Ecology grants

Career stage: Postdoc

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Covers: Up to EUR 10,000 single-discipline or EUR 20,000 interdisciplinary base funding; up to 15 months. A separate EUR 5,000 bonus is conditional on a competitive external proposal submission.

University of Vienna postdoctoral researchers, senior scientists, tenure-track assistant professors, associate professors and full professors from all disciplines may apply. Lecturers, senior lecturers and Privatdozenten are excluded. For fixed-term researchers subject to section 109 or applicants nearing retirement, the applicant or a project partner must be able to submit and carry out the follow-on externally funded project.

Career stage: Not specified

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UK applicants must be based at an organisation eligible for NERC funding and satisfy the joint call’s international consortium rules and national funding conditions. Consult the call documents before forming a consortium.

Career stage: Master’s · PhD

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Covers: Staged nature-conservation project grants, starting at up to GBP 7,000.

Primarily MSc or PhD students and recent graduates in early conservation careers; undergraduates are not funded. Projects must meet the eligible-country and conservation criteria, including threatened-species requirements where relevant.