• Young Researcher refers to a researcher aged 35 years or less at the time of his appointment by a network team. An allowance to this age limit may be made for compulsory military service (the actual time spent in military service) or child care (a maximum of two years per child for the actual time spent off work up to an overall maximum of five years).

• He/She must be appointed specifically either to carry out research associated with the project or to assist the network coordinator in the scientific coordination of the project;

• He/She must be a national of (or have lived for the last five years in) a member state of the Community or an associated state;

• He/She must not be a national of the state in which the participant appointing him is situated and he must not have carried out his normal activities in that state for more than 18 or 24 months prior to his appointment.