The COST Action TU1208 offered 25 grants of 500,00 EUR to students and young researchers willing to attend the Training School on Civil Engineering Applications of GPR. The COST Training School grants represent a contribution to cover travel, meal and accommodation expenses. The deadline for submitting grant applications was August 24, 2014, 18:00 CEST time.

Four COST Training School grants have been offered to the GPR2014 Awarded Early-Stage Researchers:

The CVs of the grant Applicants have been examined by the Coordinator of the Training School and the Trainees whose application has been granted are:

After the School, the granted Trainees coordinate between themselves, in order to write a joint report, answering to a series of questions and providing information about the GPR activities in their Countries.

By Air

Tuscany has two international airports, the Galileo Galilei International Airport in Pisa and Amerigo Vespucci Airport, also known as Peretola, in Florence. Both airports handle flights to major European cities. Pisa handles the bulk of European scheduled flights so it might be easier to find flights into Pisa rather than into Florence. Direct flights from other continents are generally more expensive than stopover routes somewhere else in Europe. More affordable fares can be found if one flies non-stop to a major European city such as London, Paris, Brussels or Berlin, and then takes a Ryan Air (low-fare European airline) flight direct to Pisa. You'll have to change airports in London, Paris and Berlin, though, as Ryan Air generally uses secondary airports.

The Pisa airport terminal is connected to Pisa Central Station by direct train service (5'), with many trains to the Pisa central station and with eight trains a day from the Pisa airport to the main Florence train station (50'). The railway terminal is located just outside the departures hall. You can also reach the center of Pisa with bus or taxi service (10'). The Florence airport also is located on the north western edge of Florence; taxis and a bus shuttle connect the airport to Florence's historical center (15'). From Florence airport you can reach the Pisa airport terminal by a bus shuttle (60').

By Train

The Italian railway system is well connected with the rest of the European rail system, so it is easy to reach Tuscany from locations across Europe and Italy. The main route that passes through Tuscany is via Florence, on the Bologna-Rome line. Another line from Rome hugs the Tyrrhenian sea coast and passes through Pisa. Florence and Pisa are connected by a speedy regional train (50'). Florence's main train station is Santa Maria Novella (SMN). High-Speed trains arrive to Florence from Rome (90') and Milan (105') and to Pisa from Rome (150').