The Research Scholarship program at the Danish Finance Institute supports international recruitment of researchers. The Research Scholarships are awarded in co-operation with the research departments at the participating universities.

Criteria

Research Scholarships can only be awarded to researchers recruited internationally. A researcher is regarded as having been 'recruited internationally' when the researcher has worked and lived abroad for the past 20 months at the start of the employment period at a participating university. The researcher may, however, have held a part-time position at a Danish University, as long as this is not the researcher's main employment and as long as the researcher has not been a resident of Denmark during this period.

A Research Scholarships can only be awarded to DFI Research Fellows. If the recipient of a scholarship ceases to have main employment at a participating university, any remaining part of the scholarship is revoked.

Recipients of a DFI Research Scholarship are required to be DFI Fellows, and they remain eligible for Publication Scholarships. 

Period and allocation

Research Scholarships are typically awarded for a period of 3-6 years for new researchers recruited from abroad. Assistant professors will normally be awarded a Research Scholarship for a period of 3 years with the possibility of extension for another 3 years.

Research Scholarship are initially awarded by the management, and extensions must be approved by the Scientific Board. Any questions regarding the finance relevance of a research area or the eligibility of a potential recipient, are decided by the Scientific Board.