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Getting serious about the future:
EU funded project and post-

doctoral fellowships
Josep Niubò
28 May 2019
We will talk about…
• PhD opportunities
• Post-doc funding opportunities
─Individual fellowships
– Research grants
– Mobility fellowships
– Other opportunities
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The importance of planning
• What do you want to do after finishing your

PhD?
• If academia, you will need a solid CV:
– Publications;
– International experience;
– Network of contacts;
– Conferences.

Careers in and outside science
The Royal Society (2010); The Scientific Century: securing our future prosperity, p. 14.

Research career path in Spain
Researcher career path in Spain at a glance! (3rd edition), FECYT

Individual research path

PhD
Opportunities

Ayudas para la formación de
profesorado universitario (FPU)
• Funder: Ministerio de Ciencia,
Innovación y Universidades;
• Number of fellowships: 850
• Goal: to support PhD students in Spanish public
universities;
• Provide: €1,173/month;
• Periodicity: annual (October - November);
• Last call

Ayudas para contratos predoctorales
para la formación de doctores
• Funder: Ministerio de Ciencia,
Innovación y Universidades;
• Number of fellowships: 1,104
• Goal: to support PhD students in Spanish public
universities who want to undertake their PhD within
a research project;
• Provide:
– Wage: €20,500 x 4 years;
– Research funds & fees: €6,250.
• Periodicity: annual (October);
• Last call
Ayudas a la movilidad para estancias
breves y traslados temporales
• Goal: to reinforce the internationalization of

scientific training, through the incorporation
into an international research group;
• Periodicity: annual (October - November);
• Last call

• Short stays
– Duration: 2 – 3 months;
– Number of fellowships: 550;
– Provide:
• Daily living allowance: €25 – 50;
• Travel allowance: €90 – 1,200.
– Requirements:
• Be an FPU holder;
• At least 9 months since beginning of PhD.

• Secondments
– Number of fellowships: 30;
– Provide:
• Daily living allowance: €25 – 50;
• Travel allowance: €90 – 1,200.
– Requirements:
• Be an FPU fellow;
• At least 24 months since beginning of FPU.

YERUN Research Mobility
Awards
• Duration: 1 - 2 weeks;
• Number of fellowships: 15;
• Goal: to promote multi-disciplinary research and enrich the
research and training opportunities for PhD students, early
career, postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars within the
YERUN network;
• Provide: €1,000;
• Requirements:
– Member of a YERUN institution;
– Move to a YERUN institution in another country;
• Periodicity: annual (December);
• Last call
Ajuts de beques de mobilitat per a
personal docent i investigador
universitari
• Duration: ≥ 3 months;
• Goal: to promote research and teaching in Catalan
universities;
• Provide: €4,200;
• Requirements:
– Member of a Catalan university or CERCA research center;
– ≤ 35 years old;
• Periodicity: annual (November);
• Last call
DAAD short –term research
grants
• Duration: 1 - 6 months;
• Goal: to promote research projects
within the context of doctoral programmes;
• Provide:
– Monthly living allowance: €1,200;
– Travel allowance.
• Selection criteria: a convincing and well-planned
research project or course of continuing education;
• Requirements:
– Doctoral candidates: ≤ 3 years since start of PhD;
– Postdoc candidates: ≤ 4 years since PhD.
• Periodicity: annual (April & August);
• Call open!

Becas Iberoamérica
• Duration: ≥2 months;
• Provide: €5,000;
• Requirements:
– Full time employed by a research institution;
– Mobility to another Iberoamerican country
• Periodicity: annual (May);
• Last call

Research Grants
• Funder: Fundación Banco Sabadell;
• Number of grants: 15;
• Goal: to help Spanish researchers in social sciences
and humanities who are in the final stages of
completing their doctoral theses;
• Provide: €6,000;
• Requirements:
– Enrolled at a Spanish university or Spanish science centre;
• Last call
Ajuts per a tesis doctorals en
català (TDCAT)
• Funder: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts
Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR);
• Number of grants: 15;
• Goal: to help Spanish researchers in social sciences
and humanities who are in the final stages of
completing their doctoral theses;
• Provide: €6,000;
• Requirements:
– Enrolled at a Spanish university or Spanish science centre;
• Last call
Llegat Pasqual Maragall
• Funder: Fundació Catalunya Europa
• Goal: fund research projects that analyse the
role of cities; democracy and federalism;
socialism and socialdemocracy; and the future of
Europe and the Mediterranean spheres;
• Provide: €8,500;
• Requirements:
– No PhD or after 2009;
• Periodicity: annual (Spring);
• Open!

