2. Who can apply
Normally research fellows will not have associate professor competence at the time of the application, but they will be on their way to achieving a high international artistic level. The first prerequisite for being admitted to the programme as a research fellow is that applicants must have assistant professor competence in the relevant artistic field. The requirements for such competence are:
- Documented, recognised artistic activity/ development work of a certain scope;
- Education at the highest level in the artistic area from Norway or equivalent education from abroad, or corresponding documented knowledge.
An assessment of such competence is carried out in connection with appointments to advertised vacancies, and an expert opinion will thus be available which can be enclosed with the application.
However, it is not a prerequisite for applying that such competence has been formally confirmed when the application is submitted. In such case, the evaluation of whether an applicant satisfies the competence requirements will form part of the assessment of the application made by the programme board. This evaluation will be done as a direct assessment in relation to the programme application, and cannot be used for other purposes.
Applicants are themselves responsible for ensuring that applications contain sufficient documentation of their artistic activity for their competence to be assessed.