The 2020 call was open to early career researchers, who fulfiled the following criteria:

• For the PhD Candidate award: Applicants should have enrolled for a PhD degree at the time of the application deadline or should have successfully defended their thesis after January 1st, 2019.

• For the Postdoctoral fellow award: Applicants should have successfully defended their thesis after January 1^st, 2014 and should have enrolled in a postdoctoral programme at the time of the application deadline.

• Candidates should work in a European country (cf. Council of Europe’s membership rules).
• European and Non- European nationals are eligible to apply.
• Post Docs paid by European funds but currently on a Post Doc mission abroad as part of the funding institution’s requirements (no longer than 2 years and concluding their Post Doc in Europe) are also eligible to apply for the EYRA call 2019.