BIF Call for Applications: Travel Grants to foster biomedical research
The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) public foundation awards travel grants for 3 months of up to three months’ duration to MD and PhD students, as well as postdoctoral researchers from all over the world. The BIF supports them if they conduct experimental projects in basic biomedical research and want to pursue short-term research stays or attend practical courses relevant to their projects in Europe or overseas.
Objective
The travel grants support junior scientists who want to learn clearly-defined methods useful for their ongoing research and their current laboratory by:
- Visiting another laboratory
- Attending research-orientated courses with the practical part making up at least 50% of the course.
They can also be used by PhD candidates and their potential supervisors to evaluate the scientific and personal fit before the start of a PhD project in another country by funding a research stay of one to three months in the supervisor’s laboratory.
Eligibility
The travel grants are available to:
- PhD students or medical students pursuing an experimental doctoral thesis.
- Postdocs pursuing a particular research project.
- Graduates from abroad who have applied for a PhD project, but who have not yet worked with their potential supervisor.
- European citizens working in Europe and overseas. Also, non-European citizens who perform their MD, PhD or postdoctoral project in Europe, or will use the travel grant to work in Europe.
Read more here.
Application deadline at least 6 weeks before the planned date of departure.
