START Program on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Science
and Research (BMWF)
Target group
outstanding young researchers
of any discipline
Goals
Researchers should be
given the long-term and extensive financial security to plan their
research and to build up or consolidate their own research groups
thereby qualifying themselves for senior scientific positions (especially
as university professors within Austria or abroad).
Requirements
award
of the doctoral degree no less than two and no longer than ten
years before the deadline for submission. Allowance is made
for time spent raising children, for compulsory military or
civilian service or for time required for receiving clinical
qualifications
exceptional international
track record
scientific independence
must be proven
in addition it is
desirable that candidates have completed a research stay abroad
of at least one year
candidates may not
already be full professors (members of the "Professorenkurie")
Length
6 years, an interim review
after 3 years decides on continuation
Level
up to EUR 200,000 per year
Applications
Start: September
2009
End: 6. November 2009 (date of postmark)
in English
next call for application presumably
Summer 2010 to Fall 2010
Allocation
decisions taken by
the international START/Wittgenstein Jury based on an international
review process
