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Eligibility criteria for Early Stage Training fellowships
You can either check if you are eligible by using the Marie Curie actions eligibility checking tool or by fulfilling the following 3 criteria at the time of appointment by the contractor in the frame of his/her project:
1. Nationality
- Member State of the Community or;
- Associated State or;
- third country if legal residence/main activity has been in a Member State
- or Associated State for at least 4 years of the 5 years prior to the appointment; in that case the researcher will be considered a national of the state in which he/she has resided for the longest period.
2. Mobility
- nationality must be different from the State in which the contractor is located
- In case of multiple nationalities, the researcher could be hosted by a contractor located in the country of his/her nationality provided the researcher has not resided there during the previous 5 years.
- at the time of appointment, the legal residence/main activity may not have been in the country of the contractor for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the appointment. Short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.
- researchers holding the nationality from a Member State or an Associated Candidate State can carry out their research training activities in their country of nationality if they can provide evidence testifying that their legal residence/main activity was in a third country for at least 4 of the last 5 years immediately prior to the appointment.
- a researcher from a third country cannot carry out his/her research training activities in a third country.
- a researcher who is a national of a Member Sate of the Community or an Associated State can only be appointed by a research team of a contractor located in a third country if it is essential for the project and with prior approval of the Commission.
- these mobility rules do not apply when the host institution is an international European interest organisation or, an international organisation (for multi-partner projects only) or the JRC.
- a researcher cannot carry out the project at the legal entity where he/she has been working for more than the last 12 months prior to the appointment.
3. Qualifications and research experience
- The researcher must be within the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of research activity (including training) since gaining a university degree (or equivalent) giving access to doctoral studies in the country in which the degree was obtained;
- the degree entitles the holder to embark on doctoral studies without having to acquire any further qualifications;
- researchers who have already obtained a doctoral degree are not eligible.