Submissions open for European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme

Deadline Date: March 20, 2025

Submissions are now open for the European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme.

Objectives

• The EU-FORA programme establishes a 12-month learning-by-doing fellowship, the objectives of which are to:
  • increase the pool of experts available in Europe;
  • stimulate the involvement of Member States in regulatory risk assessment work;
  • build a common EU culture for risk assessment.
• The specific objectives of this call are to:
  • select hosting sites for the training of one or more fellows for a period of 12 months; and
  • select fellows as proposed by their institutions of origin.

Focus

• The focus of the EU-FORA fellowship programme will be targeted to activities falling within EFSA’s remit, so as to attract professionals from relevant fields such as: agriculture, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biology, biometrics, biotechnology, chemistry, dietary exposure, environmental sciences, epidemiology, food science, food technology, genetics, health and food safety, human medicine, life sciences, mathematics, microbiology, molecular biology, natural sciences, nutrition, pharmacy, public health, statistics, toxicology, veterinary medicine or related areas.

Funding Information

• The total amount EFSA has available to award grants under this call for proposals is € 825,000, based on a total amount per grant (for each fellow) of € 55,000.

Duration

• The maximum duration of each Direct Agreement is 12 months from the start of the induction training, which usually takes place the first week of September.

Benefits

• As a fellow hosting site, the hosting organisation will have the opportunity to
  • profit from the skills and knowledge a fellow will bring from their institution of origin;
  • understand the issues and perspectives of colleagues in other countries;
  • strengthen bilateral co-operations with other institutions.
  • Moreover, during the 12-month fellowship, the fellow will become part of the scientific workforce of the fellow hosting site, contributing to their tasks and activities.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible, applicants must be on the list of competent organisations designated by the Member States in accordance with Article 36 of Regulation (EC) 178/2002 and Commission Regulation (EC).
• In order to achieve the objectives of the call, proposals must be submitted by a consortium of two eligible organisations from two different EU countries. Norway or Iceland.
• The applicant (consortium leader) is responsible for identifying consortium partners. The fellow hosting site will be the consortium leader (applicant) and will propose a work programme and be responsible of the training of the fellow. The other partner in the consortium is the fellow sending organisation and will propose a fellow to be trained under the proposal.

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