Top-up Financing for Incoming HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships – Application by Invitation
Top-up Financing for Incoming HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships – Application by Invitation supports Norwegian hosts with fellows’ salary or research costs to foster international collaboration in basic research.
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Funder: Research Council of Norway
Due Dates: October 31, 2026 (Final application deadline) | June 1, 2026–June 1, 2027 (Project start window) | May 31, 2030 (Latest completion)
Funding Amounts: NOK 500,000 per 12 months, up to NOK 1,500,000 over 36 months; NOK 3,000,000 call budget
Summary: Top-up funding helps Norwegian research organisations host incoming HFSP postdoctoral fellows by supplementing salary or research costs.
Key Information: Invitation only, for approved Norwegian research organisations hosting fellows awarded HFSP funding in March 2026.
Description
The Research Council of Norway provides top-up financing to make it more attractive for Norwegian research organisations to host incoming Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) postdoctoral fellows. The contribution supplements funding that the host institution receives from HFSP and can bring the fellow’s salary up to the institution’s normal level or cover other actual costs of the fellow’s research project.
HFSP promotes international collaboration in basic research into the sophisticated and complex mechanisms of living organisms. Its emphasis is on ground-breaking research and cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches. This top-up call falls within the Research Council’s internationalisation and mobility priorities and is a rights-based scheme for invited hosts, rather than a new competition for an HFSP fellowship.
