The University of Padua (Italy) will launch the third edition of the Supporting TAlent in ReSearch@University of Padua – STARS@UNIPD call for proposals. Such programme supports excellent 2-year research projects to be conducted 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 aims at encouraging high quality, innovative and ambitious research in all scientific areas, offering support to ground-breaking ideas with definite potential to turn into competitive proposals for international funding, including the prestigious European Research Council grants.
In particular, STARS Starting Grants (STARS-StGs) are designed to fund promising PIs who have been awarded their first PhD within a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 7 years (prior to 1st January 2021) and are about to establish their own research team and/or starting their own independent research.
More information about the funding programme are available at https://www.unipd.it/en/stars2021 .
The call will be officially published on 11 January 2021 and the on line submission procedure will go live. Application deadline is on 12 April 2021 at 1:00 p.m. (Italian time).
Please find enclosed a brief STARS@UNIPD Summary.
Any further clarification requests can be addressed to the University of Padua: talent.stars@unipd.it.
