COFUND PhD financing!

The inner-city faculties (led by FASoS) received the confirmation of finances for the Marie Curie COFUND trainingsprogramme LIMES. LIMES is a doctoral programme for 13 talented PhD candidates in the domain of the Humanities and Social Sciences, centred around the theme of ‘The Hardening and Softening of Borders: Europe in a Globalising World’. One of these PhD students will, under the supervision of Ellen Vos, be working at our Faculty on the topic: ‘The Role of EU agencies in ‘hardening and softening’ of borders in the EU’. The recruitment process is been initiated.

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