INTREPiD is a new International Fellowship Programme for
talented young researchers in Life Sciences supported by the Center for Genomic
Regulation (CRG) and H2020 Marie Curie Actions– People 2016 COFUND Programme.
The Programme aims at enabling outstanding junior scientists of all
nationalities to develop a competitive research project in life sciences at
CRG, thus promoting the transnational mobility and career perspectives of young
scientists in Europe.
Fellows will benefit from an exciting international
scientific environment and an integrated training programme, including access
to state of the art infrastructure , lectures and seminars,
specialised scientific and technological courses, complementary skills
training and career development activities, postdoctoral symposia and retreats,
as well as social activities.
6 fellowship positions are available for
this call
- Candidates
can be of any nationality, but must undertake trans-national mobility,
which means that candidates must not have resided or carried out their
main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in
the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. Furthermore,
applicants working at CRG for more than 3 months before the deadline will
not be considered.
- Candidates
must have a PhD degree from a recognized university, plan to obtain a PhD
degree by the time of employment, or have at least four (4) years of
full-time equivalent research experience. Candidates who already hold
a PhD degree at the time of application are eligible to apply only if they
passed their PhD exam (or equivalent) in the four years prior to the call
deadline. Exceptions up to 3 years for maternity/paternity leaves and
other documented career breaks will be considered.
- Candidates
must have at least one publication as first author (either in press or
published) at the time of the deadline
- Candidates
must provide two letters of reference
Fellows will be employed 36 months
Applications for the INTREPiD programme are accepted
exclusively online through our online application system. The application
deadline is the 19th of November 2017, at 5:00pm (local time).
Apply HERE
Successful candidates will join research groups with
top-level scientists and will carry out their research in the following areas
of biomedicine:
- Bioinformatics
and Genomics Program: Roderic Guigó
- Cell
and Developmental Biology Program: Elvan Boke, Sebastian Maurer
- Gene
Regulation Stem Cells and Cancer Program: Bernhard Payer, Fátima Gebuer, Maria Pia Cosma, Thomas Graf
- Systems
Biology Program: Ben
Lehner, Nicholas
Stroustrup
Call opening
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September 4, 2017
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Call deadline
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November 19, 2017
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Pre-selection of candidates
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November 20-29, 2017
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Submission of proposals by pre-selected candidates
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December 1 - 13, 2017
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Evaluation of projects
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December 14, 2017 - January 3, 2018
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Oral interviews
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January 29-30, 2018
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Notification to candidates
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February 5, 2018
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Start date of fellowships
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March – May, 2018
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