Object

ERS Clinical Training Fellowships enable members in the early stages of their careers in respiratory medicine to visit a host institution in a European country other than their own to learn a skill or procedure not available at their home institution.

Main characteristics

Standard Clinical Training Fellowship: Re funding candidates from Europe to overseas or from overseas to Europe.

- Scientifically developing countries (SDC) Clinical Training Fellowships: funding candidates from Europe or overseas (country with a scientific respiratory gap and or low income) to Europe (EU/EEA).

- ERS/Indian Chest Society (ICS) Joint Fellowhsip: funding candidates from India to Europe.

- ERS/ERN-Lung Joint Fellowship: Funding qualified clinicians or healthcare professionals currently employed in respiratory medical practice, with specific experience in rare respiratory disease.

Funding

ERS short-term fellowships encompass a living stipend, a child allowance and a travel grant.

Grants are funded according to the personal (number of children under 16 years of age) and professional circumstances of the Fellow and the Host country.

Please check the rates in the Rules and Regulations document.

Duration

1-3 months

- Candidates must be ERS members.

- Candidates should be actively engaged or must have experience in the respiratory field.

- Applicants should be qualified clinicians or healthcare professionals working in respiratory health/medicine (nurses, physiotherapists, respiratory function technologists, allied respiratory professionals, etc.). At a minimum, applicants should hold an MD, MSc or equivalent at the time of application.

- Postgraduate scientists such as immunologists, biologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, biophysicists, chemists, etc. involved in respiratory science, are entitled to apply for the ERS Long-Term Fellowships. At a minimum, applicants should hold an MD or MSc at the time of application.

- Candidates should have adequate fluency in the language spoken at the host institution.

- There is no age limit and applications from candidates having undertaken a career break (e.g. parental leave, period working outside training, unemployment etc.) are encouraged.

Applications and all supporting documents must be submitted in English and online. You can access the platform at the following link:

https://my.ersnet.org/Fellowships/Main

In case of interest, please contact with FSJD Research Department.