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Dear Members,

EAACI and GA2LEN are pleased to announce that they will be offering Fellowship Awards in 2008. Please find below the aims and conditions of the Fellowship programme. Please go to the EAACI website www.eaaci.net for information and application forms for the Fellowships.

EAACI Executive Office
executive.office@eaaci.org
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The aims of the EAACI & GA2LEN Fellowship Awards are:
1. To support research and training of EAACI Junior members and Affiliates (JMAs) by offering the possibility to make 3 or 12 month visits to laboratories in a foreign European country.

2. To increase the mobility of young researchers within Europe. Movement between EAACI members outside of Europe can also be considered but priority will be given to visits to European labs

3. Spread the implementation of new techniques between European laboratories.

4. Highlight the work of EAACI JMAs through increased publications and a special Fellowship Symposia at the EAACI annual Congresses.

EAACI-GA2LEN Fellowship Programme for 2008:

1. Long term Fellowships will be funded at € 20.000 each. These fellowships are aimed to fund travel and living expenses for about twelve months in a foreign European laboratory. In some cases, six months fellowship awards at € 10.000 may be granted.

2. Short-term Fellowships of € 5.000 each. The short-term fellowships are aimed to fund a 3 months research fellowship in a foreign European laboratory. Preference is given to specified acquirements of new techniques and establishment of collaborations.
General conditions:

1. To be eligible to apply you must be under the age of 35 and an active member of the EAACI (EAACI-JMA). Please note EAACI junior membership is free to all those aged 35 and under.

2. Applicants must contact an institution in a foreign European country that is willing to host them for the whole duration of the fellowship, and define a supervisor. The host supervisor must be a member of EAACI or GA2LEN, or have applied for membership of EAACI, at the time of the Fellowship application.

3. Some of the funding is reserved for exchanges that involve institutions that form part of the GA2LEN network. This may be someone coming from a GA2LEN institution or someone going to a GA2LEN institution. EAACI money is available for fellowships at non-GA2LEN host institutions and these will be considered on an equal basis.

4. Your home institution must be willing to release you of all work, laboratory and clinical, during the whole duration of the fellowship, and ensure that you will have the possibility to come back after the conclusion of the fellowship.

5. Adequate fluency in a language that permits effective communication in the host institution is required.

6. Fellowship recipients are not insured by EAACI or GA2LEN and are encouraged to make sure that both they and the institutions which receive them are fully covered by the necessary insurances. Host institutions are encouraged to assist and pay for this. Neither EAACI nor GA2LEN accept any liability.

7. The Fellowship is a scholarship which in most European countries is tax free. However, the recipient is responsible for any tax that may be required in some countries.

8. A person may submit only one application at a time.

9. All documents must be submitted in English by e-mail (executive.office@eaaci.org), fax (+46-8 663 38 15) or by mail (EAACI Executive Office - PO Box 24140 - 104 51 Stockholm - SWEDEN) before the closing date of November 30, 2007. The signed original documents must be received at the EAACI Executive Office within 1 week after the deadline.

10. Applications that do not include all required forms or forms that are not properly completed will not be considered for review.

11. The applications will be reviewed by an expert panel including representatives of GA2LEN and EAACI, and will be handled in strict confidence.

12. The Fellowship period should be planned to start before the end of 2008.

13. Fellowship recipients will be asked to provide a detailed report on the results of the scientific project including a short financial report.