Welcome to EURAXESS Faroe Islands!
EURAXESS Faroe Islands provides information and assistance for mobile researchers – by means of this portal and with the support of our EURAXESS Centres.
The portal contains information concerning professional and daily life as well as information on job and funding opportunities in the Faroe Islands.
Faroese researchers planning to continue their research career abroad can also find useful information and assistance in this portal and in the portals of the countries they consider moving to.
Research institutes, universities and businesses can post job offers and researchers can upload CV´s when registering a user account.
All services of the EURAXESS network are free of charge.
MEET THE RESEARCHERS
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“I have lived in several countries, and I think research careers are more competitive abroad which can sometimes make collaboration difficult to impossible. In the Faroe Islands there is a greater flexibility and for someone like me who values collaboration it is a rewarding environment.”
Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen, PhD, Physics, Associate Professor (Germany)
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"Moving to the Faroe Islands was an opportunity to live and work in a small state and in a region that is currently experiencing great political and social changes."
Robert Imre, PhD, Political Sciences, Associate Professor (Canada)
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"Faroese salmon farmers are the best in the world when it comes to producing large smolt and reusing water which is my field of research. I had not expected that such a small country could be so advanced."
Dhiraj Krishna, PhD Student, Microbiology (India)
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"A lot of things are much simpler here, particularly in terms of administration and bureaucracy. The connectivity and integration between research institutes is very high - it is almost like the whole country is one super-institute."
Ian Salter, PhD, Chemical Oceanography (UK)
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"The career perspectives in the Faroe Islands are very good. There are very few researchers in my field with my research experience and achievements, and it took me only one year to advance to Full Professor."
Qin Xin, PhD, Computer Science, Professor (China)
