[ecrea] UPFellows Cofund programme

UPFellows Cofund programme

The UPFellows program promoted by Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, 
Barcelona, Spain) with the support of the Marie Curie COFUND program 
(7th Framework Program) aimed at co-financing 24 international 
fellowships. It exclusively addresses international researchers and aims 
to offer career development opportunities to junior postdoctoral 
candidates of any nationality. These Fellows will join one of the most 
unique and dynamic research environments in Europe, Catalonia (over 42 
MEUR in FP7 and excellent results in ERC grants), where they will be 
able to advance their research and professional skills while taking 
advantage of a career development plan under the guidance of a senior 
scientific mentor.

The UPF is among the top 20 institutions in Europe funded by grants of 
the European Research Council and ranks as the number one Spanish 
university in research productivity, based on journal articles indexed 
in the JCR, research and development projects in 2010, and doctoral 
dissertations between 2004 and 2009 (Ranking in research production and 
productivity in the Spanish university public system, 2010).

Along with internationalization, a key contributor to UPF's success has 
been its focus on specific areas of research and interdisciplinary 
contributions thanks to a small number of departments and affiliated 
research and technology centers (referred to as the "UPF Group"), which 
is organized into three thematic campuses:

- Social Sciences and Humanities, which is particularly strong in 
Economics and its interfaces with Political Science, Sociology, Law, 
History, and Psychology

- Information and Communication Sciences, boasting high profiles in 
Information and Communication Technologies as well as in Computational 
Sciences and Engineering applied to Health and Life Sciences

- Health and Life Sciences, with strength in multiple areas, including 
Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Evolutionary Biology, and Neuropharmacology.

Call for applicants:

1st call on June 2013

Opens 1 month before the deadline

Calls, informational materials and required forms downloadable from the 
UPF web site.

Term: 3 years

More information: http://www.upf.edu/upfellows/index.html

Contact:

Marta Perelló
Research Service
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(upfellows /at/ upf.edu) <mailto:(upfellows /at/ upf.edu)>