The Greenhouse is now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships program (MSCA IF) in 2020. The MSCA IF program is for scholars who already hold a PhD to spend up to 2 years at a European university in order to advance their research and career. In the previous call, three persons affiliated with the Greenhouse received MSCA IF funding.
We are looking for early career researchers who will use the MSCA IF as a training and exchange period in addition to working on their independent research project. At the Greenhouse, we are interested in hosting MSCA fellows with environmental humanities projects who would benefit from being in an interdisciplinary dynamic environmental humanities environment and working closely with one or more members of Greenhouse.
Through the University of Stavanger’s EU grants office, The Greenhouse can arrange for potential applicants for the MSCA program to attend a grant writing workshop on 3 June 2020, which will discuss the application writing process, required contents of the MSCA IF application, and evaluation of applications. The grants office will select ten participants from across the university to attend this training, which we have found to be excellent training for this particular grant. These candidates will also get an external review of their proposals.
In order to take advantage of this training opportunity, we need to receive a statement of interest no later than 28 February 2020. Send an email to the Greenhouse directors Finn Arne Jørgensen (finn.a.jorgensen@uis.no) and Dolly Jørgensen (dolly.jorgensen@uis.no) with a CV and project statement of no more than 2 pages that gives us an idea of what you would work on during a MSCA stay, which skills you need to develop through training, and how it would align with the Greenhouse program area.
A note about the grant application timing: The official MSCA call for 2020 will be issued on 8 April 2020, with an application due date on 9 September 2020. If selected for an award, the exchange period can start from late 2021.
