Post-graduate or < 4 years experience

ALFA
Canon Foundation in Europe
Eric Bleumink fund
FOM
Fulbright Fellowship
Fulbright-Shuman Program
Huygens Scholarship Program
KNAW
Mandela Scholarship Fund
Marie Curie ITN
Marie Curie Industry- Academia Partnerships & Pathways
NFP
NWO
WOTRO

ALFA

ALFA (América Latina - Formación Académica) is a programme of co-operation between higher education institutions of the European Union and Latin America. It provides funding for researchers from 18 Latin American countries to carry out research in Europe.
More information may be found on the ALFA website.

Canon Foundation in Europe

The Canon Foundation grants up to 15 fellowships to European and Japanese researchers with a Masters'' or Doctors'' degree, not older than 40 years. The European fellowship holder pursue a research period in Japan, the Japanese fellowship holder pursue a research period in Europe. The fellowships are awarded regardless of scientific discipline. Please see the Canon website.

Eric Bleumink Fund Ph.D. researchers

Fellowships for Ph.D. researchers who conduct Ph.D. research within the scope of a cooperation between the University of Groningen and an institution in a developing country. Part of the research should be conducted in the home country and part in Groningen. For more information, please visit the Eric Bleumink fund website.

Foundation of Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)

The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) promotes, co-ordinates and finances fundamental physics research in The Netherlands. It is an autonomous foundation responsible to the physics division of the national research council NWO. Its annual budget is 80 million euros.

FOM employs about 1000 people, of who about 420 are PhD students and 120 are postdocs. They work at FOM research institutes and in university laboratories. The foundation also finances and operates a number of research facilities at and in collaboration with universities.

FOM finances research through several mechanisms. For more information please visit the FOM website (in Dutch language only, FOM works on an English translation).

Fulbright Fellowships

The Fulbright Center provides information on study, research and internships in the United States of America and promotes the exchange of students, scholars and teachers between the Netherlands and the United States.

Fulbright-Schuman Program

Funding is available for American and European researchers, lecturers, international educators, and graduate students to focus on a wide range of issues concerning the European Union and the U.S.-EU relationship.

Huygens Scholarship Programme

Programme (HSP) is aimed at excellent students who want to come to the Netherlands in the final phase of their bachelor’s studies or during their master’s studies. PhD applications can only be accepted from students from Croatia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. The programme offers scholarships for periods of 6 to 24 months, and it intended for students up to the age of 35.
For eligibility criteria, please have a look at the HSP website.

KNAW- Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences

Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences:
Awards grants for research, conference visits or periods of residence abroad;
Contributes to the cost of organising international conferences, workshops and colloquia in the Netherlands;
Promotes international communication and partnerships.
Please visit the KNAW-website for more information

Mandela Scholarship Fund of Leiden University

This fund aspires to give South African (post) graduate students the possibility to study for a period of a year at Leiden University.

Marie Curie ITN

This action aims to improve early-stage researchers' career prospects in both the public and private sectors, thereby making research careers more attractive to young people. The action will be implemented by supporting competitively selected networks of organisations from different countries engaged in research training. In these networks, early postdoc’s (up to 1 year after PhD) may also be recruited.

The action is open to researchers from all countries. Researchers are normally required to undertake trans-national mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up appointment.

Researchers can not directly apply for funding. However, funded ITN's will recruit researchers. Vacancies can be found on the on the Marie Curie website.

Marie Curie Industry- Academia Partnerships & Pathways

This action seeks to open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises. Funding will be provided for the exchange of knowledge between staff members of the two sectors.

Public research organisations and private commercial enterprises may exchange their own staff members, but may also recruit experienced researchers from outside the partnership for involvement in transfer of knowledge and/or in the training of researchers.

Researchers can not apply directly for funding through the IAPP scheme. However, vacancies in IAPP's will be published on the Marie Curie website.

Netherlands Fellowship Programme

Programmes (NFP) are demand-oriented fellowship programmes designed to foster institutional development. The NFP target group consists of mid-career professionals who are already in employment and who are nationals of one of 57 selected countries. The NFP are focused on meeting the need for further training and capacity-building in developing countries. To maximize the fellowships'' impact on capacity-building, NFP-funded training must be linked to the institutional development of organizations.
Please see the NFP-website for more details.

NWO – Neth. Organisation for Scientific Research

NWO promotes scientific research at Dutch universities and institutes through nearly 170 different research programmes and grants.
Researchers can apply for subsidies within research programmes as defined by NWO or as part of an Open Competition (research object is put forward by the researcher). Personal grants (like the well-known Vernieuwingsimpuls) stimulate individual researchers. Other subsidies facilitate (international) cooperation, finance the use of large-scale facilities and enable investments or publications.
More information may be found on the NWO website.

WOTRO Fellowships

WOTRO funding is aimed at research activities carried out by researchers from the Netherlands and developing countries.

WOTRO offers the following funding opportunities
- Integrated Programmes, WOTRO offers grants for medium-sized, interdisciplinary research endeavours executed by international partnerships in interaction with stakeholders.
- Thematic Programmes, large, co-financed research programmes focusing on a multidisciplinary theme.
- Strategic support activities, activities to strengthen the general WOTRO strategy, in particular the use and impact of scientific research in policy and practice, and international coordination.