Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme
The EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowships (EUTOPIA-SIF) is a post-doctoral fellowship programme launched by the EUTOPIA Alliance, a network of ten European universities. Coordinated by CY Cergy Paris Université, the programme aims to strengthen the research potential and career prospects of outstanding early-career researchers worldwide.
Funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme (grant agreement No. 945380), EUTOPIA-SIF supports 76 post-doctoral fellowships and combines high-level research, international mobility, and structured career development.
The EUTOPIA-SIF programme is a major step toward this goal. Building on the EUTOPIA Alliance ecosystem, EUTOPIA-SIF aims to train a cohort of 76 post-doctoral researchers over a period of five years with a high degree of entrepreneurial and innovation awareness to be part of the future generation of Science and Innovation leaders in Europe.
The programme is designed to contribute to the European Research and Innovation Area by:
- Strengthening Europe’s human capital base by enhancing the research potential and career perspective of young researchers,
- Supporting disruptive research to achieve knowledge breakthroughs in major research areas and innovation-intensive domains,
- Reinforcing the link between academic research and company R&D to promote knowledge and technology transfers and innovation,
- Supporting the emergence of a European University network by deepening the integration of the knowledge and innovation ecosystem of the EUTOPIA Alliance
The aim of the EUTOPIA-SIF programme is to enhance the research potential and career perspectives of outstanding young researchers from around the world.
EUTOPIA-SIF fellowships offer the opportunity to high-profile young researchers to develop their own research projects in the stimulating academic environment of the EUTOPIA Alliance. Extensive research mobility is integral to the fellowships with two compulsory secondment periods: one at another EUTOPIA university (co-host university) and one with an external academic or non-academic partner institution to foster the fellows’ entrepreneurial spirit, tangible research impact and innovation. Furthermore, fellows will access a rich training programme, career guidance and academic supervision.
EUTOPIA-SIF fellows will prove, through their research project, their capacity to address major social challenges in at least one of the five Key Research Areas:
- Materials engineering: including advanced analytical science, photonics, new material science, quantum technology
- Data & Intelligence: including artificial intelligence, complexity, information-systems engineering
- Health: including immunology and antibacterial resistance, cancer, ageing, reproductive health, neurosciences
- Sustainability: including energy, circular economy, mobility, urban planning, material heritage, water management
- Welfare & Inclusion: including business management and finance, governance, ethics, inequality, law and demography
As academic experts following an interdisciplinary approach, fellows will address questions central to understanding and shaping the future of our planet, the technologies that shape our lives and the societies we will live in. Interdisciplinary interactions are encouraged within the EUTOPIA-SIF programme, built on the principle that major scientific and societal challenges can only be solved by collaborating with experts from different areas. Applications from fellows in the Arts and Humanities are welcomed in connection with the above-mentioned key research areas.