Link to submit: https://faribrussels.wufoo.com/forms/joint-phd-application-form/

📢 Important 📢

Dates: The call now becomes a continuous call.

Deadline: 31/12/2023 to submit candidates

Important update: Following suggestions of FARI professors, Innoviris has accepted more flexibility with the use of money. Please note these two additional conditions:

• if a group thinks an already granted Ph.D. is promising they can also use the money to extend it (within the limits of the RRF funding).
• if a group has a Ph.D. student who wants to work on a completely new project (aligned with FARI) they can.

Program Objective

FARI – AI Institute for the Common Good (VUB-ULB) wants to develop and stimulate a new generation of researchers specialized in/around AI, Robotics, or Data, with a focus on the Common Good. To do so, FARI creates a bi-annual seed-funding Ph.D. program. This call allows FARI research groups to start financing Ph.D. students until they find or get another funding (e.g., FNRS, FWO, or from the research group). In the context of NextGenerationEU, it allows FARI’s groups to detect and involve promising junior researchers on projects related to AI, Data and Robotics for the Common Good targeting priority areas for the Regional Innovation Plan of Brussels Capital Region:

• Climate & Energy
• Resource Optimization
• Mobility
• Health & Well-being
• Participatory & inclusive Society

Amount, duration, and terms of payment

Total amount: €1 Million€100k per FARI research group (equivalent to maximum 2 one-year Ph.D. grants at ULB or VUB).Eligible expenses: €40-45k will be used for the scholarship and €5k for expenses (e.g., computer equipment). The scholarship will be charged on FARI’s account and the equipment fees will be made available on the account of the designated supervisor.