Eligibility Criteria

The following eligibility criteria must be fulfilled so that the application can be evaluated by the Selection Committee. Applications not meeting all the criteria will not be evaluated and will be rejected.

You can find all this information on the Guide for applicants.

The recruited researchers must comply with the following conditions: 

• At the date of application deadline, applicants must be in possession or finalizing their Master’s degree or equivalent/postgraduate degree.
• At the date of recruitment, applicants must be in possession of their Master’s degree or equivalent/postgraduate degree which would formally entitle to embark on a doctorate.
• At the date of recruitment, applicants must fulfill the transnational mobility rule: applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the recruitment date - unless as part of a compulsory national service or a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention. 
• At the date of recruitment, applicants must be enrolled in a doctoral programme leading to the award of a (for joint doctorates: joint, multiple or double) degree in at least 1 EU Member State or Horizon Europe associated country (for joint doctorates: at least two).
• Researchers must be working exclusively for the action.
•  Applicants must be available, full-time, to start the programme in September 2023.
• At the date of application deadline, applicants must not yet been awarded a doctoral degree.
• Researchers are recruited for minimum 3 and maximum 36 months.

There are no restrictions concerning the age, gender or nationality of the candidates. Applicants with career breaks or variations in the chronological sequence of their career, with mobility experience or with interdisciplinary background or private sector experience are welcome to apply.