ERA-EDTA Long-term Fellowships
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ERA-EDTA Short-term Fellowships
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ERA-EDTA Long-term fellowships
Long-Term Fellowships are awarded for prolonged visits (12 to 24 months) and are intended for advanced training through research.
The fellowships provide the travel costs and a stipend for the fellow and his/her family. The fellowship subsistence rates are calculated according to the guidelines of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) (http://www.embo.org/fellowships/rates06.html). In the event of early termination of the fellowship, any payments made after the date of termination will have to be repaid as will the return portion of the travel money. When the fellowship is accepted for a very brief period, the entire travel allowance will have to be returned.
Applicants should have a long-term commitment to perform research in the field of kidney function or disease and related areas, including renal pathology, pathophysiology, hypertension, cardiovascular consequences of renal disease, clinical epidemiology, dialysis and transplantation.
As a preferential qualification, applicants must have at least one first author publication in press or published in an international peer reviewed journal at the time of application. This rule is strictly applied. Publication updates can not be accepted after the application deadline.
In addition, applicants should have sufficient basal research experience in the field of their proposed project.
Applications are only considered from candidates with a maximum of 10 years post doctoral experience. Exceptions are made for applicants with career breaks due to military service or childcare.
All applications must involve a receiving institution located in Europe and the application must involve movement between countries.
The favoured form of application is that the applicant and the receiving institution are both located in Europe, or in a country bordering Europe or bordering the Mediterranean Sea, but scientists from this region currently working in a non-European country (e.g. North-America) are also welcome to apply to return to a different state.
Both the home and host institution should have a track record in high quality research, so that there is a high likelihood that the research programme carried out during the fellowship will be successful and can be successfully continued after return of the fellow to the home institution.
The research focus of the home institution should always be in the field of nephrology (basic, clinical or translational). The research focus of the receiving institution can also lie in an area other than kidney function and disease, provided that the research project carried out during the fellowship is related to kidney function and disease and will be continued in this area.
Candidates can only submit applications for one project at one host laboratory at each round of selection.
Please note the following
Applications for long term fellowships to be held in the laboratory, institute or department in which the candidate obtained his or her MD or PhD, or to work again with the candidate's MD or PhD supervisor, no matter where the latter is located, are not considered.
Applications to move from one institution to another in the same country are only considered if the applicant has been working in the country for less than 3 months before the closing date for the application. Candidates who interrupted their career due to childcare for at least 1 year will also be given special consideration when applying to stay within the same country (Please indicate career breaks in your application).
Applications to work in an industrial research laboratory with a view to developing new products or procedures will not be considered. However, research centres for basic research which are endowed by industries will be eligible.
Applications to perform research in the country where, on the basis of the C.V. and the career plan, the applicant normally works will not be considered.
The selection committee will be asked to give special attention to all cases where the mobility and the role and involvement of home and host institutions is borderline.
Selection of ERA-EDTA Long Term Fellows
Applications have to be submitted online through the ERA-EDTA web-site to the ERA-EDTA Fellowship Committee, an international committee of European experts in the field of kidney research, for a pre-screening and initial review. The Fellowship Committee will then send the dossiers for detailed review to experts in the relevant area of research. The fellowship committee can also invite applicants for an interview by experts in the area of application.
After each application is scored independently by members of the Fellowship Committee the committee meets to consider together the applications and the scores. Typically the outcome of the selection is known approximately 6-16 weeks after the closing date and is provided on the ERA-EDTA website immediately after the meeting of the selection committee. The fellowships can be started without any further significant delay. The basis for selection is a combination of the C.V. of the candidate (with due recognition given to the institutional context in which the candidate had worked), the project as presented, the record of the receiving institution and the long-term career perspective of the applicant.
Please Note - a request to change laboratory or project once a fellowship has started, will have to be considered by the Committee.
Requests for such changes have to be fully justified by the candidate and are granted only in extreme circumstances.
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Duration
The fellowship may be awarded for a period of at least 12 and up to 24 months, dependent on a positive interim request from the fellow and the supervisor. The reviewing committee may also award a shorter period than requested.
It is acceptable to use ERA-EDTA support to complete work already initiated with the support of another organization or institution. The maximum time for a combination of this previous support with that from ERA-EDTA will be 36 months.
Fellows are entitled to 3 months maternity leave during their fellowship. Fellows who take maternity leave during the fellowship are entitled to an extension of their fellowship for a period of up to 3 months. For child care reasons it is also possible to apply to work part-time during the fellowship with the maximum time (full-time plus part-time) not exceeding 36 months.
All fellowships must be started within one calendar year of the relevant closing date for applications.
ERA-EDTA Short-term fellowships
Short-term fellowships are established to advance kidney research by helping basic and clinical investigators to visit another institution with a view to applying a technique not available in the home institution or to promote a research collaboration between two institutions.
Short-term fellowships are usually not awarded for exchanges between two institutions within the same country. Short term fellowships are primarily intended for joint research work rather than consultations.
The fellowships provide the travel costs plus subsistence for the fellow only. The fellowship subsistence rates are calculated according to the guidelines of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) (http://www.embo.org/fellowships/rates06.html).
All applications must involve an institution of origin and a receiving institution in Europe
The fellowships are not restricted to candidates with significant research experience, although candidates with little research experience have a lower priority. There is no age limit.
Applications which are presented as a means of training in a technique rather than as a component of a research project will receive lower priority.
ERA-EDTA does not consider applications for short term fellowships to prolong visits begun under other auspices, or as bridging fellowships between, or prior to, long term stays funded by ERA-EDTA, other organizations, the host institute or industry. Applications for fellowships to attend courses, workshops, or symposia will not be considered. On completion of the fellowship applicants must return to their home institution.
The fact that an applicant has previously held an ERA-EDTA short or long term fellowship does not preclude further applications for a fellowship for a new project in. It is not possible to hold both a short- term and a long-term fellowship at the same time.
Selection of ERA-EDTA Short-Term Fellows
Applications are refereed through a written evaluation by experts in the area of the research project and fellowships are awarded by the ERA-EDTA fellowship committee throughout the year.
The reviewers are asked to judge the quality of the candidate, the research project and the receiving institution but the major criterion deciding whether or not to award a fellowship will be the projected benefit to the home institution of the applicant. It is considered favourable when the proposed fellowship helps to establish, continue or intensify a long-term collaboration between the applicant's home and host institution.
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Duration
Short term fellowships are intended for visits of 1 week up to 3 months duration.
At the end of the fellowship the researchers are asked to provide the ERA-EDTA with a report of activity at the receiving institution. The report should be sent within three months after the end of the fellowship to the President of the ERA-EDTA who will forward it to the ERA-EDTA fellowship committee. Ideally, the report should be a minimum of one double-sided A4 sheet, detailing research objectives and results and further work to be undertaken. It may include diagrams, charts or illustrations to enhance the results.
Upon receipt and approval of the end report, the researcher will be sent an attestation by way of acknowledgement. The attestation will include date and duration of fellowship, place, ERA-EDTA STF number and project title.
N.B It is important, when sending the end report to the President of ERA-EDTA, to clearly indicate the ERA-EDTA STF number and current address, in case it is different from that at the time of application.
The next deadline for both long-term and short-term fellowships is October 15, 2008.
To contact us for further questions send an e-mail message to fellowships@era-edta.org The Application form for both long-term and short-term fellowships will be available two months before the deadline. Next deadline 15/10/2008. To submit your application click here http://era-edta.embo.org/index.php |