Convocatoria Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND: 8 programas de contratacio n de investigadores ya formalizados PROYECTO Attracting and Encouraging Triple I Talent Mobility ATHENEA3I Universidad de Granada FONDOS CE 2.124.000 DEL 20 investigadores Athenea3I is an innovative regional wake-up call focused on attracting highly talented researchers to Granada (Andalusia region, Spain) in order to benefit their research career with International, Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral opportunities. This innovative fellowship programme offers the experienced researchers an outstanding opportunity to develop new skills and competences, enriched with a personalized and pioneering career mentoring plan. It also includes research periods at some of the most distinguished outstanding institutions around the world, and optional secondments in regional, national and international companies. The high-talented human capital hired by the University of Granada, as beneficiary institution, will perform as active magnets in relation not only to academy, but to industry and business, establishing bridges for transfer of knowledge, exploitation of the results, and future research collaborations. Athenea3I commitment pivots on the applicability of the research outputs by making Science for Society: reinforcing not only the innovation aspect but also the open data access and the public engagement. It has on target the social challenges of Andalucia2020, shooting up their results to palliate some socio-economic problems of the region and, consequently, to get towards the Europe2020 targets. 1
DOCtoral training programme in Functional Advanced Materials DOC-FAM Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Programa de Doctorado FONDOS CE 1.726.560 DEL 22 doctorandos DOC-FAM is a COFUND Doctoral Programme with duration of 60 months presented by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and coordinated through the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB). The main aim of the programme is the training of 22 early-stage researchers during 36 months each as the next-generation of scientists in the exciting field of Functional Advanced Materials, while at the same time offering a complete training experience to the recruited fellows. This doctoral programme builds up on the recent award obtained by ICMAB as one of the 22 Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence, an award given by the Spanish Government that recognizes institutions from all areas of knowledge that perform cutting-edge research at world standards. The award as Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence to develop Smart Functional Materials for Social Grand Challenges (FUNMAT, 2016-2019) demonstrates the outstanding international scientific leadership of ICMAB in the field of Advanced Functional Materials and Nanomaterials. The aim of the research programme offered in DOC-FAM is to complement the training aspects of FUNMAT by offering the recruited fellows an excellence training programme in the bourgeoning field of Functional Advanced Materials through an interdisciplinary, intersectorial and international approach with the support of several partner organisations from the area, four of them contributing to the co-funding of the doctoral programme. The designed training programme combines different types of activities that will enhance their research and personal skills, providing them with new career perspectives. 2
SupercompuTing And Related applications Fellows Program STARS Barcelona Supercomputing Center- BSC FONDOS CE 1.416.000 DEL 20 investigadores The BSC STARS (SupercompuTing And Related applications) International Research Fellows program aims at fostering the training of highly skilled post-doc in all fields of High Performance Computing and related applications, specifically in Earth Science and Meteorology, in Life Sciences, Genomics and Personalised Medicine and in Computational Engineering and Physics and Computational Social Sciences, providing them with all the necessary tools for developing their potentials, deepening their skills and knowledge in a stimulating, international and interdisciplinary environment, offering them intersectorial secondments with private industry or non-academic Research centers, in order to boost their career perspectives as successful independent researchers. During their stay at BSC, fellows will participate in challenging research projects of outstanding quality, highly competitive at the international level, in an international environment. BSC participates in 178 projects out of which 48 were funded by FP7 and H2020. It is engaged in national and international collaborations with world-leading HPC technology providers (such as IBM, Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft, CISCO) and users (such as Repsol, Iberdrola, AEMET; AstraZeneca, MeteoFrance). The fellows will be offered the opportunity to have short secondments periods under the premises of one these partner institutions in order to strengthen their CVs and increase the chances of success in their careers. 3
GOT ENERGY TALENT. Attracting Talented Researchers within the Spanish Campus of International Excellence Smart Energy and the region of Madrid. GOT ENERGY Universidad de Alcalá FONDOS CE 2.407.200 DEL 34 investigadores GOT ENERGY TALENT is a highly competitive, merit-based fellowship programme aimed at incorporating postdoctoral talent on the area of SMART ENERGY to enable them to conduct their own excellent research project and bringing it closer to the society, in order to produce a positive effect not only in terms of excellent science and talent attraction but also by strengthening the regional economy and promoting international networking. GOT ENERGY TALENT will bring in 34 experienced researchers to develop a 24-month stay through 2 open calls at international level (17 fellowships per call), over its 48 months of implementation. The postdoctoral fellows will have a full trans-national mobility experience and access to the research facilities of the organisations partnering the programme from and outside academia. The fellows will freely decide whether to carry out a 24-month advanced research project or a 12- month advanced research combined with a 12-month period devoted to applied research, in one of the hosting institutions within the network of internationally recognised organisations on this core area. GOT ENERGY TALENT will strengthen a favourable environment in order to attract talented and experienced researchers by offering an attractive ecosystem, composed of academic and industrial organisations focused on ENERGY AREA with a strong potential. The selection of the area is based on the objectives posed by the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) of the region of Madrid, which encompasses Energy, amongst other prioritised areas, along with the long-term vision of the Universidad de Alcalá and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, as it is clear from their involvement in the CIE Smart Energy focusing on Bioenergy and Smart Cities. Furthermore, GOT ENERGY TALENT is a demand driven research programme addressing the significant challenges faces Europe in the field of Energy. 4
