APPLICATION
FIRST CALL (2023) / 11 positions
- Opening Date: 5th December 2023
- Deadline: 31st January 2024
- Start of the fellowship: September 2024
SECOND CALL (2024) / 11 positions
- Opening Date: 1st November
- Deadline: 3rd January
- Start of the fellowship: September 2025
HOW TO APPLY
Check the eligibility conditions
Inform yourself and develop your idea
Contact host supervisor
Prepare required documents
Submit the application
WE LOOK FOR
SYS-LIFE particularly encourages applications that are interdisciplinary, intersectoral, longitudinal and systemic. The candidates are encouraged to propose research ideas and preliminary research plans according to the research topics mentioned on the Research page.
Located in any field supported by UTU’s faculties of Science, Technology and
Medicine, including behavioural sciences.
Engaging
knowledge and resources from outside academia
Relating to any point(s) in the human life-cycle.
Focusing on connections within the human body.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The candidate needs to be in possession of a doctoral degree by the call deadline, meet MSCA Mobility Rule requirements and submit application, including all required documents, before the deadline.
Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree within eight (8) years before the submission deadline for applications.
The fellow must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Finland for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.
All relevant documentation must be submitted on time.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
The application package must contain all the following documents, which must be in the following order:
- Curriculum Vitae (maximum 2 pages).
- Research Plan Abstract (maximum 2,500 characters plus spaces, including references).
- List of publications, indicating the 5 most significant. All titles must be translated into English.
- Research Plan with consideration of ethical issues (maximum 25,000 characters plus spaces, including references)
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Copy of Doctoral Certificate (if unavailable, a copy of official confirmation of PhD completion).
- Letter of Support (template provided)
- Ethics Self-Assessment form (template provided)
- Initial Data Management Plan (maximum 1 page).
- Completed online application form
All attachments must be written in English with Arial, font size 11, single spaced. All attachments must be in PDF format.
EVALUATION AND SELECTION
Evaluation includes an eligibility check and an external review followed by a possible ethical review. The Selection Committee compiles an ordered ranking of reviewed applications the highest-ranked applicants are selected for funding (see Reviewer Instructions) . Reserve list applicants are notified of their status and rank by email.” to “Evaluation includes an eligibility check, with eligible applications proceeding to external peer review, followed by a possible ethical review. The Selection Committee compiles an ordered ranking of reviewed applications. The highest-ranked applicants are selected for funding. A reserve list will also be formed from applicants ranked directly after those selected. Reserve list applicants will be notified of their status and rank by email. For further details, see Reviewer Instructions.
The eligibility check of all applications will start after the call is closed. Ineligible applications will be discarded at this stage. No more than one application per candidate will be considered. All applicants will get feedback on their eligibility by email.
All applications meeting all the eligibility requirements of the SYS-LIFE programme will be sent for external review.
The key evaluation criterion is academic quality. Reviewers score, from 1–6, the following four criteria: 1) Excellence of applicant, 2) Scientific excellence of research project, 3) Impact and 4) Implementation. They also provide short comments on these criteria and an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the research proposal, and an overall score from 1–6. With 5 scores out of 6 points, the total score available from each three reviewer is 30.
Reviewers are also asked to comment on any ethical issues around the proposed research, including comments on the Data Management Plan. All eligible applicants will be sent copies of their external reviews.
Applications with declared ethical issues, or deemed by reviewers to contain these, which also receive a review score high enough to merit consideration for selection or reserve listing, will be evaluated by the chair of the most relevant of the ethics committees that oversee research at UTU.
Applicants may appeal on the basis of procedural errors only at redress-syslife@utu.fi
Chair Harriet Wallberg, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
Vice-Chair Eero Jokinen, Professor, Finnish Cardivascular Foundation
Ville Kytö, MD PhD, R&D Director, Wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland
Pekka Hänninen, Dean, UTU
Pasi Liljeberg, Professor, UTU
Pasi Virta, Professor, UTU
Jyrki Heino, Professor, UTU
Pirjo Nuutila, Professor, UTU
Sari Stenholm, Professor, UTU
Kari Kalliokoski, Research Manager, UTU
Tapio Lönnberg, Senior Research Fellow, UTU
Ex officio members:
Markus Juonala, Professor, SYS-LIFE Director, UTU
Georges Kazan, Research Manager, SYS-LIFE Vice Director, UTU
Sanni Helander, Coordinator, UTU
Anni Wärri, Development Manager, UTU
Eeva Rainio, Head of Development, UTU