Closing date: June 15th.,2025

Student type: Domestic and International students are eligible for this scholarship program.

Level of study: Ph.D.

Study area: Biomedical Engineering

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Computer Science

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Engineering and Public Policy

Human-Computer Interaction

Language Technologies

Machine Learning

Materials Science and Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Robotics

Societal Computing

Software Engineering

Scholarship value: fully funded

Description: The CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. Programs Initiative, launched for the first time in the 2021/2022 Academic year, offers Ph.D. scholarships in selected cutting-edge areas of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), related to the scope of the CMU Portugal Program.

The Affiliated Ph.D. Program will be entirely hosted by a Portuguese University, with a research period at Carnegie Mellon up to 1 year. Upon the Ph.D. conclusion, candidates will be awarded a degree by the Portuguese host University.

Eligibility:

1.you must be:

• National citizens or citizens from another member states of the European Union;
• Citizens of third States;
• Stateless persons;
• Citizens enjoying political refugee status.
• Hold a Licenciatura or master´s degree;
• Reside in Portugal permanently and habitually, a mandatory requirement for both national citizens and foreign citizens;
• Not having benefited from a Ph.D. scholarship or Ph.D. in companies scholarship directly funded by FCT, regardless of its duration.
• The candidate must have a supervisor from a Portuguese higher education institution and a co-supervisor at Carnegie Mellon.

How to apply:  apply online 

More info: https://cmuportugal.org/affiliated-ph-d-programs/