International Research Postdoctoral Programme INTREPiD Fundación Centro de Regulación Genómica (CRG) FONDOS CE 1.274.400 DEL 12 investigadores INTREPiD is an innovative 5-year Fellowship Programme that aims at recruiting 12 experienced researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) located in the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), one of the largest biomedical research clusters in southern Europe. Fellows will be selected following an open, transparent, and merit-based process, based on international peer-review, and offered attractive working conditions in line with the European Charter and Code (the CRG was awarded the HR Excellence in 2013). Selected researchers will be able to develop their own project under the supervision of the group leader they select. They will be offered international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial mobility opportunities in a highly creative and dynamic environment supported by cutting-edge core facilities and a vibrant network of collaborators from academia and the private sector. INTREPiD will provide tailored mentoring and a comprehensive training programme, including up-to-date scientific and technological courses in a wide range of topics and disciplines, and modules on transferable skills, entrepreneurship, open science and career development. Mobility to national and international academic and non-academic institutes will be encouraged, in one of the partner organisations or in institutes that research labs collaborate with. Overall, the INTREPiD Programme will provide fellows unique skills and competences for developing a successful career in both the academic and non-academic sector. Thanks to the large CRG network of collaborators locally and internationally, the Programme will also catalyse sharing of best practice in experienced researchers training programmes across different institutes. 5
Biomedicine international training research programme for excellent clinician-scientists BITRECS Consorci Institut d investigacions biomediques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS) FONDOS CE 1.062.000 DEL 10 investigadores Significant advances in clinical practice cannot be made without a thorough understanding of the disease mechanisms from laboratory benches combined with good clinical observation and knowledge of disease management from the bed side. Clinician-scientists are the only professionals who can bridge these two worlds. The clinician-scientist role started decades ago within hospitals driven by the desire to understand and cure. However, a decrease in these vocations is now threatening progress and improvement of healthcare, thereby impacting on economic competiveness worldwide. IDIBAPS, the leading biomedical research institute of Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain) as pioneer in fostering clinician scientists, proposes a 60-month innovative fellowship programme called BITRECS, Biomedicine international training research programme for excellent clinicianscientists, based on excellence only. Through 2 international peer-reviewed calls, it invites 10 fellows to implement a 36-month bottom-up research project through an outgoing phase (12-18 months at any worldwide institution outside Spain) and a return phase (18-24 months at IDIBAPS), helping to make a lasting impact within the European Research Area and put the European Union ahead of the game in this crucial area of human health. BITRECS is an international, intersectorial and interdisciplinary programme. This transnational mobility scheme will boost the fellows professional growth through: 1) continuous career support (scientific supervision, career mentoring and support for exploiting/disseminating the results); 2) participation in scientific and non-scientific training/networking activities linked to both sectors (academic and non-academic); and, 3) sharing experiences with peers from different disciplines. IDIBAPS, with its HRS4R strategy aligned to the European Charter and Code and a strong background in other human resources programmes guarantees a successful implementation. 6
COFUND BIST PREDOCTORAL PROGRAMME PREBIST The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) Programa de Doctorado FONDOS CE 2.929.920 DEL 28 doctorandos The PREBIST proposal is presented by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) as beneficiary. PREBIST is an ambitious programme of 28 four-year fellowships for multidisciplinary pre-doctoral research at BIST s constituent research centres and associated partner institutions (hospitals, private companies, technology centres, and other academic institutions), who will provide secondments, training, networking activities and other actions to complement the research activities and professional development of the fellows. The PREBIST proposal is a major initiative by which BIST aims to leverage the combined capacities of the constituent centres in a manner which none of them could do on their own and help achieve the strategic objectives of BIST. Key objectives of PREBIST are to: Boost the capacity for international talent attraction with increased visibility, strengthened recruitment processes, improved offerings of research areas with interdisciplinary and intersectorial aspects, and improved landing-pad processes to facilitate mobility; Improve BIST centre capacities in the management of researcher career development, scientific and technical training, and new offerings in complimentary skills training and outreach activities; Further drive interdisciplinary and intersectorial collaboration between BIST centres and other partner entities through joint research activities, secondments and technical trainings, improved access and utilisation of infrastructures, networking and development of personal contacts, joint seminars and workshops. 7
COFUND BIST POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME PROBIST The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) FONDOS CE 6.478.200 DEL 61 investigadores PROBIST is an ambitious programme offering 61 three-year fellowships to foster excellence in multidisciplinary postdoctoral research at BIST s constituent research centres and associated partner institutions (hospitals, private companies, technology centres, and other academic institutions), which will provide opportunities for collaborations and secondments, training, networking activities and other actions to complement the research activities and professional development of the fellows. The PROBIST proposal is presented by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) as beneficiary. BIST, a private non-profit foundation, was created in 2015 as an initiative of the Catalan government to bring together six Excellent Flagship Catalan research centres that already had a track record of working together: the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), the Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The COFUND Postdoctoral Programme goals are: To contribute towards improving conditions for carrying out highquality research at the research centers and to increase its international visibility. To offer coordinated postgraduate programs of excellence with international impact. To build a critical mass to multiply the capacity of the research centers in different fields, such as knowledge transfer, scientific and technological platforms and talent attraction. To cooperate with scientific institutions, companies, individuals and public or private entities to fulfill these aims. 8