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2022/02/10

Bolyai Mentoring Programme 2022 – Call for applications

Winning applicants will receive advice on the development of their applications in two consultation sessions from mentors who have themselves applied for these grants with success and have extensive experience in writing and reviewing research proposals. Applicants who will have successfully obtained a Bolyai Scholarship or a PD grant will commit to mentor future applicants in the next round of the mentoring programme.

For more information on the mentoring programme, please contact the programme coordinator: Gábor Balogh (baloghg@ktk.pte.hu).

Applicants: young researchers below the age of 45 with a PhD who wish to submit a proposal for the János Bolyai Postdoctoral Research Scholarship in 2022.

Aim of the call: to help applicants successfully apply by providing 2 consultation sessions per person concerning the elaboration of their CVs, experimental and work plan and scientometrics tables.

Mentors: Szabolcs Béni, Georgina Fröhlich, László Szabolcs Gulyás, Bálint Hartmann, Attila Jámbor, Zsófia Lázár, Zsuzsanna Ördögné Kolbert, Csaba Sándor, Imola Wilhelm, and four additional mentors who wish to remain anonymous.

Topics, domains, professions in which mentoring may be applied for:

  • pharmaceutics, analytics, structural research;
  • radiation therapy, particle physics, nuclear physics, biostatistics;
  • medieval and early modern economic and social history;
  • any areas of electrotechnology and energetics, and general electrical engineering;
  • global food security, international trade, effects of EU accession;
  • pulmonary diseases, cardiology, clinical immunology, translation research;
  • plant biology, plant anatomy, plant production, plant molecular biology, plant breeding, plant biotechnology;
  • combinatorics, number theory;
  • blood-brain barrier, cerebral blood flow, brain metastases research;
  • phraseology, morphology;
  • geology, natural geography, geology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry;
  • etology, ecology, genetics, neurology, physiology, zoology;
  • experimental nuclear and particle physics, environmental physics, astrophysics, astronomy, solid state physics / materials science.

Expected number of mentorees: maximum 25 persons.

Method of selection: depending on the chronological order of the applications and the areas of expertise of the volunteering mentors, the mentors themselves shall decide about the selection of the winning applicants.

How to apply: fill in and submit the application form (please save it in pdf format as well before submission).

Deadline for submission: 20 February 2022

Applications must be submitted electronically to the e-mail address of mentoring programme coordinator Gábor Balogh (baloghg@ktk.pte.hu). The application form and the mandatory annexes must attached in pdf format.

Download call for applications (in Hungarian)

Application form (in Hungarian)

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Applicants selected for Bolyai mentoring will be notified by: 25 February 2022