Annual Meetings

The series of annual Games workshops that was already established in the previous Games network will be continued. These meetings are meant as a forum that brings together leading scientists, young researchers and students.

Previous meetings:

• GAMES 2011 Paris, France.
• GAMES 2010, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• GAMES 2009, Udine, Italy.
• GAMES 2008, Warsaw, Poland.

A list of meetings in the previous GAMES Research Training Network can be found here.

Schools

It is planned to organise three schools for Ph.D. students and young researchers within the duration of the programme.

A list of spring schools in the previous GAMES Research Training Network can be found here.

A GAMES Spring School took place in Bertinoro, Italy from May 31 to June 6, 2009.

GAMES co-sponsored the MOVEP 2010 summer school in Aachen, Germany from 28 June to 2 July, 2010.

The GAMES-EPIT Spring School 2011 took place in Carcans-Maubuisson, France from 23 to 27 May 2011.

Conferences and Workshops

• GAMES co-sponsored the Workshop on Higher-Order Recursion Schemes and Pushdown Automata in Paris, France, from 10 to 12 March, 2010.
• GAMES co-sponsored the Workshop on Structural Aspects of Rationality (STAR), 13 to 14 December in Kanpur, India (Co-located with FSTTCS).
• GAMES co-sponsored a workshop on Distance Automata and Generalisations from November 16 to 18, 2009, in Paris, France.

Grants

The programme also includes the following planned activities:

• short visits (up to 15 days) between programme participants;
• exchanges (15 days to 6 months) between programme participants;
• sponsoring of specialised conferences or workshops in the scope of the programme.

If you want to apply one of the above activities, i.e., organisation of a science meeting, funding of a short term or long term research visit, please use the application form on the ESF page for GAMES.

Please note that the deadlines for exchange grants and science meetings are 31 March, 30 June, 30 September, 31 December. Applications will be collected until these dates and decisions about grants will be made shortly after each deadline. For short visit grants, these deadlines do not apply and decisions will be made promptly.

In any case, please study the ESF guidelines before applying. If you encounter any problems or have questions that are not answered by the guidelines, you can contact the programme coordinator Diana Fischer.