We have updated the text under ‘Requirements relating to the foreign researcher’ to clarify the PhD requirement.
The Research Council supports the recruitment of talented international researchers to the Research Council's centre calls and for projects funded through FRIPRO's call for experienced scientists. The background for the scheme is the difficult situation that many researchers and institutions are now experiencing globally. The aim of the scheme is for Norwegian research organisations to have a special opportunity to recruit talented international researchers who can establish themselves in Norway, thus contributing to raising the quality and academic added value of the research communities with which the researcher will be associated.
The scheme aims to attract talented researchers from countries outside Europe to Norway.
The researchers that the Norwegian research organisations wish to associate with, cannot live in or be employed at institutions within the Council of Europe's definition of Europe (46 Member States of the Council of Europe - Portal). Russia is also excluded from the scheme.
Researchers must be linked to a research centre with funding through one of our centre calls or to a Researcher Project with funding through FRIPRO's call for experienced scientists. The organisation to which the researcher can be linked is the Project Owner and/or Norwegian collaborating partners that are research organisations. We expect the management of the research organisations to take responsibility for prioritising the applications that will be submitted under this call.
The project description must contain answers to the following questions (maximum three pages):
You can apply for up to NOK 3 million per year to cover the costs defined below.
The call is available in both Norwegian and English. The text of the Norwegian call for proposals is legally binding.
The management of the Project Owner that has ownership of the centre and/or the project with funding through FRIPRO's call for experienced scientists, is eligible to apply under this scheme.It is therefore important that a person from the management at the institution is listed as the applicant.
The Project Owner may also apply on behalf of a Norwegian collaborating partner that is an approved research organisation.
The project must start and end while the centre or the FRIPRO experienced scientists project still has active funding from the Research Council.
The centre director or project manager for FRIPRO experienced scientists must be the project manager for the application.
The researcher must have a PhD and may neither be resident in Norway nor have any current employment, regardless of duration or position percentage, at a Norwegian research organisation.
You can apply for funding to cover the actual costs necessary to carry out the project. The Project Owner must obtain information on costs from the partners in the project. These costs must be entered in the cost plan under the cost type to which they belong.
We require that you break down the project budget into the following cost types in your application:
The cost type procurement of R&D services cannot be used.
You will find detailed and important information about what to enter in the project budget on the website.
The size of the projects can be up to NOK 6-9 million in total, spread over 2 to 3 years. We do not require own financing.
The project must start between 1.7.2025 and 31.12.2026. The latest permitted project completion date is 30.12.2029.
In addition, you must be aware of the following if you should receive support from us:
The call is open to all subjects and thematic areas.
Please note that you can only submit the application once. If you submit the application and subsequently see that it still needs to be changed, you can create a new application – e.g. as a copy of the one you have already submitted – and in this way submit a new version as long as the call is open for applications.
Applications that do not meet the requirements above will be rejected.
All attachments to the application must be submitted with the application. We will not consider documents and websites linked to in the application, or attachments other than those specified above. Be careful to upload the correct attachment type, as there are no technical restrictions on what kind of templates it is possible to upload in the application form.
Applications will be processed on an ongoing basis by the Research Council's administration, but please note that we will open new calls in subsequent years, where we will also have ongoing application processing until the funds in the individual call have been used up.
It is the management of the Project Owner that has ownership of the centre and/or project that assesses the quality of the researcher and the research for which funding is being sought. The Research Council will not review this assessment. The administration only checks that the criteria for an application are met, cf. the project description and mandatory attachments.
You can expect an answer to the application no later than 4 weeks after you have submitted it.
Applications for Recruitment of Talented Researchers to Norway should be created on My RCN Web. Application templates should be filled and uploaded in the application.
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