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Travel & Co-AdvisingPREAMBLE Collaboration is important to RiSE. Collaboration among PIs, between PIs and RiSE students, but also between RiSE members and others in related fields. Two important tools for collaborations are co-advising and visits. These rules are meant to encourage both. Where the rules are seen as limiting, there is a need for discussion (which does not necessarily mean that the rules will change).

Terrminology. A RiSE student is a student or a postdoc whose salary is paid by RiSE.

TRAVEL RiSE funds short-term travel between PI sites from the individual RiSE project grants. In order to increase collaboration, we encourage stays for longer periods and we will fund these in part from the Coordination grant (which Roderick Bloem administers). In order to qualify for such funding, the following conditions must be met.1. The traveler must be a RiSE student 2. The destination must be a specific person at a

RiSE PI group (PI, postdocs, student, not necessarily paid by RiSE)

3. Duration of the stay: 1-13 weeks. 4. The visit must have a clear goal, e.g. write a

paper, perform certain experiments.

How to apply for a travel grant 1. Prepare a one-page application joint

application containing at least 1. Name of traveling student.

2. Name of PI and person to be visited

3. A budget

4. Dates of travel .

5. Specific outcome of the visit

The document should be a joint application by the two PIs involved, the visitor, and the person visited.

2. Send the application to both Armin Biere and Roderick Bloem by email.

3. Your application will be published on the web site. You may mark parts of the application as confidential. (But then please send us a censored version of the application as well.)

Here is what we will fund: 4. Travel (train/tram/subway) within Austria 5. A hotel for up to 80 Euros per night 6. The total sum can not exceed 1500 Euro.

(PIs are free to supplement additional funds.)

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Travel & Co-AdvisingCO-ADVISINGEvery RiSE PhD student has an advisor (normally the person funding her) and a co-advisor, another RiSE PI who will help her get through her PhD.

Process of Assigning Co-Advisor As soon a PhD student starts as RiSE student (paid by RiSE) it is the responsibility of the student and her advisor to find a co-advisor. Ideally a co-advisor is picked, with whom there is joint interest in the topic the student is working on. Initially, the student is expected to write a short, e.g. a one page, research plan, as soon her co-advisor is assigned.

Responsibilities of a co-advisor? We expect student and co-advisor to meet in person at least twice per year. The student will keep the co-advisor informed of research progress. We expect joint papers. In as far as possible, the co-advisor should be given a formal role in the student's home doctoral school, for instance as a defense committee member.

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Coadvisers assigned thusfarStudent Adviser Co-AdviserJulia Demyanova HV LKAnnu John HV USDamien Zuffrey TH KCArjun Radhukrishna TH KCAndreas Haas CK ABMartin Aigner CK ABMichael Lippautz CK THIoan Dragan LK AB, RBAndreas Froehlich AB LKMatthias Preiner AB CKAnna Niemetz AB CKMagdalena Wiedl UE AB/MSBettina Koenighofer RB HV/TH/CKAyrat Khalimov RB HVRobert Koenighofer RB LKGeorg Hofferek RB LKSoudeh Farokhi HV TH