Steering Committee had a meeting 7 May in BergenNTNU representative Professor Pål Romundstad has become Vice Dean for Research at The Faculty of Medicine, NTNU. We congratulate him on his new tasks. Professor Johan Håkon Bjørngaard will replace him in the Steering Committee.

Decisions made by the Steering Committee 7 May 2015

New admission requirements:

1. EPINOR requires that the PhD student inform EPINOR about its graduation date when the date is available.

2. All members of EPINOR must include the EPINOR logo in their thesis (e.g. front cover, backside, acknowledgements).

Additions to the funding guidelines

• EPINOR operates with two final deadlines for funding applications. The deadline dates are 15. February and 15. September. The applications will be considered within a month after the deadline.

• All travel costs granted by EPINOR (annual meeting, summer school and other traveling grants of 50 %) will calculate the city of departure as the same as the EPINOR member’s institution city (Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger or Tromsø).

• All who apply for funding to EPINOR must inform whether they are member of other research schools and if they are applying for funding from other research schools.

• All who are applying for funding have to give a reason for not using their financial assets (driftsmidler)

See complete Minutes from the meeting on our website

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