18 short-term foreign work trips of staff and students from TUL

The mobility of scientists and administrative support staff with the aim of gaining new knowledge and experience or contacts to establish new collaboration or to prepare new projects has long been considered as one of the key aspects of the future success and quality of each research institution The projectwill therefore provide and financially support the international mobility of researchers and students from the Czech Republic abroad as well as visits of foreign experts to TUL Overall we plan to carry out 3 to 5day foreign trips of academic staff from TUL and 12 shortterm foreign trips of PhD students or postdocs fromTUL to partner universities throughout the duration of the project Outputs of the foreign trips and visits will be the creation of PPT presentations of new themes and results from research in the field of interactive sensitive autonomic robotic systems based on Rapid Prototyping and using smart materials based on nanopolymers to be used in regular seminars held in the framework of WP3 These work trips will help create new ideas for the projects submitted to international calls that will be prepared under WP5The target workplaces of the foreign trips of Czech experts and students from TUL will be primarily partner research institutionsHowever in the case of the preparation of a promising project plan in the research area of interest it will be necessary to travel to other research institutions or to industrial enterprises In justified cases these trips will also be covered by the project