European Young Investigator Award (EURYI)

The European research funding organisations, under the umbrella of the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCS), have issued a second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator (EURYI) Award. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is responsible for the programme administration in Germany. The aim of the EURYI Award is to effectively enable and encourage outstanding young researchers from all over the world to work in one of the participating European countries in the programme for a five-year period. This is intended to support the career development of the next generation of leading researchers and, at the same time, to increase the attractiveness of the European Research Area on an international level.

This programme of excellence, which is committed to the idea of early scientific independence, is based upon the "Memorandum of Understanding", currently signed by 18 scientific organisations from 15 European countries.

Proposals for the 2006 EURYI Award programme may be submitted to the DFG from 1 September through 30 November 2006.

Details are available at the link below.