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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Sweden: FAS Marie Curie International Postdoc Fellowship Programme

Overview

With support from the Marie Curie COFUND action within the People Category in the Seventh Framework programme (FP7), FAS announces a new postdoc programme for internationalisation, the FAS Marie Curie International Postdoc Programme.

The International Postdoc Fellowship Programme has been created to increase international mobility and collaboration, but it is also an extension of the broad range of grants open for researchers in order for them to pursue a career path in science. The objective of the programme is to develop competence and at the same time promote international research mobility and cross-border research collaboration. FAS’ International Postdoc Fellowship Programme consists of two types of grants: FAS Outgoing International Postdoc fellowships (FOIP) and FAS Incoming International Postdoc fellowships (FIIP)

FAS Outgoing International Postdoc, FOIP

The purpose of the fellowships is to give researchers within FAS’ areas of responsibility the possibility to spend time at a foreign research institution. The objective is to develop competence and at the same time promote international research mobility and cross-border research collaboration.

The host institution should have a good reputation in the applicant’s research area and the time abroad should add significantly to his/her knowledge and competence in view of future research within FAS’ areas of responsibility.

For more information about FAS’ areas of responsibility, please refer to: www.fas.se/aboutfas. Applicants can apply for up to 24 consecutive months abroad, with a repatriation period of maximum half the time spent abroad (maximum 12 months). Applicants who find it difficult to spend longer periods of time abroad, e.g. for family reasons, may divide the time abroad with work at the home institution.


FAS Incoming International Postdoc, FIIP

The purpose of funding International Incoming postdocs is to give qualified researchers opportunity for knowledge and competence exchange with the Swedish research society within FAS’ areas of responsibility. For more information about FAS’ areas of responsibility, please refer to: www.fas.se/aboutfas.

Applicants can apply for up to 24 consecutive months at the host institution. Applicants who find it difficult to spend longer periods of time abroad, e.g. for family reasons, may divide the time with work at the institution in their country of origin.

Eligiblity criteria

For the fellows: Researchers with a PhD degree obtained during the last five years (childcare and military services subtracted) counted from the date of the call deadline are eligible to apply for a fellowship in the COFAS programme. All nationalities are accepted according to EC Rules for Participation , but for the FOIP programme, the applicant should be connected to the Swedish research institution, the host institution, e.g. being a former research collaborator with the department in question. For the FIIP programme the applicant, at the time of the relevant deadline for submission of proposals, must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work,studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Short stays, such as holidays, are not taken into account.

For the host institutions: The host institution can be any public or private non-profit organisation in Sweden, carrying out research (universities, research institutes etc). (The host institution can be a legal entity established in a member state or an associated country, as well as a legal entity in an third country following the “Rules for participation”, OJ L 391, 30.12.2006)

For the receiving institution abroad (FOIP only): The receiving institution can be situated in any country and be a legal entity established in a member state or an associated country, as well as a legal entity in an third country following the EC “Rules for participation” 1, but should be a well known research body, carrying out excellent research in the area of the research project in question.

The grants include:

- Living allowance calculated from the allowance of the FAS national postdocs, which amounts to 53,350 euro/year;
- Travel allowance, which follows the Marie Curie rates as stated in the People work programme Table 3.2. Families will receive the double amount;
- Mobility allowance to cover costs linked to the relocation of the researcher and his/her family. The flat rates are 10,000 euro/year for researchers with family, and 6,000 euro/year for researchers without family;
- Research cost contribution, which amounts to 2,250 euro/year.

Additional funding from other sources will reduce the size of the grant. The grants may only be used for the purposes they were applied for. If the stay abroad is discontinued or if the grant has not been used during the time of the project, it may not be used for anything else and must be reimbursed. FAS accepts no employer responsibility for the receivers of the grant. The employer will be the Swedish host institution.

Treatment of ethical issues

If relevant, the application for ethical approval will be submitted by the responsible research body, i.e. the state authority or the physical or legal entity under whose auspices the research is to be conducted.

A university or a county council is always deemed to be the responsible research body when the research is carried out by one of its employees. The research body in question is responsible for ensuring that research which is subject to the provisions of the law is not conducted without approval.

In case of conflict between local/national legislation and FP7 legislation, a careful examination of the project in question will be carried out. If the conflict persists the FP7 legislation will prevail. A FP7 ethical check list can be found at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ethics_en.html#ethics_cl

Submitting an application

The last day for submitting an application for FOIP and FIIP fellowships is April 28, 2010 (see http://cofas.fas.se ), 17:00 CET. At this site you will find instructions on how to submit in the Guide for Applicants, as well as the web form.

The following documents found on the website, should be filled in and attached to the web form. A Proposal Form (B) a Project description (C), a CV (D) , a Commitment by Host Institution (E) and for FOIP only a Commitment by Receiving Institution Abroad (F) for the mobility period.

The application, together with the requested appendices, should be submitted electronically via the COFAS website, http://fas.cofas.se. At the same time, a signed hard copy should be sent by post to FAS, Box 2220, SE-103 15 Stockholm, Sweden, together with the required documents. You should also include a Host institution declaration and for the FOIP a Receiving institution declaration. A letter of recommendation may also be included (not compulsory).

Applications that have not been received by FAS in a signed hard copy version will not be taken into consideration.

FAS contact persons

General questions are answered by:
Cecilia Grevby, international secretary,
tel: +46 8 775 40 74, e-mail: cecilia.grevby@fas.se


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