OeAW announces Austria’s unique Seal of Excellence Programme 2024. The Seal of Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellowship@OeAW Programme will promote young, promising scientists who submitted to the 2023 call for proposals within the MSCA-European Postdoctoral Fellowship programme and who were awarded a Seal of Excellence by the European Commission.
DEADLINE
31 May 2024
APPLICATION
The call is open to researchers who
- have submitted a proposal in the MSCA-PF-EF Call 2023 and
- chose the Austrian Academy of Sciences as their Host Institution and
- are assigned the Seal of Excellence – MSCA-European Postdoctoral Fellowship (score ≥85%).
The following documents shall be sent in SURNAME_PROJECTACRONYM_pdf format:
- Application form
- Proposal as submitted in the EU Funding & Tender Portal (Form A and Form B) in the MSCA-PF Call 2023
- Evaluation Summary Report Letter incl. the Seal of Excellence Award by the EC
- Copy of the certificate awarding the PhD
- Declaration of consent signed by the institute’s director
- CDP V1.0
Applications referring to the SoE Calls 2024 shall be sent to SoEapplications(at)oeaw.ac.at no later than 31 May 2024.
FUNDING
The call for applications aims at granting € 110.000,- as of 1st January 2025 for each year of activity for the whole duration as applied for in the MSCA-European Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal excluding an optional placement in the non-academic sector after the end of the fellowship (i.e max. 24 months). The budget shall be used for covering the salary of the researcher (max. € 95.000,-) and research, training and networking activities (incl. secondments of max. 6 months if applicable) € 15.000,-p.a.
DURATION OF FUNDING
Funding will be available for max. 24 months as stipulated in the MSCA application. Part-time employment and a respective extension of duration are not provided. Project starting date: 1st January 2025.
AWARD
The SoE_PF@OeAW is awarded according to the respective call programme.
Funded projects Seal of Excellence Fellowships 2022
Marjolein Bosch
"Organic technology: Palaeolithic tools, beads and art; their uses in life and death"
Supervised by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Martina de Santis
"Engineering a uteroid hydrogel platform for human implantation"
Supervised by Nicolas Rivron
Ann-Katrin Hopp
"Uncovering the Role of Metabolites in Regulating Mesenchymal Cell Fate Decisions."
Supervised by Giulio Superti-Furga