TWAS-SISSA-Lincei Research Cooperation Visits Programme 2025-2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications for the TWAS-SISSA-Lincei Research Cooperation Visits Programme 2025-2026 at the moment are open. UNESCO-TWAS, in collaboration with the Lincei Academy and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), affords younger scientists from Least Developed Countries the OPPORTUNITY to go to analysis laboratories at Centres of Excellence in Trieste, Italy. Research proposals should fall below the umbrella of sustainability science and thus be related to areas that help the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The objective of those trade fellowships is 2-fold:

• To improve the analysis capability of promising scientists, particularly these at first of their analysis profession.
• To catalyze the formation of analysis hyperlinks for additional collaboration.

Cost

• The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, via UNESCO-TWAS, will cowl journey bills and supply subsistence prices for the keep in Italy. The administration and monetary operation of TWAS is undertaken by UNESCO in accordance with an settlement signed by the 2 organizations.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be a most age of 40 years on 31 December of the application 12 months;
• Applicants should maintain an MSc (or greater diploma);
• Applicants have to be nationals of a least developed nation;
• Applicants should maintain a analysis place in a least developed nation;
• Particular consideration will likely be given to analysis initiatives that fall below the umbrella of sustainability science;
• Women scientists are inspired to apply;
• Applicants already on web site within the host nation aren’t eligible;
• Only functions within the scientific fields specified beneath and listed within the application kind will likely be thought of.

Application

Materials requested for application embrace:

• The completed application form;
• Copy of passport, even when expired (solely the web page with private particulars is required);
• The applicant’s curriculum vitae;
• A press release on scientific pursuits and future plans for analysis in sustainability sciences within the home nation explicitly referring to which SDGs contributions are more likely to be made;
• Full listing of publications (don’t enclose reprints of articles);
• Copy of the MSc (or greater) certificates;
• A latest invitation letter obtained via one of many eligible host laboratories listed above which ought to include the proposed time of the go to (3 months) and will confer with the proposed cooperation. It needs to be made evident that the applicant and the proposed host have been involved concerning the scientific work to be accomplished in the course of the go to and that the circumstances for conducting the work have been agreed by way of the timing of the go to and the services accessible;
• Recent letters of advice, which have to be submitted individually to TWAS by two referees who’re conversant in the applicant’s work. N.B. Only signed reference letters might be accepted.

Applicants have to submit the whole application kind duly signed and ship it to the TWAS Secretariat. Applications could also be despatched by e-mail so long as pages with signatures are despatched as scanned paperwork. Incomplete/unsigned functions will NOT be accepted. Contact e-mail is [email protected].

For extra data, go to TWAS.