The objective of DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant is to strengthen the international mobility of young talented researchers, as well as to develop the competencies of researchers who are in the beginning of their research career. The aim is to enable the grant recipient to consolidate his or her individual research profile by managing a specific research project in an independent matter at a research institution outside of Denmark.The grant amounts to a total of DKK 1.3 million over a 2-year period.
COUNCIL-SPECIFIC CRITERIA
DFF │Natural Sciences requires that you spend the entire two-year grant period abroad.
DFF | Social Sciences requires that you spend at least 18 consecutive months abroad. Six months may be spent consecutively at a Danish research institution, either at the beginning or by the end of the project period.
DFF | Technology and Production Sciences, DFF | Medical Sciences, and DFF | Humanities require that you spend at least 12 consecutive months abroad. 6 months may be spent at the beginning and/or up to 12 months by the end of project period at a Danish research institution.
APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS
Researchers who have a PhD or are expected to submit thesis for defence within 6 months after the application deadline, or have obtained equivalent qualifications (e.g. a positive assistant professor assessment, ”adjunktbedømmelse”) may apply for a DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant.
Your PhD must have been awarded by a Danish research institution.
DFF emphasises that applicants are at the beginning of their research career. Thus, calculated from the application deadline, no more than 3 years must have elapsed since you obtained your PhD. The precise date for obtaining the PhD, as it appears on the PhD-diploma, is to be stated in the application form in e-grant concerning calculation of the PhD age with regard to maternity leave, etc.).