Euraxess

Post-doc
Opportunities

Individual
Fellowships

Individual fellowships
Annual Research Research
Fellowship Where Experience Duration
wage (€) funds (€) project
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
EU 0-∞ 1 – 3 years 61,700* 9,600 Yes
Individual Fellowships
Juan de la Cierva –
Spain ≤2 years 2 years 21,500 – No
Formación
Humboldt Research 6 – 24
Germany ≤2 years 31,800 6,000 Yes
Fellowship months
Postdoctoral fellowships 1 – 24
Japan ≤6 years ~34,000 – Yes
for Research in Japan months
Juan de la Cierva –
Spain 2 – ≤4 years 2 years 25,000 3,000 No
Incorporación
2 years
Beatriu de Pinós Catalonia 2 – ≤7 years 32,800 3,000 Yes
(+1)
“la Caixa” Junior
Spain 3 – ≤6 years 3 years 42,308 38,500 Yes
Leaders
Ramón y Cajal Spain 3 – ≤11 years 5 years 31,600 8,000 No
* Country coefficient applies

Juan de la Cierva - Formación
• Funder: Agencia Estatal de Investigación
• Duration: 2 years
• Goal: to employ young doctors to complete their
postdoctoral research training in Spanish R & D
centers other than those in which they carried
out their predoctoral training.
• Periodicity: annual (December - January)
• Last call

• Offers:
– Annual salary: €21,500;
• Requirements:
– < 2 years since PhD (01/01/2018 – 31/12/2019);
– PhD in a different institution;
– Cofund from host institution: €10,000.

• Evaluation:
– Thematic panels;
– Candidate’s CV (50%):
• Scientific contributions (25%);
• International activity (20%);
• Other (5%).
– Supervisor & Research group (50%):
• Other (5%).

Humboldt Research Fellowship
for postdoctoral researchers
• Funder: Alexander von Humboldt
Stiftung;
• Duration: 6 – 24 months;
• Goal: to enable highly-qualified scientists and
scholars from abroad who are just embarking on
their academic careers to spend extended
periods of research in Germany.
• Number of fellowships: 400 – 500;
• Periodicity: annual (March, July & November);
• Call open

Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Offers:
– Monthly living allowance: €2,650;
– Family allowances;
– Research funds: €500;
– Language fellowship.
• Requirements:
– Less than 4 years since PhD;
– Applicants must have lived outside Germany for a
minimum of 12 months in the 18-month period prior to
submission of the application.

Humboldt Research Fellowships
• Evaluation:
– Candidate’s academic record and academic
performance;
– Quality of key publications specified in the
application;
– Originality and innovation potential of the suggested
research outline;
– The applicant’s future potential.

Postdoctoral fellowships for
Research in Japan
• Funder: Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science
• Goal: to provide opportunities for young and
excellent pre-/post-doctoral researchers to
conduct cooperative research with leading
research groups in Japan.
• Requirements:
– Within 6 years since PhD;
– PhD not in Japan.

Research in Japan
• JSPS Short-term program
– Number of fellowships: 15 (x 4);
– Periodicity: 4 times/year;
– Offers:
• Round-trip air ticket;
• Maintenance Allowance: ¥362,000/month;
• Settling-in allowance: ¥200,000 (for ≥3 months of
tenure);
– Call open
Research in Japan
• JSPS Standard Program
– Duration: 12 – 24 months
– Number of fellowships: 120 (x 2);
– Periodicity: twice a year;
– Offers:
• Round-trip air ticket;
• Maintenance Allowance: ¥362,000/month;
• Settling-in allowance: ¥200,000 (for ≥3 months of
tenure);
– Call open
• Funder: European Commission;
• Duration: 1 – 3 years;
• Goal: to support the career development and
training of researchers in all scientific disciplines
through international and intersectoral mobility;
• Number of fellowships: 1,100;
• Periodicity: annual (September);
• Call open!

• Offers:
– Annual salary: €61,700 (Spain);
– Family allowance;
– Research funds: €9,600/year.
• Requirements:
– PhD or 4 years of full time experience in research;
– The researcher cannot have resided or carried out
his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the
country of the beneficiary for more than 12 months in
the three years immediately before the call deadline.

• European Fellowships (EF)
– Standard European Fellowships (ST);
– Career Restart Panel (CAR);
– Reintegration Panel (RI);
– Society and Enterprise (SE).
• From any country to EU/AC;
• Duration:
– ST, RI, SE: 12 – 24 months;
– CAR: 12 – 36 months.

• Global Fellowships (GF)
– 12-24 months (outgoing phase) + 12 months
(mandatory return);
– Initiating the fellowship in Europe is possible;
– Must be nationals or previous long-term residents (>5
years) of a European country.

• Evaluation:
– Excellence (50%):
• Research project;
• Training;
• Supervisor and host institution
– Impact (30%);
– Implementation (20%).

