International

On 13 May 2026, the first edition of the European Doctoral Day (EDD) took place across Europe. As part os the EDD framework, ABG organised an online event that brought together doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, career development professionals, employers and institutional representatives from across Europe and beyond. The event was organised together with its European partners: European University of Technology (EUT+), Euraxess France, the University of Strasbourg, the Polonium Foundation and the PAUSE Programme.

Dedicated to the theme "How a PhD Broadens Career Opportunities Outside Academia", this inaugural edition attracted  more than 200 attendees joining the live webinar throughout the day.

In this article, you will find the programme highlights, key messages from the discussions, participants' feedback and resources to continue exploring doctoral career opportunities across Europe.

Atlas program aims to develop scientific exchanges between France and other countries and to finance research work: field surveys, work in libraries and archives. Applicants in social sciences & humanities  must be attached to a private or public higher education /research institution and be a PhD holder. The deadline for applications is February 6, 2026.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European Union’s flagship programme for researcher training and mobility, support thousands of scientists around the world every year. In January 2025, the European Commission revised its supervision guidelines, following a consultation process launched during the 2024 MCAA Conference in Milan, to better guide doctoral and postdoctoral supervision practices.

ABG shares these key updates and provides its critical analysis to shed light on this essential issue for research and innovation.

Highly active at the European level and accredited as a “Euraxess Career Development Center”, ABG is a partner in numerous European projects (COFUND, DN/Doctoral Networks, Interreg, Erasmus…). Discover our actions supporting researchers’ recruitment and career development and involve ABG in your projects. 

The MSCA Cofund and Doctoral Networks calls are open until 8 April and 24 November 2026 respectively.

A mobility support for young researchers in their second year of doctoral studies or more from France, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and whose research contributes to one of CEFRES’s research areas.

 

The French-Italian University (UFI) has launched the new Vinci Call for Proposals 2025. It is intended to support Franco-Italian university cooperation through mobility funding for master degree's students, PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows and professors between France and Italy. Application deadline is February 12, 2025, 12:00 pm (noon).

How do international doctoral students build their scientific mobility path? What obstacles do they encounter and how do they overcome them? As part of its mission to support doctors and doctoral students, the Association Bernard Gregory (ABG) has gathered the testimony of Adam Aitbenlaassel, a Moroccan PhD monitor on scientific mobility at CY Cergy Paris University.

The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service)  is offering PhD candidates and early-career researchers a funding program to help them to achieve or develop their research projects in a higher education institution or German research institute (public or recognized by the German State). The deadline for applications  2026 depends on the program.

The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service)  is offering PhD candidates and early-career researchers a funding program to help them to achieve or develop their research projects in a higher education institution or German research institute (public or recognized by the German State). The deadline for applications is February 17, 2025.

The kick-off meeting of the ECROS project (Empowering Early Career Researchers with new Opportunities and Skills) took place on October 10, 2025, at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN), one of the nine hubs of the European University of Technology (EUt+ Alliance ). This meeting brought together representatives of the European Commission, partner universities, industry, and researchers’ associations, including ABG, to officially launch this new action funded under Horizon Europe