Applied research focusing on Health and Environment Interactions - Orcadia Fund
About to complete your PhD? Fund Orcadia helps you launch your scientific career on the interactions between health and the environment
What is it about?
Are you a young and talented researcher seeking to develop your career? Are you working on the interactions of Environment and Health?
Fund Orcadia launches a career development grant for young and talented researchers to help them strengthen their research career or application for longer-term fellowships and funding.
In a nutshell:
- Interactions between natural environment and mental or physical health
- Applied Research tackling practical, concrete issues and impacting the stakeholders involved in the topic beyond the academic field
- Between 9 and 18 months of financial support
- Postdoc or equivalent level
- Host institution located in Belgium
Various domains of research are eligible: Public Health, Psychology, Medicine (both Preventive and Curative Care of physical and mental ailment), Epidemiology, Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics or any other discipline/interdisciplinary work investigating the link between Environment and Health.
!! Read the "Leaflet - Application Procedure and Information" document below for full details on the call.
!! Please note that the submission consists in two phases (9th October 2024 and 7th January 2025).
How to submit an application?
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Make sure you are eligible for this call for projects.
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Connect up to your account via https://candidate.kbs-frb.be, or create an account if this is your first application.
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Complete the application form online (you can take your time and do it in several stages if you like).
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When your application has been fully completed, send it in.
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We will send you a confirmation by e-mail, as well as a pdf of your application.