Guidelines for Clinical Career Fellowships
The vision of Clinical Career Fellowships is to provide researchers who has combined research with clinical service with the possibility to build their own research environments. The Clinical Career Fellowships is the next rung on the career ladder after postdoctoral and/or research periods, and requires the candidate to have demonstrated a high degree of independence. The Clinical Career Fellowship is a personal fellowship which can not be transferred to others. Applicants can only send one application in the same category.
The national plan of action for clinical studies (2021-2025) has a vision that clinical research can be an integrated part of all patient treatment. Clinical Career Fellowships could be a tool to reach the goals of the plan of action.
Who can apply- requirements at the time of application
The applicant researcher must be under 50 years old (born 1972 or later). The applicant must be employed (min. 20 percent position) by a health trust in the region or by a private, non-profit institution that has an agreement with Helse Vest.
If funds are awarded
The positions financed by the research funds are to be employed by the applicant institution (health trust or private, non-profit institutions).
It should be possible for the research fellow to change employers during the fellowship as long as this is another health trust or private, non-profit institution in the region. It is nevertheless, the applicants institution that has the final word on whether the institutional responsibility for the project should also be changed. Conditions for any such potential change must be clarified by agreements between the institutions in question.
Application requirements
Extra stringent requirements will be set for applications in this category. Potential candidates must have demonstrated a high degree of independence. Whether candidates will be able to build a research environment will be emphasized in the evaluation and this should be clearly stated in the application. The candidates research production will be evaluated against the scale of clinical work.
What can be applied for
The total cost for the clinical career fellowship is currently up to NOK 2,3 million per year for 4 years. The fellowship rates includes salary with social expenses and operating costs.
The Career Fellowship is to cover the salary of one's own position, an appurtenant position (research fellow, research support, coordinator), and additional operating funds. The Career Fellowship can be used as a 50% position for the whole period or parts of it, in combination with clinical service, and so the length of the fellowship might vary based on the vacancy rate. This is not required to be settled at the time of application.
Separate applications must be submitted if the applicant wishes to be assessed for the category of a postdoctoral fellowship or an ordinary multi-year project, in case the application for a career fellowship is not successful in the competition. The budget and project description must be adapted to the individual application category.
Project description and other attachments
The application requires two attachments: