Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF) at Umeå University, Sweden, is delighted to announce the inaugural Borealis Fellowship & Internship Programme. We are inviting applications from internationally competitive candidates to receive a research fellowship award of up to 200,000 SEK over two years to establish a novel research project on the topic of “Marine ecosystem resilience in a changing world”, to run between 2024 – 2027.
Three month residential Internships to support each year of the Borealis UMF Fellowships.
Full timeline
Application window closed for 2024.
Expected timeline for 2025:
1st April 2025 (2300 CET): Fellowship application deadline
April 2025: Fellow selection
1st May 2025 (2300 CET) Internship application deadline
May 2025: Intern selection
From June 2025: Project commencement
About Umeå University
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest institutions of research and higher education with over 37,000 students and 4,800 faculty and staff. We are characterised by world-leading research in several scientific fields and rank highly in international comparison. We are proud hosts of the transdisciplinary Arctic Center and are part of the University of the Arctic. Further, Umeå University is also the site of the pioneering discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic scissors - a revolution in genetic engineering that has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.