Grants

ROAR-NET supports the mobility of researchers and innovators as well as presentation at conferences organised by third parties through a grant awarding process. Applications for Short-Term Scientific Missions and Conference Grants must be submitted in response to a Call issued by the Action. See the Grant Awarding and Reimbursement Policyfor details and the Guidelines for Applicants and Hosts for practical advice on preparing an application.

Awarded

Short-Term Scientific Missions

Start date: 2026-09-07 End date: 2026-09-11 Awarded: 2026-07-30

Pilot Benchmarking of ROAs Under Uncertainty Using a Multi-Modal Transportation Case Study

Research visit to Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Start date: 2026-09-08 End date: 2026-09-25 Awarded: 2026-07-30

Optimising Portfolios for Multi-Layer Stacking

Research visit to Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Start date: 2026-09-14 End date: 2026-09-25 Awarded: 2026-07-30

Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration

Research visit to Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

All awarded Short-Term Scientific Missions

Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grants

Start date: 2026-09-02 End date: 2026-09-05 Awarded: 2026-07-30

Approximation Laws for Optimal Stopping Under Generalized-Gamma Uncertainty

Oral presentation at the International Conference on Approximation Theory & Special Functions (ATSF 2026), 2-5 September 2026, Ankara, Türkiye

Start date: 2026-08-29 End date: 2026-09-02 Awarded: 2026-07-09

Inferring Structural Causal Models from Data with Grammatical Evolution

Poster presentation at the 19th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2026), 29 August-2 September 2026, Trento, Italy

Completed

Short-Term Scientific Missions

Start date: 2026-03-23 End date: 2026-06-19 Awarded: 2026-02-19 Report approved: 2026-07-28

Efficient MCTS Variants for Stochastic Environments and Simultaneous Action Spaces

Research visit to Maastricht University, Netherlands

Start date: 2026-05-18 End date: 2026-06-06 Awarded: 2026-03-29 Report approved: 2026-07-28

Modular Algorithm Components for Combinatorial Optimisation within the ROAR-NET API

Research visit to Jönköping University, Sweden

Start date: 2026-05-11 End date: 2026-05-22 Awarded: 2026-03-10 Report approved: 2026-07-02

Towards a Constrained Multiobjective Suite of Test Problems with Realistic Difficulties and Known Pareto Sets

Research visit to Inria Saclay Centre, Palaiseau, France

All completed Short-Term Scientific Missions

Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grants

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-05-18

Fairness and Symbolic Regression

Poster presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-06-08

IDEM Enough? Evolving Highly Nonlinear Idempotent Boolean Functions

Oral presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-06-08

Interactive LLM-assisted Curriculum Learning for Multi-Task Evolutionary Policy Search

Oral presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

All completed Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grants

Inclusiveness Target Country Conference Grants

Start date: 2024-09-09 End date: 2024-09-13 Awarded: 2024-07-21 Report approved: 2024-08-10

A Metaheuristic for the Maximum Coverage Facility Location Problem with Drone

Oral presentation at the OR66 Annual Conference, 10-12 September 2024, Bangor, United Kingdom

Start date: 2024-07-13 End date: 2024-07-19 Awarded: 2024-06-19 Report approved: 2024-08-29

Enhancing Algorithm Performance Prediction in Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Using Additional Training Problems

Oral presentation of a full paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024), 14-18 July 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Start date: 2024-06-27 End date: 2024-07-08 Awarded: 2024-06-19 Report approved: 2024-08-10

Designing Metaheuristics with Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities

Oral presentation of a tutorial at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024), 30 June-5 July 2024, Yokohama, Japan

All completed Inclusiveness Target Country Conference Grants

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.
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COST Action CA22137
Action Chair: Dr. Carlos M. Fonseca
Start Date: 2 October 2023
End Date: 1 October 2027
www.cost.eu/actions/CA22137
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