Mobility for Regional Excellence Programme is open for all the applicants from
all around the world to conduct research in Sweden for the academic session of
2017. The programme is available for experienced researchers to gain new and
exciting mobility experiences in international mobility.
The purpose of MoRE
was to attract international researchers to Västra Götaland’s excellent
research milieus and to offer researchers from Västra Götaland the opportunity
of visiting and working at excellent research milieus abroad.
Region Västra
Götaland has the possibility to becom
e a leading knowledge region in Europe and
has already been classified as an Innovation Leader by the EU Regional
Innovation Scoreboard 2016. The region hosts five universities, strong research
and innovation milieus, the headquarters of the Swedish Research Institute and
successful milieus for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Course
Level:
The programme is available to pursue research.
Study
Subject:
The programme is awarded in the following fields:
- Sustainable
transport solutions - Life
science - Green
chemistry - Marine
environment and the maritime sector - Urban
development - Material
sciences - Sustainable
production - Information
and communication technologies - Energy
- Textile/Fashion/Design
- Cultural
and creative industry - Food
production/Agriculture and forestry - Tourism
Scholarship
Award: The
programme will cover the following:
- MoRE2020
funds one-year collaborative projects between two research and innovation
milieus together with an end-user and is open for both incoming and
outgoing mobility.
Numbers of
Scholarships: Not
known
Scholarship
can be taken in Sweden
Eligibility:
Applicants
must meet the following area for the programme:
- The
application to MoRE2020 must be received by Region Västra Götaland through
email to the specified email address at the latest by the specified
deadline stated above. - The
application must be complete, i.e. all fields in the application form need
to fill in, together with the required appendices. - Eligible
applicants to MoRE2020 are experienced researchers together with a
research and innovation milieu in Västra Götaland. Eligible research and
innovation milieus include universities, science parks, research
institutes and university hospitals. - At the
date of the call deadline, researchers must be in possession of a PhD or
have four years of full-time equivalent research experience. - The
proposed research must fall within one or more of the following 13 areas: - Sustainable
transport solutions - Life
science - Green
chemistry - Marine
environment and the maritime sector - Urban
development - Material
sciences - Sustainable
production - Information
and communication technologies - Energy
- Textile/Fashion/Design
- Cultural
and creative industry - Food
production/Agriculture and forestry - Tourism
- For
outgoing mobility to a third country, applying researchers must be a
national or long-term resident of an EU member state or associated
country. Long-term residency is defined as having lived in the EU, or an
associated country, uninterrupted for five years. - Researchers
must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies,
etc.) in the country of the host research and innovation milieu for more
than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline. Time
spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva
Convention, compulsory national service and/or short stays such as
holidays are not taken into account. - Researchers
that are already permanently employed by the research and innovation
milieu where the research training activities are planned to take place
and that is recruiting them may not be supported.
Nationality:
Applicants
from across the world can apply for the programme.
College
Admission Requirement
Entrance
Requirement: Applicants either in possession of a doctoral degree or have at
least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.
English Language
Requirement: Applicants must meet the necessary language proficiency
requirements of the host institution.
How to
Apply:
Applicants can apply through email.
- The
final proposal (Application form and all appendices) must be sent by
e-mail as a PDF document to regionutveckling-at-vgregion.se before the
deadline stated in the Call for Proposals - MoRE2020
is an international mobility programme. As such, all documents should be
completed in English. - The
following mandatory appendices to the application must be submitted: a.
Mandatory appendices application form: Project description, Career plan,
CV (available for download on the website) - Supporting
letter from collaborating end-user - Complete
and submit the additional appendices if necessary: - Supporting
letter from the collaborating research and innovation milieu abroad
(Available for
download on the website)
- Ethics
Self-Assessment form (available for download on the website) - Application Form
Application
Deadline: The
application deadline is September 1, 2017.
