BioNa - Early Career Award of the Faculty of Biology
Aim of the program:
- financial support of junior scientists with funding for staff and project costs (e.g. consumables, student assistants, equipment etc.)
- promotion of scientific independency
- promotion of young excellence
- qualification to raise third-party funding
Eligible applicants:
- all junior scientists holding a PhD degree and belonging to the faculty of biology, as a general rule not more than 5 years after obtaining the PhD, periods of parental leave are considered
Application documents:
- proposal (in English) to the dean of the faculty of biology
- Curriculum vitae
- state of the art (generally intelligible)
- preliminary work, work schedule, project outline of the planned third-party proposal
- proposal length: max 5 pages
- supportive letter from the chair (including consent to corresponding authorship (senior-authorship!) and support in writing the third-party proposal)
Selection process:
- proposals are submitted to the dean
- deadline for submission: yearly end of November
- review by an appointed commission
The award ceremony will take place during the faculty festival.
Funding:
- Max. two projects are funded with 10.000/year (proposal can be continued transitionally if a third party-proposal (DFG) can be proven
The success project will be evaluated by a closing report or a submitted third-party funding proposal.
Downloads
- BioNa_Forscherpreis (92 KByte)