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HECOFUND2023–2028

FLIGHT · Fostering research careers in LIGHT sciences

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-11-01 → 2028-10-31
EU contribution
€3,024,000
Participants
16
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-Cofund-D

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Results in brief

Fostering research careers in LIGHT sciences

FLIGHT aims to foster career mobility of researchers beyond the academic sector. The program includes an extensive training program of multidisciplinary scientific workshops and training events where all Fellows are exposed to the interdisciplinary mix between academic research and industrial/clinical work. PhD students in the Industrial and Clinical tracks will undertake research projects in collaboration with one of 14 Industrial and Clinical partners, from innovative start-ups to multinational companies and leading local hospitals, who will co-finance research projects, and provide co-supervision, extended secondments, research and training resources. FLIGHT has the potential to have a major impact in improving this situation, leveraging ICFO’s exceptional record of working with its Partners, and the interdisciplinary & intersectoral scope of photonic sciences. The program will allow ICFO to establish a unique model for industrial and clinical PhD training, and strengthen intersectoral engagement for the PhD program as a whole, establishing procedures and guidelines for future partnerships, and providing the critical mass of projects and Partners to give the program international visibility. FLIGHT will deepen the relationship between ICFO and its Partners, as well as establishing the model for future collaborations using this framework that we fully expect to last well beyond the lifetime of the project.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

FLIGHT is a 60-month MCSA COFUND doctoral program that aims at recruiting outstanding early stage researchers (ESRs) to carry out ambitious PhD-projects at ICFO in one of 3 tracks: Standrard, Industrial or Clinical. It will offer 30 highly competitive fellowships of 36 months duration, through 3 calls, to outstanding international candidates, and equip them unique capabilities to become future leaders in academic, industrial and clinical research.FLIGHT aims to fostering career mobility of researchers beyond the academic sector. The program includes an extensive training program of multidisciplinary scientific workshops and training events where all Fellows are exposed to the interdisciplinary mix between academic research and industrial/clinical work. ESRs in the Industrial and Clinical tracks will undertake research projects in collaboration with one of 14 Industrial and Clinical partners, from innovative start-ups to multinational companies and leading local hospitals, who will co-finance the ESRs' research projects, and provide co-supervision, extended secondments, research and training resources.FLIGHT will equip recruited Fellows with unique capabilities to launch a research career at the intersection of photonic sciences with a wide range of industrial and clinical applications, and enhance the European talent base in a field – photonic sciences – identified as vital to the ongoing competitiveness of the European Research Area.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · CastelldefelsCoordinatorSpain
  • CARL ZEISS AG · OberkochenGermany
  • FUNDACIO DE RECERCA CLINIC BARCELONA-INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMEDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER · BarcelonaSpain
  • FUNDACIO HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D'HEBRON - INSTITUT DE RECERCA · BARCELONASpain
  • FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIÓ I INNOVACIÓ PARC TAULI · SabadellSpain
  • FUNDACIO PRIVADA PER A LA RECERCA I LA DOCENCIA SANT JOAN DE DEU · Esplugues De LlobregatSpain
  • INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES · CALDES DE MONTBUI BARCELONASpain
  • INSTITUT NACIONAL D'EDUCACIO FISICA DE CATALUNYA · BARCELONA ,Spain
  • LUXQUANTA TECHNOLOGIES SL · L HOSPITALET DE LLOBREGATSpain
  • PICOQUANT INNOVATIONS GMBH · BerlinGermany
  • Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili · BarcelonaSpain
  • QURV TECHNOLOGIES SL · CastelldefelsSpain
  • QUSIDE TECHNOLOGIES SL · CastelldefelsSpain
  • SPIE EUROPE LTD · CARDIFFUnited Kingdom
  • Sixsenso Technologies S.L · CastelldefelsSpain
  • VITSOLC TECHNOLOGIES SL · CASTELLDEFELSSpain

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union