The Marie Curie call for applications is part of the Zukunftskolleg Incoming Fellowship Program (ZIF) and is financed by the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) Marie Curie Actions – People (co-funding of regional, national and international programs), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the University of Konstanz. Research Fellowships are available to researchers regardless of their nationality and field of research. The rules and ethical principles for the FP7 and the DFG guidelines apply.

The target group consists of excellent researchers with significant work experience at the postdoctoral level, leadership abilities, and a capacity for teamwork, so that they can reasonably be expected to take up leading roles in academia.

Main applicant requirements for this Fellowship include:
- Candidates must be in possession of a doctoral degree (PhD thesis submitted and defended) at the moment of the application.
- Candidates must not hold a permanent position, a professorship, or have an habilitation or equivalent (Venia legendi).
- Candidates must already have secured a research group grant in a competitive process of at least 50,000 € or an equivalent amount of funding to be used for their research while at the Zukunftskolleg.
- Applicants must have had their main residence and worked outside Germany for 24 months or more during the three years prior to the application deadline (timeframe: May 19, 2012- May 18, 2015).
- Applicants must propose a research project that ties in with a discipline represented at the University of Konstanz.

Research Fields
Biological sciences
Chemistry
Computer science
Cultural studies
Arts
Economics
Educational sciences
Environmental science
History
Information science
Juridical sciences
Language sciences
Literature
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Political sciences
Psychological sciences
Sociology

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu