UOC Doctoral School predoctoral grants
Purpose: the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) awards research training grants for doctoral students to do their theses in its various research groups. Grants are available for its doctoral programmes in Society, Technology and Culture; Network and Information Technologies; Education and ICT (E-learning); Humanities and Communication; Health and Psychology; and Law, Politics and Economics.
FI Joan Oró grants for the recruitment of predoctoral trainee researchers
Purpose: to recruit predoctoral trainee research staff carrying out doctoral studies in the Catalan university system. These grants are intended to fund the training and research of contracted research personnel, boosting their qualifications and professional development in the initial phases of their research careers, while helping to generate cutting-edge research and knowledge transfer.
Purpose: grants to help universities in the Catalan university system to recruit trainee predoctoral research staff in order to strengthen their departments' research capacity. The FI SDUR programme is intended to promote and consolidate joint scientific strategies and policies between university departments and their affiliated entities, so they can develop research activities with an international impact, boosting the generation of cutting-edge research and knowledge transfer and helping to train contracted research staff in the early stages of their careers.
Purpose: grants for the development of industrial doctorate projects in any field of knowledge and in any economic sector. The doctoral candidate must work on their research project, leading to a doctoral thesis, within the strategic framework of a company or business-related entity, while at the same time training as a researcher as part of a group in a research organization.
INPhINIT Retaining doctoral degree grants
Purpose: grants to pursue a doctoral degree programme at any university or research centre in Spain or Portugal. These grants are intended to provide researchers with additional training skills that will expand the possibilities for development in their professional careers, not only in academia, but also in industry and entrepreneurship.
FPU grants for the training of university teaching staff
Purpose: grants for students on doctoral programmes to train as researchers and acquire university-level teaching skills in any field of study, facilitating the future incorporation of new doctors into the Spanish higher education and scientific research system.
Training grants for predoctoral contracts
Purpose: to fund employment contracts so that predoctoral research staff in training can work on doctoral theses associated with research projects funded via R&D project grants.
ITN-MSCA Marie Sklodowska-Curie / Doctoral Network
Purpose: to implement doctoral programmes through partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, companies and other organizations from different sectors across Europe and beyond. These doctoral degree programmes will respond to well-identified needs in various R&D areas, expose researchers to the academic and non-academic sectors, and offer research training, as well as transferable skills and competencies relevant for innovation and long-term employability (e.g. entrepreneurship, getting results to market, intellectual property rights, communication).