Since 2008 Obra Social ‘la Caixa’ fund an International PhD Fellowship Programme to provide highly talented PhD students with a unique opportunity to start a scientific career at the Spanish National Biotechnology Centre (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB).
2015 call
The Spanish National Biotechnology Centre (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB) offers three 4-year working contracts, funded by Obra Social ‘la Caixa’, to provide highly talented PhD students with a unique opportunity to start a scientific career at one of the Spanish ‘Severo Ochoa’ Centres of Excellence. Working contracts will begin between September and October 2015 and include an annual gross salary that increases progressively from €18,546 in the first year to €22,558 in the fourth year, with an annual allowance for thesis-related expenses (€1,500 in the first and second years, €1,700 in the third and fourth years), and full social insurance coverage.
Applications must be submitted to the CNB umbrella organisation, the Spanish National Research Council (Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC):
- Instructions and application form (applications until 9 February 2015)
- Guidelines to fill the forms (in English)
- Provisional list of candidates
- Initial evaluation of the candidates
- Candidates selected for the interview (15 April 2015)
- Evaluation of the interviewed candidates
Successful candidates will be contracted between September and October 2015.