Grants for Individuals – mobility track, in spring 2022

A Rubicon, Marie Curie fellowship or related personal grant gives early-career researchers an opportunity for gaining valuable research experience abroad after their PhD.

If you are planning to apply for such a mobility grant in 2022 and want to know how to best structure and frame your proposal and receive (additional) feedback on your own proposal, ‘Grants for Individuals – mobility track’ training in spring 2022 could be of interest to you.

The ‘Grants for Individuals – mobility track’ training is for young researchers in the last year of their PhD research until five years after completion of their PhD degree. The aim of the training is to prepare you for competitive individual grant schemes, including Marie Curie fellowship, Rubicon and other (lesser-known) comparable schemes. The next training course takes place from January-March 2022 (sessions are generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays). In contrast to previous year, we expect to be able to organise the training in-person at UM again.

The training is centred around concrete research proposals: you enter the training with your own draft proposal, and finish with a version that is close to ready to submit. During the training you will present your proposal, review the proposals of fellow candidates, and rewrite and refine your own draft. It consists of a plenary information session, three writing skills sessions and a visual design workshop (two sessions). Using the information from these sessions, you will keep on working on your proposal. You are expected to regularly submit an updated version of your proposal and to review the proposals of fellow candidates.

To be able to participate, you need to:

  • Prepare a grant proposal that you aim to submit to an individual mobility grant funding scheme (for example, Marie Curie fellowship, Rubicon, Niels Stensen fellowship) in the upcoming year. If you are planning to apply in another individual grant scheme other than those listed above (such as NWO Veni, for which there is a separate Grants for Individuals training), please contact your funding adviser to discuss if you can participate in this training.
  • Have full support from your Principal Investigator(PI)/supervisor/department head and the faculty funding adviser. The aim is to ensure you meet the requirement of the funding scheme and have sufficient time to attend the training. The work involved in the training is quite intensive, so participation only makes sense if you have sufficient time.

Depending on the number of participants, the group will be divided into several subgroups (Tuesday/Thursday group, either at Randwyck or Inner City). Due to the limited number of participants, a selection process will take place. Interested candidates are invited for an intake interview that will take place between 8 and 17 December 2021.

Deposit

Participation requires commitment and effort from you (and your PI/supervisor/department head). Due to experiences in the past and the expenses we have for organising the training, a deposit of € 1000,- is requested from your PI/supervisor/department head.

When you have shown sufficient participation (you handed in a full proposal by the first writing skills session, were present during both plenary sessions, missed no more than one other meeting and have shown active participation, for example by timely submitting homework), the deposit is refunded after the training.

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