Objectives
• To increase the creativity and innovative
potential of researchers from any
discipline;
• To diversify their individual competence in
terms of skill acquisition through advanced
training, international and intersectoral
mobility.

Expected impact
• To extract the full potential from
researchers and achieve a significant
leap in their careers to broaden or deepen their
competences;
• Increased set of skills, both research-related and
transferable ones, leading to improved
employability and career prospects both in
and outside academia.

Why now?
Source: Jesús Rojo (Spanish NCP)

Why now?
Source: Jesús Rojo (Spanish NCP)

Who can be a MSCA fellow?
• Sole requirement: a PhD or 4 years of full time
experience in research at the deadline of the
call (11/09/2019);
• Awarded to the best researchers or those who are the
most promising;
• Focused on career development, not on
experience.
Fellowships will be awarded to the most talented

researchers as shown by the proposed research and their
track record in relation to their level of experience: you
compete with your peers.
Career development plan
• Training through research:
– Scientific skills: new techniques, instruments…
– Transferable skills: communication, IPR,
entrepreneurship…
• Interdisciplinary/intersectoral transfer of
knowledge;
• Opportunity to link with non-academic sectors:
industry, NGO, public sector, national archives…
• Research and financial management;
• Organizing and taking part in events (including
public engagement);
• Training in gender and ethics issues.

Opportunities!

Juan de la Cierva -
Incorporación
• Goal: to employ young doctors for a period of
two years in order to strengthen the skills
acquired during a first stage of postdoctoral
training.
• Last call

Juan de la Cierva -
Incorporación
• Offers:
– Research funds: €6,000.
• Requirements:
– 2 – 4 years since PhD (01/01/2015 – 31/12/2017);
– 12 months postdoc in a different institution;
– Cofund from host institution: €11,000

Juan de la Cierva -
Incorporación
• Evaluation:
• Other (5%).
– Supervisor & Research group (50%):
• Other (5%).

Beatriu de Pinós
• Funder: AGAUR
• Duration: 2 years (+1)
• Goal: to incorporate postdoctoral research staff
into the Catalan science and technology system.
• Periodicity: annual (November - December)
• Last call

Beatriu de Pinós
• Offers:
– Research funds: €6,000
• Requirements:
– 2 – 7 years since PhD (01/01/2012 – 31/12/2017);
– 2 years of postdoc experience in a different
institution;
– Candidates can not have resided or worked in Spain
more than 12 months in the previous 3 years;
– At least one publication (author or co-author).

Beatriu de Pinós
• Evaluation:
– 1 panel;
– Candidate’s CV (40%);
– Research project (20%);
– Supervisor & Research group (30%);
– Training (5%);
– Impact (5%)

“la Caixa” Junior Leaders
• Funder: Obra Social “la Caixa”
• Duration: 1 + 1 + 1 years;
• Goal: to foster high-quality, innovative research
in Spain and to support the best scientific
talents;
• Last call

• Offers:
– Annual salary: €38,461.54 – €46,153.85;
– Family allowance;
– Research funds: €38,500/year.
• Requirements:
– 3 – 6 years since PhD.

• Incoming subprogramme:
– 20 fellowships;
– Candidates must have resided in Spain less than 12
months over the past three years;
– At centres with the Severo Ochoa or María de Maeztu
distinction of excellence.

• Retaining subprogramme:
– 10 fellowships;
– Candidates must have resided in Spain more than 12
months over the past three years;
– At any university or research centre in Spain.

• Evaluation:
– 4 thematic panels;
– Shortlisting:
• Excellence of professional background in relation
to the stage of the candidate’s career;
• Motivation and Research Proposal;
• Letters of recommendation;
– Interview:
• Candidate potential;
• Motivation and impact of the proposal;
• Academic and professional background.

Ramón y Cajal
• Duration: 5 years (+1)
• Goal: to employ doctors who, through
competitive grants, have developed a line of
research in which they want to specialize.
• Last call

Ramón y Cajal
• Offers:
– Research funds: €40,000;
• Requirements:
– 3 – 11 years since PhD (01/01/2009 – 31/12/2016);
– 2 years of postdoc experience in a different
institution/PhD not in Spain;
– 20% cofund from host institution.

Ramón y Cajal
• Evaluation:
• Other (5%).
– Candidate's ability to lead her/his line of research (20%).

