Apply Now: 2025 ICGEB SMART Fellowships for Early-Career Researchers

The ICGEB SMART Fellowship programme is now open for functions, providing early-career scientists from ICGEB Member States the chance to boost their expertise and deepen worldwide collaboration within the life sciences. This initiative helps analysis mobility between laboratories in numerous ICGEB Member States, fostering data change, ability growth, and innovation.

Deadline: 30 September 2025

About the Programme

The SMART (Short-term Mobility And Research Training) Fellowship programme encourages collaborative analysis between establishments throughout ICGEB Member States. It promotes hands-on coaching in superior applied sciences, ability acquisition, and worldwide scientific partnerships which have an enduring affect on researchers’ careers and home establishments.

Subject Areas

Applications are welcome in all areas of the life sciences.

 Eligibility

• Applicants have to be nationals of an ICGEB Member State.

• Applicants have to be registered PhD college students or have obtained a PhD inside the final 5 years. MSc holders are additionally eligible.

• Must be actively working in a analysis establishment.

• Fellowships should contain mobility between two ICGEB Member States (besides Italy, India, or South Africa until the analysis isn’t obtainable at ICGEB labs in these nations).

• There is no age restrict, however choice is given to early-career researchers.

Duration & Benefits

• Fellowship length: 3 to 9 months

• Monthly stipend: Between USD 800 and USD 1,500, relying on location and seniority

• Health insurance coverage and economy-class worldwide journey lined

• A bench price of USD 500/month could also be offered to the host lab to help analysis prices

Note: Fellows are accountable for private bills for relations.

Bench Fee Use

Bench charges should help the analysis challenge and could also be used for lab consumables solely (e.g., chemical compounds, plasticware, reagents). Costs resembling gear purchases, journey, or administration are not eligible.

Application Requirements

You should submit:

• A accomplished on-line application

• CV and publications listing

• CV of the Head of the Receiving Lab

• A legitimate passport copy

• Contact particulars of each your home and host laboratory supervisors

• Two reference letters submitted immediately by way of e-mail hyperlink

Only one application per candidate is accepted per name.

Selection Criteria

The choice committee will consider:

• Scientific benefit of the challenge

• The candidate’s educational background and potential

• The energy of collaboration between home and host labs

• The proposed challenge’s profit to each establishments

Applicants shall be notified by way of e-mail after assessment.

How to Apply

1. Create an account at: ICGEB Service Gateway

2. Access the SMART Fellowship application web page:
   SMART Fellowship Guidelines & Form

3. Complete all 8 sections of the application

4. Upload required paperwork and submit

Ensure home and host lab supervisors full their sections earlier than the deadline.

FAQs & Additional Info

• Visit the ICGEB SMART Fellowship FAQ web page for solutions to widespread questions.

• Download the “My SMART Experience” brochure to study extra about earlier fellows’ experiences.

For extra alternatives like this, go to opportunitiesforyouth.org.