Eutopia Cotutelle PhD call 2024 

(For details and updates, see the call description linked in the title above)

The EUTOPIA European University is an ambitious alliance of ten like-minded European universities: the Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), the Ca’Foscari University of Venice (Italy), CY Cergy Paris Université (France), the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), the Göteborgs Universitet (Sweden), the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), the NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) . It was selected as one of the first Erasmus+ ‘European Universities’ pilot projects. 

The core mission of the EUTOPIA Alliancies to promote a connected and inclusive academic community, addressing global and local challenges, advancing excellence and inclusion, geared towards impact and fostering European economic development and innovation through a deep engagement of the Alliance with its local and regional ecosystems. The promotion of scientific excellence, research collaboration and mobility of academics among the partner universities is a core objective of EUTOPIA.

The partner universities therefore launch a joint EUTOPIA PhD co-tuelle program.

The 2024 EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle program will support high-quality PhD projects in all research areas co-supervised by academics of the EUTOPIA member universities. Il offers PhD fellowships for 3 to 4 years. It is expected to lead to high-quality research projects with global impact, providing exciting research opportunities forPhD or doctoral candidates. They shall take full advantage of the vibrant scientific environment of the EUTOPIA alliance.

The participating EUTOPIA universities will jointly operate the call but not every university will be HOME (meaning, funding) universities. They can still be HOST (meaning, secondary) partners – the degree of overall reciprocity will be considered when the universities evaluate the projects. This document describes the application procedure and requirements, the evaluation process and gives details about the funding conditions, operational modalities and implementation of the PhD fellowships. Bilateral cotutelle agreements will be made between the partner universities. Successful candidates will enter into an agreement governing the joint supervision of their PhD and obtain funding for the entire duration of their PhD according to the national legal frameworks – in most cases from a single employer for the length of the PhD. An example of such an agreement can be provided upon request.

The present call offers funding for the following co-tutelle PhD fellowships:

For further advice, please contact

Babes-Bolyai University:

• Chis Teodora, Interim Head of the secretary at the Institute of Doctoral studies at UBB, 

teodora.chis@ubbcluj.ro , Tel: +40-264-405 362

• Ioana Talos, Responsible for International Doctoral Students at UBB, 

ioana.talos@ubbcluj.ro , Tel:+40-264-405 363

Ca’Foscari University of Venice:
• Pr Patrick Heinrich, Rector’s delegate for Research, patrick.heinrich@unive.it

CY Cergy Paris University:

(And in the event of any problem with the platform, please contact) :

• Dr Hendrik Eijsberg, administrative head for the Doctoral and Postdoctoral College,

 hendrik.eijsberg@cyu.fr Tél : 33(0)1 34 25 67 44

• Anne-Sophie Vallageas, International Cooperation Assistant,

anne-sophie.vallageas@cyu.fr Tél : 33(0)1 34 25 67 07

                                                                                                                 
Technische Universität Dresden:
• Dr. Barbara Könczöl, Head of Unit, Technische Universität Dresden

barbara.koenczoel@tu-dresden.de

Tél : + 49 351 463 42683

NOVA Lisbon University:
• Rita Ferreira , Research Manager at Funding & Scientific Strategy Unit, 

NOVA Research and Innovation Support Division, 

eutopia.phd@unl.pt ; tel: +351 210 496 457

University of Warwick :
• Rhiannon Martyn, from the Doctoral College,
r.martyn@warwick.ac.uk