APS-EPS-ICTP Travel Award Fellowship Programme 2026 (up to €5,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2026

Applications are open for the APS-EPS-ICTP Travel Award Fellowship Programme 2026. In honour of the 2022 International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, the APS–EPS–ICTP Travel Award Fellowship Programme (ATAP) was established to strengthen international scientific alternate.

The programme displays a shared dedication to advancing the rules of open science, collaboration, and capability constructing that underpin the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024–2033). It additionally aligns with the targets of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in 2025, underscoring ATAP’s function in supporting scientific progress and fostering a extra inclusive and interconnected international analysis group.

Benefits

• ATAP offers a grant of 5,000 EUR to assist the foremost prices of a two‑month consecutive analysis go to to a collaborating laboratory in Europe (excluding Italy), North America, or a extra superior creating nation.

Eligibility

The programme is open to excellent doctoral college students and early‑profession physicists, ideally beneath the age of 45, who’re inside 10 years of the completion of their PhD. Eligible candidates have to be nationals of creating international locations and at present learning or working of their home nation or in one other creating nation. Candidates must also have a transparent plan to return to the laboratory of their alma mater or to one other establishment with which they’ve an already established scientific collaboration.

Requirements:

• Be a doctoral pupil or an early‑profession physicist (inside 10 years of the completion of their PhD) and ideally beneath the age of 45.
• Be a nationwide of a creating nation, at present learning or working both of their home nation or in one other creating nation.
• Undertake a two‑month go to to a laboratory within the completely different branches of the bodily sciences, with which they have already got a longtime collaboration. Special consideration shall be given to candidates returning to their alma mater. Expected outcomes embody strengthening present collaborations, establishing new ones, advancing world‑class analysis, enhancing publication data, and—the place relevant—making use of laboratory services already acquainted to the applicant. In distinctive circumstances, candidates might go to a brand new laboratory if they’ve modified analysis route and might clearly display why a special host establishment is extra appropriate for his or her profession growth.
• Demonstrated proficiency in English or fluency within the language of the host nation.

Application

The application should embody:

• An entire CV, indicating gender, date of start, highest diploma attained, the identify of the institute from the place you attained the diploma and a full record of publications.
• At least one letter of reference from somebody apart from the host institute (on the referee’s institutional letterhead).
• A letter of settlement and endorsement from the host laboratory, on their institutional letterhead, together with:
  • a quick description of the analysis to be carried out in the course of the two‑month go to;
  • the complete identify and function of who will supervise the customer;
  • affirmation that help shall be supplied for visa procedures if a grant is awarded;
  • provision of an acceptable workspace and entry to the mandatory gear to undertake the analysis;
  • help in native issues, to formalize their keep, discovering lodging all through the go to and every other issues.
• A one‑web page motivation letter explaining how the go to will profit the applicant’s analysis and profession, and outlining the anticipated outcomes in reference to their work at home.
• A one‑web page price range plan estimating journey prices and native bills.
• Proof of PhD enrolment (for doctoral college students solely).

Candidates should submit their application by 31 March of the 12 months by which they intend to maintain the Fellowship. Applications ought to be despatched to [email protected] with the topic line: “ATAP Fellowships – [Full Name]”.

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