CYANOACTION encourages and supports young researchers and innovators – aged below 40 years – to attend international high-level conferences and present their own work within the scope of the Action (oral or poster presentation) and can establish new contacts for future collaborations.
The aim of the grant is to support the grantee to establish a strong network and increase their visibility in the research community through sharing their work and to gain knowledge as well as to contribute to increasing visibility of the CYANOACTION. The grant is a contribution for travelling, accommodation and subsistence expenses, registration fee and overall effort. Conferences can be face-to-face or virtual conferences.
Applications are submitted via e-COST (applicants must have or create an e-COST profile).
Applicants must carefully read the Annotated Rules for COST Actions (Annex 2) before applying. CYANOACTION Grand Awarding Process document provides detailed information on the application process, evaluation criteria, and the required documents from the grantee to receive the grant.
Grantees with approved applications will receive a Grant Letter from the Grant Holder.
Recipient |
Home Institution |
Conference name and website |
Dates of conference |
Title of presentation |
Grant Period 1 (Oct 2024 – Sep 2025) |
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| Ivan Dudas | Abo Akademi (Turku, Finland) | 13th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC13) | 4 – 8 May 2025 | Toxicity studies of terrestrial cyanobacteria isolated from a copper mine tailing site and loess environments intended for restoration and bioremediation |
| Angelika Ioanna (Alina) Gialleli | Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (Athens, Greece) | 13th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC13) | 4 – 8 May 2025 | One-step solid phase extraction method for simultaneous targeted and untargeted analysis of cyanotoxins and other micropollutants in water samples |
| Zuhal Zengin | Istanbul University Faculty of Aquatic Sciences (Istanbul, Türkiye) | 13th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC13) | 4 – 8 May 2025 | Detection of Bacterial Communities in a Cyanobacteria Bloom and Culture Samples by Nanopore Sequencing Approach |
| Ioannis Kontogiannis | Wageningen University and Research (Wageningen, Netherlands) | 13th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC13) | 4 – 8 May 2025 | Title of the presentation: Cyano-metabolites in Lake Marathonas (Greece) by LC-MS untargeted analysis and molecular networking in GNPS |
| Petar Davidovic | University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences (Novi Sad, Serbia) | 13th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC13) | 4 – 8 May 2025 | Toxicity assessment of aquatic and terrestrial Nostoc strains using bioinformatics and zebrafish embryo biotests |
| Sevasti – Kiriaki Zervou | National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Athens, Greece) | 21st International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA2025) | 19 – 24 October 2025 | Non-Targeted Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics for Comprehensive Annotation of Cyanobacterial Metabolites in Greek Lakes |
| Fatma Ozge Ozkok | Erciyes University (KAYSERI, Türkiye) | 11th International Conference on Engineering and Natural Sciences (ICENS) | 22 – 26 October 2025 | Enhancing Water Quality Monitoring for Early Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms |
Grant Period 2 (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026) |
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| Iva Vojtkuf | Ruder Boskovic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia) | Annual Conference 2026 of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology | 22 – 25 March 2026
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Hidden Genomes in the Mountains: Microbial Diversity and Environmental Dynamics in Black Lake, Montenegro |
| Gloria Bianchi | Istituto Superiore di Sanità (National Institute of Health) (Rome, Italy) | SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting
https://www.setac.org/discover-events/global-meetings/setac-europe-36th-annual-meeting.html |
17 – 21 May 2026 | Antimicrobial resistance in cyanobacteria: an experimental and genomic approach |
| Sevasti – Kiriaki Zervou | National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Athens, Greece) | SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting
https://www.setac.org/discover-events/global-meetings/setac-europe-36th-annual-meeting.html |
17 – 21 May 2026 | Chemodiversity of Microginins and Aeruginosins in Greek Freshwater Bodies: Elucidation of Novel Linear Peptides |
| Sofia Iliakopoulou | University of Patras (Agrinio, Greece) | SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting
https://www.setac.org/discover-events/global-meetings/setac-europe-36th-annual-meeting.html |
17 – 21 May 2026 | Mass Spectrometry Query Language (MassQL) – Driven Pipeline for Comprehensive Detection of Structurally Diverse Cyanopeptides in Environmental Datasets |
| Hui Pan | University of Galway (Galway, Ireland) | Young Algaeneers Symposium: YAS 2026 | 26 – 29 May 2026
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Auto-floating microalgae/cyanobacteria granules: a game-changer for wastewater treatment and biomass harvesting |
| Perveen Akhtar | Technological University Dublin (DUBLIN, Ireland) | 10th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC10) | 11 – 17 July 2026
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Presentation 1: Portable multiplex quantification of marine biotoxins via digital colour-encoded lateral flow platform utilizing shape-tailored gold nanoparticles
Presentation 2: Nanoparticle-Based Lateral Flow Immunoassays for Detecting Marine Biotoxins: A Systematic Review of Trends in Development over Two Decades |
| Boris Aleksovski | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (Skopje, North Macedonia) | The 23rd Symposium of the International Association for Cyanophyte/Cyanobacteria (IAC) Research | 03 – 07 August 2026 | From Arctic Lakes to Antarctic Relatives: Cryotolerance, Thermal Adaptation, and Bipolar Biogeography in a Newly Discovered Arctic Pseudanabaena species |
| Efthymios Parisis | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece) | The 23rd Symposium of the International Association for Cyanophyte/Cyanobacteria (IAC) Research | 03 – 07 August 2026 | Reference-Quality Genomes from Non-Axenic Strains Using Solely Nanopore
Long-Read Sequencing |
Call opens: 19/12/2025
Call deadline: 30/09/2026 or until funds are available
Period to attend a conference: 05/01/2026 – 25/10/2026
Report delivery deadline: within 30 days from the end of the conference or 15 days after the end of the Grant Period, whichever date comes first
Call opens: 02/09/2025
Call deadline: 25/09/2025 or until funds are available
Period to attend a conference: 10/09/2025 – 25/10/2025
Report delivery deadline: within 30 days from the end of the conference or 15 days after the end of the Grant Period, whichever date comes first
Call opens: 17/07/2025
Call deadline: 01/09/2025 or until funds are available
Period to attend a conference: 20/07/2025 – 25/10/2025
Report delivery deadline: within 30 days from the end of the conference or 15 days after the end of the Grant Period, whichever date comes first
Call opens: 28/03/2025
Call deadline: 01/09/2025 or until funds are available
Period to attend a conference: 01/05/2025 – 25/10/2025
Report delivery deadline: within 30 days from the end of the conference or 15 days after the end of the Grant Period, whichever date comes first
