European University Institute Grants for Doctoral Programs

The European University Institute (EUI) prepares researchers for developing and defending a doctoral thesis. 160 research grants are awarded annually by the EU Member States and other European national authorities to successful candidates.

Programme Structure:
* 1st year: Acquire a solid background for the doctoral work; set out the proposed research.
* 2nd and 3rd years: Research, field work, data collection, writing of the thesis under close supervision.
* 4th year: Writing up and preparation for the defence of the thesis. Part of the year may be used for professional or university traineeships or teaching opportunities.

Candidates must have a good working knowledge of English. Spoken and written tests in English (similar to the TOEFL or IELTS test) are obligatory for all candidates who are non-native speakers of English.

Application
For countries where grant agreements are in place the application for admission to the EUI doctoral programme is automatically an application for a national grant.

Exceptions are as follows.  If you apply for a grant from one of these countries, your application to the EUI can ONLY be accepted if you apply also for the national grant by the deadline specified by the relevant grant authority:
* Spain (information forthcoming)
* Latin America (information forthcoming)
* Portugal
* United Kingdom

Admission Requirements  

You must meet the minimum degree requirements set by the national grant authorities by the beginning of the academic year for which you have applied.

- Austria: completion of university studies (Magister-Grad)
- Belgium: maîtrise or master (economics), or licence with distinction
- Cyprus: Ptychion or equivalent degree
- Denmark: kandidateksamen
- Finland: ylempi korkeakoulututkinto/högre högskoleexamen, equivalent foreign degree
- France: DEA (or Master) or equivalent to bac + 5
- Germany: completion of university studies and the qualifications required to study for a doctorate
- Greece: ptychion
- Italy: laurea (vecchio ordinamento); laurea specialistica /Masters (nuovo ordiinamento)
- Netherlands: doctoraal examen or Master’s degree
- Norway: Master’s degree or Cand.Philol, Cand.Polit, Cand.Oecon., Cand.Sociol., or Cand.Jur.
- Poland: Magister, Magister inzynier lub inny równorzedny
- Portugal: licenciatura and qualifications required to study for a doctorate in Portugal
- Spain: licenciatura
- Sweden: kandidatexamen and the qualifications required to study for a doctorate
- Switzerland: licence/diplôme or master
- UK & Ireland: good honours degree (min. Upper Second); preference to those with a Master’s degree
- Latin American countries: licenciatura
- Other countries: diploma equivalent to the minimum qualification needed to study for a doctorate in a given country

Application Procedure: Department of Economics
* CV including a list and brief description of selected advance courses you took
* Degree transcript, preferably in English, issued by your university
* Do nor forget to provide the names of 3 academic referees (referees must submit the references directly to the EUI: ReferenceRes@eui.eu)

Application Procedure : Law, History and Civilization, Political and Social Sciences
* a one-page CV
* a research proposal of 4-5 pages in English or French
* a degree transcript, issued by your university
* do nor forget to provide the names of 2 academic referees (referees must submit the references directly to the EUI: ReferenceRes@eui.eu)

When you have all the materials prepared you can apply online.

Please follow this link in order to obtain further information about the grant. Deadline for submitting applications is 31 January, 2011.

Contacts
Academic Service
European University Institute
via dei Roccettini 9
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
applyres@eui.eu
Tel. +39 055 4685 373
Fax +39 055 4685 444

European Academy for Intellectual Entrepreneurs

The Lithuanian Free Market Institute runs the independent program - European Academy for Intellectual Entrepreneurs - for finding and training talented young people in Europe, to encourage undertaking innovative activities for principles of individual freedom, responsibility, free market and limited government. They invite those people who want to promote ideas of liberty to apply for funding. Up to USD 5000 per project will be provided. The application deadline is October 30th 2010.

Who is eligible for this grant?

We are looking for new intellectual entrepreneurs: individuals, groups, recently established organizations. We aim to support and strengthen the newcomers, encourage new activities or to expand existing projects, which would serve ideas of liberty in Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

Criteria for evaluation of application

Idea -25%. These criteria will assess how well the aims of your project correspond to the ideas of liberty.

Feasibility -25%. This criteria will assess how likely it is that you will achieve what you trying to achieve with your project. Here we shall look for realistic plans, sound expenses, reasonable timelines and other information that would convince us that you are really able to complete the project successfully.

Sustainability- 25%. These criteria will evaluate the likelihood that the project will continue in the future without the financial support of the Academy.

Impact -25%. These criteria will access the possible impact your project is going to have. We understand that the true impact of certain projects may be hard to foresee. Having this in mind we shall be very sympathetic during the evaluation.

Dates

Projects should start: December 1st 2010;

Application deadline: October 30th 2010;

Questions and Answers session with selected candidates: mid-November;

Duration of the project – up to 1 year.

Grant size

- up to USD 5000 per project;

o up to 80% from Academy;

o at least 20% from other sources

Project size

It is completely acceptable to create projects of various sizes: from very small to very big (e.g. from USD 100 to USD 1,000,000). But the Grant must not make up more than 80% of the total cost of the project. This means that if the total cost of the project for example is USD 2000, you can get up to USD 1600 from Academy; if your project is USD 200, you can get up to USD 160 Academy. If the total cost of the project is USD 12,000 you can get up to USD 5000 from Academy, because USD 5000 is the maximum grant available from the Academy for a single project. This means that you will have to find USD 7000 somewhere else.

Expenses

We provide financial support for the implementation of projects. Therefore the grant is designed to cover the expenses related to the project. When describing the amount of money necessary for the project please try to avoid incorporating expenses related to routine costs of running your organization. We strongly urge you to concentrate on the expenses related to the actual project.

The applications should be sent to edita@freema.org.

 

For more information please click here : European Academy for Intellectual Entrepreneurs