Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Photonics "MULTIPLY". First Call for applications.

Outline

The MULTIPLY Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Photonics, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action, is a five-year International Mobility and Training Programme under Research Executive Agency (REA) Grant agreement No.713694, which will run until Sept 2021.

The aims of the MULTIPLY Fellowship Programme are to facilitate worldwide mobility and offer high-level interdisciplinary training for approximately 55 outstanding international Experienced Researchers towards their professional development in the area of photonics science, technology and applications. Applicants from any part of the world will be able to participate in this Programme, freely choosing their destinations and research topics.

As MULTIPLY Fellows, the experienced researchers will be Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows (MSCF).

MULTIPLY has the full backing of a consortium of 46 internationally leading academic and industrial partners. The partners will act as hosts for eligible fellows, providing excellence in postdoctoral training, mentoring career development opportunities, offering access to cutting edge facilities, fast-paced innovation activities and further industrial links.

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT) at Aston University (UK) will be managing MULTIPLY, organising six Fellowship calls and overall implement the Programme.

 
Call 1 for applications opens on 3rd Jan 2017.
Call 1 for applications closes on 31st March 2017; 23:59 UK time
1st Jul 2017: Evaluation, Ranking and Selection complete. This date is the Reference Date for purpose of compliance with eligibility and mobility criteria.

The evaluation, selection and ranking of applications will be carried out by an independent Evaluation and Selection Committee.

Call 2 is expected to open on 1st July 2017; the last call will be approximately in October 2019.

To avail the detailed MULTIPLY Guide for Applicants document and applying to the programme, please visit the Programme website.

Fellowship Options

INCOMING INTO EUROPE / INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP

• Applicants can be of any nationality.
• Applicants must demonstrate transnational mobility, adhering to the Mobility rule (See Eligibility below)/
• Prospective host is located in an EU Members State (MS) or Associated Country (AC).

OUTGOING FROM EUROPE TO THE WORLD

• Applicants have to be Nationals or Long-term Residents (see Eligibility below) of an EU MS or AC.
• Prospective host is located in a Third Countries (TC).
• Applicants must demonstrate transnational mobility, and adhere to the Mobility rule with respect to the TC host.
• Selected MULTIPLY fellow will have to be employed with a host organization located in an EU MS/AC over the duration of the fellowship.
• A return phase to MS/AC is strongly advised.

Researchers already permanently employed by their prospective host (or organisation) cannot apply; nevertheless, researchers with permanent positions could still benefit from MULTIPLY, if moving to another organisation (and complying with the mobility rule) during, for instance, a sabbatical leave.

Duration

MULTIPLY Fellowships are offered for 1 and 2 years, and for up to 3 years in exceptional circumstances and only with a prior agreement from both the MULTIPLY Management Team and the prospective host.

Eligibility

Experienced Researcher

At the Reference Date the applicant MUST fulfil the criteria of being an ‘Experienced Researcher’ as per MSCA definition:

• Shall, at the Reference Date, be in possession of a doctoral degree, or
• If the applicant has does not have a doctoral degree they shall have at least 4 years of ‘full-time equivalent research experience’

Full-time equivalent research experience

Research Experience is measured from the date when the 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 of the prospective host) even if a doctorate was never started or envisaged.

Research Experience is measured to the Reference Date.

Mobility

Applicants to the MULTIPLY Fellowship Programme must show transnational mobility by carrying out the research training activities in a country (or — in case of international European interest organisations — with this organisation) where they have resided or carried out their main activity for no more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the Reference Date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.

Long-Term Resident

Long-term Residents are researchers who spent a period of full-time research activity of at least 5 consecutive years (without breaks in research) in one or more Member States or Associated Countries.