Funding for students research projects (summer schollarships)
Call for applications for Student Summer Internships (Phase I)
The Research Council of Lithuania (RCL), in an effort to encourage students to engage in active research, improve their scientific qualifications, and support their pursuit of a career in science, is launching a summer internship competition. This announcement marks the first stage of the competition – the submission and selection of internship themes.
| Submission of Topic Proposals | From January 28, 2025, to February 28, 2025, at 3:00 PM, the internship supervisor submits one summer internship topic proposal through the RCL electronic system. |
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| Eligible Applicants | The internship topic proposal is submitted by the internship supervisor in collaboration with the implementing institution. The internship supervisor may be a doctoral candidate (no earlier than their second year), a researcher, a doctor of arts, or a recognized artist. The implementing institution must be a Lithuanian research and study institution listed in the Register of Education and Research Institutions. The internship supervisor may submit a student summer internship topic only if, on the last day of the call for topic submissions, they are not subject to the restrictions outlined in point 76 of the General Rules for Competitive Funding of RCL Science and Dissemination Projects regarding the evaluation of their submitted applications. |
| Selection of Internship Topics | The selection of internship topics is carried out in two stages:
Internship topics are evaluated by Lithuanian expert committees, established in accordance with the RCL Experts and Their Activity Guidelines. The expert evaluation follows the procedure for assessing projects and their reports, as approved by the RCL Chairman, except for the provisions related to the stages of expert evaluation. Specifically, this excludes the steps involving the preparation of the initial summary assessment of internship topics and the internship supervisor's ability to indicate factual evaluation errors. The summer internship placements eligible for funding—i.e., topics recognized as fundable based on expert evaluation—are ranked in order of priority according to the assigned evaluation scores and available competition funds. These placements are approved by an order of the RCL Chairman. A reserve list of summer internship placements, also arranged by priority, may be created. The planned announcement date for the selected topics is March 31, 2025. |
| Other Stages | Once the selected topics are announced, students will have 30 days to apply for internship positions. After this period, internship supervisors will choose students from the list of applicants for the topics they proposed by completing the student eligibility assessment forms for the respective internship topics. |
| Additional information | The total funding for this call is 0.9 million EUR. Each internship position will be funded with either 4,000 EUR or 4,900 EUR, depending on the provisions outlined in Point 35 of the Guidelines. Upon completing the summer internship—or at another pre-specified time set by the RCL—students will present their internship results at an RCL-organized conference and submit an informal report via the RCL system. The report should describe the new skills acquired during the internship and explain how the implementing institution and internship supervisor facilitated their development. The call document can be found here. |
Programme coordinator
Ilona Monstavičienė
e-mail [email protected]
ph. no. +370 604 53 802
Last updated: 29-01-2025