FORTHEM is an Alliance of European universities composed of nine multidisciplinary public research universities with a strong regional anchoring in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Spain. The FORTHEM Alliance brings together a new generation of creative Europeans able to cooperate across languages, borders, and disciplines to address the societal challenges and skills shortages Europe faces.
FORTHEM Academy for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs), based on the aim to design attractive training and career development actions for ESRs, is funding research stays abroad for postdoctoral researchers, who wish to go to a foreign country and to work with a non-academic partner for up to three months. The maximum co-funding contribution from FORTHEM will be 3000 € (mainly to over travel costs, accommodation, and a daily allowance). Please be aware, if you spend more than the 3000 €, FORTHEM will not cover the extra costs, if will you spend less, we may consider not to transfer the full amount of the award. So try to calculate the costs as accurately as possible
The full call text and concept note can be found here.
The deadline for submission will be January 16, 2026. Successful applicants will be informed by the end of January 2026.
Evaluation:
Proposals will be selected in a competitive process. The evaluation board will include members of all FORTHEM partner universities and results will be confirmed by the FORTHEM Mission Board for Research, Innovation and Transfer.
Secondments
Secondments