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Foundations' Post Doc Pool Grants for Finnish and International Scholars, 2014

Foundations’ Post Doc Pool Grants for Finnish and International Scholars, 2014

The Foundations’ Post-Doc Pool is inviting applications for Post Doc Pool grants available for Finnish and non-Finnish nationals. The funding will provide to postdoctoral scholars who go abroad to do research after their doctoral dissertation for one year.

The Pool’s grant is may cover all expenses for conducting research abroad, including travel and moving costs and schooling expenses and insurance. The program is awarded for one year. Funding may also be awarded for periods longer than one year.

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Good chance for Finnish and non-Finnish, students.

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Application Deadline: Closed

Eligibility

The grants awarded from Säätiöiden post-doc -pooli are intended for at least one academic year for scholars, who have recently completed their doctoral degree and wish to conduct research abroad. Grants may also be awarded for periods longer than one year. They are also available for non-Finnish nationals.
The applicants’ doctoral degree was preferably completed no more than four years previously.
Study Subject(s): Funded education is awarded to postdoctoral scholars for Finnish research abroad.

Duration of award(s): Grants are awarded for one year. Grants may also be awarded for periods longer than one year.

What does it cover? The Pool’s grant is may cover all expenses for conducting research abroad, including travel and moving costs and schooling expenses and insurance. The total sum of the grant awarded is based on the applicant’s own cost estimate. Grants will not be awarded for costs already incurred or to compensate for income loss. No salary will be paid, but a working grant may be allocated.

How to Apply

Grants are applied for by filling in the electronic application form and uploading required attachments to it. To get to the electronic application form, please go to the Postdoc pooli homepage and click ”Create an application” and log in with your own username. The completed application form is then printed, signed and sent without attachments by post. The required attachments to the application include an abstract of the research project, project and research plan, cost estimate, curriculum vitae and list of publications, doctoral thesis pre-examiners statement or official opponent’s statement, references (1-3), an invitation from the receiving university or institution. The only accepted file format for attachments is pdf.

Benefits

The funding program covers all expenses for the successful students.

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