Italy-Africa Research Doctorates” initiative Call 2025
The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) recognizes the strategic importance of research and higher education on health issues in collaboration between Italy and Africa. To contribute to this activity, ISS promotes the “Italy-Africa Research Doctorates” initiative and, in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome, annually finances two research doctorate positions for students of African nationality at the PhD Course Advances in infectious diseases, microbiology, legal medicine and public health sciences of Sapienza University of Rome.
The objective of the initiative is, starting from 2024 and in similar calls in the subsequent years, to create a higher education path that contributes to promoting the new leadership of scientific research in Africa and that encourages collaborative research conducted in Italy and in Africa by young researchers from the two continents.
Eligibility:
- Project proposals can be presented only by ISS personnel with permanent contract.
- To carry out the activities envisaged by the doctoral project, the ISS Unit may make use of the collaboration of permanent staff, as well as of temporary staff, scholarship holders and doctoral students if the research issues are related to the related projects and training activities. Each proposer (Principal Investigator, PI) may submit only one proposal and the colleagues included as collaborators must provide a declaration of exclusivity of participation in the proposal.
- The ISS PI will request the directors of her/his structure to send within two days following the deadline of the call an e-mail confirming acknowledgment of the proposals to the email address: dottoratidiricerca.italiaafrica@iss.it.
- The PI of the African institution may participate in a single project proposal.
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Application deadline, 31st of March, 2025 at 18:00h (CET).
