Hosting Information
- Offer Deadline
- EU Research Framework Programme
- H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Country
- Spain
- City
- Jaén
Organisation/Institute
- Organisation / Company
- Universidad de Jaén
- Department
- Mediterranean Languages and Culture
- Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Contact Information
- Organisation / Company Type
- Higher Education Institute
- Website
- Postal Code
- 23071
- Street
- Campus Las Lagunillas, Edif. Rectorado (OFIPI, B1-025)
Description
Description of Hosting Institution (UJA – Spain)
Jaén University (UJA) was created in 1993 and is in the Top 50 of the world’s best young universities according to THE (Times Higher Education). This ranking analyzes aspects such as teaching, research work, the university’s international outreach, or integration into industry. Besides, the UJA has received the distinction of Campus of International Excellence in the fields of Agrifood (CEIA3) and Climate Change (CamBio), plus it also leads the Andalusian CEI project on historical heritage PatrimoniUN10.
Jaén University has five faculties (Social and Legal Sciences; Humanities and Education Sciences; Health Sciences; Experimental Sciences and Social Work) and two higher polytechnic schools for engineering (Linares and Jaén). In turn, these centers are organized into 35 departments. It also has three Postgraduate educational centers (Doctorate School, Advanced Study Center in Modern Languages and Postgraduate Study Center).
In regards to its research, there are several specialized centers at Jaén University (https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/ofipi/uja-ri-expertise). Besides, the full picture of the over 100 UJA groups covers the following research fields of expertise: Agrifood (AGR); Biology (BIO); Health (CTS); Social Sciences, Business, Law (SEJ); Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (FQM); Humanities (HUM); Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (RNM); Information and Communications Technology (TIC); and Engineering Production Technology (TEP).
As far the UJA hosting offer is concerned, Prof. ENCARNACIÓN MEDINA ARNONA (emedina@ujaen.es) would be willing to host post-doctoral researchers that are eventually funded through the MSCA-IF 2020 call for applications to be part of the following research team: https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/ofipi/uja-ri-expertise/hum-755-french-culture-fund-province-jaen
Project description
Cultural landscapes of the Mediterranean. The project «Mediterranean cities; urban landscapes of the transcultural identity» propose: a) To describe and analyze the urban landscape of Mediterranean cities in French-language written literature (20th and 21st centuries) throughout an interdisciplinary methodology (from literary theory, architecture, urbanism, landscape studies, art history, inter-relationship between arts –painting, sculpture, film, theatre, etc.); b) To assess and establish the level of reflection on the transcultural identity showed in the representation of the urban landscape of the Mediterranean cities in the corpora selected. This analysis will demand the interrelation of different areas such as history of ideas and its flow, philosophy, people movement and migration sociological challenges and gender studies.
Application procedure
CV, Motivation letter and Summary of project proposal (250 words) should be sent by the offer deadline to ofipi@ujaen.es. Further information regarding the application requirements can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/msca-if-2020 & https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en. Please, take into account that interested candidates should comply with the MSCA-IF programme mobility rule before applying: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-msca_en.pdf.