PROSPETTIVE EUROPEE E STRATEGIE REGIONALIPER L’INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE E LA VALORIZZAZIONE DEL CAPITALE UMANO
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EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES AND REGIONAL STRATEGIES FOR THE INTERNATIONALISATION AND THE VALORISATION OF HUMAN CAPITAL
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Il nuovo programma Talents Up for an International House ‐TALENTS UPa sostegno della mobilità di ricercatori esperti
The new Fellowship ProgrammeTALENTS UP for an International House supporting the incoming mobility of expert researchers
Mia TomadTraining, Project Drafting and Project Management Department
Research Coordination OfficeTrieste, 20th May 2013
Talents Up for an International House ‐TALENTS UP Fellowship Programme
New editionof the first pilot project «Talents for an International House –TALENTS»
FUNDING:TALENTS Project:‐AREAConsortium ofTrieste
‐ FP7 (Marie Curie Actions – COFUND)
TALENTSUP Project:‐ FP7 (Marie Curie Actions – COFUND)
‐ Autonomous Region of FriuliVenezia Giulia
‐ AREAScience Park Consortium ofTrieste
TALENTS and TALENTS UP Fellowship Programmes: objectives
reinforcing employment skills of high qualified researchers
boosting long‐lasting international cooperation between the regional scientificcentres and foreign high level institutions
creating synergies between Regional Research Policies and European priorities
avoiding the fragmentation of financial resources and initiatives and adopting asystemic approach for the benefit of the entire regional scientific system
The first pilot COFUND Project Talents for an International House ‐TALENTS
FP7 People Programme, COFUND Action 2008
10 fellowships according to 2 mobility schemes:
Incoming mobility fellowships, addressed to experienced researchers of anynationality intentioned to develop a project in one of the Scientific Institutions of theFVG Coordination Network or in one of the companies hosted at the regional scientificparks (18 months duration)
Outgoing mobility fellowships, addressed to experienced researchers of anynationality, operating in one of the scientific institutions of the FVG CoordinationNetwork or in one of the companies hosted in the regional scientific parks, for a stay (12months) in another EU Member State, Associated or Third Country, with a return phaseto the origin institution (6 months).
Bottom‐up approach / open to any scientific field
The first pilot COFUND Project Talents for an International House ‐TALENTS
Bottom‐up approach / open to any scientific field
The candidates, in the submission phase, were free to choose a topic within one of the following scientific areas:
1. Biotechnologies and Diagnostics
2. Material Technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry
3. Ecology, Environment and Energy
4. Information Technology
5. Economic, Human and Social Sciences
TALENTS : the awarded fellowships
Biotechnology and Diagnostics ‐Oncology Referral Centre (CRO) ofAviano
Material technologies, Mechanics, Physics andChemistry ‐University of Udine
Ecology, Environment and Energy ‐ National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics(OGS) ofTrieste
Biotechnology and Diagnostics : from the Institute for Maternal and Child Health ‐ IRCCS BurloGarofolo (Trieste) to the Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP) Recife, Brazil
Material technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry: from theUniversity of Trieste to the Universityof California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA
1st Call for Proposals: (deadline 1st October 2010): 3 incoming, 2 outgoing
2nd Call for Proposals (deadline 14th June 2011): 3 outgoing, 2 incomingBiotechnology and Diagnostics: from theUniversity of Udine to the University of Bergen
Ecology, Environment and Energy: from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to theUniversity of Savoie
Material technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry: from the ELETTRA Synchrotron LightLaboratory to the University of NovaGorica
Biotechnology and Diagnostics: from theUniversity of Cairo to the CBM ‐Cluster in Biomedicine
Material technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry: from the University of Strasbourg to theUniversity of Udine
The new COFUND Project "Talents Up for an International House ‐TALENTS UP"A call for proposals is published in order to assign 7 fellowships addressed toexperienced researchers, nationals of EU, Associated Countries or Third Countries,intentioned to implement a 12‐month‐duration research and training project in oneof the Scientific Institutions of the Coordination Network of Friuli Venezia Giulia regionor in one of the companies hosted in the regional scientific parks.
Webpage dedicated to the project: www.welcomeoffice.fvg.it/talentsup
5 scientific areas
1. Biotechnologies and Diagnostics
2. Material Technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry
3. Ecology, Environment and Energy
4. Information Technology
5. Economic, Human and Social Sciences
Each fellowship will have a duration of 12 months.
