Call for Applicants

Career-FIT: Career Development Fellowships in the National Technology Centre Programme of Ireland

 

Objectives and description

ENTERPRISE IRELAND invites applicants to its new Marie Skłodowska-Curie cofunded trans-national programme that offers an opportunity for experienced researchers to develop their careers in market focused applied research in Ireland’s Technology Centres, with an enterprise secondment (of 6-12 months in an Enterprise Ireland client company) during the Fellowship (of 36 months).

 

Covering a wide range of academic and industry areas aligned with Ireland’s Smart Specialisation Strategy, the 15 Technology Centres were established to encourage greater efficiency in the interaction between researchers, industry, and the public sector, in research that promotes economic growth by its direct relevance to industry agendas. Each multidisciplinary Centre offers excellent facilities and equipment for Fellow use: experienced scientific staff to support the Fellow’s research and extensive enterprise relationships on which market focused applied research can be progressed.

 

Career-FIT is a postdoctoral fellowship programme, part-funded by Horizon 2020 and part funded by Enterprise Ireland. A key feature of Career-FIT is the opportunity for experienced researchers from outside Ireland to develop their careers in market focused applied research through 3 year fellowships with secondment into industry through Ireland’s Technology Centres.

 

Successful candidates will carry out research in Ireland and will gain inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary exposure through this programme. The aims of the fellowships are to support suitable highly qualified experienced researchers to:

·         conduct research relevant to the Technology Centres;

·         engage in collaboration with suitable companies;

·         experience and benefit from international mobility;

·         avail of relevant training and career development opportunities;

·         increase their chances of gaining a future senior research position, especially in the private sector.

 

Research proposals should relate to the domain areas of Ireland’s Technology Centre Programme

https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/research-innovation/companies/collaborate-with-companies-research-institutes/technology-centres.html :

·         Cloud, analytics and learning technologies

·         Energy

·         Manufacturing and materials

·         Food and health

·         Business processes and financial services

 

Eligible participants - Minimum conditions

Experienced researchers are defined as those who are in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.

 

Applicants from any country in the world can apply for a Fellowship, provided they comply with the Transnational Mobility Rule: researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Ireland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment date of 31 JULY 2018.

 

In line with eligibility requirements applicable under Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, “experienced researchers” must, at a specified date (at the time of recruitment in the case of Career-FIT), be in possession of a doctoral degree (regardless of actual duration of the degree as long as the degree was awarded) or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. Full-time equivalent research experience is measured from the date when a researcher obtained the degree entitling him/her to embark on a doctorate, either in the country in which the degree was obtained or in the country in which the researcher is recruited.

 

Financial conditions

Each Fellow will receive an annual gross salary (i.e. before tax and statutory deductions) of ? 56,191 (or ? 61,608 with family allowance). Additionally, each Fellow will receive a mobility allowance and the host institution will be provided with overheads.

 

Deadline of applications' submission

There are two calls under the Career-FIT programme. The first call had an application deadline of 31 March 2017.

 

The second call  will remain open from November 2017- April 2018. The second call has an application deadline of 30 April 2018.

 

There will be 25 fellowships awarded in each call.

 

Further information

Please find attached the call documentation.

 

If you have any questions regarding the application process, please address them initially to the Research Office (RO) in your proposed host organisation. If the RO is unable to answer your query, they should send the query to Enterprise Ireland to CAREER-FIT@enterprise-ireland.com with the subject line ‘CAREER-FIT 2018 FAQ’. Queries received from Research Offices will be answered through the Frequently Asked Questions process. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document will be available on Enterprise Ireland's website and updated frequently until the applicable deadline.

 

The deadline for submission of queries by Research Offices under the FAQ process is 17:00 (CET) 20 April 2018.

 

Applicants can also contact the Enterprise Ireland Helpdesk at:

Telephone: +353-1-727 2680

E-mail: CAREER-FIT@enterprise-ireland.com

 

Ms. Ann Dooley, Programme Manager, Marie Sklodowska Curie Career-FIT, Enterprise Ireland

 

More information: http://www.horizon2020.ie/career-fit/

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Rosemary STREVINIOTI

Head of Brussels Office
European Office of Cyprus
Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor
B-1000 Brussels
Tel./Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85
E-mail: strevinioti.rozamaria@ucy.ac.cy

 

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