The “Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme for Young Professors and Researchers from Latin American Universities” was launched for the first time in January 2004. This initiative, which offers grants to finance short-term research visits, aims at favouring mobility and academic exchange between the two regions, Europe and Latin America.
The Coimbra Group is an association of 41 European universities which, among several other activities, promotes exchanges between European and Latin American researchers and academics. This call for applications for research visit grants is one of the ways in which exchanges are supported.
The following Coimbra Group universities are participating in the 2023 edition of this scholarship
programme:
• University of Barcelona (Spain)
• University of Bologna (Italy)
• University of Coimbra (Portugal)
• University of Cologne (Germany)
• University of Granada (Spain)
• University of Graz (Austria)
• Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania)
• Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany)
• Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland)
• KU Leuven (Belgium)
• University of Padova (Italy)
• University of Pavia (Italy)
• University of Poitiers (France)
• University of Salamanca (Spain)
• University of Siena (Italy)
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must fulfil all of the following criteria:
• To be a national of and currently resident in a Latin American country. Candidates already living and/or studying in Europe will not be considered.
• To hold a university degree or equivalent.
• To be linked, as a professor or researcher, to a Latin American University recognised as such by the authorities of the country.
• To use the Coimbra Group Office electronic application process. Only one application per candidate will be accepted.
• To submit online an acceptance letter/email from the tutor/partner with whom the work programme will be undertaken in the host institution. This document is mandatory.
• To be born on or after 1 January 1982.Previously selected candidates can apply for a second grant, but they will not be prioritised.
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Submission of Applications
The online application is available until 7 April 2023 midnight (Brussels time) on the Coimbra Group
website: http://www.coimbra-group.eu/activities/scholarships. Applications should be submitted in English, but we will accept applications in Spanish when applying to the Universities of Granada,
Salamanca, and Barcelona and in Portuguese when applying to the University of Coimbra. No other language exceptions will be accepted.
Only the universities listed in the table below are taking part in the 2023 edition of this Coimbra Group
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