TALENTS UP Fellowship programme: 7 new incoming fellowships
AREA will appoint a “collaboration contract for research activity” to the awardedresearchers, complying with the Italian Law n. 240/2010
Salary: € 44.000 over the 12 months, in total, inclusive of any charges
mobility allowance will be assigned, consisting of a monthly payment; 2 referenceamounts depending on the researcher’s family obligations (€ 800/500)
travel allowance as a reimbursement for travel expenses (up to € 1.000 over the 12months)
Specific budget line under the “Contribution to research costs” category, up to €3.800,00 over the 12 months, to freely use for additional training or for specificresearch tools
TALENTS UP Fellows will therefore be granted contribution to Italian Pension Nationalfunds, health and accident insurance
Minimum entry requirements/Eligibility criteria at the time call deadline, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work,
studies, etc) in Italy for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the application date,taking into consideration the call deadline (prerequisite of “international mobility”)
at the time of the call deadline, researchers must: (a) be in possession of a doctoral degree,independently of the time taken to acquire it; or (b) have at least 4 years of full‐time equivalentresearch experience ; (c) be nationals of Member States, Associated Countries andThird Countries
candidates must provide 3 reference letters, even belonging to different scientific areas. Refereescannot coincide with the supervisors in the host organisations
good written and spoken command in English and/or Italian
Moreover:‐ origin organisations have to be different from host organisations;‐ the same organisation can be present in different proposals, but these proposals have to be submitted by different candidates;‐ every researcher can submit only one research proposal.
Eligibility check AREA form A
Proposals’ Evaluation Scientific Selection Committee form B
Evaluation criteria and thresholds
of the project proposal
EVALUATIONCRITERIA complying with Marie Curie guidelines:
Profile of the Researcher Scientific and Technological Quality Implementation Training Impact
Evaluation Criteria Thresholds * Weight (in %)
Criterion 1:Qualifications of the Researcher 4 30
Criterion 2: Scientific and technological quality 3 15Criterion 3: Implementation N.A. 15Criterion 4:Training 3 20Criterion 5: Impact 3 20
Each criterion will be scored out of 5*An overall threshold of 70% will be applied to all proposals. Proposals failing to meet the overall threshold or any of the individual thresholds will not be placed on the ranking list.
Evaluation procedure: priorities
Priorities will be given to:
female candidates returning after a career break for maternity leave
researchers returning after a documented disease longer than 1 year time
researchers returning after a research stay in a third country for more than 3 years
The Scientific Selection Committee (SSC)
Selection procedures complying with the European Charter forResearchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment ofResearchers principles, as well as with the main proceduresadopted by the European Commission in the evaluation of the FP7projects
Independent evaluators registered in the database of FP7 (available on‐line on CORDIS website)
selected at an international level, expert in different sectors5 panels will be set up, each of them
corresponding to one of TALENTS scientific areas
Transparent and international selection procedures
3main steps:
1. Remote evaluation: each proposal will be evaluated by 3 experts, each of themcompleting an individual assessment report
2. Consensus meeting (in Trieste): the experts will discuss the scores awarded toeach proposal and reach a common view
3. Final decision (in Trieste): approval of the ranking list of all the applicationsreceived and evaluated and assignment of the fellowships
For every eligible proposal, the candidate will receive the Evaluation Summary Report with the results of the evaluation process. The report will include the marks given for each evaluation criterion and a description of the strengths and weaknesses of the proposal.
Submission of research proposals
Each application thus consists in:• form A (administrative information: sections A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6)• form B (the proposal and the Ethical Issues Table)• 3 letter of reference• the scientific and professional cv in European format.
A help desk is available at the email address [email protected]
Submission deadline: Monday, 5thAugust 2013 at 17.00, Italy local time.
The application must be sent only electronically in pdf format to the following email address: [email protected]. Applications sent by fax or by post will not be accepted.
TALENTS UP Call for proposals and forms present on the webpagewww.welcomeoffice.fvg.it/talentsup
Fellowships will have to start, at the host organisations, not later than January 2nd, 2014
TALENTS UP: Accompaniment of researchers and care for their needs in all the mobility steps
Customised information and assistance in the designing phaseby theAPRE help‐desk ofTrieste
Customised pre‐arrival and on‐site counselling on mobilityissues (permit of stay, health insurance, daily life) to incomingresearchers by theWelcomeOffice help‐desk ofTrieste
Facilities
“Welcome Office” helpdesks in:• Trieste, via dei Capitelli, 960 A• Udine, via Palladio, 2
The websitewww.welcomeoffice.fvg.it
with 2 sections:• www.welcomeoffice.fvg.it/Trieste • www.welcomeoffice.fvg.it/Udine
In 2012:‐more than 47.000* website visits from more than 166 countries‐ customised advice provided to more than 3.600* students and researchers
* Data updated on 28 November 2012
Thanks for your attention!
TALENTS UP [email protected]
Research Coordination Office Training, Project Drafting and Project Management Department
AREA Science ParkPadriciano, 99 – 34149 Trieste
www.area.trieste.it/coordinamento
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