Deadline: 5 March 2019
Applications are open for Thomas Jefferson Fund which provides a unique framework to enable promising and innovative projects to reach their full potential and enrich French-American research collaborations.
The Thomas Jefferson Fund aims to encourage innovative research of the highest quality and new collaborations, and especially seeks to support projects involving young researchers (post-docs, PhDs). Projects that include significant transatlantic mobility, collaborative research activities, the organization of joint workshops or conferences, the publication of joint articles will receive the highest priority.
Focus Areas
Applications are accepted in the three following fields:
- Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
- Science for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-HSS projects)
Funding Information
- Selected projects will receive a funding of $20,000, to be shared equally between the French and the American partners over 2 years.
- All award funds will be wired in U.S. dollars to the grantees’ universities, and will be managed by the appropriate financial manager.
- The grant will be allocated in one instalment to both partners to be used over the two-year grant period.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Fund considers projects jointly submitted by two scientists at the beginning of their careers, including notably:
- On the American side, researchers at the post-doctorate level, assistant or associate professors at a university in the United States are eligible.
- On the French side, researchers at the post-doctorate level, maîtres de conferences and chargés de recherche at a French institution of higher education and research are eligible.
- US or French citizenship is not required. Applicants must provide proof that they are employed at either the US or French institution for at least the duration of the partnership, i.e. 2 years.
- Senior researchers may be included as team members but not as project leaders.
- PhD candidates are not eligible as project leaders.
- An additional partner institution may be added to the project proposal, but this additional partner will not receive any funding from the Thomas Jefferson Fund. Only the research or higher education institutions of the project leaders will receive funding.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Countries: France and United States
For more information, please visit http://face-foundation.org/thomas-jefferson-fund/