About the program
EIEF funds research projects in economics and finance to foster high-quality and policy-relevant research in Italy.
Project content and characteristics
Projects can be in any field of economics and finance, provided they are:
- highly innovative and able to advance the understanding of economic behaviour, systems or policies;
- potentially able to yield at least one paper publishable in a top academic journal;
- carried out by an individual researcher based in an Italian institution or a team of researchers whose principal investigator satisfies the same criterion.
Preference will be given to projects whose principal investigator is under the age of 40 and whose research team does not include people who have obtained EIEF grants in the past 5 years.
Neither EIEF Faculty members nor other researchers under contract with EIEF are allowed to participate in this call.
Project duration and funding
The duration of each project is 1 year from the official communication of the award; the funds for each project are up to EUR 10,000; 50% of the grant is paid upon approval, 50% upon completion and submission of the final project to the EIEF Grants Committee (in some cases a presentation of the final project in a Seminar at EIEF could be requested)
Applications
Research proposal must be written in English. To apply fill in the online form, and send it to grants@eief.it no later than March 3, 2017. Each proposal must contain:
- clear motivation and description of the research question and strategy;
- timeline of the project;
- financial plan, clearly identifying the financial needs;
- allocation of tasks among the participants (if there is more than one);
- a brief CV of each participant in the project.
Selection
A committee appointed by EIEF will select up to 4 projects. A project representative may be invited to present and discuss it at EIEF. The main criterion for selection is the quality of the project, together with an assessment of its feasibility by the proponent team.
Transparency
All proposals, committee decisions and output of the projects at the various stages will be made available on EIEF’s web page.
Intellectual property rights will be transferred to EIEF upon acceptance of the grant.
For more information click "Further official information" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://www.eief.it/scholarships-and-grants/grants/