JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Short-Term) for North American and European Researchers

Date

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 (All day) to Friday, June 7, 2019 (All day)

Description

 

Application guideline in English:  JSPS homepage

1.     OUTLINE OF THE FELLOWSHIP
The purpose of the program is to provide opportunities to young pre- and post-doctoral researchers from the US, Canada and Europe (*) to conduct, under the guidance of their hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. In so doing, the program is designed to help advance the research of the visiting fellows, while augmenting opportunities for young researchers to come to Japan from the US, Canada and Europe.

Applications for this program are submitted by a host researcher in Japan who wishes to host a foreign postdoctoral fellow.

*Eligible countries are the US, Canada, European Union countries (as of 1 April 2016), Switzerland, Norway and Russia. (If you are not in these country, please apply to JSPS Fellowship (standard))

2.     FIELDS OF RESEARCH
All fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences are included under this program.

3.     APPLICANT (HOST RESEARCHER) ELIGIBILITY 
*As for OIST, full-time faculty members are eligible. 

4.     CANDIDATE (FELLOW) ELIGIBILITY

(1)  

Be a citizen or permanent resident of an eligible country (listed in Section 1 above). Also eligible are persons who have earned a master’s or higher degree and continuously thereafter been engaged in research for a period of at least three years at a university or research institution in an eligible country. Such persons must be from a country that has diplomatic relations with Japan or from Taiwan or Palestine, have conducted research continuously for three or more years before the time their application was submitted, and must possess an excellent research record.
(Foreign researchers who reside in Japan at the time of application are not eligible. )

(2)  

Candidates must have obtained their doctoral degree at a university outside Japan within six years of the date the fellowship goes into effect (on or after 2 April 2011), or must be currently enrolled in a doctoral course at a university outside Japan, and scheduled to receive a Ph.D. within two years from the time that their research starts in Japan.

(3)  

Have arranged in advance a research plan with a host researcher in Japan.

Note: Those who have previously been awarded a fellowship under the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Foreign Researchers are not eligible. This Obei-Tanki Fellowship is only awarded once per researcher.

5.     NUMBER OF FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED
Approximately 60 Fellowships will be granted in FY2018.

6.     DURATION AND COMMENCEMENT OF FELLOWSHIPS

(1)

Fellowships are awarded for a period of 1 to 12 months

(2)

Successful candidates must start the Fellowship in Japan during the following period:April 1, 2020–March 31, 2021

For more details, please check the website:  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short-term).

SPONSOR DEADLINE for this round: June 7 2019
Internal Deadline (OIST): May 22, 2019
Please submit the Grant Pre-submission Form one month prior to the sponsor deadline.

JSPS accepts applications four times a year: 

Recruitments
(about 10 awardees each)		 Application periods Fellowship start periods
4th recruitment
June 3-7, 2019
 January 1, 2020 - March 31, 2021
Note: These deadlines are for the head of the host institution to submit the application to JSPS; the time frames for applicants (host researchers) to submit their applications are normally earlier.

 

Please contact grant@oist.jp for any enquiries.  

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