OECD CRP Research Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 10, 2025

Applications are open for the OECD CRP Research Fellowship 2026. Applications are invited from analysis scientists working in agriculture, forestry or fisheries who want to conduct analysis tasks overseas, in one other member nation of the Co-operative Research Programme (CRP) from 6 to 26 weeks. The intention of the Research Fellowships is to strengthen the worldwide change of concepts and enhance worldwide mobility and co-operation amongst scientists working in these areas.

The goal and work of the CRP are anchored in each a coverage and scientific atmosphere within the fields of meals, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, which, greater than ever, are developed in a multidisciplinary atmosphere. This occurs in order to reply to the various calls for from a spread of stakeholder teams with pursuits in these fields, and to take into consideration that the world is globalised and meals manufacturing techniques are interlinked.

Fellowship

The Fellowship award consists of three elements which collectively are referred to as the journey lump sum allowance. The complete journey lump sum allowance awarded will rely on distance from the Fellow’s laboratory to the host establishment and the variety of weeks of the fellowship.

• Travel prices (calculated based mostly on a return financial system class air ticket. Note that the journey allowance is calculated to cowl a one return journey to and from the host laboratory and the place of domicile.
• Weekly Subsistence Allowance: at present 600 EUR or 650 EUR per week (relying on the price of dwelling of the host nation). This subsistence allowance is to cowl all regular dwelling bills (lodging, meals, and many others.) and incidentals (day by day journey to and from work and many others.)
• Terminal prices: A lump sum allowance of 165 EUR is paid to cowl transportation prices incurred within the taking and leaving of duties on the host laboratory.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be working in an establishment positioned in a rustic that at present participates within the OECD Co-operative Research Programme (CRP), and the collaborating host establishment have to be positioned in one other collaborating nation.
• Applicants ought to have 4 years of postdoctoral coaching. The programme isn’t focused at PhD college students. In distinctive circumstances, consideration shall be given to candidates who, though not having a PhD, have the equal experience and have been extensively printed. For all purposes, precedence is given to the general scientific high quality of every application contemplating its relevance to the Programme’s Research Themes and the Programme’s multi-disciplinary focus.
• Applicants ought to have a contract with their current employer that ensures their continued employment after completion of the fellowship. If the contract is lower than 3 years, candidates are requested to ask their establishment to certify that there shall be a continued on-going scientific affiliation with the host laboratory as soon as the fellowship ends, as this ensures that the relationships established in the course of the fellowship are put to useful use.
• Before submitting an application, candidates ought to have their employers’ settlement to the application and to the take up of the fellowship ought to they achieve success.
• A candidate who has already been the recipient of a CRP fellowship might apply for a second award, however solely 5 years after the yr of their first fellowship.

Countries Participating within the CRP

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom and United States.

Application

The deadline for submission of purposes for a 2026 Fellowship is 10 September 2025. Confirmation that the application has been submitted and obtained by the Secretariat is robotically despatched by the system.

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For extra info, go to OECD Fellowship.