Beatriz Galindo
• Goal: to attract to the Spanish public system
talented researchers who have carried out part of
their professional career abroad;
• Periodicity: annual (May)
• Last call

Beatriz Galindo
• Beatriz Galindo Junior
– Offers:
• Annual salary: €35,000;
– Requirements:
• Less than 7 years of postdoc experience away from Spain;
• €10,000 cofund from host institution

Beatriz Galindo
• Beatriz Galindo Senior
– Offers:
• Annual salary: €70,000;
– Requirements:
• At least 7 years of postdoc experience away from Spain;
• €25,000 cofund from host institution

Beatriz Galindo
• Evaluation:
– Educational project;
– Research and transfer of knowledge;
– Curriculum vitae;
– Impact of the project to the University.

Becas Leonardo a Investigadores
y Creadores Culturales
• Funder: Fundación BBVA
• Goal: to support the work of researchers and
cultural creators to develop a markedly personal
and innovative project;
• Periodicity: annual (March)
• Last call

• Offers:
– Salary/Research funds: €40,000.
• Requirements:
– Candidate must be 30 – 45 years old.

• Evaluation:
– Originality and innovative character of the research
proposal (50%).

Research
Grants

Horizon 2020
• The biggest EU Research and Innovation
programme ever;
• Nearly €80 billion of funding;
• Oriented to solve challenges.

The three pillars
Excellent Industrial Societal
Science Leadership Challenges
European Research Health and Wellbeing
Council (ERC) Leadership in Food security
Enabling and
Future and Emerging Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) - Transport
Technologies (FET)
ICT, KETs, Space
Energy
Marie Skłodowska-
Curie Actions (MSCA) Climate action
Access to Risk Finance Societies
Research
Infrastructures Innovation in SMEs Security
Widening Participation – Science with and for Society
European Institute of
Joint Research Centre
Innovation and Technology EURATOM
(JRC)
(EIT)

Research Participant Portal

Looking for funding

Looking for funding

European Research Council
• ERC principles:
– Individual researchers from all over the world;
– Long term grants;
– To high-risk/high-gain pioneering projects;
– Applications can be made in any field of research;
– Selection criterion: scientific excellence.

• Starting Grant:
– Max. budget/project: €1.5M;
– Duration: 5 years;
– Periodicity: annual (October);
– Requirements:
• 2 – 7 years since PhD;
• at least one important publication as main author or without
the participation of the PhD supervisor;
– Last call

• Consolidator Grant:
– Max. budget/project: €2M;
– Duration: 5 years;
– Periodicity: annual (October);
– Requirements:
• 7 – 12 years since PhD;
• several important publications as main author or without the
participation of the PhD supervisor;
– Last call

Societal Challenges
1. Health, demographic change and wellbeing;
2. Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry,
marine and maritime and inland water research and
the bioeconomy;
3. Secure, clean and efficient energy;
4. Smart, green and integrated transport;
5. Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and
raw materials;
6. Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative
and reflective societies;
7. Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of
Europe and its citizens.

Looking for funding
• Overview of Horizon
2020 calls and topics
with substantial SSH
aspects;
• 60 pages;
• 250+ opportunities.

Conditions for participation
• Oriented research;
• Typology of projects:
– Research and Innovation Actions (RIA);
– Innovation Actions (IA).
• Consortium of at least 3 independent
institutions;
• Call’s specific requirements.

Asylum, Migration and
Integration Fund
• Duration: 36 months (max);
• Goal: to efficiently manage migration flows
and to develop and implement the common
asylum and immigration policy;
• Periodicity: annual;
• Last calls

Rights, Equality and Citizenship
Programme
• Duration: 36 months (max);
• Goal: to promote non-discrimination; combat
racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other
forms of intolerance; promote gender equality
and gender mainstreaming; prevent violence
against children, young people, women and
other groups at risk; promote the rights of the
child; promote EU citizenship rights;
• Periodicity: annual (February);
• Open calls

Mobility
Fellowhips

José Castillejo
• Provide:
– Monthly living allowance: €2,150 – €3,100;
– Travel allowance: €1,200;
– Settling-in allowance: €2,500.
• Requirements:
– Less than 10 years since PhD;
– Full time employed by a research institution;
– Less than 6 months in research stays in the last 4 years;
• Periodicity: annual (January);
• Last call

Ruth Lee Kennedy Travel
Bursaries
• Duration: 3 - 6 months;
• Goal: to help researchers who want to study or
conduct research at the top institutions of the
United States;
• Provide: $3,000;
• Requirements:
– Spanish citizenship;
– Less than 7 years since PhD
• Periodicity: annual (February);
• Last call
Other
Opportunities

Other SSH Funding
Opportunities

Prizes
• Premio Nacional de Sociología y Ciencia Política:
– Prize: €25,000;
– Annual (last call).
• Premio Iberoamericano en Ciencias Sociales:
– Prize: MXN$120,000;
– Biannual (even years – last call).

Thank you!
josep.niubo@upf.edu

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Source: Jesús Rojo (Spanish NCP)

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