Posted in eLife Ambassadors category on December 23, 2018 by admin

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For early-career researchers (ECRs), getting funding for their research ideas is becoming more and more competitive, and there is growing pressure in all disciplines to obtain grants. Although there are several fellowship and funding opportunities for postdoctoral scientists and other ECRs, there is no central platform to search for such funding opportunities and/or to get professional feedback on the proposal. The concept is to create a central platform for ECRs (ECRCentral - https://ecrcentral.org/) to curate, find and share fellowship and funding schemes and travel grants. Similarly, another goal of the ECRCentral is to provide an open forum to obtain feedback with regards to the specific application processes, and to help prospective candidates connect with former recipients of the funding scheme in order to get tips for their applications as well as to seek mentoring opportunities.

ECRCentral is a central platform for early career researchers to find postdoc research fellowships, travel grants and to share experiences and to provide feedback.

ECRcentral is a community-driven initiative, we highly appreciate you to join and contribute by adding/editing funding opportunities. We strongly believe that this resource will be highly valuable for early career researchers and the scientific community at large. The ECRcentral initiative is part of eLife Ambassadors program for 2018-2019.

ECRcentral an open-source software and an open forum for the ECR community. All the source code and related content will be openly available through GitHub at https://github.com/ecrcentral/, so the community will be able to contribute and/or reuse the code.

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