15 PhD Scholarships for Early Stage Researchers in Europe | HONOURs

HONOURs is an Innovative Training Network (No: 721367) on host switching pathogens, infectious outbreaks and zoonosis. There are 15 positions for Early Stage Researchers (ESR) at the interface of veterinary and human health, virology, biostatistics, and pathogen discovery, and we are looking for highly motivated and talented students with a MSc degree in Life Sciences who are interested in viruses and infectious diseases.

We offer challenging research projects to lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis) at high profile universities, research institutions and companies, located in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Requirements

• Are highly motivated and talented
• Are keen on intra-Europe mobility to perform research abroad
• Have good communication skills
• Have a MSc degree in Life Sciences or obtain a MSc degree by August 2017
• Have obtained high grades during her/his studies
• Have English language proficiency
• Fulfil the eligibility criteria for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) training network H2020 (see below “specific eligibility criteria”)

Conditions of employment

• Highly competitive and attractive salary and working conditions
• Challenging research projects to lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis)
• Excellent facilities for research
• Training in state-of-the-art scientific skills and transferable skills
• Training in academic and industrial settings
• Secondments in several research laboratories