The third call of the Industrial Doctorate program will soon be published, promoted by the Xunta de Galicia and endowed with 1.9 million euros to continue betting on talent in R&D and the creation of quality employment, is already underway.

The objective is to hire 15 students from the Galician university system in companies and technology centers with headquarters or work center in Galicia, where they will develop their doctoral thesis.

The program allows the doctoral thesis to be designed and carried out in a real business context, thus orienting the research project to the resolution of the specific needs and problems of a company or technology center. In this way, it favors collaborative research and the transfer of knowledge from the academic environment to the market, promoting the training of young researchers in the framework of projects of business interest and stimulating their possible insertion into the labor market once the grant ends.

Doctoral students must be enrolled in a doctoral program at a university of the Galician University System (SUG) and, for this, they must have a thesis supervisor linked to the program who must be recognized in the application. The grants include both hiring costs and expenses related to the project and support for three-month stays abroad.

This program, which already allowed the hiring of 30 industrial doctoral students in the two previous editions, is complemented by other measures implemented by the Galician Government with the aim of attracting talent and creating quality employment in the field of research, such as Talento Sénior, Oportunius, Ignicia, the predoctoral and postdoctoral support programs and Investigo.