You can receive a rejection if you do not meet the PhD age requirements. Therefore, it is important that you pay attention to these before starting your application.
For some funding instruments, there are fixed limits, upper or lower, for the applicant’s PhD age. Such limitations will always be clearly marked under the description of the funding instrument, if applicable.
The PhD age is calculated as the period of time between acquiring the PhD and the date of the DFF application deadline for the relevant instrument. It is the date as it appears from the signature on the PhD diploma, which is used for calculation.
If you have both a PhD degree and equivalent qualifications, the PhD age will be calculated on the basis of the PhD degree. DFF can request documentation of the applicant’s PhD age.
In the calculation of the PhD age, certain types of documentable leave, which have been held after obtaining the PhD degree and in accordance with the relevant existing laws, must be deducted. It is specified for the relevant funding instrument and call for proposals which types of leave must be deducted.
You can calculate your PhD age, before you start an application, using DFF’s tool for calculation of PhD age.
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