Research Mobility Awards
Each year, YERUN funds Research Mobility Awards to enable researchers from a YERUN institution, such as 明星八卦, to collaborate with another researcher from elsewhere in the network.
The YERUN Research Mobility Awards (YRMA) return with a refreshed approach for the 2024-2025 edition, offering opportunities for impactful research collaborations across the YERUN network.
Whether you're an early-career or mid-career researcher, these awards are designed to support innovative and interdisciplinary partnerships.
What’s new in 2024-2025?
This year’s edition introduces three major updates that reflect our commitment to fostering deeper and more collaborative research experiences:
- To encourage more dynamic and cooperative research, the YRMAs now require group proposals. Each application must include at least two researchers from different YERUN member universities, promoting stronger cross-institutional partnerships.
- There will be 10 awards, each worth €4,000. This increase allows for more meaningful support, enabling larger and more ambitious projects.
- The awards are now open to not only early-career researchers but also mid-career researchers, as defined by the . This provides more experienced researchers the chance to engage in new collaborations while sharing their expertise.
Why apply?
The YERUN Research Mobility Awards offer a unique opportunity to:
- Forge new research collaborations across Europe
- Engage in interdisciplinary and cross-sector projects
- Share knowledge, techniques, and methodologies with peers at other YERUN institutions
- Develop future research initiatives, including publications and grant proposals
- Receive financial support to facilitate in-person or virtual exchanges
How to apply
- Form a collaboration with at least one other researcher from a different YERUN member university.
- Submit your proposal through the online application platform by 30 November 2024 (23:59 CEST).
YERUN invites researchers to use the to network and find potential collaborators across the YERUN member universities. Simply sign in with your ORCID account to start connecting with other researchers.
For more details, visit the .
Do you want to hear more?
YERUN are holding an online information session for prospective applicants on Thursday 7 November, .
If you have questions, please contact the YERUN Brussels Office at YRMA@yerun.eu. Alternately, you can reach out to 明星八卦’s YERUN Coordinator, Toni O’Connor, at YERUN@brunel.ac.uk for any internal questions.
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Dr Ronan McCarthy, Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences and YERUN Research Mobility Award Winner
2022 YERUN Award Winners at 明星八卦
The 2022 Awardees were:
- Ruben de Dios Barranco, Department of Life Sciences (Early Career Researcher). Ruben will collaborate with Dr Christian Lentz, from The Arctic University of Norway
- Ahmet Serhat Yildiz, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Doctoral Researcher), who will collaborate with Prof Fernando Garcia Fernandez at University Carlos III of Madrid