[1] Postdoctoral researcher is a university teacher or a researcher working at a university or in a research organisation in Slovakia who was awarded a PhD degree (on the day of the respective application deadline, it must not have passed more than 10 years since the applicant was awarded the PhD degree).
The Programme is not country limited. You can apply for a scholarship stay in any country of the world.
The amount of the scholarship is set for every country separately. The scholarship shall cover average living costs in the respective country during the stay. When setting the amount of the scholarship, only living costs are taken into consideration; it does not cover other costs, e.g. tuition fee.
Amounts of monthly scholarships to the countries where scholarship stays have already been carried out is available at www.stipendia.sk (in Slovak only).
The amount of the travel grant depends on the distance (in a direct line) between applicant's place of residence in Slovakia and the place of his/her stay abroad:
Applications are submitted online at www.stipendia.sk (in Slovak only). Online application system is opened at least 6 weeks prior to the application deadline. Applications must be submitted in the online application system till the application deadline. The detailed information on submitting applications and required documents is available only in the Slovak version of terms and conditions.
Detailed information about the Programme (in Slovak only)
List of countries where scholarship stays have already been carried out (in Slovak only)