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For Doctoral Degree Holders
Marie-Curie
Jean Monnet
Inco Ii
Erasmus Mundus
MARIE-CURIE
The Marie-Curie programme provides broad support in the fields of human resources and mobility. There are different grants offered:
- Institutional/host grants for host institutions willing to train foreign researchers. It is the duty of the host institutions to publicize vacancies, to run interviews,and to appoint the fellow researcher
- Individual grants for experienced researchers who wish to conduct research abroad
- Excellence grants financing of interdisciplinary research activities, awarding prizes
- Reintegration grants for researchers wishing to go back to a member state, an associated candidate country, or an associated country
Eligibility for the various schemes is based on research experience and expertise, not age. All levels are covered from researchers at the start of their career (with a doctorate and four years of work experience) to world-class researchers. They have to establish contacts with the host institution/company and sign a contract.
JEAN MONNET
The Jean Monnet Scholarship grants provide an opportunity to professionals in the public and private sector and university post-doctorates to conduct different kinds of research in the fields of history, cultural history, political science, social science, business and law studies in one of the EU member states.
Target group
Doctorates, honorary doctors, professors
Requirements
- Age limit: 35 years
- Fully-employed scholarship holders
Up-to-date information and application forms:
Jean Monnet Center
Contact
- European Commission
DG for Education and Culture – Unit A2
Higher Education: Socrates – Erasmus
Jean Monnet Project
Rue Belliard, 7 (B7 – 8/06)
B – 1049 BRUSSELS
INCO II
INCO is aimed at giving added value to international research. Therefore, it is carefully designed to target specific forms of industrial cooperation in public and private laboratories in various countries. It also helps to promote the quality of EU science and technology worldwide and contributes to the implementation of the EU's external policy.
The INCO II programme addresses separately, according to requirements, all EU member states and five different regions outside the EU, namely:
- Countries preparing for accession: Bulgaria, Romania
- The 12 NIS (New Independent States), as well as Mongolia, plus Central and Eastern European countries not in the pre-accession phase, namely Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- The Mediterranean partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestine Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
- Developing countries including those in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific, plus Asia and Latin America
- Developed economies and industrialised countries (USA, Japan, Korea)
Who qualifies?
The candidate must be a national of one of the eligible regions
Applicants should not be more than 40 years of age
Researchers must have a good knowledge of a working language of the host institute.
The host institute must be established in an EU member state or in a state associated to the Fifth Framework Programme, and must be a member of the consortium proposing the joint research project or the concerted action.
The application must be submitted together with a research proposal for one of the specific programmes of INCO II.
For more information visit the following web page:
CORDIS- Community Research and Development Information Service
Contact
- INCO INFO DESK
FP5 Programme Information Point
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200
B-1049 Brussels
BELGIUM
e-mail: inco@cec.eu.int
ERASMUS MUNDUS
Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education, which aims to enhance the quality in European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries.
The goal of the programme is to strengthen European cooperation. This is achieved through different international links in higher education by supporting high-quality European masters courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.
The Erasmus Mundus programme comprises four concrete actions:
ACTION 1 - Erasmus Mundus masters courses: they constitute the central component around which Erasmus Mundus is built. They are high-quality integrated courses at a masters level offered by a consortium of at least three universities in at least three different European countries. The courses must be "integrated" to be selected under Erasmus Mundus, which means that they must foresee a study period in at least two of the three universities and that it must lead to the award of a recognised double, multiple or joint diploma.
ACTION 2 - Erasmus Mundus scholarships: in order to give the Erasmus Mundus masters courses selected under Action 1 a strong external projection, a scholarship scheme for third-country graduate students and scholars worldwide is linked to them. This scholarship scheme addresses highly qualified individuals who come to Europe to follow the Erasmus Mundus masters courses or to work for them.
ACTION 3 - Partnerships: in order to encourage European universities to open themselves up to the world and to reinforce their worldwide presence, Erasmus Mundus masters courses selected under Action 1 also have the possibility of establishing partnerships with third-country higher education institutions. These partnerships allow for outgoing mobility of graduate EU students and scholars involved in the Erasmus Mundus masters courses.
ACTION 4 - Enhancing attractiveness: Erasmus Mundus also supports projects aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of ,and the interest in, European higher education. It supports activities that improve the profile, the visibility and the accessibility of European higher education as well as issues crucial to the internationalisation of higher education, such as the mutual recognition of qualifications with third countries.
In concrete terms, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 Erasmus Mundus masters courses of outstanding academic quality. It will provide grants for some 5,000 graduate students from third countries to follow these masters courses, and for more than 4,000 EU graduate students involved in these courses to study in third countries. The program will also offer teaching or research scholarships in Europe for over 1,000 incoming third-country academics and for a similar number of outgoing EU scholars. Last but not least, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 partnerships between Erasmus Mundus masters courses and higher education institutions in third countries.
The programme is available to
- the 25 EU member states
- the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)
- the countries of the European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway)
- all the other countries of the world (third countries)
The list with the Erasmus Mundus master programmes is not released. For more information refer to the following web page: