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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR VISITS OF RESEARCHERS, TEACHERS, EXPERTS, PERSONALITIES AND CULTURAL OPERATORS

The General Directorate for the Promotion of Country System of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers contributions, aimed at encouraging missions in Italy and abroad, to Italian or foreign researchers, teachers, experts, personalities and cultural operators.

It is a useful tool to support the internationalization of the Italian university, cultural and creative system, which, even within the limits imposed by the current international health situation, aims to promote the development of cultural or scientific partnerships and projects between foreign and Italian institutions, that can unfold their effects in the medium and long term.

CONTRIBUTION RECIPIENTS

– *Italian* researchers, professors, experts, personalities and cultural operators invited to spend a period of stay at foreign universities or cultural institutions for study or research reasons may, once the mission has been completed, ask the Italian MFA for an economic contribution, consisting of partial coverage (to the extent of 80%) of travel expenses, paid upon presentation of boarding passes.

– *Foreign* researchers, professors, experts, personalities and cultural operators invited to spend a period of stay at Italian universities or cultural institutions for study or research reasons may request an economic contribution from the Italian MFA consisting of partial coverage of living expenses, paid out in flat-rate form.

CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS BY THE CONSULAR OFFICE

Applications will be evaluated by the office in the light of the following criteria:

– characteristics of the applicant, including curriculum vitae and age;

– possible medium and long-term effects of the mission, in terms of the development of cultural or scientific projects and partnerships between Italian and foreign institutions;

– prestige of the cultural institutions involved;

– principle of rotation among the beneficiaries of the contributions.

CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE APPLICATIONS BY THE DGSP

– compliance of the mission with the geographical and thematic priorities identified by the Directorate General for the Promotion of Country System;

– existence of an executive program in force of cultural cooperation between Italy and the applicant’s country of residence (in the case of a foreign applicant) or with the applicant’s country of destination (in the case of an Italian applicant).

DEADLINES

To allow the disbursement of contributions, applications must be sent to the email address ambasciata.khartoum@esteri.it by Monday 26th October 2020 at 9:00 am, accompanied by the documentation requested below.

Any boarding passes to be transmitted, once the mission is completed, to supplement the application of Italian applicants must also be sent by email by October 26th, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

It should be noted that it will not be possible to deliver contributions for missions that will take place after 15th November 2020.

PROCEDURES FOR REQUEST AND DELIVERY

The procedures for requesting the contribution in question and for the disbursement are explained in the attachments to this note. The application must be accompanied by all the required documentation. The absence of one or more mandatory attachments will result in the immediate rejection of the application.

Attached to this note:

– Annex 1: Request for contribution by Italian citizens

– Annex 2: Request for contribution by foreign citizens