The CASB Fellows Program, an educational collaborative between The Consortium for Advanced Studies (CASB) and the Barcelona Group (BG), seeks to promote mutual research cooperation among CASB and BG member institutions and to open new avenues for enhanced professional engagement.

Purpose

The program is aimed at granting fellowships for advanced training and trans-national mobility in any research field in one of the following CASB full-member receiving institutions: Brown University, The University of Chicago, Stanford University, Columbia University and Northwestern University.

Financial support is provided for a period of 1-4 months (full-time equivalent), for individual projects presented by recent PhD graduates from any of the Barcelona Group universities: the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Polytechnic University of Catalunya and the Pompeu Fabra University.

It is intended to select four young researchers, one of each University from the Barcelona Group.

Elegibility

Applicants should meet the following requirements at the time of the deadline of the submission of the application:

- to have a PhD degree

- to have less than five years of professional experience from finishing their PhD Degree

- to be hired by one of the Barcelona Group universities

Funding

CASB fellowships program for the 2015-2016 have a total endowment of 29, 564.15 euros.

Deadline

VHIR deadline: 8 June 2015.

Official deadline: 15 June 2015. Applicants will be informed of the selection results no later than June 30, 2015.

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