Advantages – Young researcher: Postdoctoral fellowships
- Learn how to write competitive research proposals
- Put forward a strong argument to convince the research group of your choice and submit a successful application
- Prove your excellence and stand out from the crowd
- Move to a different country and learn new skills
- Open to participants from all over the world
Kindly note that you will be evaluated based on your project, not (only) on past achievements; in other words your publication record is not the primary criterion
Advantages for companies
- Attract oustanding key expertise to your organisation from leading research groups around the world
- Project costs (e.g. researcher salaries, travel costs, equipment) are covered 100%, plus 25% additional overhead
- Easy budgeting: Based on lump sums (fixed sum multiplied by person and months)
- Bottom-up: all research fields are covered
- Multiple projects can be submitted in parallel
- Luxinnovation will help you find matching candidates
Advantages for public research institutions
- Fund interdisciplinary projects outside of your main grants
- Make your own research visible to the world
- Get expertise in writing and supervising EU grants
- Get help from Luxinnovation’s experts; in 2019, the success rate for MSCA IF proposals reviewed by Luxinnovation was 42%
