The University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ offers twenty three-year full-time postgraduate PhD positions with fellowship for attaining PhD degree in the Doctoral schools of archeology, architectural sciences, civil engineering and architecture and in Doctoral School "Vito Volterra" in astronomical, chemical, earth, mathematical and physical
sciences. Each fellowship amounts to € 19.800,00 per year; this amount includes national insurance contributions (INPS) that fellowship recipients are required to pay (8,91% for 2010). The fellowship doesn’t cover the annual entrance fee.

Kenyon College is seeking applications for the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Kenyon College. The post-doctoral program creates a one-year teaching fellowship in the humanities or humanistic social sciences for holders of PhD's who come from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds (e.g. ethnic minorities; women in fields that are occupied predominantly by men, or men in fields that are occupied predominantly by women; and persons who are first-generation college graduates within their families).

Pravnik”/ “Lawyer” NGO that gathers law students and young lawyers invites graduate and postgraduate students of law related disciplines for summer school with a clear focus on law or political science, under the age of 35 from Europe and the US to participate at summer school in Sarajevo.

Institut Cultural Roman (ICR) offers 5 grants for foreign researchers. The programme is dedicated to academic improvement, aiming undergraduate and graduate students (MA and PhD) who prepare their final papers (dissertations, theses). The selection is performed by an independent committee of professionals, based on an application file that must contain, among other papers, a reference letter from the supervisor of the BA or MA dissertation or doctoral thesis.

The documentation and research period have to be ended until December 31st, 2010.Length of the grant is 3 months.

Grant’s value: 3 495 euros/person

The field for which the evaluation and selection is performed: collecting reference materials and research

Státní fond pro vědecký výzkum Belgie-Valonsko (frankofonní oblast) nabízí možnost doktorandského studia v těchto oborech:
- Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology
- Molecular, Supramolecular and Functional Chemistry
- Non-linear phenomena, complex systems and statistical mechanics
- Science and Engineering of Materials, Interfaces and Nanostructures
- Mathematics- Methods for Experiment and Theory Atoms, MOlecules   and SupRamolecules, PHOtons,  Spectra and Electrons
- In Plant Science- Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules,   Bioinformatics  and Modeling
- Physics and Astrophysics
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The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Each year up to twenty visiting scholars from around the world are offered a membership for a set period to pursue their own research. Members receive access to the extensive resources of the Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some secretarial services. A completed doctorate or equivalent is required by the application deadline, and memberships are awarded at both the junior and senior levels.
The theme for 2011-2012 is Moralities.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences Announces a New Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for 2011. The University is offering postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences to begin in January 2011. These fellowships are designed to attract excellent scholars from outside the University of Pittsburgh.

Northumbria University, through its Corporate Strategy, seeks to establish a position among the best of a new type of excellent university – strong in the fundamental activities of teaching and research and in using these activities to make a real difference to people, enterprises and communities. As part of this commitment it offers 140 doctoral and MRes funded research studentships.

Studentships are available across the full range of disciplines offered by Northumbria University: Applied Sciences, Arts & Social Sciences, Built Environment, Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Design, Health, Community & Education Studies, Law, Business, Psychology & Sport Sciences.

The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular biology (IMPRS-MCB) – a joint international PhD program of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology (MPI-IB) and the University of Freiburg offers PhD’s in Epigenetics, Immunobiology, Cell Biology and Bioinformatics. It will start this autumn. Also exceptionally talented BSc students can apply.

CLOSTNET represents a unique opportunity for a total of 22 young researchers of any nationality or country of residence to pursue a PhD based at one of these Centres of Excellence (2 students per centre).  Each PhD will be of 36 months and will involve up to 6 months secondment  to a partner laboratory.
Researchers must be Early Stage Researchers – defined as those in the first 4 years of their research career.
Student will be expected to begin their studies no later than 31st August 2010.