INVEST · INternational VEnue for poSTgraduate education
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2011-11-01 → 2017-04-30
- EU contribution
- €929,224
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-COFUND
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Results in brief
INternational VEnue for poSTgraduate education
The International Venue for Postgraduate Education (INVEST) project aims at favouring transnational mobility in the EU Higher Education Area, providing training and career development opportunities for Experienced Scientists of any nationality, increasing the international quality of the postdoctoral community at large, and fostering state-of-the art research activity in Europe. San Raffaele Scientific Institute (SRSI) is one of the major Biomedical Research Campuses in Italy. It comprises Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (USR), the beneficiary of the project, Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR), the leading research hospital in Italy, and Fondazione Centro San Raffaele (FCSR), a private non profit research foundation. The mission of the SRSI is integration and interdisciplinarity for excellence in teaching, innovation in research, and optimal patient's care. SRSI hosts an International Postdoctoral Programme (IPP) devoted to the development and support of an international postdoctoral community through the recruitment of fellows according to excellence standards. Through the INVEST project, USR is committed to further develop such programme. Given its position within SRSI, USR offers INVEST postdocs the opportunity to be trained in cutting-edge research topics in a highly supportive, intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary environment. The INVEST Project from November 2011 to April 2017 involved: • three Calls for Applications • the enrolment of 17 postdocs • both incoming and reintegration schemes • funding including fellowship and research costs Postdoctoral fellows were recruited through merit-based transparent selection procedures and had the chance to freely choose the research topic of interest among those present within the Scientific Institute. Teaching activities are carried out in three University Faculties (Medicine, Philosophy and Psychology), whereas research activities spanning the field of Molecular Medicine are carried out in 5 Research Divisions and 3 specialized Research Centres. Moreover, 4 largely independent but integrated Research Institutes are present on Campus. Three international calls for applications were launched in 2011, 2013, and 2014. Three independent Selection Committees performed the selection of potential candidates. 21 fellowships were awarded overall and 17 have been assigned. All the fellows received a welcome booklet to support them with administrative procedures, legal issues, and for information on local facilities and activities. Since the beginning of the project, a public website has been active (http://www.unisr.it/en/international-post-doctoral-program/) and continuously updated to advertise all the calls for applications, disseminate information concerning the above mentioned calls, as well as for promoting INVEST training activities and events. The International Postdoctoral Programme Committee (IPPC) organized and managed INVEST activities; its members also served as tutors to the INVEST postdocs. In line with the commitment of USR to a life-long training of the future generation of EU-based scientists and science-related professionals, several training activities were organized and every postdoc was encouraged to participate in order to develop new research skills, exploit future career opportunities, and gain insights into specific themes and technologies. The overall outcome of the project was to provide the postdoc fellows with life-long career development opportunities, and generate new knowledge. INVEST researchers had a unique opportunity to expand their technical and scientific skills by joining internationally renowned laboratories and collaborating in an international setting.
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Project objective
The Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (USR) is a vibrant and acclaimed private University in Milan, Italy, registered by the Italian Ministry of Research. Together with the San Raffaele Research Institute and the San Raffaele Hospital, both controlled by the San Raffaele Foundation hereafter referred to as HSR, it is part of the San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park, hereafter referred to as SRBSP.A specific agreement rules the interactions between the USR and HSR. All the USR Professors within the Faculties of Medicine, Psychology and Philosophy, and with the School of Biotechnology have an exclusive relationship with the San Raffaele Foundation in the aim of collaborative teaching and shared research strategies and clinical programs.All academic, research and clinical activities take place on the SRBSP campus.The SRBSP is renown as a leading research structure in the field of Molecular Medicine in Italy and worldwide. The mission of the SRBSP is integration and interdisciplinarity for excellence in teaching, innovation in research, and optimal patients care. SRBSP launched recently an International Postdoctoral Programme devoted to the development and support of an international community of postdocs, both national and non-nationals, recruited according to excellence standards. Through INVEST, USR is committed to further develop such program and to promote mobility by fostering the enrolment of both incoming postdocs (non-residents who have not resided in the country of the host organization for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the deadline of the call) and Member State postdocs having carried out research in a third country for at least 3 years (reintegration scheme). The USR, given its position within SRBSP, offers a unique opportunity to be trained in cutting-edge research topics and state-of-the art techniques in a highly supportive, intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary environment. Postdocs will be recruited through merit-based transparent selection procedures and have the chance to freely choose the research topic of interest among those present within the Institute (see B1, page 5). As the SRBSP hosts both academic and corporate settlements, postdocs will have the opportunity to be trained in fields that span the domains of basic, applied, clinical and industrial research. In line with the commitment of USR to a life-long training of the future generation of EU-based scientists and science-related professionals, assigned projects will provide postdocs with new research skills also reaching out beyond research and into the worlds or scientific writing, communication, report preparation, grant writing, patent applications and project management. Funding by the European Union will thus increase the competitiveness of promising young scientists and will provide them with life-long career development opportunities and, by that, contribute to the growth of the Eu Higher Education Area.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE · MilanoCoordinatorItaly
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