Career development for female scientists

The FWF is offering extremely well qualified female scientists who are working towards a career in universities the chance of a two-stage funding for a total of six years.

The career development programme for female scientists is divided into the Hertha Firnberg Programme for post-docs, which aims to support women at the start of their scientific careers, and the Elise Richter Programme for senior post-docs, which aims at providing scientists with the necessary qualifications to apply for professorial positions within Austria or abroad.

Elise Richter Program
Target group	Highly qualified female scientists and scholars of any discipline, who strive for an university career.
Goals	to support the academic career of highly qualified female scientists and scholars and to enhance their university career after completion of the program a level of qualification should be accomplished which enables participants to apply for a local or abroad professorship. ("Habilitation" or equal qualification)
Requirements	appropriate postdoctoral experience international scientific publications preparatory work related to the proposed research project no age limit
Length	12 to 48 months
Level	personnel costs EUR 63.420 (Senior Postdoc) project specific costs up to EUR 15,000 per year as outlined in the proposal (therefore EUR 2,000 per year can be used for coaching purposes) EUR 1,950 lump sum per child per year
Applications	2 calls a year in spring/autumn Autumn call from 19.10.2009 to 18.12.2009 in English
Allocation	by the FWF Board based on an international review process in the June Board meeting (for fall call), in the December Board meeting (for spring call)
Contact	Susanne Menschik susanne.menschik@fwf.ac.at +43-1-505 67 40 ext. 8503 Susanne Woytacek susanne.woytacek@fwf.ac.at +43-1-505 67 40 ext. 8505 Dr. Barbara Zimmermann barbara.zimmermann@fwf.ac.at +43-1-505 67 40 ext. 8501