EDCTP: Call for Proposals for Career Development Fellowships

Deadline: 27 November 2018

The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is currently inviting applicants for its Career Development Fellowships to support early to mid-career researchers (“fellows”) by providing them an opportunity to train and develop their clinical research skills.

Objectives

The objectives are:

to promote retention of postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate medical researchers in the research field of sub-Saharan Africa.
to equip the fellows to establish themselves as independent researchers with ability to initiate their own research teams at host institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Funding Information

The call budget is EUR 2.5 million.
The requested EDCTP contribution per project should not exceed EUR 150,000.
The funding level is 100% of eligible costs.

Duration

The maximum fellowship duration shall be 36 months.

Eligibility Criteria

A proposal will only be considered eligible if:

its content corresponds, wholly or in part, to the topic/contest description for which it is submitted
it complies with the eligibility conditions set out below, depending on the type of action:
- The applicant must be an organisation with an established legal entity in sub-Saharan Africa (the applicant legal entity).
- The fellow must be employed or have guaranteed employment by the applicant legal entity (the host organisation) where they intend to remain working for a minimum of two years after the expiration of the grant.
- The fellow must:
  - be resident of or be willing to relocate to a sub-Saharan African country;
  - be either a graduate in a subject relevant to the EDCTP2 programme, with a PhD and up to five years’ relevant postdoctoral research experience, or a medical doctor with up to five years’ research experience;
  - have at least one publication in an international peer-reviewed journal;
  - not have been funded under this fellowship scheme before.