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MARIE CURIE ACTION: CAREER INTEGRATION GRANTS (CIG)
Deadline for application: the second cut-off date for this scheme is  March 7, 2013 17.00.00 p.m. CET
 

Eligible researchers and host organisations: researchers of any nationality who, at the relevant deadline for submission of proposals, correspond to the definition of experienced researcher (= at the time of the relevant deadline for submission of proposals be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience), and who comply with the mobility rule (= researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity /work , studies, etc./ in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date).
  
Objective: is to reinforce the European Research Area (ERA) by encouraging researchers to establish themselves in a Member State or in an associated country, thereby attracting and retaining the best talents in Europe. The action is designed to support researchers in the first steps of their European research career and to attain lasting professional integration in the ERA. By providing researchers with a substantial research budget, the action is intended to improve considerably their prospects for long term integration, thus contributing to the success of their research career.

Content/scope: the action consists of financial support for long term professional career integration projects in a host organisation of a Member State or associated country. The financial support aims to provide the researcher with the best possible conditions for establishing herself/himself in a long term research career.

For selected projects, a grant agreement is issued with the integration host organisation, which will commit itself to ensure an effective and lasting professional integration of the researcher for a period of at least the same duration as the project. The integration host organisation shall provide the researcher with an employment contract with a remuneration package of at least the same level to that offered to equivalently qualified researchers at the same institution. Evidence that the researcher will be integrated in the host organisation on this basis for a longer term will be positively taken into account during evaluation. Projects will be selected on the basis of a proposal submitted by an eligible researcher in liaison with a host organisation.
EU Contribution, Rates: the grant can cover a period of up to 4 years. It corresponds to a flat rate contribution of 25 000 EUR/researcher/year for the benefit of the recruited researcher, to contribute to his/her research costs at the career integration host.
 
Application process: should you plan to submit an application together with CEU as host organization, please contact ACRO Office, Noemi Kovacs at kovacsn@ceu.hu. ACRO will assist you with the internal endorsement process, the budget calculation, the on-line submission and finally with the management of the awarded research project. The Work Programme 2013, the specific Guide for Applicants and the Insitutional Endorsement Form can be dowloaded at the bottom of this page.

 

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Recently finished and currently running Marie Curie networks at CEU

SOCANTH /// CLOSED
European Partnership for Qualitative Research Training (Social Anthropology)

Marie Curie SocAnth is an EU funded international doctoral programme for PhD students and early-stage researchers aiming to promote the development of anthropological research and teaching in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe. It gives access to a training programme offered by a network of four universities and one research institute in four different European countries. This programme builds research training in anthropology by linking trainers in New Member and Associated states with western institutions.

The 'SocAnth' network comprises of University College London (UCL) and Goldsmith's College, Britain (GSM); Central European University, Hungary (CEU); Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany (MPISA) and Babes-Bolyai University, Romania (BBU).

Duration: from 1 Sept 2006 to 31 Aug 2010

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mariecuriesocanth/index.php

PUBPOLTRANS /// CLOSED
Public Policy, market organization and transition economies

The aim of this early-stage research training project is to prepare students for careers in teaching, research or government services and to prepare researchers for active participation in the analysis of the fundamental economic questions facing mixed-market regulated and transition economies. The programme provides state-of-the-art training in the fields of public policy, industrial organization and transition economics. By providing effective training in the proposed fields with the highest standards to future academic and public sector personnel, this program will make a contribution to the quality of public policy in EU.

PubPolTrans network partner institutions are Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Economics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Charles University in Prague, CERGE; Central European University Budapest Foundation

Duration: from 1 Sept 2006 to 31 Aug 2010

http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP6_PROJ&ACTION=D&DOC=1678&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=1170700762217&RCN=78819&DOC=1&QUERY=0124b543ded3:fdaf:3efd3db6

AQUATRAIN /// CLOSED
Geogenic chemicals in groundwaters and soils

The AquaTRAIN research training network addresses key research issues underpinning the European Legislative Framework on groundwater and soil protection. The objectives of AquaTRAIN are to provide early stage researchers with (a) analytical, geochemical, microbiological and environmental management training necessary for the technical implementation of EU policies on groundwater and soil protection; (b) exposure to innovative developments. AquaTRAIN will serve the EU by addressing fragmentation and training future scientists who will have a sound multidisciplinary grounding in the factors required to implement existing and forthcoming EU policy on groundwater protection, as well as having exposure to state-of-the-art technologies and ideas that may inform future developments in EU policy and regulation aimed at protecting a vital and irreplaceable resource for the EU.

Network participants: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1 France; Universiteit Utrecht Netherlands; Universitat de Girona Spain; Central European University Hungary; The European Commission, Joint Research Centre; WAG Switzerland; Technical University of Crete Greece; Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres France;  Centre Europeen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Geosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE) France; De Montfort University United Kingdom; University of Aberdeen United Kingdom; Babes-Bolyai University Romania; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Switzerland; Vlaamse instelling voor Technologish Onderzoek Belgium

Duration: from 1 Jan 2007 to 31 Dec 2010

http://www.brgm.fr/brgm//Fichiers/europe/aquatrain.pdf

ELECDEM
Initial Training Network in Electoral Democracy

The ITN will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries to provide substantive and methodological training in elections research to a cohort of early stage and experienced researchers. Researchers will join a team that brings together world leading scholars in the cross-national study of elections. The research projects draw on cross-national election studies, European Election Study, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems [CSES], and industry partners TNS-Opinion and Kieskompas to provide training and research opportunities.

Partner institutions: University of Mannheim, MZES, Germany; University of Amsterdam, ASCoR and AASR, The Netherlands; University of Exeter, Politics, United Kingdom; TNS-Opinion, Brussels, Belgium ; University of Vienna, Methods in the Social Sciences & Political  Science, Austria; Central European University, Hungary; Oxford University, Politics & International Relations, United Kingdom; European University Institute, RSCAS, Firenze, Italy; IVO, Institute for Public Affairs, Brataslava, Slovakia; Sabanci University, Political Science, Turkey; Kieskompas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/politics/elecdem/

Duration: from 1 Oct 2009 to 30 Sept 2012

PETAF
Perspectival Thoughts and Facts

PETAF aims to serve as a European research and training platform for joint philosophical research on perspectivalism in thought and language and its consequences for our conception of objective, mind-independent reality. PETAF comprises seven full network partners and five associated partners, four of which from industry. It is to provide Early Stage Researchers with the skills necessary for meeting the demands of top research in this area of philosophy, and the opportunity to apply and enhance these skills, and to acquire further, complementary skills, in professional contexts outside academia. PETAF thus seeks to significantly increase the career opportunities and job prospects of its recruited ESRs, both inside and outside academia.

University partners: Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; University of St.Andrews, United Kingdom; Université de Genève, Switzerland; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France; University of London, United Kingdom; Stockholms Universitet, Sweden; Kozep-europai Egyetem, Hungary;
 
Associated partners: Thera, Centre de Llenguatges i Computació, S.L, Spain; Difusión, Centro de Investigacion y Publicación de Idiomas, S.L., Spain; Prover Technology AB, Sweden ; Editions de Condé, France; University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

 http://www.ub.edu/petaf/

Duration: from 1 Jan 2010 to 31 Dec 2013

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