Grants for impact
Helping microbiologists grow, connect, and lead
Great ideas flourish when scientists have the opportunities, resources, and connections they need to grow. FEMS Grants open doors, helping you advance your research, expand your network, and strengthen microbiology across Europe and beyond.
Whether you’re beginning your journey, building international partnerships, or creating spaces where scientific communities thrive, there is funding designed for you.
Our definition of fields that grants can apply to includes microbiology research, education, policy, business and scientific communication.
Support for Early-career researchers
Funding for Research & Training
Our premier research fellowships, providing funding for early-career microbiologists from FEMS Member Societies to build skills, experience, and international collaboration through research or training visits to institutions and industry around the world.
Meeting Attendance Grants
Travel support for early-career researchers from FEMS Member Societies to attend scientific meetings worldwide, creating opportunities to present research, build professional networks, and explore new developments in the field.
Support for Member Societies
Funding for Meeting Organisers
Funding for FEMS Member Societies to create collaborative scientific meetings that strengthen communities and drive microbiology forward.
Eligibility at a glance
FEMS Grants are only available to professionals who are members of a FEMS Member Society.
Early-career researchers are defined as PhD students or researchers within five years of obtaining their highest degree. Periods of maternity or paternity leave, special leave, or illness do not count towards this five-year limit.
Our funding covers a broad range of microbiology-related fields, including research, education, policy, business, and scientific communication.
Ready to apply?
Applications are made through the FEMS online submission system. You’ll need to create an account or log in to start an application, upload supporting documents, and submit once complete.
Please ensure that you have reviewed the eligibility criteria and the grant regulations below. All applications can be made online via our submission system. Please read all information on the application carefully and ensure you have read and agreed to the grant regulations before submitting an application.
- To apply please create a myFEMS account or login with your myFEMS credentials
- Once logged in, you can access the application forms for our Grants
Supporting documents for FEMS Grants
During the application process, you will be asked to complete and upload supporting documents. Below, you can find all templates which you need to use during your application, as well as the Grants Regulations.
All FEMS Grants
Grants Regulations
CV Format guide
Research & Training Grants
Supervisor Endorsement
Industry Placement Grants
Endorsement Form
Meeting Organizer Grants
Budget
Endorsement form
Meeting Attendance Grants
Supervisor Endorsement
Not a member?
Join one of the FEMS Member Societies in order to apply for our grants.
Open access is key to supporting the FEMS mission of disseminating high quality research as widely as possible: when high quality, peer reviewed sound science is open access, anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection, can read it. All but one of the not-for-profit FEMS journals are fully open access (OA), with one journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters, offering free-to-publish and OA options.
