CREATE post-doc scholarships 2025

Does your faith inspire you to look for solutions to today’s social problems? Would you like to develop innovative research projects about human dignity, solidarity & subsidiarity? Are you interested in how the Holy See works & its role in international relations?

Then the CREATE Post-Doctoral Programme at FASS is for you!

The CREATE Initiative provides to access resources and training in Rome in Catholic social teaching (CST) for students from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), so they can develop their knowledge and their capability in using CST for resolving problems faced in their local context.

We are offering 6 CREATE PD scholarships
from February 2025 until February 2026
managed by the Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS)
of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

The CREATE Post-doctoral (PD) Program aims to promote research in the fields of civil economy, social enterprises, business ethics, ethical leadership & management, or any other topic with a direct connection to the issues of prime concern of Pope Francis, including, but not limited to: integral ecology and care for our common home, care of migrants, addressing homelessness and the socially excluded. The PD program offers the opportunity to young scholars (aged 25-40) who have completed doctoral studies to continue their research in a specific area of study within our Faculty, in collaboration with the other Faculties (Canon Law, Philosophy, Theology) and with the Institutes associated with the University (Ecumenical, Historical, Spirituality, Thomistic, Religious Sciences). The post-docs are able to benefit from the presence in Rome of the central institutions of the Catholic Church and of some international organisations (Food and Agriculture Organisation, Embassies to the Holy See, EU representation…).

The Call for Applications is now open the deadline is November 15 2024

For more details, including who can apply and what documents are needed for the application, please download the Call for Application