The ”la Caixa” Foundation’s Doctoral Fellowships Call

Would you like to do a Ph.D in Spain or Portugal? The doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship programme aims to support the best scientific talent —of any nationality— and foster innovative, high quality research in Spain and Portugal.

  • Doctorate INPhINIT Incoming: 35 Ph.D fellowships for researchers willing to carry out their Ph.D project in research centres accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence Severo Ochoa, María de Maeztu or Health Institute Carlos III and Portuguese units accredited as “excellent” according to the evaluation of the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia. This frame is addressed exclusively to STEM disciplines: life sciences and health, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics. For doing their research in Spanish institutions, candidates must have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for less than 12 months in the last 3 years while for Portuguese institutions, candidates must have resided in Portugal for less than 12 months in the last 3 years.
  • Doctorate INPhINIT Retaining: 30 Ph.D fellowships for researchers willing to carry out their Ph.D project in any research domain and any university or research center in Spain or Portugal. Candidates must have resided or carried out their main activity in the same country, either Spain, or Portugal, more than 12 months in the last 3 years.

The doctoral INPhINIT fellowships offer a highly competitive salary and complementary opportunities for training on transferrable skills (in annual training sessions), temporary stays in industry, incentives upon completion of the thesis, among other elements that make these fellowships some of the most attractive and complete in Europe.

More information: “la Caixa” Foundation.