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Funding opportunities for early career scientists
Where to find your own funding early in your career
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For more information about the programs, click the links in the tables.
Programs may not have open calls every year, and deadlines may be variable. For current open calls, visit the UFO site or contact the Research Coordinator.
Funding your own position or starting your own group:
National and local funds
| Name of program | Funding agency | Budget | Duration | Years after PhD | Age limit | Deadline |
| Young research talents | NFR | 3-7 Mio NOK | Max 4 years | 2-8 | 39 | Feb |
| TMS Starting Grant | Bergen Research Foundation | 8-16 Mio NOK (50% UiB) | 4 years | 2-7 | 39 | March |
International/anywhere (you can take the fund with you)
| Name of program | Funding agency | Budget | Duration | Years after PhD | Age limit | Deadline |
| ERC Starting Grant | EU | 2 Mio € | 5 years | 2-7 | ? | Feb |
| ERC Consolidator Grant | EU | 2,75 Mio € | 5 years | 7-12 | ? | Feb |
Mobility and research training grants
| Name of program | Funding agency | Budget | Duration | Years after PhD | Age limit | Deadline |
| FRIPRO mobility grant | NFR | salary+ operation | 2 years abroad, 1 year Norway | < 6 (*) | ? | Feb |
| Marie Curie PF | EU | salary+ travel | 1-2 years | no limit (**) | no limit | Sept |
(*) PhD needs to be handed in 1st Nov of year of application the latest
(**) PhD needs to be approved at application deadline
Find more mobility funding at the Euraxess stipend data base
Supporting your on-going PhD / Post Doc project with additional funding:
| Name of program | Funding agency | What is funded | Who can apply | Deadline |
| L. Meltzers Høyskolefond (Meltzer Grant) | UiB | Travel, small projects | UiB student, PhD, Post Doc, Researcher | 01.12. |
| UiB diverse grants | UiB | Travel, work shop support, ... | UiB students, PhD, Post Doc, Researcher | 01.12. |
| Top-up financing for outgoing MSCA fellows | NFR | Extra funding for MSCA candidates leaving Norway | Fellows of MSCA PF or MSCA ITN projects | open |
| Personal overseas grant PhD and Post Doc | NFR | Travel, accomodation, travel stipend 3-12 months | PhD/Post Doc financed by NFR | open |
| CHESS Research School | NFR | Training courses, travel stipends, more | CHESS PhDs | variable |
| World University Network | UiB | Travel + Mobility to WUN partners | UiB employees (also PhD) | variable |
| ERASMUS+ | EC | Mobility | PhD students, Post Doc, Researcher (teaching or training) | variable |
| ARQUS European University Alliance | EC | Mobility (Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon, Padova and Vilnius) | Student, Researcher | variable |
The International Center at UiB provides information and support for staff and students who plan to go abroad
Scan the EURAXESS database for other funding opportunities abroad
25.03.2022