EMBO Call for Applications: New Venture Fellowship
The goal of the EMBO New Venture Fellowship (travel grant) is to support early-career scientists, in any field of life science research, who would use this opportunity to enter a new field or bring a new direction to their research efforts. These are career development fellowships with the intention to support high-quality candidates to explore feasible projects, generating preliminary data to help transform their research trajectory.
The projects should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field, and should constitute joint research with the hosting laboratory, rather than consultations. Funded applicants will receive travel and subsistence support for international research exchanges of up to three months, in eligible countries.
Eligibility:
- Applicants must be active researchers with a minimum of 2 years’ research experience at the PhD level, and no more than 2 years’ experience as an independent group leader.
- Projects must have a biological significance and should increase our knowledge on a particular biological process.
- Applications should promote interdisciplinary research, with the proposed project being different to the applicant’s current topic.
- Applications should aim to form new collaborations, to help ensure the continuity of the research.
- The fellowship must involve a research project at the host lab. Applications for consultations only, or to attend courses, workshops, or symposia will not be considered.
- EMBO does not consider applications for the EMBO New Venture Fellowship to prolong visits begun under other auspices, or as bridging fellowships between, or prior to, long term stays funded by EMBO or other organizations.
- The fellowships are awarded for exchanges between laboratories in EMBC Member States, Associated Member States or Cooperation Partners. During 2021, applications for research exchanges involving Japan and one of the EMBC Member States or Cooperation Partnersare eligible. Exchanges between two laboratories within the same country are not eligible.
The fellowships contribute towards travel costs and subsistence of the fellow but not of any dependents. The subsistence rate depends on the country being visited. EMBO funds research visits of a maximum of three months. If additional funding is available from another source and it is scientifically justified, awardees can apply for an extension of an additional three months not covered by EMBO. It is possible to apply directly for more than three months (up to six) but the EMBO grant must be used for the first three months of the visit.
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Applications deadline June 1, 2021 (first call) and May 2, 2022 (second call).
