A plan to build the science base in European countries that lag behind got under way with the award of the first round of grants to enable young researchers to relocate.
The EMBL, Heidelberg.A plan to build the science base in European countries that lag behind got under way with the award of the first round of grants to enable young researchers to relocate.
The European Molecular Biology Organisation Installation Grants aim to strengthen science in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. In the first round ten researchers received grants of €50,000 per year for three to five years to set up three groups in Poland, two in Portugal, two in Turkey and one in Croatia, the Czech Republic and Estonia respectively.
Four of scientists will move from the US, five from elsewhere in Europe and one from Israel.
Receive the Funding Newswire each Tuesday, our Policy Bulletin each Thursday, and news about bridging Europe’s east-west innovation gap twice a month in The Widening. 
