VINNMER Marie Curie offers Fellowships for International Researchers

Deadline: 16 September 2015
Open to: experienced researchers of all nationalities who have at least 4 years of research experience
Fellowships: 50 percent of the total salary, access to key lab facilities, mentorship, networks, professional administrative support, financial support of research activities, leadership training courses etc.

Description

VINNOVA is the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems. Their mission is to promote sustainable growth by improving the conditions for innovation and funding needs. VINNOVA hereby invites researchers and organizations to submit project financing proposals under the call VINNMER Marie Curie Incoming. At least 100 researchers are expected to be made VINNMER Marie Curie Fellows throughout the Mobility for Growth programme. The call targets international researchers interested in transnational mobility as a career development option, as well as Swedish private or public R&I organizations (as host organisations) which promote and invest in key people and value (collaboration between private and public sectors as a pathway to success).

The VINNMER Marie Curie Incoming call is aimed at two categories of researchers:

  • Internationally experienced researchers: more than 4 years of research experience, collaborating between organizations required within the project, fellowships for 12 – 36 months, with at least 67% of the project time spent in Sweden.
  • Highly experienced researchers: with more than 10 years of research experience, optional collaboration between organizations within the project, fellowships for 12 – 36 months, with at least 67% of the project time spent in Sweden.

Eligibility

  • At the call deadline, the individual researcher must either hold a doctorate (regardless of the time taken to complete doctoral studies) or have at least four years’ full–time (or equivalent ) research experience. This may include the research training after the degree/diploma which allowed them to embark on a doctorate in the country awarding the degree/diploma, or in the host country (regardless of whether a doctorate was planned).
  • At the proposal submission deadline, the researcher must not have resided or conducted his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Sweden (the country of the host organisation) for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to the call deadline.
  • No individual researcher may benefit from more than one Marie Curie Action at a time. Researchers who already have ongoing EU funded Marie Curie fellowships may only start a VINNMER Marie Curie fellowship after completing their first fellowship. Current or former VINNMER Fellows may not apply to VINNMER Marie Curie Incoming.
  • The project must be initiated no later than 12 months of the proposal assessment.
  • The project must be implemented within 12 – 36 months .
  • Details must be submitted on how the researcher’s remaining salary is to be financed.

Fellowship

At least 50 percent of the total salary costs for the project leader should be guaranteed by the applying Swedish organization during the project. In practice, these costs may be shared by the involved organizations as an evidence of active support given to the researcher. Other VINNOVA grants cannot be used to finance the remaining salary. Examples of additional active support which can be given to the researcher by the involved organizations are:

  • Access to key lab facilities, instrumentation etc;
  • Mentorship;
  • Networks;
  • Reduced costs/bench fees etc;
  • Use of strategic funding;
  • Financial support of research activities (may not be covered by VINNMER funding);
  • Leadership training courses;
  • Professional administrative support.

How to apply?

All applications to VINNOVA’s programmes must be made via VINNOVA’s eServices Portal.

For more information, please check the official web-site or download this document.

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