We are pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Call for STSM Grants. Applications are accepted on a continuous basis, with two key cut-off dates for evaluation. Please note that up to 60% of the annual STSM budget may be allocated in the first round.
Call deadlines
- January 27th and March 31st, 2025: Cut-off dates for applications.
NEW! The second call deadline has been extended to April 7th, 2025. - Two weeks after each cut-off dates: Applicants will be notified of the evaluation outcomes.
- October 5th, 2025: final date for completing STSM activities.
How to apply
Follow these steps to submit your application:
- Review the Guidelines: Carefully read the TENET STSM Guidelines before applying.
- Prepare the required documents:
- Complete the TENET STSM Grant Application Form and save it as a PDF document.
- Invitation letter from the Host Institution.
- Letter of Support from the applicant’s home institution
- Updated CV in e-COST profile
- Submit your application:
- Log in to your e-COST profile (or create one if you don’t have an account).
- Complete the electronic application form available here.
After the STSM
- Confirmation from the Host Institution. Get a letter or an email from the senior researcher of the Host institution confirming that you have successfully completed the STSM.
- Prepare Your Report: Use the TENET STSM Report Template to draft your report.
- Submit the Report: Upload the completed report to e-COST no later than 30 days after the activity’s conclusion, 15 days from the end date of the Grant Period, or, within a shorter timeframe if requested by the Grant Holder or Grant Awarding Coordinator to meet reporting deadlines.
- Capture the Moment: Take photos with the Host Institution team to share on TENET’s social media. Personal posts on your own social media are also encouraged—please refer to the Guidelines for details.
Call documents
Downloadable files to assist your application are available below.
After review by the Grant Awarding Board, the following Grant applications were funded:
Name | Home Institution | Host institution | Title | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Belgium
| Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics – ILSB, Austria
| Comprehensive biomaterial characterization for developing a representative equine in vitro tendon model | 31/03/2025
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Paracelsus Medical University – Institute of Tendon & Bone Regeneration, Austria
| University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
| Hot tendon: proteomic analysis of heat-stressed tendon cells
| 15/02/2025
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Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa), Spain
| Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland | Training in a Mechano-Culture System for Investigating Tendon Stromal-Immune Interactions | 20/06/2025
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
| University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
| Impact of ageing on autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) preparations – implication of PRP efficacy for tendon injury treatment in aged horses
| 30/06/2025
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Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark
| Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom
| Unlocking the Interfascicular Matrix: Bridging Species, Methods, and Circadian Biology
| 22/04/2025
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Paracelsus Medical University, Austria
| University of Oxford, United Kingdom
| The annotation of achilles tendon single-nuclei RNA sequencing datasets
| 02/06/2025
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Meditcinsky Universitet-plovdiv, Bulgaria
| Orthopaedic Hospital König-Ludwig-Haus & University of Würzburg, Germany
| Fostering research synergy between Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg – Medical University of Plovdiv for innovation in tendon disease modelling
| 02/06/2025
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