At least four Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) will take place during each year of the Action. These will enable Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to stay for short periods of time, from one week to three months, at host institutions in fellow COST countries in order to further their knowledge, work on Action publications and develop research proposals.

Purpose of a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM)

STSMs facilitate researchers from COST countries participating in COST Action IS1410 to go to an institution, organisation or research centre in another participating COST country to foster collaboration and to perform empirical research. Participation of “Early Career Investigators” (ECI) in STSMs is particularly encouraged. An applicant can be considered as being an ECI when the time that has elapsed between the award date of the applicants PhD and the date of the applicants first involvement in COST Action IS1410 does not exceed 8 years. PhD students are also eligible to partake in STSMs

Round 1

• School in the cloud

  • 16 November 2015 to 19 December 2015

• Investigating the Design and Use of a New Form of Screen-less Digital Technology in Relation to Young Children’s Play and Communication Practices

  • 21 January 2016 21 March 2016

• Exploring the czech Roma Child’s Experience of Multimodal Literacy

  • 15 February 2016 to 15 April 2016

• Learning in Emergent Environments

  • 1 November 2015 to 30 April 2016

Round 2

• Digital Media in Preschool Education – What say the Children?

  • 16 March 2016 to 24 March 2016

• Greek Kindergarten Schools and the ‘Digital Corner’ 

  • 22 March 2016 to 30 March 2016

• Learning the future of learning: collaboration in the European space

  • 4 April 2016 to 15 April 2016

Round 3

• Media Education and ICT in curricula for Early Years and Early Years Professionals
  • 8 January to 14 January

• Playful learning in formal and informal learning settings

  • 11 February 2017 to 3 March 2017

• Impact of technical features such as touch in creative application of mobile technologies

  • 20  February 2017 to 3 March 2017

• Enhancing the use of tablets with children and teachers

  • 6 March 2017 to 10 March 2017

• Fostering Emergent Literacy Skills with Digital Manipulatives

  • 26 March 2017 to 31 March 2017

Round 4

• Understanding the potentials of children’s book apps for early multilingual literacy practices: A multimodal methodological framework

  • 13 March 2017 to 24 March 2017

• Family digital time: Understanding contexts, emergent literacies and mediation

  • 1 February to 31 March 2017

• Digital Languages: Multimodal meaning-making in Reggio-inspired early years education

  • 9 March to 19 March 2017

• Learning the future of learning: collaboration in the European space

  • 13th March 2017 to 23 March 2017

• A Day in the life of teachers

  • 8 March 2017 to 18 March 2017

• Digital literacy skills and practices in the early years

  • 1 February 2017 to 31 March 2017