Stress and Mental Health (EuroSTRESS)

EUROCORES stands for ‘ESF European Collaborative Research Scheme´, a grant scheme managed by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The ESF has 78 members organisations from 30 different countries: academies, research organisations and research funding agencies, including NWO.

Within the NWO-organization several research councils are involved in the field of EuroSTRESS.
The NWO (ZonMw, MaGW and ALW) contribution will amount to a max. of K€ 1,000 (4 – 5 individual projects) including the contribution to networking and coordination activities by the ESF. This will cover the expenses of about 4 to 5 individual projects (4 yr PhD or a two-three year post doc project with a maximum of € 10.000/yr expenses and a total of € 5000 travel expenses). This EUROCORES will be linked to the NWO thematic programme Brian and Cognition.

When can be applied

Outline proposals are to be submitted by 21 May noon to the ESF.
http:/ /www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/eurostress.html  

Extra Information

General remarks

NWO/ALW will only fund individual projects that are of top-quality (receiving judgement “excellent”)
NWO/ALW will fund the projects in the Netherlands according to national funding conditions.
The costs of an individual project amounts to approximately € 210,000 (salary of PhD-student for 4 years or salary of post doc position for 3 years, including a bench fee for the total period of around € 30,000)

Specific Requirements

Specific requirements for each EUROCORES may differ. Actual and updated information (eligibility criteria, funding criteria) will be posted on the NWO website. Each EUROCORES with NWO participation will have a specific webpage, accessible through the centralized NWO EUROCORES page: www.nwo.nl/eurocores.

Contacts

• Mw. dr. M.J. (Annemieke) van der Kooij
  phone: +31 (0)70 344 08 66, fax: +31 (0)70 381 90 33, e-mail: a.vanderkooij@nwo.nl