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

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
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

Extraordinary deadline: 11/12/2023 until 19/01/2024

(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)
Grants Daniel Bravo 2023

Grants for short biomedical research stays abroad, organized by the Fundació Privada Daniel Bravo Andreu:

18/01/2023 to 15/03/2023

Grants to jointly supervised doctoral programmes

Call for applications for cotutelle PhD students in URV PhD programmes academic year 2022-2023:

1st deadline: 19/10/2022 al 28/01/2023

2nd deadline: 06/02/2022 al 21/04/2023

Doctoral and postdoctoral mobility grants (Embassy of France in Spain) To finance mobility to France of doctoral or post-doctoral students, registered in a Spanish higher education or research center (and not registered in France), within the framework of a research stay. 25 February 2023
Contracts for university teacher trainning 2022 (FPU)

Grants for contracting university graduates registered in a doctoral programme at a Spanish university.

15 February 2023 (14h in Spain)
Aids for pre-doctoral contracts for the training of doctors 2022 (FPI) Aids for pre-doctoral contracts for the training of doctors. 26 January 2023 (14h in Spain)
Special doctoral prizes, academic year 2021-22 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 2021-22. 30 November 2022 (extended until 05 December 2022)

“Joan Oró” grant to hire research staff in training (FI 2023)

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. 28 November 2022 (14h in Spain)

“Martí i Franquès" research fellowship programme (PMF)  for the contracting of Trainee Predoctoral Research Staff 2022

The purpose of this program is to complete a doctoral thesis at Rovira i Virgili University. There are three types of aid: PMF - Standard Edition; PMF - Banco Santander Edition ; PMF – I investigate edition. 11 November 2022

Call for the URV'S future researcher grants for the 2022-23 academic year

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

1st deadline: 18/10/2022 until 31/10/2022

Extraordinary deadline: 12/12/2022 until 20/01/2023

Industrial Doctorates Plan 2022 (AGAUR) Aimed at PhD students interested in a research project carried out at a company, in collaboration with the university.

1st deadline: 14 April 2022

2nd deadline: 09 June 2022

3rd deadline: 06 October 2022

4th deadline: 09 December 2022

"Enrique Fuentes Quintana" Awards 2022 (Funcas) Doctoral theses defended from 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. 15th November 2022
Aids for doctoral thesis in Catalan (TDCAT)

Aimed at people who have defended their doctoral thesis during the year 2021, 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, 2022.

2nd June 2022 (14h in Barcelona, Spain)
Grants to jointly supervised doctoral programmes

Call for applications for cotutelle PhD students in URV PhD programmes academic year  2020-2021:

1st deadline: 18/12/2021 until 31/01/2022

2nd deadline: 07/02/2022 until 26/04/2021

Grants for university departments and research units aimed at the recruitment of pre-doctoral researchers in Catalonia (FI_SDUR 2022)

The purpose of the support grants for university departments and research units FI_SDUR is to boost the research capacity of the departments of the Catalan university system through hiring pre-doctoral researchers. 21 March 2022 (14h)

Daniel Bravo Grants

For short stays abroad, related to biomedical research. 9 March 2022
FPU – Complementary mobility grants Complementary mobility grants for beneficiaries of FPU grants for short stays in foreign research centers, and exceptionally Spanish centers, and those for temporary transfers to foreign research centers. 14 February 2022 (14h)