Apply! PREBIST International PhD Fellowships Program

The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) is a scientific initiative of seven of Catalonia’s research centres of excellence whose objective is to increase their levels of collaboration in order to build together a joint scientific project.
The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology is offering PREBIST PhD Fellowship Program. REBIST fellows will receive scientific training and take part in programs that aim at developing leadership skills, offering opportunities to assume responsibility and tools to be active in own career progression.

Deadline
January 7, 2018

Programme
PhD

Field
PREBIST applicants will find a list of PhD projects and can freely choose their project of interest.

Value
The fellowships are granted for 4 years including:
Annual gross salary: 26.519, 19€ plus a single payment of 1504, 89 relocation support (Spanish tax and social security deductions apply),
• Close mentoring and supervision through prestigious Researchers,
• A personalized doctoral career development plan,
• A training program for scientific and transferable skills.

Eligibility
-Presenting complete applications including all requested compulsory information and documentation.
-Having not spent more than 12 months of the prior 36 months in Spain, at the time of the call deadline. You will be required to confirm your compliance through a self-declaration.
-Hold a University degree (by the time of enrollment in the PhD program) that would qualify the applicant to enter one of the Ph.D. programmes recognized by the BIST research centers. These have formal agreements with the major Catalan -Universities (UB, UAB, UPC, URV, and UPF) whereby BIST senior researchers (generally of professorial rank and enjoying international recognition) are accredited to supervise Ph.D. students, who do their research at BIST research centers and obtain their degree from the corresponding university. Please provide evidence when you apply (e.g. scanned copy of your degree or similar).
-At the time of the call deadline, be in the first 4 years of your scientific post gradual career (full-time equivalent research experience). In case your University degree was longer ago than 4 years, you will need to provide documental evidence for complying with these criteria.
-Having not been awarded yet a Ph.D. degree.

Application
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