Guidelines for Clinical Career Fellowships
The purpose of the research funds is to help ensuring research activity among health trusts, and to increase the productivity, quality and impact for the health services. A significant share of the funds will go towards research training and building research competence. The clinical career fellowships is intended to facilitate researchers who have combined research activity with clinical practice to build their own research environment. This fellowship is the next step on the career ladder after postdoctoral and/or research periods and sets high demands for independence.
Evaluation of Applications
Applications are assessed based on scientific quality and impact for the health services. The two criteria are equally important in the sense that high impact or high quality alone is not sufficient for the allocation of funds. Read more in Aims and Criteria.
Clinical career fellowships are awarded to researchers who want to build a research environment. Therefore, extra strong requirements will be placed on the application and the applicant's motivation. The applicant must have demonstrated a potential for independence, and emphasis will be placed on whether the applicant will be able to build their own research environment during the project period. The applicant's research production will be assessed against the extent of clinical activity.
Who Can Apply- Requirements at the Time of Application
The applicant researcher must be under 50 years old (born 1976 or later). The applicant must be employed (at least 20 percent) by a health trust in the region or by a private, non-profit institution that has an agreement with Helse Vest.
Clinical career fellowships may not be transferred to others.
What Can Be Applied For
The total grant for the clinical career fellowship is currently up to NOK 2,4 million per year for 4 years. The rate includes salary with social costs and operating costs.
The grant should cover the salary for one's own position, an associated position (Ph.D., postdoctoral, research support, coordinator), and additional operating funds. The career grant is normally full time for four years but may be adjusted to 50 percent for the entire or parts of the period, if combined with a clinical position. The grant period will be adjusted accordingly. This does not need to be decided at the time of application.
Separate applications must be submitted if the applicant wishes to be assessed in the category of open project support, should the clinical career grant not be awarded. Budget, project presentation, and attachments must be adapted to each application category.
If Funds Are Awarded
Upon allocation, persons financed by the research funds must be employed at the health trust from which the application originates ("Applicant Institution").
If there are changes in the applicant's employment relationship after allocation and during the project period, the applicant institution has the final say on whether the responsible institution for the project should be changed. Matters regarding any such changes should be agreed between the relevant institutions.
Researchers who receive Helse Vest's research funds must complete a course in user involvement. Employees in the health trusts receive a course certificate if they complete the course through the learning portal ("Læringsportalen").
Project Description and Other Attachments
The application requires two attachments:
Page updated: May 2025.