Fellowships & funding
About fellowships
The ERA offers the opportunity to apply for short-term and long-term fellowships to favour the growth of young clinical investigators and researchers living in Europe, including countries bordering Europe and the Mediterranean Sea.
Only ERA members who are 40 or younger at the time of application submission can apply. An extension of the age limit can be considered if the applicant’s career has been interrupted due to childcare or severe illness; in any case this extension cannot exceed 2 years.
The ERA short-term clinical fellowships are designed to enable young people to support clinical training in the field of Nephrology and, in particular, to favour the growth of young clinical investigators and to facilitate cooperation among renal centres at an international level.
The applicant should identify a Host Institution located in the ERA geographical area where to do his/her fellowship. The fellowship should preferably involve movement between two countries (preferred option). In case there is no movement between two countries, there must at least be movement between two cities.
The duration of the short-term clinical fellowships is from a minimum of 2 months (60 days) to a maximum of 6 months (180 days).
On completion of the short-term fellowship, the applicants must return back to their Home Institution or to an “equivalent institution” to put into practice what they have learned during the fellowship.
The purpose of the ERA long-term fellowships is to support basic and clinical research in the field of Nephrology in the ERA geographical area.
Starting in 2019, to enhance the integration of the ERA activities, the ERA Long-term Fellowships are assigned to competitive research proposals by the ERA Working for Groups and Committees, with the aim to simultaneously finance the worthy ERA projects and to favour young researchers’ growth.
The young investigators submitting their candidature for an ERA Long-term Fellowship will be asked to choose the project they would like to join and thus apply for it, among a list of selected projects. Each scientific project will be carried out in a specific Centre located within the ERA geographical area.
The duration of the long-term fellowships is 12 months (365 days).
For both short-term and long-term, the fellowship grant amounts are based on the EMBO -European Molecular Biology Organisation- daily subsistence rates: these daily flat fee figures are meant to cover living expenses and any work-related taxes and insurances. A travel grant amount will also be added to the fellowship grant and it is meant to cover the expenses related to the round trip costs from the country of residence to the host country.
Further inquiries
Open fellowships
ERA long-term fellowships
The call is open from January 30, 2023, to March 30, 2023.
The young investigators submitting their candidature for an ERA long-term fellowship are invited to choose the project they would like to join and thus apply for it, within the following list of projects:
- ERN: Food as medicine in chronic kidney disease
- EuDial: How to set the stage for a full-fledged clinical trial testing “incremental haemodialysis”
- G&K: Identifying new genes in ADPKD-like pedigrees
- IWG: Immunocompetence across autoimmune diseases
- YNP & DESCaRTES: Basics of registries and data collection systems in kidney transplantation
Applications have to be submitted by the set deadline by sending an e-mail to fellowships@era-online.org with the following documents: Application Form duly filled in and signed, a copy of the ID document, and a motivation letter.
Only ERA members who are 40 or younger at the time of application submission can apply. An extension of the age limit (max 2 years) can be considered if the applicant’s career has been interrupted due to childcare or serious illness.
Applicants who already received an ERA fellowship in the past cannot apply again for a new fellowship.
ERA Registry fellowships
In addition to the short-term and long-term fellowships, the ERA offers fellowship opportunities in the ERA Registry office in the Amsterdam University Medical Centers.
The call is open from February 13, 2023, to April 13, 2023.
For more info and application visit the page ERA Registry Education.