Queen’s Belfast University calls application for CITI-GENS PhD Fellowship in the United Kingdom.

The Collaboration in Training and Innovation for Growing, Evolving and Networked Societies (CITI-GENS) program at Queen’s University Belfast is a MSCA COFUND Doctoral Training Programme. It will recruit and train 20 outstanding international early-stage researchers (ESRs) who will be transformed into a professional and skilled cohort addressing global challenges aligned to the themes of the Belfast Region City Deal innovation ecosystem: Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, Life Sciences and the Creative Industries.

Eligible Projects

CITIG-ENS is conceived as a global, multidisciplinary project; as such, it offers PhD research positions in all three of the Faculties in Queen’s University Belfast across the 4 themes of the BRCD Innovation ecosystem.

• Information Technology
• Advanced Manufacturing,
• Life Sciences and
• Creative Industries.

Benefits 

The fellow will receive benefits from an interdisciplinary supervisory team offering a unique perspective on your project and preparing you for work across disciplinary boundaries in your future career. Candidates will also have an external partner from a nonacademic organization on your project, offering an intersectoral experience, often in the form of secondments/placements. See individual project descriptions for partner information. As an MSCA Fellow candidates will be in the unique position of being an employee of the University as well as a student, more about the employment contact available here.

Eligibilities 

The following criteria must be met, in order for applications to be shortlisted for evaluation. The criteria are set by The Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions in Horizon 2020, Co-funding of regional, national and international programs (COFUND). Early Stage Researcher: ESR’s must be, at the time of recruitment (understood as the call deadline: 10th July 2020), in the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers and must not have been awarded a doctoral degree. Researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organization for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline (10th July 2020). Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.

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