The selection criteria for participants that will be eligible for reimbursement will comply with the COST Excellence and Inclusiveness Policy, in the implementation of the Action and will encourage attendance by a diverse selection of participants in consideration of:

1. Underrepresented groups, including those with disabilities. Priority will be given to underrepresented groups, including those with disabilities.
2. Gender balance.
3. The level of involvement of Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs). Priority will be given to participants from Inclusiveness Target Countries. The current list of ITCs include: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
4. The level of involvement of Early Career Investigators (ECIs). Priority will be given to PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers, followed by senior post-doctoral researchers and professors.
5. In addition, workshop organizers may also consider other special attributes such as
   1. Type, or level of expertise in the field of the Training summer school based on the curiculum vitae
   2. Appropriate core knowledge and understanding
   3. Willingness to participate based on the motivation letter
   4. Demonstrated interest based on the motivation letter
   5. The positive impact that the participation will have on the applicant’s future carrier

Financial support through reimbursement does not necessarily cover all expenses but is a contribution to the overall travel, accommodation and meal expenses. The financial contribution includes a Daily Allowance fee (DA) and travel expenses. The DA is a fixed amount of EUR 90 per day, totalizing EUR 360 per successful applicant.

The travel expenses for each successful applicant shall respect the following criteria:

• Up to a maximum of EUR 400 in total can be afforded to each successful applicant from ITC country.

• Up to a maximum of EUR 250 in total can be afforded to each successful applicant from non-ITC country.

• Up to a maximum of EUR 150 in total can be afforded to each successful applicant from Spain.

This financial contribution must be understood as a financial aid aimed to help applicants to cover the expenses of their participation in the Training summer school. This financial aid does not aim to cover 100% of the expenses.

Please see the General Rules to be reimbursed.

If the amount of reimbursement by all applications within a call does not exceed the available budget, the applications are handled by the selection committee. If there are more applications than funding is available, the following procedure takes place.

1. A list of all applications (containing an informative summary) is distributed to all members of the selection committee in form of a table in which every evaluator can mark which applications he or she can evaluate according to their field of expertise.
2. To guarantee a fair and objective evaluation, an evaluator should have no affiliation with neither the home nor the host institution of the application in question.
3. All applications are evaluated by two members of the selection committee. The Grant Awarding coordinator distributes the proposals to the individual evaluators.
4. The criteria given in the table below shall be applied for evaluation. The first criterion (a) is assessed by the Grant Awarding coordinator prior to the evaluation process.

5. The evaluators report their evaluations to the Grant Awarding coordinator.
6. The Grant Awarding coordinator ranks all evaluations and then reports the final result to the selection committee to be discussed and accepted.
7. The applicants are informed about the decision reached.