Application Deadline: 30th September, 2023
The Foscolo fellowship is inviting applications for three 3-year top-up fellowships in economic and financial subjects to be assigned to the 3 best departments or research institutes in Economics or Finance participating to the Ph.D. job markets (US job market or any equivalent organization in Europe) in 2023/2024. The main objective of this competition is to attract and retain in Europe outstanding PhD graduates who might otherwise choose to begin and develop their career overseas.
The competition is open to all departments in Economics or Finance from any university or research institute of the 13 countries where UniCredit operates which will participate to the job markets in 2023/2024 in order to offer a tenure track position or post-doc position to outstanding job market candidates.
The top-up fellowships will start on October 1, 2024. Each top-up fellowship is worth € 50,000 per year and has a 3-year duration. The Foundation will pay the prize directly to the winning departments in a unique annual installment. This top-up fellowship complements the salary and contractual terms of the standard tenure track assistant professorships.
This top-up fellowship complements the salary and contractual terms of the standard tenure track assistant professorships. The Foundation awards the departments and delegates them to appoint the recipients of the top-up fellowships. The winning departments must notify the Foundation of the names
of the top-up recipients by May 31, 2024. Recipients selected in the 2023/24 PhD job market must be appointed as assistant professors by the winning institutions. The fellowship is to be recognized as a
complement to their salary, and the corresponding position is to be named UniCredit Foundation Top-Up Fellowship. The UniCredit Foundation will be acknowledged in appropriate University and/or department publications, websites and reports. Fellowship recipients are selected independently by each
institution and named UniCredit Foundation fellows.
Application Details
- A description of the department applying to the competition with special emphasis on the governance of the international recruitment process
- A report of the department track record with the post-docs/assistant professors employed in the last 5 years, including their updated CVs, with particular attention to international hiring
- A description of the department strategy, including information on the salary and other contractual terms that will be offered to the job market candidate to be complemented by the foundation’s fellowship
- A declaration of consent to handling the candidate departments’ data pursuant to regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.
The complete application should be submitted exclusively online in a single PDF and must be written in English.
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