Application Deadline: 1 April, 2024
The EMBO Young Investigator Programme supports life scientists who have been group leaders for less than four years at the time of application in setting up their laboratories. Young Investigators receive financial support for networking for four years and benefit from training opportunities, support for their lab members and mentoring. They become part of an international network of more than 700 current and former EMBO Young Investigators, Installation Grantees and Global Investigators.
Eligibility
- Applicants must have been an independent group leader for at least one year and for less than four years at the pre-application deadline (i.e having started no earlier than 1 April 2020 and no later than 1 April 2023), for the application round 2024.
- They must have an excellent track record.
- They must carry out research in the life sciences (please see EMBO Subject Areas) in an EMBC Member State, an EMBC Associate Member State (currently India and Singapore) or in countries or territories covered by a co-operation agreement (currently Taiwan and Chile).
- They must have sufficient funding to run their laboratory.
- They must have published at least one senior author research paper* in an international peer-reviewed journal from independent work carried out in their own laboratory.
- For female candidates with children, the limit of four years since independence is automatically extended by one year per child of any age.
- For male applicants with children, the limit can be extended by the actual time taken off as paternity leave or – if their partner is working at least 80% FTE (full-time equivalent) – three months per child, whichever is longer.
Benefits
EMBO Young Investigators receive a financial award of 15,000 euros in their second year. They can also apply for additional small grants of up to 10,000 euros per year.
Networking is a key aspect of the programme, and Young Investigators benefit from extensive practical support, including:
Networking:
- The annual EMBO Young Investigator meeting
- Special interest groups organizing sectoral meetings on selected topics
- Joint group meetings with other programme members’ labs
- Visits to discuss potential collaborations with other programme members
- Seminars by Young Investigators at another programme member’s institute
- Research visits of lab members to other programme members’ laboratories to exchange expertise.
Support for Young Investigators:
- Mentorship by an EMBO Member
- Training in research leadership and management skills through EMBO Lab Leadership Courses
- An online training course on responsible conduct of research co-developed by EMBO Policy
- Posting of vacancies in programme members’ laboratories
- Grants for organizing conferences.
Support for Young Investigator laboratories:
- Access to EMBL Core Facilities
- Annual course for PhD students from programme members’ laboratories
- Travel grants for meeting attendance for Young Investigators and their group members.
Application Procedure:
Application
Applications to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme are accepted annually in a two-stage process and must be submitted through an online system.
Application process:
- The call for 2024 is now open.
- The deadline for pre-applications is 01 April 2024, 12:00 CEST.
- Please download updated Application Guidelines (February 2024) from the Downloads side bar on the left.
- For re-applicants: only two total applications to the Programme are possible (one re-application).
- The Young Investigator Committee invites selected candidates to submit a full application and attend an interview.
- The deadline for full applications is 17. July 2024.
- All invited candidates will be virtually interviewed by the Young Investigator Committee in either on 12 or 13 of November 2024.
- The final selection will be made at the Young Investigator Committee meeting.
- All applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by email.
The complete application for the Young Investigator Programme consists of:
- CV
- Synopsis of past work
- Outline of the planned research project
- Short summary of research
- Publication list and list of three best papers
- Three letters of reference
- List of grants and pending grant applications
- ORCID number
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