Postdoctoral Fellowships for research within Plant Science, Agriculture and Food Biotechnology

Who can apply: You must either hold a PhD or equivalent degree obtained within five years of the application deadline, or be a PhD student who will defend your thesis before 1 April 2027. The fellowship must be based at a university or other non-profit research institution in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden. The… What is funded: Up to DKK 3.3 million for a three-year grant, awarded as an individual fellowship. The grant period is one to three years and the amount is distributed roughly equally across the years, reduced proportionally for shorter projects. At least one year must be spent at the Nordic host institution. Results are announced in… Deadline: 20 August 2026, 2:00 p.m. Copenhagen time. Round: 2026 call, opened 4 June 2026. The Foundation states the next call is expected in June 2027..

Read the full call and apply on the official page: Novo Nordisk Foundation (Novo Nordisk Fonden), official page.

Who can apply

• You must either hold a PhD or equivalent degree obtained within five years of the application deadline, or be a PhD student who will defend your thesis before 1 April 2027. The fellowship must be based at a university or other non-profit research institution in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden. The requirement is on the HOST, not on your nationality. You must submit a host letter from the Nordic host institution plus letters of support from any other institutions involved. Research focused primarily on livestock, feed or aquaculture is out of scope, as is work whose main component is nutritional uptake or clinical studies; pharmaceutical and therapeutic projects go to the Foundation's Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine committee instead. There is no application fee.

Stage dates

Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.

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