The University of Padua (Italy) funds promising young researchers - STARS@UNIPD 2021.

The University of Padua (Italy) has launched the third edition of the Supporting TAlent in ReSearch@University of Padua – STARS@UNIPD 2021 call for proposals. Such intramural funding Programme supports excellent 2-year research projects to be performed by outstanding Principal Investigators of any nationality, choosing Padua and one of its 32 Departments as their working base, and committing to submit an ERC project proposal with the University of Padua as their Host Institution.

The STARS@UNIPD call promotes and encourages high quality, innovative and ambitious research, with the final goal to strengthen the University ability to attract external competitive funding, including the European Research Council grants.

In particular, STARS Starting Grants (STARS-StG) are designed to fund promising PIs who have been awarded their first doctoral degree within a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 7 years (prior to 1 January 2021) and are about to establish their own research team and/or starting their own independent research.

For further information regarding the call, its annexes, and the on line procedure for the submission go to the website: www.unipd.it/en/stars2021 . 

Application deadline is on 12 April 2021 at 1:00 p.m. (Italy time zone).

Any further clarification: talent.stars@unipd.it