The YERUN Research Mobility Awards, the competitive awards for early career researchers (PHD candidates and post-docs) from YERUN Universities, have reached their fifth edition!
So far, 126 researcher have been awarded via the grant scheme since the launch of the pilot call in 2017.
Applications to the fifth call opened on 13th of June and closed on 21st of July. Evaluations took place over the summer, and today we are happy to share the results and the names of the 33 researchers that have been awarded to start a new collaboration with another YERUN partner university:
| Awardee | Home Institution | Host Institution |
| Mariana Meneses Muñoz | NOVA University Lisbon | Autonomous University of Madrid |
| Cecile Bjerre | University of Southern Denmark | University of Essex |
| Koldo Casla | University of Essex | University of Antwerp |
| Vasan Sivalingam | University of South Eastern Norway | NOVA University Lisbon |
| Cristina Salcedo González | Autonomous University of Madrid | University of Potsdam |
| Muireann Kate O Dea | University of Limerick | University of Essex |
| Weihan Jia | University of Potsdam | UiT – The Arctic University of Norway |
| Maria Belen Arias Mella | University of Essex | Autonomous University of Madrid |
| Imogen Liu | Maastricht University | University of Antwerp |
| Dorcas Oluwafikunayon Taiwo | University of Essex | Maastricht University |
| Sara Bobone | Tor Vergata University of Rome | University of Potsdam |
| Hui Liu | University of Bremen | NOVA University Lisbon |
| Anna Hughes | University of Essex | University of Konstanz |
| Ruben de Dios Barranco | Brunel University London | UiT – The Arctic University of Norway |
| Ana Furtado | NOVA University Lisbon | Maastricht University |
| Tim Groenland | University of Limerick | University of Stirling |
| Tullio Viola | Maastricht University | Brunel University London |
| Niamh Hickey | University of Limerick | University of Eastern Finland |
| Adrián Santamaría | Autonomous University of Madrid | University of Stirling |
| Justine Marienfeldt | University of Potsdam | University of Southern Denmark |
| Maria Meier | University of Konstanz | University of Essex |
| Mar Antonino de la Cámara | Autonomous University of Madrid | University of Essex |
| Jesús Pinto Freyre | Autonomous University of Madrid | University of Stirling |
| Andrew Moynihan | University of Limerick | University of Essex |
| Kristien Meuris | University of Potsdam | University of Southern Denmark |
| Kwok Ng | University of Eastern Finland | University of Limerick |
| Jingjing Wu | University of Southern Denmark | NOVA University Lisbon |
| Leonard Feld | University of Southern Denmark | NOVA University Lisbon |
| Rafella Lenoir Improta | Autonomous University of Madrid | University of Eastern Finland |
| Ahmet Serhat | Brunel University London | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Ruzica Savcic | University of Cyprus | University of Antwerp |
| Dorothea Schönbach | University of Bremen | University of Southern Denmark |
| Beatriz Cabellos | Autonomous University of Madrid | University of South Eastern Norway |
The collaborations will last until the end of 2023. YERUN will be monitoring their development and will publish regularly their outcomes.
Congratulations and good luck to all awardees!
