The IberusExperience Programme is an International postdoctoral Fellowship Programme promoted by the Consorcio Campus Iberus, which is the Campus of International Excellence of the Ebro Valley. IberusExperience will recruit in a single call 11 Experienced Researchers (ERs) of any nationality to develop individual and freely selected research projects for 36 months at one of the four recruiting universities based in northeastern Spain: Universidad de Zaragoza - UNIZAR, Universidad Pública de Navarra - UPNA, Universitat de Lleida – UdL, and Universidad de La Rioja – UR.
The programme is cofounded by Campus Iberus universities and the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no 101034288.
Research Areas
The International Fellowship Programme for Talent Attraction to the Campus of International Excellence Campus Iberus – IberusExperience – will select 11 excellent Experienced Researchers to develop individual and freely selected projects in five areas of research specialisation:
- Agri-food and Nutrition
- Health Technologies
- Energy and Sustainability
- Social and Territorial Development
- Circular Bio-Economy
The Campus counts with 35 active research clusters in these five areas of strategic specialization. They group in total more than 600 researchers from the 4 universities of Campus Iberus and over 90 non-academic research organisations and enterprises.
Eligibility Criteria
Researchers from all nationalities can apply for the IberusExperience programme if they fulfill the following eligibility criteria:
- The researcher must be an Experienced Researcher, meaning that they must be holding a PhD degree before the application deadline.
Periods of inactivity in research (e.g. unemployment, periods of employment outside research, parental or long-term sick leave) do not count as research experience.
- The researcher must comply with the mobility rule of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline.
Benefits
- 3 years working contract full-time (37,5 h/week).
- Gross salary of 37.828 €/year.
- Researchers with family will receive a family allowance. This makes a total gross salary of 39.185 €/year for researchers with family. Family is defined as persons linked to the researcher by marriage (or in a relationship with equivalent legal status in the country where it was formalized) or children or economically dependent family member of the researcher.
- Research budget of 28.800 € (9.600 €/year) for research costs, trainings and networking.
- Social health care included under the regime of Spanish Social Security System.
- Vacation of 22 working days/year, besides 3 days of personal duties.
- Maternity/paternity leave of 16 weeks.
- Unemployment benefit of 12 months for the 3-year contract.
- Contracts starting before November 2022.