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Fellowships
Help to prepare the Short-Term Fellowship application*
 All applications
should be in English.
You are responsible to ensure that 2 Letters of Reference are submitted by post to the short-term fellowship office within two weeks of your application.
One of the referees Should be your Ph.D. supervisor.
The receiving institute's acceptance form must be sent directly to the EMBO short-term fellowship office within two weeks of your application.
For
short term fellowship applications you should communicate clearly your
career plans for the period following the fellowship.
The list of
publications should not include papers submitted or in preparation.
Details of abstracts of presentations at congresses may be included
for applicants for Short Term Fellowships.
References in
the research proposal should include the TITLE of the
paper, the FULL author list and normal details on the
journal, volume page numbers etc.
In your publication
list please indicate by an asterisk the three most important publications
in your list. Please list the authors, the title of the paper and finally,
the full journal reference including volume, page numbers etc. In the
case of shared first authorship please keep the order of authors as
they appear on the original publication.
The synopsis
of current work (approximately 1 page) should include any relevant references
and should be designed to allow the reader to appreciate both your past
experience and its relevance, if any, to the proposed research topic.
As the EMBO
fellowships are funded by 27 countries predominantly in Europe, it is
their wish that the majority of the successful applications involve
movement between laboratories in the different member
states. For this reason, if you are not from one of these countries,
your receiving institute should submit an extra letter in which they
indicate how their scientific programme would benefit from the award
of the fellowship to you as opposed to a European applicant.
It is your responsibility to ensure that they do so.
If you are from a member state and wish to move to a laboratory somewhere
outside Europe then you must provide an online explanation for your choice which highlights the specific advantages
to you of working in this, rather than a European, laboratory.
Whether or not a fellowship is awarded depends in large measure on
the assessment of the submitted research proposal made by our referees.
Applicants should, therefore, in their own best interests, submit a
detailed and well-argued research proposal which they should write themselves.
It should contain a 200 word summary followed by a 200 word written
explanation outlining the biological significance of the proposed work.
The detailed research proposal should not be more than 1500 words excluding
references.
Longer texts tend to irritate reviewers and should be avoided. A brief
introduction should be included to outline the background to the proposal.
The research proposal should be sufficiently detailed to allow the selection
committee members to form a clear idea of the work which is planned.
As above, references should be given in a complete manner including
title and full list of authors.
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