Supporting at-risk researchers in reaching their educational {and professional} targets.
Who Can Apply?
The SAFE Fellowship is designed for non-EU researchers in doctoral/PhD applications or postdoctoral positions throughout all scientific disciplines who’re dealing with qualifying dangers equivalent to discrimination, persecution, or violence.
Eligibility Tracks
Track 1: At-risk researchers exterior the EU
For researchers who’re:
- Non-EU residents dealing with threats of their nation of residence or just lately displaced attributable to such threats.
- Neither refugees nor holders of subsidiary safety standing.
Track 2: At-risk researchers already inside the EU
For researchers who’re:
- Non-EU residents already in an EU Member State with acknowledged refugee or subsidiary safety standing.
- In the EU with non permanent permits/visas, exterior the formal refugee course of.
Fellowships Overview
Host Institutions
Eligible host establishments embody educational and non-academic greater schooling or analysis organizations positioned in EU Member States.
Eligibility Criteria for Researchers
Researchers should:
- Be doctoral candidates or maintain a doctoral diploma at the begin of the fellowship.
- Face or have just lately confronted qualifying dangers.
- Have the language proficiency required by the host establishment.
- Be non-EU residents.
- Submit an ethics guidelines with their utility.
Available Fellowships
- Number: 60
- Duration: Up to 24 months
- Funding: Fully funded
Evaluation and Selection Process
Applications are assessed by a six-step course of:
- Eligibility Check
- Preliminary Assessment
- External Evaluation
- Final Selection
- Notification of Results to Host Institutions
- Signing of Fellowship Agreements
How to Apply
Applications are submitted on-line by EU-based host establishments on behalf of eligible researchers. Each establishment could submit just one utility.
Matchmaking Service
The SAFE program gives a matchmaking service to assist join at-risk researchers with potential host establishments in the EU. Together, they will develop a joint proposal for the SAFE name for purposes.
Application deadline twentieth January 2025
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