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Strategic initiatives – call for 10 doctoral student projects at LTV
Published: 07 November 2023
The LTV faculty is launching another strategic research initiative to co-finance 10 doctoral projects for four years starting in 2024. The initiative is aimed at researchers early in their career (that is, newly appointed docents since 2017) employed at the LTV faculty.
This initiative aims to remedy the lack of doctoral students by providing financial support for high quality doctoral student projects. The support will be directed towards researchers in their early careers (newly appointed docents from 2017 or later).
Today's financing models with a high proportion of external funding poses a larger challenge for researchers in their early careers when it comes to simultaneously financing both their own salaries and doctoral students.
These challenges are also large for subject areas where there is less external funding opportunities compared to others, which often are characterised by a rather large amount of education compared to research.
By supporting early career researchers, the initiative also ties to the goals of strengthening and developing the research on a long-term perspective and of strengthening the scientific foundation in research and education included in the strategy of the LTV faculty.