SCHADOC is a doctoral program hosted at Aix-Marseille University (amU) co-funded by the Horizon Europe program, region SUD and AMIDEX. It is focused on four thematic axes:  

• Societies and culture,  
• Climate change and environmental challenges,  
• Health and well-being,  
• Artificial Intelligence and its applications. 

40 ESRs will graduate in the frame of SCHADOC (20 recruited in 2025 and 20 in 2026). They will benefit from dedicated trainings and supervision in the triple I dimension: Interdisciplinarity; Intersectoral; International. 

SCHADOC offers two options for the candidates to obtain a fellowship. 

• Bottom-up call: the candidates can propose their own research project before January 12^th, 2026 and we will help them to find an amU supervisor before February 10th, 2026. 
• Top-down call: the supervisors propose the thesis research projects, they will be published on March 11th, 2026 and candidates can apply until April 20th, 2026. 

This submission platform is dedicated to collect the bottom-up proposals only, which is a two-step process: 

1. Submit your research proposal and your candidate application including all the required documents by January 12^th. 
2. After an eligibility check you will be invited to find a supervisor and submit the partnership information (supervisor, co-supervisor, international, intersectoral) by February 10th. The management team can help you finding a supervisor during this step.

Don’t forget to check the eligibility criteria on the SCHADOC website.

For more information, join the webinar on December 9th, 1:30pm available on the official call website.