The MSCA-DN ‘Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century (LAC-EU)’ invites applications for 12 PhD Fellowships.

Social, political, and cultural transformations, a fast-changing global economy, geopolitical tensions, and global uncertainties have created a markedly different context from the previous era of European Union (EU) policies towards Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Networks, the LAC-EU doctoral network will establish a novel, comprehensive and interdisciplinary framework to understand LAC and its relationship with the EU, fostering respectful, non-Eurocentric research and engagement. It will enable a better understanding of current challenges in Latin American governance and support sustainable, equitable and successful relations between the EU and LAC.

LAC-EU is an integrated four-year doctoral network programme, providing world-class, interdisciplinary research and training in social and political sciences, law, and the humanities, as well as research exchanges and policy-relevant secondments in the EU and LAC. Research themes include the rise of populism, democracy, gender rights, trade, migration, health, global cities, sustainability and green finance, and cultural studies.

The LAC-EU doctoral programme offers 12 PhD positions and comprises an interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral network composed of seven leading higher education institutions and key, highly relevant civil society, and policy partners from a range of European and LAC countries.

Website for additional job details and links to specific calls from the different network partners: www.lac-eu.network/

Network members:

• Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals - deadline 13 May
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - deadline 4 May
• FLACSO Argentina - deadline 15 May
• Universitat de Barcelona - deadline 13 May - extended until 20 May
• Sciences Po - deadline 17 May
• University of Oslo - deadline 30 April
• University of York - deadline 30 April

The 12 PhD projects:

R01: LAC involvement in transnational and global cities networks (IBEI, Spain) - deadline 13 May

R02: Gender, social policy, and trade in LAC regional governance (IBEI, Spain) - deadline 13 May

R03: Translating LAC: Fighting political stereotypes in European publishing houses (University of Barcelona, Spain) - deadline 13 May - extended until 20 May

R04: Trade, identities, and market success: LAC women writers in Europe (University of Barcelona, Spain) - deadline 13 May - extended until 20 May

R05:EU-LAC relations in the United Nations Human Rights Council (KU Leuven, Belgium) - deadline 4 May

R06: LAC engagement in multilateral trade governance (KU Leuven, Belgium) - deadline 4 May

R07: Democratic resistance and mobilizing civil society (University of York, UK) - deadline 30 April *

R08: Governing the gender-health nexus: Delivering sexual and reproductive health (University of York, UK) - deadline 30 April *

R09: The governance of migration flows in LAC (FLACSO-Argentina, Argentina) - deadline 15 May

R10: EU-LAC investment relations and green finance (FLACSO-Argentina, Argentina) - deadline 15 May

R11: Data and technology in cities’ governance (Sciences Po, France) - deadline 17 May

R12: EU soft power and a democratic green transformation in Latin America (University of Oslo, Norway) - deadline 30 April

*R07 and R08 are funded by UKRI.