SDGine · SDGine for Healthy People and Cities

SDGine for Healthy People and Cities

SDGine: a programme at UPM to attract outstanding talent to achieve the SDGs “SDGine for Healthy People and Cities” aims to devise technologies and tools that contribute to accelerate the compliance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tackling climate change and contributing to the needed social transformations in urban contexts. Through a world-class education and research programme, this European funded action grants 12 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) the opportunity to complete Industrial and International Doctorates at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). This programme seeks to train a high- skilled and versatile future generation of researchers to become successful, responsible and sustainable leaders in their fields. This action will provide them with the knowledge and skills to be able to embark on careers both in academia and in the private sector as well as become venture creators, while contributing to align policies and corporate strategies with the SDGs. SDGine is a 69-month H2020 COFUND project funded by the European Union under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement. The action, with an overall budget of 1,952,640.00€, will run from 1st October 2020 to 30rd June 2026. Half of these funds are provided by the European Union while the other half comes from the industrial partners who have joined this initiative. These partners are Iberdrola, Repsol, Telefonica I+D and Ecoembes. In addition to these collaborators, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will host participants during secondments and short visits. This action enhances mobility between countries, disciplines and sectors, as it involves industries. Trained ESRs will become highly employable for future research positions in academia and non-academia worldwide, while our industrial partners will have a pool of industry-savvy, innovative researchers to shape new research fields. The whole program will also have an institutional impact on gender equality. Moreover, SDGine will have an overall high societal impact through the SDGs, especially those related to “Healthy People and Cities”. The researchers will have the chance to complete a PhD degree with a 36-month employment contract which will be co-supervised by a UPM professor and a representative from one of the companies that are participating in this project. As the main Spanish technical university and a key source of high impact knowledge, UPM connects the participants with an innovation platform and a systemic approach, aligned with major international research programs in which UPM participates, such as different EIT projects and Horizon Europe Missions. SDGine follows the Seven EU principles on Doctoral Training, contemplating the Triple-“i” dimension through: i) International secondments; ii) Inter-sectoral collaboration agreements with industry; and iii) Interdisciplinary PhD supervision. The action is also aligned with the "Charter & Code" policies for researchers recruitment as UPM has received the HR Excellence in Research award. Moreover, the programme will provide excellent training in research, complementary and transferable skills (cross-cutting disciplinary seminars, summer schools, writing days...).

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