Overview and Objectives
The 2021 grant competition supports researchers, in any area of ​​knowledge, who intend to carry out research activities leading to the attainment of the academic degree of Doctor.

The PhD Research Scholarships are intended for candidates enrolled in a cycle of studies leading to the attainment of the academic degree of Doctor, or candidates who meet the necessary conditions to enroll, and who intend to develop research activities leading to the attainment of this degree in all the areas of knowledge.

Research activities can be carried out in any environment of production and dissemination of knowledge, national or international, including higher education institutions, R&D units, Associate Laboratories, Collaborative Laboratories, Technological Interface Centers, State Laboratories and other public institutions of research, hospitals and health care units, other entities integrated in the Public Administration where R&D activities are developed, as well as Private non-profit institutions whose main object is R&D activities.

Likewise, companies, namely those whose activity has been recognized as of scientific interest, or consortia in which any of the entities referred to in the previous paragraph participate, will also be considered as host institutions.

It is emphasized that research activities can be carried out in collaboration with different host institutions, public and private, including companies and public administration, promoting institutional collaboration as well as transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.

The work plan may take place entirely or partially in a national institution (scholarship in the country or mixed scholarship, respectively), or take place entirely in a foreign institution (scholarship abroad).

The duration of the scholarships is, as a rule, annual, renewable up to the maximum number of months requested in the application, and scholarships cannot be awarded for a period of less than 3 consecutive months or more than 48 months.

In the case of a mixed scholarship, the period of the work plan that takes place in a foreign institution cannot exceed 24 months.