ESF Calls for Proposals - 2008 (PDF 212 KB) 

ESF instruments

The ESF’s various instruments  for promoting European science are open to all members of Europe’s scientific community. Procedures for launching new activities have been tailored to meet the needs of different disciplines and so vary somewhat from Standing Committee to Committee.   However, in assessing proposals for new activities the Foundation’s decisions are motivated by the two principal criteria of scientific excellence and European added value.

• EUROCORES - Click here for details
• Forward Looks - Click here for details -
• Networks
• Research Networking Programmes - A call covering all Standing Committees is issued each year with a deadline around end of October. Click here for details
  Grants and Calls within a running RNP:- please consult the pages of the relevant programme itself.
• ESF Research Conferences Call for proposals (all disciplines). Participant’s application form (all disciplines).
• Exploratory Workshops - A call covering all Standing Committees is issued each year with a deadline around end of April - beginning of May. Click here for details.
• EURYI - European Young Investigator Awards - The European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs) developed the European Young Investigators Awards (EURYI) Scheme in cooperation with the European Science Foundation (ESF). The aim of the scheme is to attract outstanding young researchers from anywhere in the world to work in Europe and lead their own research team.

Fellowships and grants

A limited number of research fellowships and travel grants are available to support researchers’ participation in the ESF’s scientific activities. For a listing of current opportunities by discipline click on one of the headings below.

Current Grants, Calls & Applications  for each discipline  :

• Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Medical Sciences

• Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Humanities

• Social Sciences