Deadline: April 28, 2017
AgreenSkills and AgreenSkills+ are international postdoctoral fellowship programmes co-funded by the European Union and coordinated by INRA , in collaboration with Agreenium-IAVFF , the French Agricultural, Veterinary and Forestry Institute. AgreenSkills programmes promote international mobility for young and independent researchers up to 10 years of experience of research post PhD. AgreenSkills+ welcomes challenging basic or applied research projects in all fields of life, food and environmental sciences which may contribute to scientific domains of Agreenium-IAVFF members i.e. agriculture and forestry, food and nutrition, environment, and animal health. AgreenSkills+ has a continuous call for applications, with two selection rounds per year.
Since its first launch in spring 2012, AgreenSkills (2012-2016) has funded mobility projects of more than 85 young experienced researchers holding a PhD and having up to a maximum of 6 years’ research experience after their PhD. Its extension AgreenSkills+ (2014-2019), which is presently running, is open more widely, welcoming applications from young experienced and independent researchers having up to a maximum of 10 years’ research experience following their PhD.
Two Types of fellowships
- Incoming fellowships for researchers coming from all countries which apply to undertake a research project within one of the 300 Agreenium-IAVFF members’ receiving labs in France.
- Outgoing fellowships for researchers employed by one of the Agreenium-IAVFF members organisations, who wish to apply to work in a university research unit or research center outside France.
Benefits
- Very attractive salaries: from € 3,500 (Young experienced researcher) up to € 4,800 (Independent researcher) gross monthly
- Excellent research labs and high level hosting conditions
- Training and networking opportunities.
Eligibility
Incoming researchers (applying to one of Agreenium-IAVFF hosting laboratories in France) must fulfil the following eligibility criteria:
- Hold a PhD (or PhD will have been awarded by mobility start date);
- Have less than 10 years’ research experience after their PhD;
- Not have spent more than 12 months in France within the last 3 years immediately prior to the expected date of recruitment;
- Be able to write and speak fluent English or French;
- Have at least 1 publication in an inter-disciplinary or specialised peer-reviewed journal;
- Have 1 publication in an inter-disciplinary or specialised peer-reviewed journal per 2 years of post-doctorate period (patents count as publications) taking into account any non-research career breaks;
- Propose a research project that is relevant to AgreenSkills’ fields of interest and that is compliant with the opinion 24 of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies.
AgreenSkills+ incoming fellowships are for a mobility period of 12 to a maximum of 36 months.
Outgoing researchers (employees of one of the Agreenium-IAVFF members applying in research units of universities or research centres out of France) must fulfil the following eligibility criteria:
- Be a researcher working for an Agreenium-IAVFF member organization, with an employment contract in effect during the entire duration of the mobility period;
- Hold a PhD (or PhD will have been awarded by mobility start date);
- Have less than 10 years’ research experience after their PhD;
- Have spent at least 2 years in France within the last 3 years immediately prior to the expected date of mobility;
- Be able to write and speak fluent English or French;
- Have at least 1 publication in an inter-disciplinary or specialised peer-reviewed journal;
- Have 1 publication in an inter-disciplinary or specialised peer-reviewed journal per 2 years of post-doctorate period (patents count as publications) taking into account any non-research career breaks;
- Propose a research project that is compliant with the opinion 24 of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies.
AgreenSkills+ outgoing fellowships are for a mobility period of 6 to a maximum of 24 months. An additional 6 month return period in Europe is mandatory.
Application Process
- Submit a quick online eligibility check
- Find a hosting lab that matches your research interests
- Prepare and submit a complete application online
Each submitted application is assessed by up to 3 international reviewers, and then by the AgreenSkills Scientific Committee panels. The evaluation process takes up to 10 weeks. The AgreenSkills Steering Committee decides which research projects have to be funded, based on the Scientific Committee’s recommendations and ranking.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline of applications (Round 1): April 28, 2017
- Announcement of selection results: July 10, 2017
- Expected date of fellows recruitment: August 2017
For more information, visit AgreenSkills+ Fellowship.
