Strategic Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024

This call is closed. We expect this grant scheme to return in our 2025 call subject to adjustments/modifications.

Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (DDEA) invites applications for three 50%-financed two-year Strategic Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowships of 600,000 DKK each (covering salary). Additionally, each postdoctoral fellowship grant includes a travel grant of 100,000 DKK and the opportunity to co-organise a DDEA education and networking activity.

DDEA is pleased to announce this entirely new grant scheme, commencing in 2024. The new grants are designed to support and foster transnational strategic partnerships between partners from Denmark and abroad from various sectors and across different fields of research. The grants support both immediate and ongoing transnational collaborative academic research projects, thus establishing new partnerships or strengthening existing partnerships. The grant scheme seeks to harness the unique research capabilities of each partner, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and foster collaborations, particularly for early-career researchers.

Applications can be in any research field within diabetes, metabolism or endocrinology, and applicants can be from both a Danish research institution or from a research institution abroad.

The DDEA Strategic Partnership grants include PhD scholarships (see separate call) and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Additionally, DDEA offers Visiting Researcher Grants (see separate call), which can support and enhance the strategic partnership. Candidates from the same research entity may apply for all three types of grants (subject to regulations regarding the principal supervisor/investigator (PI) detailed below), and the applications may cover the same overall project or different projects. Please note that all three types of grants must be applied for separately by the candidate who will carry out the project and that each application will be evaluated separately. If only one application receives funding, the project must be able to proceed independently of whether the other applications are funded. Please also see the specific criteria for application below.

Deadline for application is 11 September 2024 at 23:59 CET with expected date of reply 11 December 2024.

Important

Please note the following:

  • You can apply for only one postdoctoral fellowship per application round across the various DDEA postdoctoral fellowship calls. We reserve the right to reject your application if you do not follow this rule.
  • PIs can host only one DDEA-funded PhD student or postdoctoral fellow at a time. Therefore, postdoctoral applicants must verify this matter with the PI related to their project.
  • PIs may be involved in both an application for a PhD scholarship and a postdoctoral fellowship (across the various DDEA postdoctoral fellowship calls), but only one application can receive a grant.
  • PIs hosting a DDA-funded PhD student or postdoctoral fellow (with a grant from 2018-2022) are eligible to be involved in an application for a DDEA PhD scholarship or postdoctoral fellowship.

In order to apply for a two-year 50%-financed Strategic Partnership postdoctoral fellowship, the following requirements must be fulfilled:

  • Only postdoctoral candidates may apply for a postdoctoral fellowship. We encourage applications from both candidates affiliated with a Danish research institution and candidates affiliated with research institutions abroad.
  • You must have a PhD degree or the PhD thesis must be accepted for defense at the time of grant notification*.
  • Any previous employment as a postdoctoral fellow must not have exceeded three years in total at the time of application**.
  • Your principal investigator can be associated with a Danish research institution*** or a research institution abroad. However, if your principal investigator is from a research institution from abroad, you must also include a co-principal investigator that is associated with a Danish research institution.
  • For some part of your postdoctoral fellowship, you must be employed at a Danish research institution. Please also consult our Funding Terms.
  • You must possess high-level English language skills (oral as well as written).

Please also consult our Funding Terms.


* If you do not yet have a PhD degree, you should enclose a statement from the principal supervisor of your PhD thesis indicating when the thesis will be handed in and stating when the defense is expected to take place. Your PhD thesis must be accepted for defense at the time of grant notification, which will be 11 December 2024. Within two weeks of grant notification, you must submit documentation from your PhD school verifying thesis acceptance for defense and the scheduled defense date. You must submit your PhD degree certificate to the DDEA Secretariat within six months of grant notification. Failure to obtain the PhD degree within this period, or if the PhD is not awarded, will result in withdrawal of the fellowship.

** For candidates to be employed at Danish research institutions, please note that you can only be employed as a postdoctoral fellow for a maximum of four years at the same institution (including the potential DDEA postdoctoral fellowship) according to the law and regulations by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education regarding job structure for academic staff at the universities for candidates who apply for a new postdoctoral period at the same university.

*** Your principal investigator(s) must be employed at the research institution(s) where you will be employed and carry out your project.

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