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H2020COFUND2015–2020

P-SPHERE · Opening Sphere UAB-CEI to PostDoctoral Fellows

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-10-01 → 2020-11-30
EU contribution
€5,097,600
Participants
6
Scheme
MSCA-COFUND

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Results in brief

Opening Sphere UAB-CEI to PostDoctoral Fellows

From 2015 to 2020, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ran an international incoming postdoctoral fellowship programme aimed to support young researchers in pursuing their research career in an excellent environment. The European P-SPHERE Project, coordinated by the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) with participation of 5 Sphere-UAB member centres (ICN2, IFAE, CSIC,CVC,IRTA) aims at establishing a future pole for innovation by enhancing the integration of the R+D+I centres settled in the UAB campus and its surroundings. This 5-year project has been opened to experienced researchers and oriented towards interdisciplinary research related to the strategic challenges of Horizon 2020 as well as to the intersectoral mobility of researchers (with stays in other institutions, businesses and technological centres). The project offered 3-year fellowships to researchers, which had the opportunity to develop their research careers in an excellent environment The project had many successes: 53 fellows hired, hundreds of joint publications, and many new skills were developed making the researchers’ careers flourish. The applicants’ projects were based on a bottom-up approach in which they defined their own projects around five multidisciplinary research domains: - Food - Health - Smart and sustainable cities - Cultural heritage - Material & Energy

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Presented by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as beneficiary, the project is part of a broader initiative named Sphere UAB-Campus of International Excellence (Sphere UAB-CIE) which aims at establishing a future pole for innovation by enhancing the integration of the R&D&I centres settled in the UAB campus and its surrounding. Seven partner institutions, members of Sphere UAB-CIE will be contributing to the co-financing and hiring fellows. Additionally other institutions will participate in the training and secondment activities.The programme P-SPHERE programme will offer 3 years fellowships to a total of 48 fellows which will have the opportunity to develop their researcher’s careers in an exceptional environment. The P-SPHERE programme is articulated around five multidisciplinary research domains, including transversal technologies: Food, Health, Smart and Sustainable Cities, Cultural Heritage and Materials & Energy.This fellowship programme is expected to contribute to realising the full potential of the recruited researchers and to add significantly to the development of their careers in the academic and non-academic sectors.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesCoordinatorSpain
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • CENTRE DE VISIO PER COMPUTADOR · Cerdanyola del VallesSpain
  • FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE NANOCIENCIA I NANOTECNOLOGIA · BELLATERRA (BARCELONA)Spain
  • INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES · CALDES DE MONTBUI BARCELONASpain
  • INSTITUTO DE FISICA DE ALTAS ENERGIAS · Cerdanyola Del VallesSpain

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union