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Printable versionTwo different Erasmus Mundus Doctorate fellowships can be awarded to doctoral candidates:
Category A fellowships: can be awarded to third-country doctoral candidates who come from a country other than a European Country (note 1) and who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of these countries (note 2). The only exception to this rule applies to third-country doctoral candidates who have previously received an Erasmus Mundus masters scholarship in order to follow an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.
Category B fellowships: can be awarded to any doctoral candidate who does not fulfill the Category A criteria as defined above
WHAT IS IT COVERED?
The Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Fellowships cover the students' tuition fees, travel costs and monthly salary; they will be assigned for a duration of 36 months and exclusively for full-time enrolment.
Erasmus Mundus Doctoral fellowships are subject to the continuation of programme funding and conditional to the satisfactory progress of the doctoral candidate. Doctoral candidates enrolled in the SMART EMJD who have been assigned the EACEA fellowhsip will be offered employment contracts.
Individual Fellowships Table (from the Programme guide, ed. 12/2012, p.44):
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Category A fellowship (amounts for a 3-year doctoral fellowship) |
Category B fellowship (amounts for a 3-year doctoral fellowship) |
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I |
Fixed contribution to the travel, installation and any other types of costs |
€ 7.500 |
€ 3.000 - if there is mobility foreseen to third-country partners |
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II |
Fixed contribution to the doctoral candidate participation costs (note 3) |
€ 600 per month (€ 21 600 for 36 months) for laboratory-based EMJDs |
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III |
Fixed living allowance (36 months in total (note 4) |
€ 2.800 per month (i.e. € 100 800 for 36 months) for an employment contract |
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Call 2013: 6 EM fellowships assigned by the Agency; 4 for Category A candidates; 2 for Category B candidates
Call 2012: 9 EM fellowships assigned by the Agency: 5 for Category A candidates, 1 for Category A candidates originating from Turkey or Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia), 3 for Category B candidates.
Call 2011: 9 EM fellowships assigned by the Agency: 5 for Category A candidates, 1 for Category A candidates originating from Turkey or Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia), 3 for Category B candidates.
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1.See the definition of “European Country” at pag. 13 in the Erasmus Mundus Programme Guide
2.The five-year reference for this 12-month rule is calculated backwards as from the submission deadline for Category A applications by the EM consortia to the Agency (for the call 2013 this date is February 28, 2014).
3.This amount will be given directly to the university
4. The gross amount is not intended as an employee gross but as an employer gross. Therefore, each partner institution, according its national legislation, will deduct from the monthly amount both the employer’s taxes and the employee’s taxes. The resulting net monthly allowance amount will slightly vary across institutions due to differences in national legislation and tax levels. However, the net monthly salary should be at least € 1400.