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Personal mobility grant

The following describes requirements for grant proposals submitted under this type of application. Any amendments or additions to the requirements below will be described in the call for proposals. Grant applications that do not satisfy all the requirements listed for the application type and/or stipulated in the call for proposals will be rejected.

Objective:
To award a personal grant to a designated individual (including advanced students and doctoral and post-doctoral fellows) as a step in promoting competence building in, and the internationalisation of, Norwegian research and to help strengthen Norwegian research groups by offering visiting foreign researchers (doctorate, post-doctorate level or higher) the opportunity to perform research in Norway.

Comments:
Personal mobility grants are announced separately. Grants of this type are ordinarily only provided for visits lasting from one to twelve months. There exists no requirement to apply under the auspices of a project funded by the Research Council.

Expenses that may be covered:
Travel, living and settling-in expenses from one to twelve months based on fixed rates. In addition, some personal operating costs may be covered. A personal mobility grant covers documented living costs and added costs of settling in associated with a research visits in Norway or abroad. Any surplus may be liable to taxation, subject to assessment by the tax office.

Applications will be accepted from:
Designated individuals who are affiliated with a Norwegian or foreign research institution (university, university college, research institute or other institution at which research constitutes an important activity).

Application requirements:

The applicant must be a designated individual affiliated with a Norwegian or foreign research institution. Any exceptions to this rule will be described in the call for proposals.
Any special requirements regarding the language in which the grant proposal is to be submitted will be specified in the call for proposals.
The project description must not exceed 5 pages, including the list of references.The page format should be A4 with 2 cm margins, 12 point font and single spacing. For references and figure text, font size 9 can be used.
The grant proposal will be evaluated relative to the assessment criteria that apply to the particular type of application, and the requirements and principles set out in the call for proposals.

Attachments to the application:

A Mandatory attachments:

Project description (max. 5 pages).
CV with publications list (max. 3 pages).

B Attachments that may be required in the call for proposals.
Only the attachments requested in the call for proposals should be submitted. Attachments that have not been requested will not be included in the application review process.

Invitation letter from the host institution
Recommendation from own institute/research group
Highest degree or diploma earned
Other items

Only items that are stipulated in the call for proposals should be attached to the grant proposal application. Types of attachments that have not been requested will not be included in the application review process. Note: Non-binding declarations of support are not to be submitted.

Assessment of grant proposals
The Research Council views it as a prerequisite that all projects will maintain high ethical standards, and give adequate consideration to potential environmental impacts.
The Research Council considers it essential that research projects seek to promote the internationalisation of Norwegian research, to increase the recruitment of women to higher academic positions and within MST subject areas, to enhance the gender balance in Norwegian research and to ensure that gender perspectives are adequately integrated into research activities.
These elements will be taken into consideration when assessing and ranking grant proposals.

Assessment criteria for the application:

Candidates for fellowships/grants
R&D project quality

Additional assessment criteria may be specified in the call for proposals

Candidates for fellowships/grants

The candidate’s qualifications (as documented by a CV) will be assessed in relation to education, research experience and publication record.

R&D project quality

This criterion gives an indication of the extent to which the R&D project can be considered to be realistic and feasible assessed in relation to the following points:

R&D method.
Project implementation plan, including milestones and deliverables.
Budget and resource parameters, including financing.

Overall assessment of the referee/panel

The overall assessment of the referee/panel taking into account the criteria which the referee/panel has been asked to assess.

Ethical perspectives

The Research Council emphasises the need for projects to maintain high ethical standards and not conflict in any way with the fundamental principles for ethics in research.
More information on ethical perspectives may be found in the guidelines for ethics in research drawn up by the national committees for research ethics and in the Act on Ethics and Integrity in Research.

Environmental impact

The Research Council attaches importance to whether research projects give adequate consideration to any potential impacts (positive or negative) on the natural environment (external environment), when this is relevant. This applies both to the performance of the projects and to the utilisation of the results.

Recruitment of women

The Research Council considers it important for projects to promote increased recruitment of women to higher academic positions and within the MST subject areas (mathematics, science and technology).

Gender balance in the project

The Research Council works actively to enhance the gender balance in the Norwegian research sector. Each project can play a role in this by seeking to ensure gender balance in the composition of the project group.

Gender perspectives in the research

The Research Council views it as essential that gender perspectives are given adequate consideration in research projects where this is relevant. Good research must take into account biological and social differences between women and men, and the gender dimension should be one of the main pillars of the development of new knowledge. In research projects this dimension may be manifested through the research questions addressed, the theoretical approaches chosen, the methodology applied, and in the efforts to assess whether the research results will have different implications for women and men.

Internationalisation

In this context, internationalisation refers to the extent to which the project serves to promote the internationalisation of Norwegian research, by such means as:

International networks.
International mobility.
Measures that enhance Norway’s attractiveness as a host country for research activities.

Published:: 04.09.2003
Last updated:: 19.01.2012

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