Nomination for Two Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions in Japan

The Norwegian research organisation applies on behalf of the nominee/candidate. The organisation's project administrator is the primary contact person for RCN on behalf of JSPS.

See here for the list of approved Norwegian research organisations.

Fellowships may be sought for Norwegian researchers who are qualified for postdoctoral positions. In addition, applicants must:

• be affiliated with an approved Norwegian research organisation;
• have established contact and agreed on a research plan with researchers in Japan prior to submitting a grant application;
• have completed their doctorate within the past six years; and
• conduct research within the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences or technology.

Previous recipients of a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship are not eligible to apply for a fellowship again.

Funding will be awarded to cover the following:

• a round trip air ticket (based on JSPS regulations);
• a monthly maintenance allowance of JPS 362 000;
• a settling-in allowance of JPY 200 000; and
• overseas travel, accident and sickness insurance coverage.

The FY2022 application form, standard, is to be filled in, attached and submitted with the electronic grant application to the Research Council of Norway.

Please read both the Instructions for the applications form and the Applications Guidelines from JSPS (both documents open in new windows) carefully to ensure that you satisfy the formal requirements and have included all mandatory attachments.

General requirements

• The Project Owner and Project Manager must be within the categories set out in this call.
• The grant application must lie within the scope of this call.
• The amount sought and any own financing must be in accordance with the requirements set out in this call.
• The budget must be filled in correctly so that it is clear what the amount sought will cover.
• The grant application must be completed in full.
• All attachments must be submitted, using the correct templates.
• The project description must respond to the call.
• The grant application, including all attachments, must be submitted in English.
• All attachments must be uploaded in PDF format.

Mandatory attachments

• The JSPS application form (maximum 10 pages), to be uploaded under "Project description". The template can be found below.
• Other mandatory attachments as specified by JSPS, to be uploaded under "Other items" (no maximum number of pages, but attachments may not exceed 40 Mb).

We assess applications on the basis of the following criteria:

The Research Council will conduct a preliminary application review and nominate fellowship candidates. JSPS is responsible for taking the final decision on grant allocations. Grant applications that do not satisfy the formal requirements stipulated in the information from JSPS or this call for proposals will be rejected. It is not possible to submit attachments after the application submission deadline has expired.

If an applicant is nominated by the Research Council for the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship, his or her application and mandatory attachments will be forwarded to JSPS for further processing.

Application processing time is normally three months.