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With the aim to strengthen world-class research activities in Umeå, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) and Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), the two national Centres of Excellence, in collaboration with other research centres will launch the second call of the 'Excellence by Choice' Postdoctoral Programme (EC Postdoctoral Programme). The programme is funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Kempe Foundation and Umeå University with Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier as patron and mentor of the programme.
The programme will fund postdoctoral fellowships and organize activities to strengthen networking and collaborations. The programme aims to recruit 17 postdocs on fellowships through three international calls for 5-6 fellowships each. The programme will grant each fellowship 600,000 SEK over a 2-year term (25,000 SEK/month), as well as additional 300,000 SEK for running costs and 20,000 SEK for career development of the postdoc.
Please read the "Guidelines for 'EC' Postdoctoral programme". When you apply, it suggests that you understand the guidelines and accept the terms and conditions.
Who can participate?
• Main PI active affiliated with UCMR or UPSC with a position at Umeå University or SLU, Co-PI with a faculty position at Umeå University or SLU. Additional collaborations with an institution in Sweden or an international institution are encouraged.
• The main PI and Co-PI should clearly demonstrate synergy (how their expertise complement with each other in the proposed new collaborative project) and statement from the main PI on their active role in UCMR and UPSC.
• The main PI must have on-going peer-reviewed project grant(s) obtained as the main applicant from VR or ERC.
• The main PI and Co-PI should explain how the new project idea is different from the ongoing projects and project applications.
• The main PI and Co-PI who currently are receiving support from the 'EC' postdoc programme are not eligible.
What do I need to do to participate?
Step 1: Please provide the following information:
• Project title
• A very short summary (max 2 sentences) of the project idea that a postdoc candidate should be developing.
• Abstract of the project (max 2 000 characters including blank spaces) that describes in brief the following:
-The background of the project
-What is to be done: purpose and aims
-How the research will be carried out: project organisation and scientific methods
-What is important about the planned research
The abstract shall provide a summary picture of the purpose and implementation of the research. Please use wording to ensure persons with another subject specialisation can understand the information.
• A statement (max 2 000 characters including blank spaces) about main PI's activities within the UCMR and UPSC research environment and how the expertise of the main PI and Co-PI complement each other in the proposed new collaborative project and its novelty.
• Information about your current research project support from the funding agencies, i.e., a copy of the project summary with information details from the project database.
• A statement (max 2 000 characters including blank spaces) about how the new project idea is different from the ongoing projects and project applications in the PIs' laboratories.
Template and deadline:
We invite all eligible Principal Investigators to submit the aforementioned documents using the enclosed template to Ingrid Söderbergh (ingrid.soderbergh@umu.se@umu.se) no later than 22 December 2022.
Write "'EC' Postdoctoral programme project idea" as the subject.
Template for project decription is found on UCMR webpage