ICFONESTPLUS · ICFONest+ Advanced Postdoctoral Program
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2014-01-01 → 2018-12-31
- EU contribution
- €1,531,772
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-COFUND
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Results in brief
ICFONest+ Advanced Postdoctoral Program
ICFO (http://icfo.eu), Barcelona (Spain), provides cutting edge facilities as well as stimulating, international and interdisciplinary environment. The ICFOnestPLUS programme, partially supported by the Marie Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes (COFUND) action of the European Commission, offered top-class researchers access to excellent facilities, competitive salaries, research expenses and support from Group Leaders, and assisted them in becoming successful independent researchers. The goal of ICFONestPLUS was to provide outstanding young researchers with high level research training. Within the scope of this program, 28 Fellowships has been awarded offering fellows the opportunity to accomplish a stay at ICFO benefiting from its state-of-the-art facilities and resources, and also its outstanding research environment where collaborations and knowledge sharing thrive, and different fields converge. The ICFONestPLUS program build on previous experience and success of its predecessor and has served as a career-boosting opportunity for the awardees. A dedicated ICFOnestPLUS website (http://nestpostdocs.icfo.eu) was created at the beginning of the ICFOnest program, the very successful predecessor of this current second COFUND action at postdoctoral level at ICFO. It has served as a valuable tool to inform interested researchers about the application and selection process, as well as the conditions of the programme. A “Guide for Applicants” had also been made available for download (http://nestpostdocs.icfo.es/data/uploads/icfonestappguide2014.pdf), providing information about the programme and application process, including eligibility criteria, documentation required (CV, references, education records), selection process, etc. ICFO prepared dissemination material to promote the programme internationally, and calls for application were published via main jobsites, such as: Naturejobs, Eruaxess, Brightrecruits, PhotonicsJobs, PhysicsToday, Research Gate, Euro Science, national websites R+D positions. Starting January 2014, ICFOnestPLUS fellowship call for application were launched every 3 months, on a rolling basis. Batches 1-9 (until March 2016) of the programme performed very successfully, with a total of 635 applications from aspiring international post-docs. By eventually hosting 28 Fellows, we assigned more than the initially 25 available positions (of 24 months duration). The ICFO HRE Unit offered all the necessary support to help the Incoming Fellows in their relocations. The ICFOnestPLUS Fellows, have had opportunities to train and develop non-scientific skills, participate in outreach activities, as well as in social activities. ICFOnestPLUS fellows and their projects has been integrated in on-going research activities of an already existing ICFO research group and supervised by the corresponding Group Leader, advances scientific training-through-research had also been provided.
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Project objective
The goal of ICFONest+ is to provide outstanding young researchers with high level research training, within the INCOMING trans-national mobility scheme. To achieve this ICFO offers to the Fellows its state-of-the-art facilities and resources, and also its outstanding research environment where collaborations and knowledge sharing can thrive, and different fields converge. We believe such an environment to be a unique one. The new ICFONest+ builds on the currently running ICFONest, and puts forward new salient opportunities for the Fellows:- ICFONest+ would increase its level of transnational fellowships to host 25 Fellows, as opposed to the current 14. This has in part been made possible by in 2011 being awarded the highest distinction ever made available for research centres under the Spanish National Funding Program, to belong to the Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Program. This award granted ICFO the necessary funds to make its Postdoctoral Programme permanent, and would also allow for potentially expanding the number of Fellows substantially. We believe this possibility to leverage the number of transnational Fellows would be at the heart of the objectives of the COFUND call.- New advanced research training opportunities will also be generated within the Severo Ochoa award itself, enlarging the scope and quality of the Fellows´ training possibilities.- The recent and continuous expansion of ICFO´s facilities, scope, research groups and research lines will allow the Institute to offer a wider variety of research and training opportunities to the Fellows, thus increasing the career advancement possibilities for the Fellows and the potential impact of the Fellowship.In summary, the new ICFONest+ Programme builds on the previous experience and success of its predecessor and is primarily designed as a career-boosting opportunity for the awardees. New research lines and new post-doctoral training opportunities have been put in place to achieve such goals
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Participants
- FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · CastelldefelsCoordinatorSpain
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