Researchers under 40 years who have been working/studying abroad at least 2 years and this stay has been finished maximum 6 months before the time of application submission or it still lasts and they obtained PhD at least 3 years before application submission.
Maximum annual budget is 140 000 €. Number of possibly financed projects is determined by this amount.
Maximum financial amount allocated per project is 40 000 €/year. Salary and statutory deduction of researcher and members of her/his team may be remunerated from this amount as well as the running costs of the research project up to 15 000 €/year.
Institute makes a fixed-term employment contract with successful applicant (for the duration of the project, maximum for 4 years).
The primary criteria are the excellence of the applicant and the proposed project, as well as the ability and possibility to co-finance the project from other resources. Specific evaluation criteria together with their weighting are given in the Annex of the SAS Scholarship Program Guide for Evaluators.
The application will be assessed in a two-stage evaluation process; in the first stage compliance with the formal requirements is assessed and in the second stage application is sent to the three independent evaluators, who fill in the evaluation protocol according to the evaluation criteria. These protocols are then discussed in the evaluation committees, applications are scored and ranked.
Results of the first stage of evaluation will be available after 30.4.2013 and the results of the second stage will be published between 15.6.-1.7.2013.