ELIGIBILITY AND SELECTION CRITERIA

The evaluation of the applications will be done by the home and host universities based on the grading scheme agreed by the Partnership (see below). The score obtained will be the basis for the allocation of the scholarships. For candidates not registered at a partner university, the evaluation will be done by the university that represents the respective country at the Selection Committee (SC).

 

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

The eligibility evaluation of the applications will be done by the home universities and the academic evaluation will be carried out by the host universities based on the grading scheme agreed by the Project Consortium (see below).

EU PHD – ELIGIBILITY
  • Nationals from one of eligible Eu Country
  • TG1: register in one of the Eu HEIs within the partnership at the time of submitting their application.
  • Have a sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses or of languages currently spoken in the hosting country
Lot-2 POST-DOCS - ELIGIBILITY
  • Nationals of one third country covered by the Lot
  • TG1: register in one of the third-country HEI involved in the consortium at the time of submitting their application
  • MUST have not resided or carried out main activities for more than 12 months over the last 5 years in any eligible Eu country at the time of submitting their application.
  • Have a sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses or of languages currently spoken in the hosting country
If a candidates does not respect eligibility criteria will be consider as not eligible, and his application will be not evaluated by the host university.

 

SELECTION CRITERIA – GRADING SCHEME

Eligible applications will then be reviewed and ranked by the host universities, which guarantees an absence of conflict of interest as well as that students and staff will be selected in a manner respecting principles of transparency and equal treatment. The host universities will review the applications, check if the admission and language requirements are fulfilled and rank the applications.

The ranking result will be based on a number of criteria:

SELECTION CRITERIA GRADE
Quality of the candidate (Cv, accuracy of application, Language Skills, pre-acceptance letter)ONLY FOR POST-DOC: Relevance and impact of application for host University – Country 0-7
Academic Merit 0-5
Activity Research Plan 0-5
Motivational Statement 0-3
FINAL GRADE 0-20

 

DUNIA BEAM scholarships will be awarded based on the total score obtained. The scholarships will be distributed taking into account the cross-cutting requirements of equal opportunities, gender-balance and real participation of disadvantaged people.