ESCoP's Awards & Funding

ESCoP Early Career Stimulus

The ESCoP Early Career Stimulus is a grant up to €1000 aimed at supporting European graduate students. PhD students from all areas of cognitive psychology are invited to apply. Multiple such grants will be awarded each year to support specific research projects (e.g., completing an experiment) or short-term visits to another lab in a different country. The preference might be given to students from Eastern European countries.

Interested applicants should send a short presentation of their project in .pdf format. The document should contain the following:

the applicant's CV
a two-page scientific description of the project
an itemized budget indicating clearly how the money will be spent
a support letter by an ESCoP full member
a letter from the supervisor indicating that the applicant has not received other fundings for the project
an invitation from the head of the lab applicant intends to visit (this person should be the ESCoP member)

Materials should be sent to the ESCoP secretary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Deadlines are December 1st and June 1st of each year. A jury of three members nominated by the ESCoP Committee will examine the proposals within two months of the deadline.

ESCoP Early Career Publication Award

The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award (1000 Euro) is offered to a member of ESCoP who was the first author of their best article accepted for publication in 2011. The article must have been accepted for publication while the applicant was a PhD student or within a year after the date on which the applicant received his or her PhD. The author should send a copy of the publication, the date of acceptance, and the date on which they got their PhD (if applicable) to the ESCoP Secretary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Applications should be sent before May 1st 2012. A jury of three members nominated by the ESCoP Committee will decide before July 31st 2012. Only one submission per person will be considered.

ESCoP Conference Funding

The society aims to award up to 20 grant to support active participantion of graduate students in ESCoP Congresses and other conferences organized by ESCoP members. Conference grant (up to 200 EUR) will be awarded biannualy. Preference will be given to ESCoP Associate members.

Application should be sent in .pdf format. The document should contain the following:
CV
motivation letter
networking plan

Deadlines to be announced soon.

ESCoP Summer School

ESCoP is offering partial funding for summer schools with a maximum of 20,000 Euro. The Committee aims at organizing a bi-annual summer school, in the even-numbered years. Potential organizers are invited to send a proposal to the ESCoP Secretary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The deadline for proposals for a summer school in 2014 is June 1st 2013. The ESCoP Committee will select the most appropriate candidate.

ESCoP Activity Funding

ESCoP is offering partial funding for activities such as meetings, colloquia, etc. that are organized by ESCoP members, for an amount of up to 2000 Euro. Proposals should be sent by email to the ESCoP Secretary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Deadlines are 1st March, 1st June, 1st September, and 1st December of each year. The committee will take a maximum of two months from the date of submission to evaluate the proposal and communicate the final decision.

Proposals should not exceed 1500 words and should specify:

Place and Date of activity
Organisers
Topic of the activity, including relevance for ESCoP
Program, including names of speakers
Intended audience (number of people, students or senior researchers, from which field)
Detailed budget

Broadbent Lecturers

Donostia - San Sebastian 2011 - Randi Martin
Krakow 2009 - Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Marseille 2007 - C. Bundesen
Leiden 2005 - D.L. Schacter
Granada 2003 - P. Johnson-Laird
Edinburgh 2001 - I. Biederman
Gent 1999 - W.J.M. Levelt
Jerusalem 1998 - A.M. Treisman
Wurzburg 1996 - M.I. Posner
Rome 1995 - W Prinz
Lisbon 1994 - A. Baddeley

Bertelson Lecturers - previously called The Young Psychologist Lecturer.

2011, Antonino Vallesi
2009, Simon Farrell
2007, E.J. Wagenmakers
2005, K. Graham
2003, C. Spence
2001, J. Theeuwes
1999, M. Brandimonte
1996, A. Buchner
1995, R. Kolinsky

Escop Early Career Stimulus

2012: Giulia Mattavelli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2011: Olga Puccioni, SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy; Peter Pajkossy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

2010: Maria Dimitropoulou, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language and University of La Laguna, Spain; Anna Marzecová, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; Katarzyna Patro, Warsaw University, Poland
2009: Rosana Stan, University of Oradea; Despina Panagiotidou, South East European Research Centre and University of Sheffield; Agnieszka Pluta, Warsaw University
2008: Alexandra Touroutoglou, Greece
2005: Roi Kadosh, Israel; Mikolaj Hernik, Poland; Chiara delle Libera, Italy

Escop Early Career Publication Award

2011: Markus Janczyk with:

Janczyk, M., Franz, V.H. & Kunde, W. (2010). Grasping for parsimony: Do some motor actions escape dorsal processing? Neuropsychologia, 48, 3405-3415.

2010: Sascha Topolinski with:

Topolinski, S. & Reber, R. (2010). Immediate Truth - Temporal Contiguity Between a Cognitive Problem and its Solution Determines Experienced Veracity of the Solution . Cognition, 114, 117-122.

