Research grants for young researchers within the partnership-agreement with the university of
                                              vienna

Purpose

To encourage young researchers to make use of the partnership by offering them the possibility to
spend a one month research-stay at the University of Vienna


Target Group

PhD-candidates or Post-Docs (post-docs having finished their PhD-studies not longer than 7 years
ago at the time of the application at their home university)


Amount of the grant

€ 1000.- per month and person


Procedure

The partner university nominates the corresponding number of candidates (and 1-2 replacement
candidates) at the beginning of each calendar year, who have the acceptance of an Academic
supervisor at the University of Vienna and have agreed with him/her on the date of the planned
research stay in Vienna


The nomination should include


·        Curriculum vitae (tabular Form)

·        list of publications

·        short description of the research project and the reason for the stay in Vienna, including
a short bibliography related to the research topic

·        letter of recommendation of a researcher from the applicant’s home university

·        acceptance letter of an academic supervisor at the University of Vienna (containing the
date of the research stay agreed upon)


The nominations should be sent by the international office of the partner university to the
International Office of the university of vienna.


After approval of the nominated candidates by the University of Vienna, the University of Vienna
will send a letter of acceptance to the Partner University. The Partner University will then inform
the candidates about the confirmation and the university of Vienna will prepare the payment of the
grants.


After having finished their research stay at the University of Vienna the young researchers are
kindly asked to send a short formless report to:


Dr. Tatjana Antalovsky

International Relations, University of Vienna

1010 Wien, Universitätsring 1,

tatjana.antalovsky@univie.ac.at

Tel. +43 (01) 4277/18204