Three (3) “la Caixa”- Severo Ochoa PhD Fellowships, Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ), Spain (2015)

The "la Caixa" Foundation is a non profit organization that, through the International PhD Fellowship programme Severo Ochoa, provides funds to accredited centres to offer four-year pre-doctoral fellowships.
The "la Caixa" Foundation has selected the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ), a joint centre of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and awarded with the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation in 2012 to finance PhD fellowships aimed at highly skilled graduates to carry out their PhD studies at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ). This programme is the result of a collaboration agreement between the UPV-ITQ and "la Caixa" Foundation.

Within the context of the PhD fellowship programme "la Caixa" - Severo Ochoa, the Institute of Chemical Technology wishes to recruit outstanding graduates with high scientific motivation, interested in receiving interdisciplinary training in research topics related to catalysis and synthesis of advanced materials for their use in energy production processes and chemical products in order to obtain the PhD degree.

Research Fields
Chemistry

Other costs
Payment of contracts is established as follows: a) fourteen monthly instalments of € 1324.75 gross during the first year of the contract; b) fourteen monthly instalments of € 1378.83 gross during the second year of the contract; c) fourteen monthly instalments of € 1476.15 gross during the third year of the contract; d) fourteen monthly instalments of € 1611.33 gross in the fourth year of the contract.
These grants also include an annual budget of €1500 each of the first two years and € 1700 each of the last two, to cover tuition, books, software, registration to conferences, trips and travel, and any other scientific or academic activities of the beneficiary.

Eligibility criteria
Candidates must demonstrate compliance with the requirements for access to official doctoral studies in accordance with current PhD regulations.

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu