Calls for applications for CEFRES PhD fellowships is open until 31 March 2023.

PhD students can benefit from three different programs at CEFRES:

• the CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships, which selects 2nd year and above PhD students enrolled at the Czech Academy of Sciences or at Charles University;
• the Slovak PhD Students mobility grants at CEFRES program, which offers nine-months-long stays in Prague to 2nd year and above PhD students enrolled either at the Slovak Academy of Sciences or the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University.
• the France & Visegrad PhD Fellowships at CEFRES, which each year selects two to three post-doctoral researchers or 2nd year and above PhD students from France or the Visegrád countries (to the exclusion of PhD students from universities mentioned above). These young researchers from France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are hosted at CEFRES for a year;

CEFRES PhD fellows can experience collaborative research and benefit from the supervision by a tutor, to be chosen among the researchers of the Center or from one of CEFRES Platform’s partners, the Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. They have a workplace at CEFRES premises. We encourage our PhD fellows to organize scientific events on their own initiative, for which CEFRES offers its scientific and logistic support.

CEFRES PhD fellows must commit to the Center’s activities. Their research project is engaged with CEFRES’s scientific policy, that is, fits into one of CEFRES’s three priority research areas. PhD fellows are required to present their work during the year they spend at CEFRES in the frame of the PhD seminars and workshops organized by the Center and its partners.

2023 schedule

31 March 2023 Deadline for submission
April-May 2023 : Evaluation and pre-selection of applications by a committee of experts
22 May 2023 : Pre-selection results
29 May–7 June 2023 : hearings for short-listed candidates (in-situ or online)
7 June 2023 : Publication of results
1 September 2023 : Fellowships start