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The following is a list of links to funding opportunities for young scientist/students around the world. The sites below are not exclusively devoted to young scientists but the search has been done with particular attention to sites offering opportunities for students, young PhD and short mobility/tutorial projects. The list is partial and it reflects a very dynamic situation (web sites and opportunities normally have deadlines and expiration dates). However, we think it is important to pinpoint specific sites that do offer such opportunities: since the funding process is cyclical, most institutions announces new programs every few months.
We are announcing the experimental form of a novel tutorial service: assistance and counseling for applicants interested in these grant opportunities. We are scientists that successfully applied to a few of these grants. We are willing to share our expertise to contribute to the success of further ISAC applicants.
As Member Service Committee members we are devoted to offer additional value services to ISAC members and we look forward to assisting who needs help. Feel free to contact Dario Coletti (dariocoletti@yahoo.it) indicating "Funding opportunities for young scientists - tutorial" in the subject of your e-mail.
European and other international sources
- EC's Seventh Framework Programme - http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm and http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/home_en.html
- EC's Marie Curie Actions (human resources and mobility) - http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/indexhtm_en.html
- Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)- http://www.hfsp.org/home.php
The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. There is a young investigator grant section (last deadline: Dec 2006)
- North Atlantic treaty Organization - http://www.nato.int/science/
NATO offers grants to support collaboration between scientists in countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Mediterranean Dialogue on projects in priority research topics of Defence Against Terrorism, or Countering Other Threats to Security; Partner-country priorities are also taken into account. There are six types of collaborative grant offered: Collaborative Linkage Grants, Expert Visits, grants to organize Advanced Study Institutes and Advanced Research Workshops, "Science for Peace" grants in support of applied R&D projects in Partner or Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and Reintegration Grants which offer the opportunity to young research scientists from Partner countries to reintegrate into the research communities of their home countries after a period abroad. Regulard deadlines: in March, July and November.
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory - http://www.embo.org/yip/index.html
The EMBO Young Investigator Programme has been supporting life scientists in Europe since 2000. The programme targets researchers who are within four years of having established their first independent laboratories in an EMBC member state. The aim of the programme is to give these promising young scientists an added advantage in the early years of their independent careers, drawing attention to the quality of their research and enhancing their standing in the scientific community.
- The Fogarty International Center Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences - http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/globaldir06.html
Directory contains all sort of grant and fellowship opportunities, including research training grants etc.
- The New Scientist job research engine - http://www.newscientistjobs.com/search.action
Mostly job-search oriented, but search options include studentships.
Austria
- Lise Meitner Program - http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/meitner.html
Fellowships for highly qualified scientists of any discipline who could contribute to the scientific development of an Austrian research institution by working at it and who have not already spent more than 6 months in Austria.
- Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships - http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/erwin_schroedinger.html
Young and especially highly qualified scientists of any discipline who have completed their university studies in Austria.
France
- EC Marie Curie Researchers Mobility Portal - http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm
It is a link-hub itself containing national and international calls.
- Blaise Pascal Research Chairs - http://www.chaires-blaise-pascal.org/
Each chair allows highly qualified, internationally acclaimed, foreign research scientists in all disciplines, accompanied if they wish by other research workers, to continue their work on a scientific project in a higher learning institution or research institution in Paris/Ile-de-France. Multidisciplinary. For senior, outstanding researchers, who can bring coworkers with them.
- MIT-France Corporate Partnerships - http://web.mit.edu/mit-france/partnerships/seed-fund/index.html
Through an annual call for proposals, the fund primarily supports travel costs for exchange between a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and colleagues in universities and public research in France. Not just travel grants.
- Ville de Paris - http://www.v1.paris.fr/en/studying/foreign_students/financing_studies.asp
3 to 11 months in Paris to foreign post-docs and from 2 to 6 months to foreign seniors
Germany
Italy
- Italian CNR - http://www.cnr.it/sitocnr/IlCNR/Attivita/PromozioneRicerca/EURYIAwards_eng.html
Selections of candidates to be proposed by CNR for the international competition within the EURYI Program (European Young Investigators Awards). European Young Investigator Awards for research in Italian scientific institutes. For recently earned PhD.
- Italian Ministry of University and Research - MIUR - http://cofin.cineca.it/cervelli/
Currently on hold. Financial support for young Italians holding a position in a foreign academic institution aimed to return to work in Italy.
- Italian Telethon - http://www.telethon.it/english/research/calls.asp
Grants for scientists working in Italy in public or not-for-profit private Institutions: focus on genetic diseases. Founding opportunities include start up grants for young investigators within the Dulbecco's Telethon institute.
- Commissione per gli Scambi Culturali fra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti (The Italian Fulbright Commission) - http://www.fulbright.it/index.asp
Financial support for exchange of young scientists/students between the two countries.
- Interuniversity Institute of Myology - http://iim.altervista.org/index_netscape.html
Possible, occasional grant opportunity dedicated to emerging investigators.
USA
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