Supporting TAlent in ReSearch – STARS Grants

Supporting TAlent in ReSearch – STARS Grants

About Supporting TAlent in ReSearch – STARS Grants
Supporting TAlent in ReSearch@University of Padua (STARS@UNIPD) – 2021 Call for proposals

The University of Padua (Unipd or University), through the programme called “Talent in Research”, supports excellent research to be performed on its premises by high-potential researchers.

The programme “Talent in Research” is characterized by several initiatives aimed at increasing the participation of young researchers in competitive calls for proposals, as well as attracting researchers from abroad, offering financial support to the most deserving projects, whose research value is acknowledged by internationally renowned experts. The programme includes the following actions:

* “Talents@Unipd”, a scouting initiative open to all scientists, with no exclusion of citizenship, who are willing to choose Unipd as their Host Institution in their applications for the European Research Council (ERC) funded researches https://www.unipd.it/en/talent);

* “Supporting TAlent in ReSearch@University of Padua – STARS@UNIPD”, which encourages international, high quality, innovative and ambitious research in Padua and boosts the participation of Unipd in ERC calls, promoting an open and positive attitude towards international funding opportunities for basic research (https://www.unipd.it/en/stars).

The STARS@UNIPD – 2021 call for proposals, which is at its third edition, comprises two types of funding supporting individual research projects, proposed by a Principal Investigator (PI) at a “Starting” or “Consolidator” career stage. A third type of funding is specifically addressed to PIs who submitted an ERC application in the 2019 and 2020 calls for proposals, chose the University of Padua as their Host Institution and scored “A” in the second step of the evaluation process; despite being considered eligible for funding, they were not funded due to budget limits.

Candidates who wish to apply to the STARS@UNIPD – 2021 call for proposals can submit a project in one of the 27 scientific research areas, which Unipd grouped in three Macro-areas corresponding to the three ERC research domains as described in Annex 1.

Moreover, in order to reward excellence and foster a high-level, open, transparent and merit-based competition, as well as promoting the increasingly broad participation of researchers in international competitive calls for proposals, the evaluation process and criteria of the STARS@UNIPD call will be similar to those of the ERC. The application forms themselves, even if slightly simplified, match the templates of the ERC.

For more details refer the Information Document :  Supporting TAlent in ReSearch – STARS Grants

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