EUTOPIA-SIF Fellowships 2024 (Salary of 52,188 €)

EUTOPIA is an alliance of 10 leading European universities creating a connected and inclusive community. Through collaborative research, more excellent student and teacher mobility and shared innovations, EUTOPIA seeks to address local and global challenges, ultimately creating a new model for higher education in Europe. In June 2019, EUTOPIA was chosen as one of the 17 winning projects throughout Europe in the new “European Universities Initiative” competitive call launched by the European Commission to build a European Education Area. The ten like-minded European universities are the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), the Vrije Universitat Brussels (Belgium), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), CY Cergy Paris Université (France), the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), the University of Pompeu Fabra (Spain), the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). Each university holds several campuses deeply related to its territories. They have built solid ties with their communities, the institutional structures and the local companies. EUTOPIA students, researchers and staff work together to build a new academic model, reflecting an open and united Europe, respectful of the citizens and the environment. EUTOPIA’s mission is to build a unique and daring alliance of transformative and engaged institutions in the long-term.

The EUTOPIA European University Alliance is pleased to announce the opening of 16 post-doctoral fellowships under the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowships Programme (EUTOPIA-SIF). Positions will start in September 2024 at EUTOPIA-SIF partner universities.

EUTOPIA-SIF fellowships offer the opportunity to high-profile young researchers to develop their research projects in the stimulating academic environment of the EUTOPIA Alliance. Extensive research mobility is integral to the fellowships with two compulsory secondment periods: one at another EUTOPIA university (co-host university) and one with an external academic or non-academic partner institution to foster the fellows’ entrepreneurial spirit, tangible research impact and innovation. Furthermore, fellows will access a rich training programme, career guidance and academic supervision.

EUTOPIA-SIF post-doctoral fellows will be recruited by one of the six EUTOPIA universities that are part of the programme — Vrije Universiteit Brussel, CY Cergy Paris University, University of Gothenburg, University of Ljubljana, Pompeu Fabra University-Barcelona, The University of Warwick — based on an individual research project and the quality of their academic profile for a 24-month post-doctoral contract with highly attractive conditions. The selected candidates from the 2023/24 call will start their positions in September 2024.

As academic experts following an interdisciplinary approach, fellows will address questions central to understanding and shaping the future of our planet, the technologies that shape our lives and the societies we will live in. Interdisciplinary interactions are particularly encouraged within the EUTOPIA-SIF programme, built on the principle that major scientific and societal challenges can only be solved by collaborating with experts from different areas. Applications from fellows from all disciplines, including Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Humanities and Arts, are welcomed in connection with the following Key research areas:

1. Materials engineering: including advanced analytical science, photonics, new material science, quantum technology.
2. Data & Intelligence: including Artificial Intelligence, complexity, mathematical modelling, information-systems engineering.
3. Health: including immunology and antibacterial resistance, cancer, ageing, reproductive health, neurosciences.
4. Sustainability: including energy, circular economy, mobility, urban planning, material heritage, water management.
5. Welfare & Inclusion: including business management and finance, governance, ethics, inequality, law and demography.