�40 million start-up fund for junior researchers in Europe in 2011

�40 million, to cover over 400 grants, will be offered to researchers starting their first full-time research job in a European research institute in 2011. The �100 000 'career integration' grants are funded through the EU's Marie Curie programme and aim to encourage European scientists to return to Europe, as well as to attract the best junior researchers of other nationalities to work at European universities, companies and other institutions.