Support for PhD Students

The Research Council of Lithuania's Support for PhD Students is a national doctoral aid route for Lithuanian candidates in science and the arts. It sits inside the council's career-development, mobility, and networking portfolio, and it serves individual doctoral students rather than institutions. Funding is paid in euros, and the published guidance does not set a fixed ceiling because the annual budget shifts with proposals and yearly allocations. The programme has two parts. Doctoral scholarships are issued through an annual call, while academic-visit grants for short research stays abroad are offered twice a year. Eligibility is narrow: PhD students in science must have published or accepted scientific papers, and PhD students in the arts must have published, created, or publicly presented works. The application language is Lithuanian, which keeps the route tightly tied to the domestic doctoral system. This is a practical fit for doctoral researchers who already have a visible body of work and need either baseline scholarship support or a short travel-linked research stay. The strongest applications are likely to show a clear connection between the doctoral project and the requested support, with enough documentary evidence to satisfy a Lithuanian-language review. Because the scheme is built around active researchers rather than institutions, it rewards applicants who can present a direct research case and a clean publication or presentation record.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.