Postdoctoral Fellowship

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – Sofja Kovalevskaja Award

Amount:

Deadline: July 31, annually

Requirements:

Eligibility:

Doctorate or comparable academic degree (Ph.D., C.Sc. or equivalent), completed with distinction less than six years prior to the application submission deadline.
Scientists and scholars from all disciplines may apply.
The award would enable the successful applicant to take on a leadership position (e.g. head of a junior research group) in Germany for the first time. Moreover, the applicant must not have held or accepted an offer of permanent employment in Germany.

Details:

The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award allows receipts who are successful top-rank junior researchers from abroad to spend five years building up a working group and working on a high-profile, innovative research project of your own choice at a research institution of their own choice in Germany.

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Amount:

Maintenance allowance of 362,000 JPY per month (4,100 CAD/month, which amounts to 49,200 CAD/year)
A settling-in allowance of 200,000 JPY (2,660 CAD)
Round-trip air ticket
Overseas travel insurance

Deadline: October 2-6; January 4-11; April 2-6; June 4-8, annually

Requirements:

Eligibility:

The applicant (host researcher) must, in principle, be a researcher who is employed full-time at a university or research institution as specified in Article 2* of the Procedure for the Handling of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), issued by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
Fellows must be a citizen of a country that has diplomatic relations with Japan. (JSPS treats Taiwanese and Palestinian researchers in this manner.)
Fellows must hold a doctorate degree when the Fellowship goes into effect, which must have been received on or after April 2, 2013 (subject to change), or must be currently enrolled in a doctoral course at a university outside Japan, and scheduled to receive a Ph.D. within two years from the time that their research starts in Japan.

Details:

To provide opportunities for pre-/post-doctoral researchers from the US, Canada and Europe (*) to conduct, under the guidance of their hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. A person who has never engaged in research at universities etc. in Japan would be most preferable.
Fellowship is 1 to 12 months.

Link:

http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-oubei-s/index.html

Amount:

Deadline: November of each year

Requirements:

Citizenship: Citizens/permanent residents of the US, the UK, France, Germany, Canada or Sweden.
General: Received doctoral degree after April 2, 2015 (subject to change)

Eligibility:

All fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences are included under this program. Applicants must either be majoring or conducting research in a related field.
Must be citizens or permanent residents of the US, the UK, France, Germany, Canada or Sweden. (Permanent residents or others with equivalent status may apply if approved by the nominating authority in one of the above countries.)
Must be enrolled in a university graduate program or hold a doctorate degree received within 6 years prior to April 1 of the program year.

Details:

The program provides opportunities for young pre- and post-doctoral researchers from North America and Europe to receive an orientation on Japanese culture and research systems, and to pursue research under the guidance of host researchers at Japanese universities and research institutes over a period of two months during the summer.
Canadian applicants must submit their applications to the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo
In Principle, Fellows must stay in Japan continuously during the fellowship tenure. During your tenure, you are to concentrate on your research related to this program.

Link:

http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-summer/