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The Institute for Medieval Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Nova University in Lisbon aims to promote high quality research in the medieval field and foster international collaboration that contributes to new, multidisciplinary and comparative approaches to the Middle Ages. The institute has a body of 150 members, which makes it the largest research center in the Iberian Peninsula exclusively devoted to Medieval Studies. At this moment and because the Portuguese national program of PhD and Postdoc grants is about to open (from June 15 to July 15 2016 http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/concursos/individuais2016.phtml.en appel en portugais), the IEM welcomes candidates to apply to those grants having the institute as the host institution.