COVID-19 Update:
Given the current uncertain situation and travel restrictions due to the current pandemic, the ERA has decided to temporally suspend the ERA Fellowship Programme, as the potential fellows might certainly miss one of the most important aspects of the fellowship experience, the ‘networking’.
The ERA continues to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fellowship Programme will be officially restored until the global circumstances improve and fellows will be able to access host institutions and carry on their research activities.
WHAT THEY ARE
The ERA Registry Fellowships are designed to enable young people living in Europe, countries bordering Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to perform research on Registry data and to train in clinical epidemiology.
The Research Registry Fellowships are aimed at supporting Registry related activities of the Association (e.g. ERA Registry, ESPN/ERA Registry, EURODOPPS).
WHERE THEY ARE PERFORMED
The ERA Registry Fellowships will be performed at ERA Registry office in the Netherlands at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (AMC). The Fellows will be supervised by members of the Registry staff.
WHAT IT IS OFFERED
The ERA Registry Fellowships have a duration of a minimum of 4 weeks (28 days) to a maximum of 6 weeks (42 days).
The granted amounts are between € 4,000 and € 6,000 (depending on the duration of the Fellowship) and are supposed to cover travel and housing.
WHO CAN APPLY
Only ERA Full members who are 40 or younger at the time of submission can apply.
The ERA Registry Fellowships are
- Open to (paediatric) nephrologists or nephrology researchers (<40 years of age) from the ERA-EDTA geographic area.*
- The research proposal must use one of the data sets available at the ERA Registry Office (ERA Registry, ESPN/ERA Registry or EURODOPPS data).
- Fellowships must have the aim of scientific publication.
HOW TO APPLY
In order to submit your Fellowship request you must fill in the online form accessible (to ERA members) via My ERA then click on ‘My Member Benefits‘ and select ‘Short Term Clinical Fellowship‘.
Please note that if you would like to apply for a Registry fellowship to work on data from the EURODOPPS project, you should also submit a separate Research Application Form to the EURODOPPS selection committee. Any EURODOPPS project is subject to the approval of this selection committee and Arbor Research. More information and the Research Application Form can be found at www.era-edta-reg.org/EURODOPPS
Additional information on the application and the selection:
1) First (optional) step: if you are interested in an ERA Registry fellowship you can send a short proposal with title, research question and short description of planned analysis to the Registry by e-mail to j.r.bosdriesz@amsterdamumc.nl. The Registry staff will then judge if the research project is possible (i.e. availability of data) and relevant. If this is the case, you will be invited to submit a more comprehensive research proposal via the online application form.
2) Second (mandatory) step: It is also possible to submit a proposal for an ERA Registry Fellowship without consulting the Registry staff first. The application (by April 30, 2020) via the online application form is however mandatory.
3) The candidate will be selected by a small committee selected by the ERA Registry and then needs to be approved by the ERA Council. A proposal must have obtained minimum score for acceptance. In case of doubt the SAB (Chair; Co-Chair and Secretary-Coordinator) will be consulted.
FOR FURTHER QUERIES
For the complete instructions and rules please read the Registry Fellowship Regulations or visit the ERA Registry Official website and find further information within the “Registry Education – Fellowships” section.
For all questions about ERA Registry Fellowships, please contact Jizzo Bosdriesz at j.r.bosdriesz@amsterdamumc.nl.
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