ICIQ Summer Fellowship Programme offers up to 10
fellowships to national and international undergraduate students to
give them the opportunity to learn, work and live in an exciting
environment of cutting-edge research in chemistry. Students are
welcome to spend up to a 3-month paid internship in one of ICIQ’s
research groups between the months of June, July, August and
September. These fellowships will be financed by The Institute of
Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ). The undergraduates, mentored
and supervised by a PhD student or a postdoctoral researcher, will
carry out research projects with scientists at the forefront of
their fields in addition to receiving training. During their stay,
students will have access to ICIQ seminars and conferences. By the
end of their internship, Summer Fellows will be required to present
a short report and presentation of the work and results obtained.
This is a great opportunity for undergraduates to have an insight
on the Institute research activities and to conduct research in an
international scientific environment. Moreover, Summer Fellows are
in an optimal situation to carry out Master studies at ICIQ and
then apply for a future PhD position in our institute. The Summer
Fellowship Programme 2026 will be supported by the ICIQ Severo
Ochoa CEX2024-001469-S grant funded by
MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Deadline for applications: March
22nd, 2026 Contact: [email protected] I. Requirements The
ICIQ Summer Fellowships programme is addressed to undergraduate
students with a background in Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry,
Chemical Engineering or related disciplines or other related areas.
Applicants with different studies from the above mentioned will not
be considered. Interested candidates should be preferably in their
3rd and/or last year (or having accomplished 50% of the credits) of
their undergraduate studies by the time of accepting the
fellowship. Graduate students won’t be eligible for this call.
*Important note: Please take into account that depending on your
nationality, you might be required to get a student visa.
Therefore, if you are awarded with one of our summer fellowships,
please make sure you will have your visa ready before the beginning
of your stay. II. Conditions The research stays at ICIQ will be
from June 1st to September 14th , with a maximum stay of up to 3
months . ICIQ Summer Fellows will receive stipend of 30€ per day
(maximum 900€ per month)



for the period of their in-person stay at
ICIQ. If they agree with their supervisor to complete part of their
fellowship remotely, there will be no stipend for that time-period.
In addition, if a fellow’s stay is less than 3 months, the student
will receive an amount proportional to their time spent at ICIQ.
For the beneficiaries of the scholarships who are considered
non-residents , article 25 of the TRILNR establishes that the
withholding to be practiced in general will be of 24%. However, it
will be 19% in the case of taxpayer’s resident in a Member State of
the European Union or the European Economic Area. Fellows with
nationalities outside the EU are required to obtain their own
medical insurance for the duration of their stay at ICIQ. EU
nationals are required to obtain their European Health Insurance
card before coming to ICIQ (which is free of charge but must be
obtained in your country of origin). III. Research Groups and their
Projects SF 2026-01 NL Prof. Núria López: Machine Learning Models
for Materials in Energy SF 2026-02 FM Prof. Feliu Maseras:
Computational Homogeneous Catalysis SF 2026-03 KV Prof. Katherine
Villa: Programmable Micromotors Powered and Guided by Light SF
2026-04 MH Prof. Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano: Novel Synthetic and
Mechanistic Tactics Using Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Catalysts
SF 2026-05 AE Prof. Antonio Echavarren: Gold(I) Cavitands for
Catalytic Small-Molecule Activation SF 2026-06 EP Prof. Emilio
Palomares: Materials for Energy SF 2026-07 BP Prof. Beatriz Prieto:
Multi-functional sensors to monitor bacterial biofilm growth SF
2026-08 AK Prof. Arjan Kleij: Dual Co/photo Catalysis for New
Reaction Discovery SF 2026-09 ALL Prof. Antoni Llobet: Molecular
redox catalysts for the generation of solar fuels SF 2026-10 JR/BK
Prof. José Ramón Galán y Dr. Bahareh Khezri: Electrolyte-driven
wetting, flooding, and salt deposition in commercial gas diffusion
layers for CO₂ electrolysis You can obtain more information on each
project description and details here . IV. Application




process/documents Interested candidates will be required to
complete the application form and submit the following documents:
Motivation Letter: Please express your interest in joining ICIQ
this Summer. Please indicate also your availability of dates to
start and finish your Summer stage at ICIQ. CV Academic record:
transcript of records since the beginning of Bachelor, showing the
programme, the university, the dates, the credits in each course,
grades (and corresponding scale), and average if available. For
academic records not issued in Catalan, Spanish or English, a
certified translation in one of the above-mentioned languages
should be provided. Only applications received online via ICIQ’s
Career Portal will be considered https://careers.iciq.org/ . Please
complete the application form and submit the documents required as
an attachment. NOTE: Although applicants can select up to two ICIQ
research groups, the first option will be always prioritized for
the selection process. V. Selection and Evaluation process The
evaluation and selection of the candidates will be performed by an
internal selection committee, composed of the Summer Fellow project
supervisor and supported by the Human Resources team, following
this procedure: Submitted proposals will be checked for eligibility
and those not fulfilling all the criteria will be rejected. It will
not be possible to modify the application or to add missing
documentation after the call deadline. The selection will be
merit-based according to the Requirements described in Section I
and following the Evaluation Report format designed for this
programme: letter of motivation, academic record and CV. All
candidates will be notified by the end of April of the selection
process. After acceptance by all successful candidates, a final
list of the awardees will be available in ICIQ's website. In order
to be admitted as a Summer Fellow, candidates can begin their stay
at ICIQ from June 1st, up to September 14th. The exact dates of a
candidate’s stay must be noted in the application. ICIQ follows in
its selection process a gender equally opportunity policy and a
non-discrimination policy on the basis of age, ethnic or social
origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, language and
disability and following the OTM-R principles as established
through the HR Seal in Excellence as Awarded by the European
Commission.

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