10 PhD Positions, ITN Project RurAction, Europe (2017)

The European Training Network RurAction (“Social Entrepreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Analysing Innovative Troubleshooters in Action”) announces 10 positions for Early-Stage Researchers with the option of awarding the doctoral degree. The positions last 36 months. Early-Stage Researchers with a strong interest in research about regional development, social entrepreneurship and social innovations are invited to apply for positions at leading research institutions and acknowledged social enterprises in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland and Portugal.

RurAction is an integrated research and doctorate programme funded by the European Union in the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN Action. RurAction recognizes a lack of knowledge and cross-sectoral trainings at the intersection of rural development, social innovation and social entrepreneurship research. It addresses this gap by systematically integrating these three fields of research. RurAction offers a unique opportunity to 10 Early Stage Researchers to investigate highly relevant topics about social innovations and social entrepreneurship in rural regions. The 10 Early Stage Researchers will benefit from transnational high quality trainings, bringing together both academic education and practical skills trainings provided by social enterprises with great expertise in innovative rural development. The enrolment as PhD students in the contributing universities enables the ESRs to contribute to their institutionalized PhD courses, complementary to the RurAction trainings.

A consortium of seven leading research institutions and two highly experienced social enterprises will run the training network. The consortium is formed by the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS - Germany), Adam-Mickiewicz-University (AMU - Poland), the Roskilde University (RUC - Denmark), University College Cork (UCC - Ireland), Ballyhoura Development (Ireland), Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL - Germany), University of The Aegean (UAE - Greece), Otelo eGen (Austria) and University Institute of Lisbon (ISTE-IUL - Portugal). Each institution offers one Early Stage Researcher position - except of the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space which offers two ESR positions. Please find an overview of the positions attached.

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu