The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) contribute to excellent research, boosting jobs, growth and investment by equipping researchers with the new knowledge, skills and international and intersectoral exposure to fill the top positions of tomorrow and solve current and future societal challenges. The MSCA thrive by being open to all domains of research and innovation, chosen freely by the applicants in a fully bottom-up manner. They are...

Deadline: 2 April 2019 Through the call for proposals STARS Grants 2019 the University of Padova financially supports individual research projects without any predetermined priority for the duration of two years. Candidates may apply in one of the 25 scientific research areas corresponding to the three European Research Council (ERC) research domains: PE - Physical Sciences and Engineering, LS – Life Sciences, SH – Social Sciences and Humanities...

Deadline: April 2019 The Global Fellowship Scheme provides prestigious awards to enable talented scholars from around the globe to spend anywhere between one week to a month at St Andrews. During this time, you will be able to undertake a course of research and study, explore potential collaborations, enhance existing relationships, advance research work, and find the space to think in an inspirational environment. This scheme builds on one of...

Deadline: 15 April 2019 Individual fellowships for scholars with a non-Dutch affiliation, who wish to work on an individual project for 5 or 10 months. These fellowships are by application. The call for individual fellowships for the academic year 2020/21 is NOW OPEN. Who can apply? NIAS individual Fellowships are awarded to scholars to carry out advanced research in the humanities and the social sciences. Eligibility criteria In order to be...

Deadline: 9 April 2019 The »Fraunhofer Attract« grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer. »Fraunhofer Attract« invites outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. The grant »Fraunhofer Attract« offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer...

Deadline: 1 April 2019 Every year, CNES (National Center for Spatial Studies) grants hundres of research grants. These grants are awarded in science fields for engineers (orbital systems, space transport systems) and sciences using space assets (Universe science, Earth science, Microgravity science) to young French and foreign students interested in space activities. PhD contracts to prepare a university PhD in a research laboratory in France :...

Deadline: 1 May 2019 (short-term stays for 1-3 months) Profile Researchers from foreign countries with a degree of doctor by a given foreign university wishing to carry out a postdoctoral program in higher education institutions organised or subsidised by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. It should be noted that you are allowed to submit a file even if you are in an active term and the doctorate certification is not yet in your possession. In...

Deadline: 1 April 2019 Short-Term Research Fellowships are established to enable young scientists and clinicians in the early-stages of their research career in respiratory medicine to visit a Host Unit in a country other than the candidate's own, with the aim of learning a research technique not available in the Home Unit. The research training should benefit the Home Unit when the applicant returns there, by leading to research developments...

Deadline: 7 May 2019 The University of Torino (Italy) is pleased to announce that the Second Call for Applications for the project "PhD Technology Driven Sciences: Technologies for Cultural Heritage (Tech4Culture)" is now open. Tech4Culture is supported by the MSCA-COFUND scheme and by the banking foundation Compagnia di San Paolo. Tech4Culture is a new doctoral programme in technologies applied to Cultural Heritage. The Second Call for...

Deadline: 30 April 2019 Eligible applicants for a scholarship in the framework of the National Scholarship Program (NSP): A) students who: are university students at universities outside Slovakia; are students of the second level of higher education (master's students), or are students who at the time of application deadline have already completed at least 2.5 years of their university studies in the same study programme; will be on a study stay...