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Following the expertise gained with the management of the previous COFUND Project "Talents for an International House (TALENTS)", AREA Science Park, with the financial contribution of the European Commission (FP7, People Programme, COFUND Action) and of the Regional Authority of Friuli Venezia Giulia, has developed the new edition of the Fellowship Programme: "TALENTS UP for an International House (TALENTS UP)". The Project is realised within the regional long-term strategy for the internationalisation of the Friuli Venezia Giulia scientific system.

The Launching Conference of the project on the theme "European Perspectives and Regional Strategies  for the internationalisation and the valorisation of human capital" will be held on the 20^thMay 2013 at the Congress Centre in AREA Science Park, Padriciano Campus,Trieste.

For further information on the conference  please visit the web page:  www.area.trieste.it/talentsup

For online registration click here

TALENTS UP is focused on the support of incoming mobility and offers 7 incoming fellowships, with the duration of 12 months each, addressed to experienced researchers of any nationality, intentioned to implement a research training project in one of the scientific institutions of the Coordination Network of FVG region or in one of the companies hosted in the regional Scientific and Technological Parks.

Fellows will have the opportunity to choose both the research topic and the hosting institution.
In order to assign the 7 fellowships envisaged by the Project, one call for proposals will be published in the next days. 

Proposals will be evaluated in Autumn 2013 and fellowship will have to start not later than the 2^nd January 2014.

All the candidates will receive the results of the eligibility check and of their proposals' evaluation.

 

The selection procedure
The eligible proposals will be evaluated by a Scientific Selection Committee (SSC), that will include independent and expert professionals selected by AREA Science Park at an international level, in possession of a high expertise in the scientific areas foreseen by the Project.

TALENTS UP selection procedure will follow the main principles adopted by the European Commission in the evaluation of the Marie Curie proposals. The evaluation criteria and the full procedure will be described in details in the call for proposals.

Candidates will have to submit a project within one of the following scientific areas:
- Biotechnologies and Diagnostics
- Material Technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry
- Ecology, Environment and Energy
- Information Technology
- Economic, Human and Social Sciences

 

Eligibility requirements
1. To be eligible, candidates must respect, in their proposal, the fundamental prerequisite of "international mobility": at the time of the call deadline for the proposals' submission, 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;

2. 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 four years of full-time equivalent research experience (including the period of research training) after the degree which formally allowed them to embark on a doctorate in the country in which the degree/diploma was obtained or in the country where the fellowship is taking place; (c) be nationals of Member States, Associated Countries and Third Countries;

3. Candidates shall provide 3 reference letters even belonging to different scientific areas;

4. Candidates must be fluent (good written and spoken command) in English and/or Italian.

 

The eligibility check on the submitted proposals will be carried out by AREA, on the basis of the information and data supplied by candidates.

 

Please note that:

• 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

Should the researchers need further information and indication about the formal submission of their proposals, a help desk will be activated as soon as the call for proposals will be published, through the following email address: talents@area.trieste.it

 

For further information please write to:
Mia Tomad
Research Coordination Office
AREA Science Park
email: mia.tomad@area.trieste.it