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The sponsor awards a fellowship for study and research in Greece. Eligible applicants are postdoctoral scholars and professionals in relevant fields who are U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have lived in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.

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The sponsor awards a two-year fellowship designed to provide innovative post-doctoral scholars with the opportunity to build a foundation in one of the core disciplines represented within the Earth Institute (i.e., any of the social sciences, earth sciences, biological sciences, engineering sciences and health sciences), while at the same time acquiring the cross-disciplinary expertise and breadth needed to addresses critical issues related to sustainable development, including reducing poverty, hunger, disease, and environmental degradation.

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The Rubicon programme is directed at promising young postdoctoral researchers who are still at the start of their careers but whose academic strengths give them the potential to become established figures in the Dutch research world. Young researchers are encouraged to dedicate themselves to a career in postdoctoral research. It does so by giving them the chance to enhance their career prospects by spending up to two years at a top research institution outside the Netherlands or one year at an excellent Dutch research institution. The Rubicon programme also offers talented researchers from abroad the opportunity to obtain grants to spend one year conducting research in the Netherlands. Proposals will be assessed on the basis of the quality of the applicant, the research proposal and the host institution. The Rubicon programme is open to all scientific disciplines.

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The Fellowship Program at the Italian Academy focuses on issues relating to cultural identity, cultural transmission, and cultural memory. It has a twofold aim: to sustain the vitality of the many aspects of culture that are endangered by globalization, and to forge genuinely new links between the arts, the sciences and the social sciences.

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Support is provided for research fellowships in most fields of study at the University of Alberta. Each fellowship is valued at $46,000 per annum, and includes a one-time $4,000 travel/research grant.

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One award is available to perform significant research at the University of Alberta. Awards are valued at $46,000 per year, and include a non-renewable, one-time travel/research grant of $4,000.

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The sponsor awards postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology and ocean engineering.

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The sponsor awards a fellowship to attract recently graduated scholars (within the past two years) of superior research ability to Dalhousie University, and to provide the recipients with the opportunity to establish themselves as productive members of the academic community.

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The sponsor provides support for research and graduate education partnerships between French and American Universities with emphasis placed on novel, innovative and, when relevant, interdisciplinary approaches that involve exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Applicants are expected to develop new or deeper partnerships through the collaboration.

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The sponsor provides support for a scholar to conduct research and writing on a historical subject that has an impact on modern and contemporary Northeast Asia. The fellow helps deepen the center’s current research on historical issues and on how historical memory has shaped current relations in Northeast Asia.