Individual Fellowships

Support is foreseen for individual, trans-national fellowships awarded to the best or most promising researchers of any nationality, for employment in EU Member States or Horizon 2020 Associated Countries. It is based on an application made jointly by the researcher and the beneficiary in the academic or non-academic sectors.

Only one proposal per individual researcher per call will be evaluated.

Fellowships take the form of European Fellowships or Global Fellowships. European Fellowships are held in EU Member States or Horizon 2020 Associated Countries and are open to researchers either coming to Europe from any country in the world or moving within Europe. The researcher must comply with the rules of mobility in the country where the European Fellowship is held.

Direct return to and long-term reintegration of researchers in Europe, including in their country of origin, is supported via a separate multi-disciplinary reintegration panel of the European Fellowships. For the reintegration p

At researcher level:

Increased set of skills, both research-related and transferable ones, leading to improved employability and career prospects both in and outside academia

Increase in higher impact R&I output, more knowledge and ideas converted into products and services

Greater contribution to the knowledge-based economy and society

At organisation level:

Enhanced cooperation and stronger networks

Better transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines

Boosting of R&I capacity among participating organisations

At system level:

Increase in international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility of researchers in Europe

Strengthening of Europe's human capital base in R&I with more entrepreneurial and better trained researchers

Better communication of R&I results to society

Increase in Europe's attractiveness as a leading destination for R&I

Better quality research and innovatio