The State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) supports doctoral candidates by providing opportunities to undertake part or all of their doctoral studies in Greece and/or abroad.
Since 2016, IKY has been offering fully-funded scholarship cycles for doctoral studies in Greece, financed by the NSRF 2014-2020. These scholarships are available in three scientific fields: Natural and Engineering Sciences, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. The scholarships aim to support emerging researchers and ensure the production of high-quality research results. They are co-funded by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund) through the Operational Programme 2014-2020, “Human Resources Development, Education, and Lifelong Learning.”
In addition, IKY awards scholarships to Greek graduates of Greek universities or equivalent foreign universities to conduct research at the doctoral level in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence.
IKY also offers PhD scholarships from the bequests it manages.
Until 2015, IKY had awarded scholarships for the training and further training of doctoral candidates through three programs in cooperation with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
In the academic year 2014/15, scholarships were awarded for conducting part of doctoral studies at universities in Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein as part of the IKY/European Economic Area Programme “Integrated Management of Sea and Inland Waters.”
In cooperation with the National Bank of Greece, IKY awarded ten (10) scholarships for doctoral studies in Greece in specific fields of Humanities and Social Sciences during the 2014/15 academic year.
Finally, in the 2012/13 academic year, IKY awarded one hundred (100) PhD scholarships in Greece in four advanced fields of study: a) Industry, b) Health, c) Energy, and d) Infrastructure-Urban Development and Environment, through the IKY/SIEMENS Programme. Additionally, in the framework of this programme, between 2016 and 2018, a total of eighty (80) research projects were funded. These projects were exclusively carried out in Greek Higher Education Institutions by research groups consisting of a lead researcher (member of the teaching scientific staff/scientific staff) and up to two PhD candidates, who conducted research within the scope of their doctoral studies.