FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for career development (IEF)

Funding body:Research Executive Agency (REA)
Important dates: Call for applications - 16 Mar – 11 Aug 2011, 5pm Brussels time. OPEN
Description:These Fellowships are specifically aimed at helping experienced researchers to try something new for a while. Researchers can be of any nationality and must demonstrate mobility from a Member State or Associated Country to another Member State or Associated country. They must have either a doctoral degree or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience, after obtaining a degree permitting you to embark on a doctorate. IEF funding is provided for advanced training and career development. This may include the acquisition of new and/or complementary skills, and transnational mobility. The project is based on a personal career development programme agreed between the researcher and the supervisor at the host organisation. Financial support is provided for a period of 12-24 months (full-time equivalent), for individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member States or Associated Countries in liaison with a host organisation from a Member State or Associated Country.
The fellowships may include:

• Training-through-research under supervision, through an individual personalised project
• Hands-on training to develop your scientific skills (new techniques or instruments, etc.) and your complementary skills (proposal preparation to request funding, patent applications, project management, tasks coordination, technical staff supervision, etc.)
• Inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary knowledge transfer
• Building Collaborations
• Active scientific and financial management of your research project
• Developing organisational skills through organisation of training or dissemination events.