TRAIN 2009 · Training through Research Application Italian INitative 2009
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2011-02-01 → 2016-01-31
- EU contribution
- €1,000,620
- Participants
- 4
- Scheme
- MC-COFUND
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Results in brief
Training through Research Application Italian INitative 2009
TRAIN aimed at offering outgoing, incoming and reintegration opportunities to young scientists in the field of translational cancer research. In its initial plan it was designed to finance 51 yearly fellowships to scientists wishing to improve their skills in one of the following areas of translational cancer research: Cutting edge and innovative research on topics related to translational oncology - Applications to translational oncology coming from other fields -Medical Oncology - Surgical Oncology Imaging Radiotherapy - Biotherapy -Palliative Care and Rehabilitation -Pathobiology - Epidemiology and Cancer registries - Oncogenomics and Genetics - Bio-banks -Cancer Immunology - Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis - Bioinformatics and Structural Biology -Pharmacogenomics - Cancer Information - Molecular and Cell Biology - Micro-invasion and Metastasis - Management, Intellectual Property, Exploitation, Technology Transfer. TRAIN was aimed at promoting the development of international mobility in order to accelerate interaction between basic research and industry in favor of competitiveness and innovation in a field with a strong social and economic impact. The multidisciplinary nature of TRAIN could contribute to accelerating the transition from discovery to application, while also encouraging solidarity towards the new generations who represent the future of our society. Because TRAIN was a mobility program open to both Italian and foreign scientists, it could represent a good starting point to encourage a fruitful exchange of researchers and clinicians among Comprehensive Cancer Centers operating both in Europe and in third countries. The 5 years programme started in February 2011 and, despite the initial delay in setting up a novel scheme, the first call for proposals was launched in May 2011. During the course of the project we had to face several unexpected problems that forced us to revise our strategy and adopt a much more flexible policy on several levels. Nonetheless, TRAIN succeeded in launching 3 calls for 2 years fellowships and we eventually awarded 11 fellows (4 from the first call, 1 from the second call, 67 from the third call). On the whole, the overall accomplishment of the TRAIN project revealed that, despite the critical aspects we had to face, we could support and give opportunity to excellent young researchers to develop projects whose final outcomes were very high quality research. TRAIN website address is: www.trainoncology.eu. List of host organisations; Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, ITALIA Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, ITALIA IFOM Fondazione – Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milano, ITALIA IOR Istituto Oncologico di Ricerca – EOC Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, SVIZZERA Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, ITALIA Princess Margaret Hospital , University Health Network, Toronto, CANADA
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Project objective
In 2002 the Italian Ministry of Health established Alliance Against Cancer (ACC), an association working together with the Italian National Institute for Health (ISS), with the aim to better coordinate cancer research and care, and to stimulate innovation and competitiveness. In light of the growing complexity of cancer research, ISS and ACC are committed to enhancing the Italian participation in the building of the European Research Area where continuous education must be given highest priority. Italy encounters difficulties to retain many of its most talented scientists and to provide an environment capable of attracting experienced scientists trained abroad. To partially overcome this strongly felt problem and to promote traslational cancer research, ISS and ACC are setting up a three-year international mobility scheme called Training through Research Application Italian iNitiative (TRAIN). This will consist of a total of 30 outcoming, incoming and reintegration fellowships which could be increased to 51 with the support of COFUND. TRAIN is regulated by Art.1 of Law No. 138 of 26 May 2006 “Joint national network and international cooperation initiatives” of the Italian Ministry of Health. It is addressed to post-doc scientists or scientists having at least four years of FTE research experience who wish to improve their training spending one year abroad. Part of the scheme is targeted at Italian experienced scientists having carried out at least three years of research in a Third Country and interested in returning to Italy. The mobility is also open to non-Italian and non-residing experienced scientists wishing to spend one year in Italy. Therefore, the TRAIN mobility scheme is open to the whole scientific community. Each application will be anonymously evaluated by an international panel of independent experts randomly chosen and fulfilling selection criteria based on topic related keywords, gender and different nationalities.
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