Special Research Fund- Doctoral Scholarship
Duration and starting date
- Period: 2 x 2 years
- Funding: the scholarship is approximately € 2.175 per month, depending on the family status of the scholar. A bench fee of € 310/month will be awarded to the promoter.
- Deadline: 27 April 2020
- Start scholarship: 1 October 2020
- Results online: 27 August 2020
Who can apply for a BOF-doctoral fellowship
Applications must be submitted with the support of a Ghent University promoter. It is allowed that the application also contains a co-promoter and 1 or more involved researchers.
To apply for a BOF doctoral fellowship candidates must meet several conditions:
To act as a (co-)promotor of a BOF-doctoral fellowship several conditions must be met:
BOF doctoral scholarship within a specific collaboration
There are 2 programs to apply for a BOF doctoral scholarship within a specific collaboration:
- BOF PhD scholarship with UNU-CRIS (United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies) label
- If the intended doctoral research fits within the theme “Challenges to Global or Regional Governance” the candidate and promoter can choose to apply for a BOF-doctoral scholarship with UNU-CRIS label.
- read more on applying for a BOF-doctoral scholarship with UNU-CRIS label.
- BOF PhD scholarship with I-SITE ULNE (I-SITE Université Lille Nord-Europe) label
- Ghent University is one of the 14 partners in the excellence programme of Lille University (I-SITE Université Lille Nord-Europe or I-SITE ULNE). The aim of this excellence programme is to create research collaboration between Ghent University and Lille University or one of the other founding partners of the I-SITE ULNE excellence program throughout joint doctorates. Since 2019, Ghent University commits itself to allocate 2 BOF PhD scholarships with “I-SITE ULNE” label on an annual basis, for 3 consecutive years.
- read more on applying for applying for a BOF PhD scholarship with I-SITE ULNE label
Submission at FWO
- Candidates who are awarded a BOF doctoral scholarship in 2020 and who are eligible to apply for a FWO PhD Fellowship fundamental research or FWO PhD Fellowship strategic basic research in 2021 are obliged to do so.
- In case the awarded BOF doctoral scholarship holder also applied for a FWO PhD Fellowship FO or SB in 2020 and isinvited for the second FWO evaluation round (interview), he/she is obliged to participate and prepare the interview thoroughly in advance.
- If the FWO fellowship is awarded, the candidate is obliged to switch to FWO funding. The BOF scholarship will then be reallocated to a candidate on the BOF reserve list. In this way the number of awarded doctoral scholarships at Ghent University can be maximized.
How to apply?
Applications for a BOF PhD grant have to be submitted on the forms provided for that purpose and sent by e-mail to BOFapplication@ugent.be .
The application can be submitted either in Dutch or English.
The promoter of the application must submit a document “advice promoter”.