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EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants (EMBO SEG)

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What is the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant (formerly Short-Term Fellowship)?

EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants (SEGs) fund research exchanges of 7–90 days between laboratories in eligible countries. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations with research groups applying techniques that are unavailable in the applicant′s laboratory. SEGs are intended for joint research work rather than consultations. For more details see EMBO SEG 2025 summary  .

Who can apply for the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant?

Active researchers at any career stage with at least one year of Ph.D. (or equivalent) level experience: group leaders, senior researchers, junior researchers, postdocs, Ph.D. students.

Why apply for the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant?

  • You can get financial support (travel costs & daily subsistence rates) for your short (7–90 days) research visit of an excellent research laboratory in life sciences in eligible countries.
  • You can develop your international cooperation and research network.
  • Awarded applicants can stay on their research visit for an additional three months (maximum), if other non-EMBO funding is found.
  • IOCB group leaders: you can get a researcher from another country to arrange a 7-90 day stay in your laboratory.

When to apply for the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant?

EMBO SEG call is open throughout the year, it is recommended that you submit your proposal at least 3 months before the proposed starting date. Evaluation results are announced within 2-4 months from the submission date.

  Please inform the Project Office about your intention to apply.  
  Do not hesitate to contact us anytime for consulting, discussion or help.  

How to apply for the EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant?

  1. Find and read programme guidelines:
  2. Establish your EMBO account and register your ORCID ID.
  3. Negotiate a foreign supervisor for your short research visit in an excellent research laboratory. / Negotiate a short research visit of a foreign researcher to your laboratory.
  4. Negotiate the arrangements for your short stay research visit with your IOCB supervisor and request authorisation to submit the proposal via the internal electronic IOCB Project Proposal Approval System (PPAS). You must be either connected to the IOCB network or via the IOCB Virtual Private Network (VPN).
  5. Contact two referees (one referee must be your current supervisor, neither referee can be from the receiving institute) and ask them for references and recommendations. In the case that the applicant is already an independent researcher, only one reference letter from a legal representative of the home institution (Dean, Director etc.) is required. The referees will be able to submit their references confidentially through the online application systém.
  6. Contact the receiving institute supervisor and ask him/her for an Acceptance Form and institutional support.
  7. Activate the referees and the receiving institute supervisor in the EMBO online system as soon as possible, preferably by 4 weeks prior to the submission. It is your responsibility to check that the referees and the receiving institute supervisor have received the request and have completed the form.
  8. Complete your online application form in the EMBO online system. Figures and tables cannot be included in the application.
    • Applicant;
    • contact details for two referees;
    • contact details for the receiving institute & supervisor;
    • proposed work: a 250-word summary, a 1500-word synopsis of the proposed activity, references, keywords, subject area, proposed duration, justification (200 words), career plan;
    • present work: home institute, current position, current work (500 words), benefit to home lab (200 words);
    • scientific CV: research experience, full CV since Ph.D. research, education, Ph.D. award, publications;
    • other funding sources; career breaks.
  9. Finalise your application.
    • Online Application Form via the EMBO online system (applicant)
    • Two Letters of Reference submitted online (referees)
    • Acceptance Letter from the receiving institute submitted online (Host institution / Project Office & IOCB supervisor)
  10. Submit your application at any point throughout the year, there are no deadlines. It is recommended that applications be submitted at least three months before the proposed start date.

Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by e-mail within 2-4 months.

EMBO contact: Karin Dumstrei (☎: +49 6221 8891 122) or Elsie Chan (☎: +49 6221 8891 409), fellowships@embo.org

IOCB

IOCB participation (1) in EMBO Short-Term Fellowship/Scientific Exchange Grant:

  • Markéta Nováková (Pavlína Řezáčová group) - 2021 outgoing STF fellowship to Max Planck Institute, Munich