Collaborative Developmental Scholarships
Collaborative Developmental Scholarships are for the exclusive benefit of PhD students engaged in research for a doctoral thesis and early/mid-career PhD holders in certain FEBS countries with HINARI status* who need to visit a well-funded laboratory elsewhere in Europe for the purpose of carrying out experimental procedures that would be impossible in their home country because of a lack of resources.
PhD holders must have obtained their PhD up to 6 years prior to the submission of their application OR be up to 40 years old on the 31st December in the year when they apply. In addition, they must have at least one published paper in an international scientific journal (cited in Scopus).
Applications from candidates working in the following countries will be considered: Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Morocco, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine**. These Scholarships are for scientific collaboration, advanced training or employing techniques not available at the candidates’ usual place of work.
Scholarships are awarded for periods of no longer than two or three months.
Applications may be made throughout the year but should reach the Chairperson of the FEBS Fellowships Committee at least three months before the proposed starting date.
In order to be eligible to apply for a Scholarship, applicants need to be members of a FEBS Constituent Society and engaged in research in one of the FEBS countries stated above, and to be seeking to work in a laboratory in a different FEBS country.
For detailed information, please read the following carefully: General Guidelines for Fellowships; and Guidelines for FEBS Collaborative Developmental Scholarships.
*FEBS countries are countries with a FEBS Constituent Society: www.febs.org/our-members. The HINARI initiative was set up by the World Health Organization and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature: www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/ and www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/transitional_path_offer/en/
**Stop press 14 March 2022: Additional FEBS funding for more Collaborative Developmental Scholarships for applicants from Ukraine (resident in Ukraine at the point of application, or displaced from Ukraine as a result of the war) will be available in 2022.