MFP · Martí i Franquès COFUND
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2017-02-01 → 2022-09-30
- EU contribution
- €3,924,000
- Participants
- 34
- Scheme
- MSCA-COFUND
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Results in brief
Martí i Franquès COFUND
In 2017, with the COFUND funding, the URV proposes a revamped doctoral management programme for 50 PhD fellowships, offered in 2 calls (2017, 2018), that aligns the existing doctoral programme to the requirements of the European Charter and Code, and provides much improved employment and working conditions to the best doctoral candidates around the world. The MFP starts by offering one of the best salary at European level for early stage researchers, a transparent, open, merit-based, impartial and equitable selection process and provides equal opportunities for all candidates. In fact, the participation of the latter is encouraged by reserving 2 positions for candidates with disabilities. Finally 46 candidates were recruited, from which 40% are women researchers. First and foremost, the main goal of the MFP was to train the recruited doctors, and for this, provided the most innovative training programme. At the end of the MFP programme, the training pilot in transversal skills was included in the permanent offer of courses at URV. Part of the successful strategy was also the secondment to an international institution. The last part of the MFP programme took place during the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in Spain was extremely difficult, however, even in these conditions, 40 of the fellows managed to implement their secondment. As a manifest to our initial forecast, for now 31 fellows defended their PhD thesis, and at this moment, we are confident that the remaining fellows will also defend the thesis. Due to the disruptions created by the COVID-19, some of the fellows needed more time to finalize their research work. Based on the positive experience of the MFP programme, not just for the fellows but also for URV, we expect that participation of international students in our doctoral programmes will strongly increase, which combined with the employment and working conditions offered, will make our university a highly desirable employer in the region. The quality of the training programme guaranteed the generation of very high skilled professionals at the end of the programme. Based on the data gathered up to now, the work position of 5 fellows is related with the non-academic field, 15 fellows remained in Spain and 10 are working internationally. These specifics are in line with the general output from MSCA projects, according to the latest surveys. The MFP generated a lot of visibility for our university, also through the research results produced and their dissemination and exploitation, a catalyst of new and important collaborations for future research opportunities.
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Project objective
The Martí Franquès Programme (MFP) was born in 2012 as a natural evolution of the doctoral fellowships programme offered for the last decade by the Departments of the University Rovira i Virgili (URV). It was designed to attract the most talented doctoral candidates to work on ground-breaking research projects, in any of the 5 knowledge disciplines (Arts and Humanities, Legal and Social Sciences, Engineering and Architecture, Sciences, Health Sciences). MFP has also unified administrative procedures, enhanced working conditions and concentrated several financial funds. For 2016, the URV goes a step forward, and proposes a revamped management programme (MFP) for 50 fellowships, offered in 2 calls (2016 and 2017), that aligns the existing fellowship programme to the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for Recruitment (C&C), and provide much improved employment and working conditions to the best doctoral candidates from all over the world. The MFP will ensure a selection process that is transparent, open, merit-based, impartial, equitable and internationally advertised for all its positions, and commits to provide equal opportunities for all candidates, including candidates with disabilities. The fellows will be enrolled in one of the 23 URV official doctoral programmes, and will be hosted by our best research groups, who will provide state-of-the-art facilities, and the most innovative training programme, which mandates a secondments to an international institution, to complement their research and transferrable skills training. Short stays at industrial partners are also envisioned (URV has 16 ongoing industrial doctorates), which will help prepare the fellows for a possible career in the private sector, by offering training in specific skills most valued by companies. The MFP is formally backed by 33 partner organizations (4 industrial partners, 1 banks, 1 foundation and 27 international academic organizations), 2 of them co-funding the programme.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI · TarragonaCoordinatorSpain
- AALBORG UNIVERSITET · AalborgDenmark
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY · Auburn AlUnited States
- BANCO SANTANDER SA · CANTABRIASpain
- Biosfer Teslab S.L. · A CORU�Unknown Region
- CROMOGENIA UNITS SA · BarcelonaSpain
- DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER ERNAEHRUNGSFORSCHUNG POTSDAM REHBRUECKE · NuthetalGermany
- DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · DublinIreland
- ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · LausanneSwitzerland
- FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER WASSERWIRTSCHAFT UND KLIMAZUKUNFT AN DER RWTH AACHEN (FIW) E.V. · AACHENGermany
- FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG · ErlangenGermany
- FUNDACIO CATALUNYA LA PEDRERA - FUNDACIO ESPECIAL · BarcelonaSpain
- FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · TARRAGONASpain
- GCR Group International S.L · A CORU�Unknown Region
- HASKOLI ISLANDS · ReykjavikIceland
- HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH · BraunschweigGermany
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU METALE NEFEROASE SIRARE-IMNR · Pantelimon IlfovRomania
- IST-ID ASSOCIACAO DO INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E O DESENVOLVIMENTO · LISBOAPortugal
- ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO · KUOPIOFinland
- NTRAM GENERAL S.A. · CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONASpain
- RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · GroningenNetherlands
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE · AdelaideAustralia
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · ManchesterUnited Kingdom
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA · GENOVAItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA · PARMAItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · TorinoItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA · VeronaItaly
- UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER · MontpellierFrance
- UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG · StrasbourgFrance
- UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE · ToulouseFrance
- UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · SAINT MARTIN D'HERESFrance
- UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK · LimerickIreland
- Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste · QuilmesUnknown Region
- WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · WageningenNetherlands
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