• • Full name: Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores
  • Description: The purpose of the grants is the training of doctors through the financing of employment contracts, under the modality of predoctoral contract, in order for researchers in training to carry out a doctoral thesis associated with a research project previously financed by the grants of the Ministry within the call for aid for R+D+i projects “Research Challenges”.
  • Call for applications: Open date: expected in January
  • Duration: 4 years
  • Salary: from € 19.479,01 to € 24.348,77 gross per annum
  • Complementary grant: € 6.860 will be granted in order to cover expenses related to stays in R&D centers and the registration in doctoral studies.
  • Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation)
  • Website: Buscador de Convocatorias | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (aei.gob.es)

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario (FPU)
  • Description: These are grants aimed at research training in doctoral programs to obtain the title of Doctor and the acquisition of university teaching skills, in any area of scientific knowledge, which facilitate the future incorporation of these people into the Spanish higher education system, and of scientific research.
  • Call for applications: Open date: expected from December to January
  • Duration: 4 years
  • Salary: from € 30.921,36 gross per annum
  • Funding body: Ministerio de Universidades (Spanish Ministry of Universities)
  • Website: Buscador de Convocatorias | Ministerio de Universidades

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Ajuts Joan Oró per a la contractació de personal investigador predoctoral en formació (FI)
  • Description: Call for the award of grants for students who want to earn their PhD from a Catalan University or Research Center.
  • Call for applications: Open date: expected from September to October
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Salary: from € 19.479,01 to € 24.348,77 gross per annum
  • Complementary grant: € 3,000 for training activities and research stays.
  • Funding body: Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR)
  • Website: Grants for PhD studies. Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (gencat.cat)

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Ajudes a Doctorats Industrials (DI)
  • Description: Grants to companies and research centers for the development of an industrial doctorate project, in which the doctor develops the research training, in collaboration with a university or research center, and which is the object of a doctoral thesis.
  • Call for applications: Open date: 28/02/2025 to 10/12/2025.
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Salary: to be defined by the company hiring (the researcher is recruited by a company). It depends on the modality of the project: co-financed DI/ specific DI)
  • Complementary grant: A complementary grant of € 2,000 will be granted for the enrollment.
  • Funding body: Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR)
  • Website: Industrial Doctorates. Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (gencat.cat) 

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.