In 2005 INTAS is launching several calls for applications for Young Scientists Fellowships (YSF) grants, with a total budget of approximately € 3.5 million.

I GENERAL CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CALLS

INTAS seeks to provide incentives for young scientists of the NIS to remain in science and to enable them to carry out a research project at a NIS research institute, with the condition of collaboration with an INTAS partner acting as supervisor. Such collaboration includes visits at the INTAS supervisor’s institution for working and training purposes. The supervisor and his/her institution may be located in any of the INTAS member states.

To be eligible for the INTAS fellowship a scientist must be 35 years of age or less at the submission deadline and must be a citizen and permanent resident of a NIS.

The duration of an INTAS fellowship is two years, to carry out research in an NIS scientific institution and during two visits at a scientific institution from an INTAS member state. The two visits can be at the same INTAS institution or at two different INTAS institutions.
INTAS fellowship grants consist of a basic fellowship grant covering the full two year period, a living cost allowance whilst in the INTAS countries, and a travel grant covering the travel costs incurred.

PhD fellowship: The applicant must be registered as working towards a PhD degree (equivalent to a candidate degree in the NIS) at a NIS scientific organisation for at least another two years after the start of the fellowship. S/he must be recommended by his/her PhD supervisor in the NIS and by an INTAS supervisor who holds a senior research position at his/her organisation and is prepared to host the fellow at his/her INTAS institute during training/working stays. The total duration of the two visits at the INTAS host organisation must be between 4 and 8 months over the 2-year period of the fellowship, none of which being shorter than one month.

Postdoctoral fellowship: The applicant must hold a doctoral (or candidate) degree and hold a research position in a NIS institution. S/he must be recommended by a supervisor in his/her NIS institution and by an INTAS supervisor who is prepared to host him/her at an INTAS institute during working stays. Both supervisors must hold senior research positions at their organisation. The total duration of the two visits abroad must be between 6 and 12 months over the 2-year period of the fellowship, none of which being shorter than two months.

Applicants will only be granted one Young Scientist fellowship from INTAS; having received one they become ineligible to apply for further INTAS Young Scientist fellowships, irrespective of type.

Deadline for submission: 8 September 2005 at 13.00 (Brussels local time)
Results of selection: December 2005
Earliest start of the fellowships: February 2006

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