AARC PhD Forum

Call for Applications

Dear AARC members,

Our dear member University Mozarteum Salzburg is forwarding a call of the municipality of Salzburg, the programme titled “Scientist-in-Residence”. They are inviting early-career researchers from various disciplines to undertake a research stay in Salzburg, the city of knowledge. The programme aims to provide international early-career researchers with access to Salzburg’s research institutions, foster sustainable networking, and thereby initiate and carry out new projects. Up to ten scholarships will be awarded for 2027. The duration of a stay is one month.

Eligible applicants are early-career researchers who hold a PhD or postdoctoral position at a university or are employed at a non-university research institution outside of Austria, or who can demonstrate several years of research experience. Applicants must be no older than 45 and must have their primary residence outside of Austria (this should be confirmed by appropriate documentation, such as a registration certificate). Applications shall go directly to the funding institution under the link https://www.stadt-salzburg.at/kultur/sir.

Sincerely yours,

Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference

Secretariat

PhD Conference 2025

The PhD Conference 2025 took take place between November 10^th-12^th, 2025, and was hosted by Szécheny István University in Győr. 13 PhD students from AARC members presented their work on the topic ” Thinking of the Quality of Life for the Young Generation in the Alpine and Adriatic region through the eyes of a young researcher in circular economy and human and social science”. The event was organised back to back with the meeting of the Scientific Committee.

AARC PhD Conference 2024

Thinking of the Quality of Life for the Young Generation in the Alpine and Adriatic region through the eyes of a young researcher in circular economy and human and social science. Abstracts are published at the University of Maribor’s University Press: https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/1044.

 Maribor/Slovenia, November 14 – 15^th, 2024

4th AARC PhD Students’ Conference

Innovative Technologies in Biomedicine

University of Rijeka
19^th – 20^th September, 2019

Further information: https://uniri.hr/en/aarc-doctoral-conference/

3rd PhD Forum

Language. Literature. Politics. 1918-2018. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance

University of Klagenfurt
20^th – 22^nd September, 2018

Further information: https://conference.aau.at/event/150/

The overall aim of the conference was the scientific exchange between PhD students of the Alps-Adriatic region on the topic of languages not only of nationalisms, but also of critique and resistance based on the analysis of narrative, rhetoric, and argumentative strategies, as well as the use of metaphors, images, and other devices of communication. The conference had an interdisciplinary approach.

Journal Colloquium:
https://colloquium.aau.at/index.php/Colloquium

2nd PhD Students’ Conference

From Food to Health

University of Trieste
28^th – 30^th August, 2017

The general topic was intended to consider an ideal path leading from Food to Health (i.e. nutrition, nutraceuticals and nutrigenomics, natural products and health, metabolomics and other omics, microbiome, molecular oncology, biomaterials, biotechnology, traceability, biodiversity …) through scientifically relevant issues (societal impact of biomedical technologies) and to finally understand how to transfer this knowledge not only to scientists and experts, but also to the broad audience (scientific communication).

Further information: https://www.units.it/news/aarc-2nd-phd-students-conference

1st AARC PhD Students Conference

Environment and Sustainable Energy

University of Maribor
24^th – 25^th November, 2016

The overall aim of the conference was the transfer of knowledge, ideas and experiences between various universities within the Alps-Adriatic region on the topic of Environment and Sustainable Energy.

Further information: https://www.um.si/en/international/about/Pages/PhD_AARC.aspx