Specific Aid (DI-ESP)

• The place of work is in Catalunya, or outside Catalunya.
• The availability of the doctoral student can be full-time or part-time.
• When the company cannot contract the doctoral student directly and agrees to cover the labour and contract costs, together with the academic organisation.

The invitation to apply for Industrial Doctorate Grants is aimed at future doctoral students who wish to submit a proposal for an Industrial Doctorate project of their choice.

Grant Payment (through the academic organisation)

• Budget for the doctoral student

  • 3.600 € per year

  • 3 years’ duration.

• To cover expenses relating to:

  • Enrollment and management of the academic record

  • Transport provision for attending conferences, research trips, etc.

  • Training

  • Publishing articles

Advantages of the call

• Additional compulsory training of 60 hours, 30 hours of courses programmed by the Generalitat de Catalunya’s Industrial Doctorates programme, and 30 hours programmed by the company and/or the university.

Requirements

• Students must be undertaking a doctoral course during the academic year in question, or must have been admitted to the relevant doctoral course once they have been selected for implementing the Industrial Doctorate project.
• Proof of an average grade equal to or higher than 6.5 (on a scale of 1 to 10), from a credit total achieved from a higher education degree which gives access to official doctorate studies.
• The doctoral thesis must be implemented within the framework of the collaboration agreement between at least one university and one company, or more if appropriate.
• Doctoral student’s availability: full-time or part-time.

For individual grants, neither the company nor the university receives funding.

Eligible companies

• Private companies and public limited liability companies belonging to or linked to the public sector (research organisations are excluded).
• Foundations and non-profit organisations, local, regional or central public sector organisations, consortiums that are predominantly publicly-funded and local councils.

Requirements

• The designation of a company manager (tutor) for the project.
• A 3-year work contract for the doctoral student must be established for the duration of the grant.
• A minimum annual salary of 22,000 euros gross must be paid to the doctoral student as well as all taxes.

Eligible Centres

• Public and private universities within the Catalan university system.
• Research centres, technological centres and hospital trusts with their headquarters in Catalunya.

Requirements

The thesis supervisor must be a member of an active SGR group, an ICREA researcher or the recipient of a grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Funding for university (individual grants)

The university where the doctoral student is doing their PhD and the company or public administration centre where they are providing their services have to sign a mutual collaboration agreement.

Grant Payment

• 2,800 € transferred annually.
• 3 years’ duration.
• Additional grant of 2,000 euros in the event that the defence of the thesis leads to the award of the title of doctor with an international mencion.