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!!European Young Researchers Award EYRA\\Call open for applicants in PhD and Postdoc category
!10th Call for the 2022 European Young Researchers' Award is now open

The __European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA)__, granted by EuroScience since 2010, aims to inspire early-stage researchers in all research areas to incorporate a European dimension and perspective into their research. Two awards are granted every two years to: a) a PhD candidate and b) a postdoctoral fellow.
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The prize-giving ceremony for the two awards is held at the biennual EuroScience flagship event, __EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)__. The Award consists of a certificate, waiving the participation fee to ESOF, a grant to cover travel and accommodation for the stay in the ESOF city and one year free EuroScience membership.
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__The 2022 EuroScience Open Forum is scheduled be held as a hybrid event in July 2022 in Leiden, The Netherlands, and in several regional hubs across Europe (final dates will be announced).
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!Eligibility Criteria

The 2022 call is open to early career researchers, who fulfil the following criteria:

*__For the PhD Candidate award:__ Applicants should have enrolled for a PhD degree at the time of the application deadline or should have successfully defended their thesis after January 1st, 2021.
*__For the Postdoctoral fellow award:__ Applicants should have successfully defended their thesis after January 1st, 2016 and should have enrolled in a postdoctoral programme at the time of the application deadline.
*Candidates must be affiliated with a European country (cf. Council of Europe’s membership rules)
*European and Non- European nationals are eligible to apply.

!Evaluation Criteria

All applications are evaluated by a Scientific International Committee based on the following criteria:

#__Quality of the research:__ The evaluation will be based on widely accepted academic criteria, such as: publications in peer-reviewed journals, other publications, references, prizes, grants, patents.
#__European dimension:__ The research must have a clear European dimension. It could entail a collaborative project counting with the contribution of several European countries or it could encompass a research project based in one #
European country with a research topic of European added value.
#__Project engagement:__ The candidate’s contribution to research groups or projects, e.g. inspiration to others, further development of a project, leadership experience.
#__Outreach:__ Involvement in dissemination activities for a general audience, e.g. public talks at a local or national level, media appearance, teaching outside academia, research-based social engagement.

!Application procedure and documentation

!The deadline for the 2022 call for both awards is Friday September 17, 2021 at 12:00pm CEST.
All applications should be submitted online via the ESCMPlatform [https://escmp.euroscience.org/login]
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*The __application form__ should be filled in English.
*The __cover page__ form should be downloaded, completed and included in the online application.
*__Self-nomination is accepted.__

!You can find further information about the call at [https://www.euroscience.org/news/10th-call-european-young-researchers-award-open].
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