Travel Grants: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds 4318 views

The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds awards Travel Grants to junior researchers who are currently conducting an experimental project in basic biomedical research and wish to pursue a short-term research stay or attend a practical course of up to 3 months.

 About the Program

Travel grants are for European citizens working in Europe and overseas, and for non-European citizens who perform their MD, PhD or postdoctoral project in Europe, or will use the travel grant to work in Europe. Applicants must pursue an experimental project in basic biomedical research

Purpose

• To learn clearly-defined methods useful for your ongoing research and the work of your research group at home by visiting another laboratory, or by attending research-orientated courses including practical training (the practical part has to cover at least 50% of the course);
• To enable graduates from abroad and their potential PhD supervisors to evaluate the scientific and personal prerequisites before embarking on a PhD thesis. To this end, the graduate student shall pursue a short project in his/her potential PhD supervisor’s laboratory for at least 4 weeks.

Requirements

• PhD students or medical students pursuing an experimental doctoral thesis who are not older than 30 years of age
• Postdocs who are pursuing a particular research project who are not older than 32 years of age
• Graduates from abroad who have applied for a PhD project, but who have not yet worked with their potential PhD supervisor.
• Note: Travel grants are awarded only for practical trainings in laboratories or courses of up to 3 months. They cannot be used for longer research stays.
• Grant covers the expenses for travel, lodging and course fees.

Application procedure

• Online application
• Paper copy to be sent by regular mail.

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Contact Details

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Schusterstr

46-48, 55116 Mainz,

Germany