Call for Applications – Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows at the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Interdisciplinary Meeting with Nobel Laureates from the fields of physics, physiology or medicine and chemistry 28 June - 3 July 2015 At the Lindau Meeting in 2015 more than 600 young scientists from all over the world will get the unique chance to spend an inspiring week with about 70 Nobel Laureates to exchange experiences and establish valuable contact in science and beyond. Like in the past years, the European Commission will nominate a limited number of Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows to participate at this meeting. Before applying, please read carefully the selection criteria below. In addition, it is important you make sure that you will have the necessary funding to meet your part of the costs at the time of the event, which is 1,250 EUR plus your own travel costs to and from the meeting. Please note that the related costs must be met by your host and/or through your Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. We strongly recommend that you get a confirmation from your host that these costs can be and will be met at the appropriate time (ca. June 2015). APPLICATION PROCESS The process is a two-step procedure. At the first stage you should submit three items:  a statement of motivation: this should explain briefly why you think the participation will be beneficial for you, your research and your career, and your host organisation (if relevant). At most ½ page, 250 words is requested;  a letter or letters of recommendation: this should be from a highly qualified scientist who is either in a supervisory role in your project; or who maybe well acquainted with your work; or who is a leading scholar in the field and sufficiently knowledgeable about you. At most this should be one page and contain the formal letterhead of the organisation of the person signing the letter. Please ensure the letter of recommendation is specific for you and for the Lindau 2015 event;  your current CV. SELECTION CRITERIA Priority will be given to Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows who show a strong commitment to interdisciplinary aspects covering two or more of the fields of physics, physiology or medicine and chemistry, for example by interdisciplinary projects or double degrees. In addition, fellows should:  not be older than 35 years of age (we are however willing to consider applications from researchers who are a little bit older and had some breaks during their career such as maternity or paternity leaves).  not have participated in previous Lindau meetings.  commit themselves to being present for the full duration of the meeting.  not already have a permanent position, e.g., on the professor level. We would also need a limited amount of personal information[1], please see the application form at the end of this document. TIMETABLE You need to send all parts of your application to the European Commission by Friday, the 24th of October 2014, 17:00 CET to [email protected] The European Commission will make recommendations to the Lindau Committee in the week of the 27th of October 2014. Candidates who are supported by the European Commission are asked in the 2nd stage to complete and validate some further formalities by the 2nd of December 2014 and selection decisions are taken by the end of February 2015, allowing sufficient time for travel arrangements to be made. If you require any further information please contact [email protected]. [1] This information will be ONLY used for the purposes of this exercise, and will only be communicated to the secure web site of the Lindau organisation, in accordance with EU Data Protection requirements as defined by Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data APPLICATION FORM Name and email to be used from now to July 2015 for contact: First name: ______________________________________________________ Family name: ____________________________________________________ Email: __________________________________________________________ Affiliation and organisational address including country: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Gender: M F Telephone number where you can be contacted (preferably a GSM): +_______________________________________________________________ (start with ISO Country code, e.g. +32 for Belgium) Grant agreement number and Marie Curie Action which makes you eligible: ________________________________________________________________ (make sure to include the year and the scheme also e.g. "2012-IEF-345789") Statement of Motivation: Letter(s) of Recommendation (give the name and affiliation of the author(s)?) Family name: ____________________________________________________ Affiliation: ______________________________________________________ If the letter of recommendation is sent independently please advise us so we can expect it. If you hope to send more than one letter of recommendation, please advise us. If you have all the elements (application form, CV, motivational letter and recommendation letter), please email all documents to the functional mail box: [email protected]