Who can apply?
The Fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world.

What is the duration?
Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes.
In particular cases a fellowship of 12 month duration spent in one institute might be offered.

How to apply?
Only online applications are accepted. Details are explained on the Application Form.

Deadline for applications: 30 April and 30 September every year

Which topics/disciplines?
The programme focuses on topics defined by the ERCIM working groups and projects administrated by ERCIM from which you can choose on the Application Form. See also the detailed list of topics. In addition, applications are also welcome for other areas in which ERCIM institutes are active (see scientific fields of competence).

Where are the fellows hosted?
Only ERCIM members can host fellows. For information about the possible hosting institutes, see “ERCIM members” and follow the links to the homepages of the individual members, or contact the national contact for the ERCIM Fellowship Programme for a specific insitute.

For this round we expect to propose fellowships also in Portugal. A Portuguese consortium composed of INESC, Technical Univ. Lisbon and Univ. of Porto (not yet listed on the page “ERCIM members”) is about to join ERCIM.

When an ERCIM member is a consortium (such as AARIT, CRCIM, DANAIM, PLERCIM, SARIT, SpaRCIM, Irish Universities Association) the hosting institute might be any of the consortium’s members.

When an ERCIM Member is a funding organisation (FNR for Luxembourg; FWO/FNRS for Belgium), the hosting institute might be any of their affiliates.
Fellowships are proposed according to the needs of the member institutes and the available funding.

See also the list of current and former fellows.

What are the conditions?

• have obtained a PhD degree during the last 4 years (prior to the application deadline) or be in the last year of the thesis work with an outstanding academic record
• be fluent in English
• be discharged or get deferment from military service
• start the grant before October 2009
• have completed the PhD before starting the grant (a proof will be requested).

We encourage not only researchers from academic institutions to apply, but also scientists working in industry.

In order to encourage mobility:

• a member institute will not be eligible to host a candidate of the same nationality.
• a candidate cannot be hosted by a member institute, if by the start of the fellowship, he or she has already worked in this institute for a total of 6 months or more, during the last 3 years.

For the entire period of 18 months, the fellow will receive a monthly allowance which may vary depending on the country. Costs for travelling to and from the institutes will be paid.

Monthly allowance in euro
The fellow receives a monthly allowance which varies depending on the country. This amount will be transferred to the fellow’s personal bank account.

For more information, please refer to the official announcement.