CES is the scientific host institution for students of the PhD Programmes in the application procedures for funding lines in the area.

CES provides help to its doctoral students in the application processes to scholarship Programmes, such as:

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Foundation for Science and Technology

Luso-American Development Foundation

Camões I.P.

Student Services at the Embassies of Lusophone Africa.

The International Relations Unit of the University of Coimbra (DRIUC) regularly issues calls for mobility grants.

All students are encouraged to seek funding sources that are appropriate to their individual profile and to the subject matter of their research project. CES provides support in the various phases of the application process, from the verification of the eligibility conditions, to the process of issuing/verifying the documents supporting the application and reviewing the projects.