Overview
The Research Council of Lithuania is accepting rolling applications from Lithuanian higher-education and research institutions for support toward employing researchers from Ukraine during 2026.
Complete grant details
The call has EUR 800,000 available and reimburses salary, social-insurance and related employment costs for eligible Ukrainian researchers conducting research at Lithuanian institutions. Support intensity is 80%. Eligible costs can cover qualifying employment from 2 January through 31 December 2026, and applications are evaluated in submission-date order after administrative eligibility review.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants are Lithuanian higher-education and research institutions listed in the national Education and Science Institutions Register. The employed researcher from Ukraine must be a PhD holder or science/art doctoral candidate conducting research in Lithuania and must have the migration-registration card for a temporary residence permit on humanitarian grounds, or the equivalent document specified by the call.
Tips for this grant
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Check eligibility, funding coverage, study/project level and every required document before investing time in the application.
- Prepare transcripts, references, language tests, proposal/motivation statement and proof documents early.
- Separate the scholarship deadline from any university/program admission deadline; they may be different.
- Treat “fully funded” as a source fact only when the official provider explicitly confirms the covered costs.
Verification notes
Verified on the Research Council of Lithuania official call and linked electronic submission system. Applications are accepted continuously until 31 October 2026 at 16:00, but the source does not state a timezone for that clock, so deadline_date is stored without fabricating a UTC instant.
Job and Scholarship is the discovery and verification layer. Confirm eligibility, dates, salary/funding and application instructions on the original source before submitting anything.
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