2009: Frank Oppermann with:

Oppermann, F., Jescheniak, J. D., & Schriefers, H. (2008). Conceptual Coherence Affects Phonological Activation of Context Objects During Object Naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 587–601.
2008: Zara Bergström with:
Bergström, Z.M, Velmans, M, de Fockert, J, & Richardson-Klavehn, A (2007). ERP evidence for successful voluntary avoidance of conscious recollection. Brain Research, 1151, 119-133
2007: Nieuwland, M. S., Van Berkum, J. J. A. with:
When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1098-1111.
2006: Angel Correa, Spain, with:
Correa, A., Lupianez, J., & Tudela, P. (2005). Attentional preparation based on temporal expectancy modulates processing at the perceptual level, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 12, 328-334
2005: Maria Ruz, Spain, with:
Ruz, M., Worden, M. S., Tudela, P., & McCandliss, B. D. (2005). Inattentional amnesia to words in a high attentional load task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 768-776.

Previously funded activities

3^rd Dubrovnik conference on cognitive science, organized by CECOG to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 12-15 May 2011

4th Cargese School on Consciousness organized by Bert Timmermans to be held in Cargèse, Corsica, France on 12-22 September 2011

Language and Recursion seminar organized by Francis Lowenthal to be held in Mons, Belgium on 14-16 March 2011

Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: Spatial Representations and Dynamic Interactions Workshop organized by Oliver Herbort, Martin V. Butz, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Olivier Sigaud to be held Bielefeld, Germany on 21-22 February 2011

Crossmodal Action Workshop organized by Lynn Huestegge to be held in Aachen, Germany on 1-2 October 2010

Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism organized by Manuel Carreiras to be held in Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain on 30 September – 2 October 2010

International symposium in honour of André Vandierendonck “Working memory and executive control”, organized by Arnaud Szmalec to be held in Ghent, Belgium on September 20^th 2010.

6th International Workshop on Language Production, organized by Alissa Melinger, Holly Branigan & Martin Pickering to be held in Edinburgh, UK 2 -4 September 2010

24^th International Attention and Performance Symposium, organized by Stanislas Deheane and Elizabeth Brannon to be held in France in June 2010.

The 12th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition" to be held in Helsinki (Finland) in June 2010 organized by Virpi Kalakoski, Christina Krause, and Lauri Oksama.

2^nd Dubrovnik conference on cognitive science, organized by CECOG to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 6-9 May 2010

Workshop Embodied and Situated Language Processing, to be held in Rotterdam (Netherlands), July 28-29, 2009, by Rolf Zwaan, Katinka Dijkstra, Diane Pecher, and Anique de Bruin.

Workshop on Cultural effects on the mental number line in York (UK) in July 2009, organized by Martin Fischer, Silke Goebel, and Sam Shaki.

Workshop on mental imagery, spatial cognition and language in honor of Michel Denis, Padova (Italy) June 2009, organized by Cesare Cornoldi, Rossana de Beni, Valérie Gyselinck, and Francesca Pazzaglia.

Summer School on Self-consciousness and consciousness of others to be held in Cargèse, Corsica (France), May 25-June 4, 2009, organized by Frédérique de Vignemont.

4th European Working Memory Workshop, Bristol (UK) September 2008. Organized by Klaus Oberaur.

A 3-day research workshop on lifespan development of memory and language, a workshop intended to celebrate the career of Philip Smith. July 2008, organized by Phil Beaman and Pat Rabbitt.

The 15th Annual Summer School in Cognitive Science held in Sofia (Bulgaria). June-July 2008, by Boicho Kokinov.

Workshop on Neurocognitive approaches to control and working memory in Leiden (Netherlands), May 2008, organized by Guido Band, Merel Pannebakker, and Nelleke van Wouwe. 2000 Euros

Workshop on Action monitoring and behavior adjustment in Aachen (Germany), March 2008, organized by Andrea Philipp and Marco Steinhauser.

The Women in Cognitive Science meeting held prior to 2007 ESCoP meeting in Marseille, organized by Janet van Hell, Teresa Bajo, and Judy Kroll.

The 14th International Summer School in Cognitive Science, organized by Boicho Kokinov in Sofia (Bulgaria) July, 2007. ESCOP provided travel grants for 2 students.

Workshop on Cognitive and Social perspectives on (Un)consciousness. Organized by Robert Balas, July 2007, Gdansk, Poland.

Summer School on Executive Functions. Bernried (Germany), August 2006. ESCoP supported two students.

Third European Workshop on Working Memory (EWOMS) and its relationship with long-term memory and attention in Genova (Italy) June, 2006.

The Women in Cognitive Science meeting (held at the 2005 ESCoP meeting in Leiden).

The Summer School on the topic of "Neuroscience of Number Processing" organized by Carlo Umilta in cooperation with an EU network that took place in Erice, Sicily, July 2005, ESCOP provided travel grants for 2 students.

The 12th International Summer School in Cognitive Science, organised by Boicho Kokinov in Sofia (Bulgaria) July, 2005. ESCOP provided travel grants for 3 students.