ERCIM Mobility Information

Are you looking for a mobility opportunity? In that case you will have to sort out matters such as finding a research project, finding funding, preparing your departure and cost distribution. Below are practical and useful information and Internet sites to help you to prepare your mobility project.

1. Finding a research project
2. Funding opportunities
3. Preparing your departure
4. Cost distribution information in between ERCIM Institutes

Find a research project

You can find general information and opportunities at the European Researcher's Mobility Portal.

If you find an interesting scientific field at one or two ERCIM Institutes but no job opportunity is available, you can try to find individual funding (see section 2).

Funding opportunities

Studying abroad:

• Marie Curie Actions:
  Deadlines for submission of applications in detail. The Marie Curie Early Stage Training is aimed at offering structured scientific and /or technological training as well as providing complementary skills.
• SOCRATES - ERASMUS - the European Community programme in the field of higher education:
  If you want to be an Erasmus student you must be enrolled in a formal programme of higher educational study leading to a degree and you must have completed at least the first year of your studies. If you fulfil the above conditions, you should ask at the International Relations Office of your home university or other higher education institution if:
  • your institution participates in the programme or plans to join it in the future
  • in case your institution has already joined the Socrates Erasmus programme, you should address all questions to the programme co-ordinator

• At this link you find Marie Curie Information in general and deadlines for submission of applications in detail. The Intra-European Fellowship is aimed at providing advanced training tailored to the researchers' individual needs in order to become independent. The duration of these fellowships is between 1 and 2 years.

Prepare your departure

Cost distribution

On the 29th of October 2001, the ERCIM Board of Directors has  agreed upon the following distribution of the various costs over the sending resp. receiving institute. This scheme is only an indication of cost distribution. Every single mobility issue has to be agreed upon by both the sending and receiving institute.