RIKEN International Program Associate (IPA)
RIKEN
Who can apply: Non-Japanese doctoral candidates only. You must be enrolled in a PhD programme at a Japanese or overseas university that has a joint graduate school partnership agreement with RIKEN, or is in the process of entering one; the partner list on the page includes institutions in India, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea… What is funded: A daily living allowance of JPY 5,200 plus free on-campus housing, or actual off-campus rent up to JPY 70,000 a month, for up to three years. One round-trip air ticket and accident insurance premiums are also covered. Where a partner university’s agreement provides for it, that university may cover part of the… Deadline: See official page.
Read the full call and apply on the official page: RIKEN, official page.
Who can apply
- Non-Japanese doctoral candidates only. You must be enrolled in a PhD programme at a Japanese or overseas university that has a joint graduate school partnership agreement with RIKEN, or is in the process of entering one; the partner list on the page includes institutions in India, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, the UK, Germany, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Egypt and Nigeria. Securing a RIKEN host first is a hard precondition, not a formality.
Stage dates
Before the call, you must contact a RIKEN researcher directly and secure their agreement to host you; that researcher then notifies RIKEN's Research Personnel Affairs Section.See the official page
Biannual open call, April and September, for candidates applying from outside Japan. RIKEN prints the months with no year.See the official page
Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.