12 PhD positions in the MSCA Doctoral Network Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century

The MSCA-DN ‘Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century (LAC-EU)’ invites applications for 12 PhD Fellowships.

Social, political, and cultural transformations, a fast-changing global economy, geopolitical tensions, and global uncertainties have created a markedly different context from the previous era of European Union (EU) policies towards Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Networks, the LAC-EU doctoral network will establish a novel, comprehensive and interdisciplinary framework to understand LAC and its relationship with the EU, fostering respectful, non-Eurocentric research and engagement. It will enable a better understanding of current challenges in Latin American governance and support sustainable, equitable and successful relations between the EU and LAC.

LAC-EU is an integrated four-year doctoral network programme, providing world-class, interdisciplinary research and training in social and political sciences, law, and the humanities, as well as research exchanges and policy-relevant secondments in the EU and LAC. Research themes include the rise of populism, democracy, gender rights, trade, migration, health, global cities, sustainability and green finance, and cultural studies.

The LAC-EU doctoral programme offers 12 PhD positions and comprises an interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral network composed of seven leading higher education institutions and key, highly relevant civil society, and policy partners from a range of European and LAC countries.

Website for additional job details and links to specific calls from the different network partners: www.lac-eu.network/

Network members

• Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• FLACSO Argentina
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Sciences Po
• University of Oslo
• University of York