mailto:cee@ucl.ac.uk"><STRONG
title=mailto:cee@ucl.ac.uk><B title=mailto:cee@ucl.ac.uk><FONT
title=mailto:cee@ucl.ac.uk
face="Times New Roman">cee@ucl.ac.uk</FONT></B></STRONG></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=heading11><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and
academic or research staff are all eligible to apply. PhD students should submit
their application through their supervisor, and it is important that the
application shows how the funding will add value to the PhD project. Applicants
should clearly state the ecological/evolutionary question the study will address
and should indicate how they intend to follow up the research with an
application for larger-scale funding. Successful applicants will be expected to
report progress to the CEE Steering Committee by an annual report and a short,
post-project seminar to the CEE community.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>The deadline for this round is <STRONG><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Friday</FONT></B></STRONG> <STRONG><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">3 February 2012, 5pm. </FONT></B></STRONG>Awards will be
announced in late February.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US> <STRONG><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">Assessment
criteria</FONT></B></STRONG><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>The members of the CEE Steering Committee will assess grant proposals
according to the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>- Quality of science<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>- Output (clearly defined, time-limited,
achievable)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>- Collaborative aspect (novel collaboration or new direction in
existing collaboration)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>- Fit to scheme (CEE remit, lack of alternative funding
sources)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>- Costs acceptable and reasonable<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US>We look forward to hearing from you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang=EN-US>With
warmest wishes for the festive season,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></B></P>
<P><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang=EN-US>Jane
Dempster<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></B></P>
<P><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang=EN-US>On
behalf of the CEE Committee<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Jane M Dempster<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Executive Officer to Professor Andrew Pomiankowski, Head of Research
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and to
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Professor Gabriel Waksman, Head of Research Department of Structural
and Molecular Biology<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>& CEE Administrator<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-US>Tel: 020 7679 2246 (internal xt </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2
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lang=EN-US>E-mail: <A title=mailto:j.dempster@ucl.ac.uk
href="mailto:j.dempster@ucl.ac.uk">j.dempster@ucl.ac.uk</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Departmental websites: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>GEE: <U><FONT color=blue><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
title=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee
href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee</A></SPAN></FONT></U><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>SMB: <A title=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/smb/
href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/smb/">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/smb/</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>CEE: <A title=http://www.ceevol.co.uk/
href="http://www.ceevol.co.uk/">http://www.ceevol.co.uk/</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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