Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Grants, bursaries and Scholarships for doctoral studies

 There are a variety of grants for the doctoral students in the form of contracts for research, mobility grants or prizes for top quality work. Besides the grants here stated, you may search for more options in the URV’s grants webpage, mobility for studies, research calls and R+D+I grants webpage.

Concept Description Competition Status
Grants to jointly supervised doctoral programmes

Call for applications for cotutelle PhD students in URV PhD programmes academic year 2023-2024:

1st deadline: 16/10/2023 al 26/01/2024

2nd deadline: 06/02/2023 al 19/04/2024

Call for the URV'S future researcher grants for the 2023-24 academic year

To channel the best students to do their doctoral thesis at URV.

1st deadline: 16/10/2023 until 31/10/2023

2nd deadline: 11/12/2023 until 19/01/2024

Extraordinary deadline: 12/02/2024 until 11/03/2024

Contracts for university teacher trainning 2023 (FPU) Grants for contracting university graduates registered in a doctoral programme at a Spanish university. 15 February 2024 (14h in Spain)
Grants for students affected by the conflict in Ukraine, academic year 2023-24 Extraordinary financial aid for students affected by the conflict in Ukraine to cover the costs of enrolment on URV bachelor's degrees, official master's degrees or doctoral programmes. More information: urvsol@urv.cat 2023-24 academic year
Special doctoral prizes, academic year 2022-23 Every academic year, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) awards various special doctoral prizes. These academic distinctions are in recognition of doctoral theses of the highest quality among the ones defended into the academic year 2022-23.

Theses defended during the 2022-23 academic year, this is, theses defended between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023.

30 November 2023
"Martí i Franquès" research fellowship programme (PMF)  for the contracting of Trainee Predoctoral Research Staff

Standard Edition – 2nd edition

The purpose of this program is to complete a doctoral thesis at Rovira i Virgili University.
23 November 2023
"Inmaculada Sastre Miró" Social Commitment Awards, from the URV, for final degree projects, master's final projects and doctoral theses (In Catalan) The purpose of the URV's Immaculada Sastre Miró Social Commitment Awards for TFG, TFM and thesis is to promote the social commitment of URV students, and aims to recognize the application of research work based on real needs of society and designed in collaboration with non-profit entities, in accordance with the criteria of the Service Learning methodology. 20 November 2023
“Enrique Fuentes Quintana” Awards for doctoral theses (FUNCAS) Doctoral theses, defended between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023, that have obtained the cum laude mention, in various fields. 15 November 2023

(2023PIPF-FPI). Grants for predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors. State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research

The purpose of these grants is to train new doctors by doing a doctoral thesis at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili as part of one of the research projects in Annex I of the conditions of the competition. 13 October 2013
Joan Oró grant to hire research staff in traininJoan Oró grant to hire research staff in training (FI 2024) Grant for public and private universities of the Catalan university system, research centres, hospital foundations and Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) to hire research staff in training. 10 October 2023 (14h in Spain)
Industrial Doctorates Plan 2023 (AGAUR) Aimed at PhD students interested in a research project carried out at a company, in collaboration with the university

1st deadline:

25 May 2023 (14h in Spain)

2nd deadline:

5 October 2023 (14h in Spain)

3rd deadline:

11 December 2023 (14h in Spain)

FI-SDUR 2023 (AGAUR) Grants for the recruitment of research staff in training who develop their doctorate within the framework of a department of the Catalan university system. 26 June 2023 (14h in Spain)
"Martí i Franquès" research fellowship programme (PMF)  for the contracting of Trainee Predoctoral Research Staff 2023

Standard Edition

The purpose of this program is to complete a doctoral thesis at Rovira i Virgili University.

23 June 2023

Aids for doctoral thesis in Catalan (TDCAT)

Aimed at people who have defended their doctoral thesis during the year 2022, who have obtained a doctoral degree issued by a university in the Catalan university system or from outside the Spanish State, and who have written the doctoral thesis in Catalan.

Additionally, it is necessary that the doctoral theses that are the object of this aid have been incorporated into the Online Doctoral Theses repository (TDX) before December 31, 2023.

15 March 2023 (14h in Spain)