Download application form here (word format)

The Norwegian PhD Network on Nanotechnology for Microsystems offers financial support to cover laboratory and processing expenses for PhD candidates and post doctors in the network. Support is granted based on applications and is limited to maximum NOK 40.000 per student.

The grant may cover

• direct expenses at the lab (access cost, expendables, etc.)
• processing work done “out of house”
• equipment needed to conduct research in your own lab

The grant may NOT cover

• salary for the candidate.

The following guidelines apply:

• All PhD-students/post doctors funded by “Kunnskapsdepartementet” through their teaching institutions are eligible to apply. The network does not grant “substitutional” funding for expenses budgeted and granted for experimental work on projects funded by The Research Council of Norway.

• Support is limited to PhD thesis work and post doctor projects of network members, i.e., no funding of course work or master projects.

Fill out the application form provided on the Nano-Network website and attach a document/quotation from the supplier/contractor stating the price of the activity you ask support for if possible.

Application deadline 1st of September and 1st of March.

For questions, please contact Jostein Grepstad.

Financial support from NorFab

The Norwegian Micro- and Nanofabrication Facility, NorFab is a consortiuum of the micro- and nanofabrication facilities at NTNU NanoLab, UiO MiNaLab, SINTEF MiNaLab and Vestfold University College’s (HiVe) MST-Lab.

NorFab offers financial support to cover user costs for PhD students who use the laboratories within NorFab. More information and application form can be found here.

NorFab does not offer travel support. However, it is possible to apply for travel support from the Nano-Network and support for user costs at NorFab.