Status:In progress

Opening date: 24 January 2026

Closing date: 16 June 2026

Training action

International mobility opportunities for PhD students, for stays abroad lasting from 1 to 3 months: Doctoral Mobility.

Offered by ITEM, it's an opportunity not to be missed!

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Vincent BOTTELIN
PhD students

"This three-month mobility offered by ITEM facilitated my access to the research field by enabling me to meet private and public players, conduct research interviews, carry out field surveys, as well as exchange and work with fellow Italian researchers at La Sapienza.

This mobility also opened up new opportunities for me post-doctorate, thanks to obtaining the European doctorate label, certifying the Internationally-oriented nature of my doctorate."

Axis 1: Objectives:

- Obtain the "European Doctorate" label, which requires 3 months' mobility and other rules related to the doctoral defense).

- Change laboratories to acquire new skills or techniques - Start a collaboration with another PhD student or an established researcher,...

- Experiment with ideas or hypotheses in an appropriately equipped laboratory

Any other motivation related to the field of environmental transition.

- Mobility within the CIVIS European Campus is strongly encouraged.

encouraged


Axis 2: Eligibility

- Enrolment in one of ITEM's member doctoral schools - Doctoral research topic in line with ITEM's research priorities - Doctoral supervisor or co-supervisor from an ITEM-affiliated laboratory - Where applicable, the doctoral student's contract or employer must allow the student's mobility. - The host institution may be located anywhere in the world, except France.

- The proposal must be fully completed and include the agreement of the thesis supervisor(s) and the host institution. - The mobility period must take place in 2024.

 

Area 3: Evaluation

- Evaluation of the application by an ITEM committee

- The evaluators will be affiliated to AMU, and one of them will be external to the ITEM Comex.

- Evaluation twice a year, after project submission in January and June.

 

Axis 4: Timetable

- Two submission dates per year: January 24 and June 16

- For a start within the calendar year of the funding granted

 

Area 5: Funding

- Mobility of 1 to 3 months

- Monthly allowance of €1,000; limited to €3,000 for 3-month mobility


 

Contact

For further information, please contact: item-contact@univ-amu.fr

Bids financed in 2024 :

4 in the 1st edition/ 5 in the second edition

5 financed in 2024