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Training and Qualification Programme
Coordinator: Raimon Jané Campos
The CIBER-BBN training programme sets out to increase the research skills of the staff in the groups by improving the professional competence of the technical and research staff as a factor for change, transforming the attitudes, knowledge and skills in accordance with the needs arising during the performance of their research activity.
The main initiatives in the CIBER-BBN training programme are support for initiation to research and aid for mobility.
Training support for initiation to research
The aim of these “launching” grants is to cover the transitory period from the final stage of master studies until the resolution is published in public calls for pre-doctorate grants or other career paths which mean employment opportunities for recently qualified persons.
A single call was held in 2016, in the month of April. Unlike 2015, when two calls were issued over the year, in 2016, even though only a single call was made, the usual duration of 12 months for each of the grants was recovered. The number of applications was very high due to the interest that these grants arouse in the research groups. A total number of 14 grants were given for candidates with best academic records and in view of the suitability of their proposals for the priority lines of research of the CIBER-BBN.
NO. OF “INITIATION TO RESEARCH” GRANTS ISSUED
Aid for mobility
The purpose of this training programme is to encourage short stays at other research groups in order to facilitate transfer of experience and technology and to boost cooperation between different groups of the CIBER-BBN. These stays have to involve priority and strategic lines of work for our thematic area.
In 2016 there were two mobility calls, in March and September, and a total number of 13 grants for stays at groups outside the CIBER-BBN were awarded.
Four grants were awarded as mobility aid for research staff at CIBER-BBN groups, with permanent calls over the year.
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
19
12
15
37
18
14
Year
No intra-CIBER-BBN awarded mobility aids
No external awarded mobility aids
No total awarded mobility aids
2011
6
10
16
2012
6
9
15
2013
1
20
21
2014
2
17
19
2015
3
18
21
2016
4
13
17
BBN
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