APPLICATION IS OPEN


 

Guidelines

 

EISA Postdoctoral Bridge Grants will support recently graduated or final-year PhD students who have not secured an academic contract or fellowship. They are designed to help bridge the gap between a doctorate and a postdoctoral funded/salaried position. EISA will award up to 5 Bridge Grants of €3,500 each to support early career colleagues’ transition from doctoral research to academic employment. The scheme is particularly aimed at those who require additional time and funds to finalise potential publications or incubate postdoctoral funding proposals in conjunction with the completion of their doctoral projects.

 

Eligibility Criteria:

  1. Applicants must have an active EISA membership.
  2. Applicants must either (a) have been awarded their PhD degree within 12 months of the application deadline, or (b) have submitted their PhD degree (pending award confirmation) within 12 months of the application deadline.
  3. Applicants must not yet have held a permanent academic post after PhD completion.

 

 

Application Details:

  1. Applicants must submit
    1. A 1-page proposal, outlining the specific task (e.g., drafting a funding proposal, completing a peer-reviewed article, preparing a book manuscript proposal) they intend to undertake and/or support with EISA funding.
    2. A brief CV (maximum 4 pages).
    3. Confirmation of PhD status, or if the degree has not been awarded at the time of application, a letter from PhD supervisors confirming the applicant’s examination/degree award timeline.
  2. Applications must be submitted via the online application form.
  3. Publications resulting from the research period supported by the Bridge Grants must provide credit to EISA.

If you have any questions about the scheme or the application form, please contact info@eisa-net.org.

 
Use of Funds:

We are happy for you to use your funding to attend other conferences as long as you are presenting work related to the project(s) you had submitted as part of your Bridge Grant application. The only expense item we do not condone is purchasing licenses for images or other material to be used in a commercially published book.

The main requirement we would like you to fulfil is to acknowledge the support of the EISA Postdoctoral Bridge Grant scheme in any publications and/or conference papers you produce in line with your proposed projects.

 

28 November 2025

Call is released

19 March 2026

Application deadline

June 2026

Winners announced

RECIPIENTS

2025

  • Khaled Alosaimi
  • Paulo Victor Zaneratto Bittencourt
  • Silvia Carenzi
  • Merve Erdilmen
  • Yuliia Khyzhniak
  • Reda Mahajar
  • Maro Pantazidou

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2024

  • Mark Gilks
  • Jamal Nabulsi
  • Khushi Singh Rathore
  • Vic Castro
  • Cagla Demirel

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2023

  • Eduard Abrahamyan
  • Harriet Cansino
  • Amna Kaleem
  • Xinyu Yuan

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