SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME FOR SHORT RESEARCH STAY IN EUROPE
The programme is intended for young researchers and staff from universities in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the European Neighbourhood.
Coimbra Group universities are offering more than 70 scholarships for young professors and researchers that are both national and residents of Latin American, Sub-Saharan Africa or European neighbourhood countries*.
*Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgystan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Tagikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
With the aim to enable scholars to internationalise the research they perform at their home institution and help them establish academic and research contacts in Europe, the initiative will specifically support shortterm research visits to one of the 19 participating universities on the European Continent.
How to apply
Applications should be submitted online through the official Coimbra Group website: https://www.coimbragroup.eu/scholarships/.
Please note that each regional scholarship programme has specific requirements and that a letter of acceptance must be provided by an academic supervisor at the host university.
The deadline is on April 16, 2021, midnight (Brussels time, UTC+01:00).
About the Coimbra Group
Set up in 1987, the Coimbra Group is a network of 41 long-established European comprehensive multidisciplinary universities of high international standard, among the oldest ones on the continent.
One of its objectives is to promote the Group worldwide as a reference of academic excellence in Europe, with a view to attracting students to the member universities and to encouraging academic cooperation and interchange between the members and institutions from around the world. The achievements of the international scholarship programme testify of the importance of this commitment as during the last ten
years more than 650 researchers have benefited from a grant at Coimbra Group universities.
Please visit https://www.coimbra-group.eu to learn more.
