La Caixa Fundacion Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowships 2023 – Retaining

”la Caixa” Foundation, which firmly believes that scientific progress, research, mobility and professional qualifications are key to developing society, is launching this postdoctoral fellowships programme aimed at hiring excellent researchers who are willing to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal.

Candidates should be experienced researchers whose performance is outstanding in terms of the originality and significance of their contributions in their scientific discipline. They must also have the leadership potential to head their own research group.

By offering a complementary training programme, these fellowships are intended to establish comprehensive training encompassing scientific, technical and complementary skills that will help them to tap into their potential as independent researchers in the new generation of science leaders.

Programme details:

• 15 fellowships to pursue a postdoctoral research project at any university or research center in Spain or Portugal.
• STEM disciplines (life sciences and health, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics).
• Maximum duration: 3 years.
• Training programme in transversal skills.

Eligibility:

• All nationalities are eligible.
• Doctoral degree obtained two to seven years prior to the application deadline.
• Candidates applying to Spanish centers or universities must have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than twelve months in the three years immediately prior to the closing date of the call.
• Candidates applying to Portuguese universities or centers must have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Portugal for more than twelve months in the three years immediately preceding the closing date of the call.

Funding details:

• Total maximum allocation: €305,100.
• Labour costs (salary included): a maximum of 59.000€ to cover the total labour costs of the host institution hiring the fellow. This amount includes Social Security contributions and any other payments made by the employer, as well as the fellow’s annual gross salary.
• Annual research project costs of 38.500€.
• Gross annual family allowance of 1.200€.
• Mobility allowance (moving and housing) of 5.400€.

Read more here

Application deadline October 7, 2022.