Opportunities

There is one annual call for applications with deadline every year the 1st of November.

Two different Erasmus Mundus Doctorate fellowships can be awarded to doctoral candidates: Category A and B fellowships.

There is one annual call for applications with deadline every year the 1st of November.

Two different Erasmus Mundus Doctorate fellowships can be awarded to doctoral candidates: Category A and B fellowships.

You apply by writing a project proposal with a specific research topic. You cannot create this topic yourself -during the summer several research topics will be published on the AgTrain website. You choose one and write a proposal based on this topic. You cannot conduct fieldwork in your home country.

Applications must be submitted through the online application platform: Apply now.

1

Strategies for sustaining small-scale fisheries in Mediterranean sea

Artisanal Fishery,
Stakeholders, Sustainability, Labelling, Indicators, Mediterranean

Catania

Montpellier

2

Reducing the impact of feedstuff transport by a better utilisation of plant wastes for livestock in the dry Mediterranean areas: a way to improve meat quality?

livestock, wastes
disposal, meat quality, alternative feed resources

Catania

Cork

3

Integrated crop-livestock-tree systems for smallholder farmers in the Amazon

integrated farming
systems, agroforestry, resource use efficiency, co-innovation, livelihoods,
Amazon 

Wageningen

Montpellier

4

Assessment and Optimization of Multiple Uses of Organic Matter in Crop-Livestock Systems in Kenya

smallholder production, livestock, organic matter, soil quality, fodder,
market opportunity, policy

Montpellier

Wageningen

5

Modelling PES (Payments for Ecosystem Services) using product bundles (water conservation, biodiversity and soil carbon sequestration) to prevent deforestation in tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) and meet the socioeconomic needs of their farmers in Latin America

Tropical montane cloud
forests; Coffee plantations; Payment for Ecosystem Services; product “bundles”
in PES schemes

Madrid

Montpellier

6

Improving degraded soils – an interdisciplinary assessment of the factors and mitigation possibilities for impoverished peoples of the dry lands in Chile

Soil reclamation, Smallholder incomes, Management strategies, LCA

Copenhagen

Catania

7

Developing Food value chains for Small and medium Scale Cassava Farmers in Ghana

small and medium rural
agriculture, postharvest loss, food security

Cork

Madrid

8

The potential economic and nutritional impact of indigenous fresh fruits and vegetable production and consumption in rural communities

Fruits and leafy
vegetables, nutrition, food security
income generation, consumption, sufficiency and sustainability

Cork

Catania

9

Assessing sustainable fertilisation strategies for Coffee producers in Central America

Coffee, N Fertilisation,
Agroforestry, N2 fixation

Montpellier

Copenhagen

10

Impact of innovation and research systems in the agricultural and food sector of the countries of the South

innovation system,
impacts of innovation, innovation economy, intermediaries, innovation policies 

Montpellier

Madrid