TFS Starting grant

TFS Starting Grant

Since 2016, the foundation has relied upon annual calls for applications to a four-year recruitment program intended to encourage the recruitment of outstanding young researchers to UiT. This provides UiT with a unique strategic opportunity to draw leading up-and-coming scientists from all over the world to the university.

Each university department can nominate up to three candidates for the grant. The candidates undergo a thorough external evaluation process and those selected are interviewed by the foundation’s advisory committee. To date, a total of 14 candidates have been recruited through the program with the 5 TFS Starting Grant Calls in periode 2016-2020.

The Trond Mohn Foundation and TFS signed June 2023 a cooperation agreement to implement a separate UiT initiative to support high-quality research projects at UiT. The Trond Mohn Foundation sets annual financial frameworks for the UiT initiative and TFS will identify and develop research projects worthy of support within this framework. The new projects can either be pure UiT projects or UiT-led collaborative projects with Bergen. More information about the cooperation here.

Therefore, from 2024 the winners of 6th TFS Starting Grant call will be financed via the TMS UiT-initiative.