DIFERENS
Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Organization address
address: STOCKTON ROAD THE PALATINE CENTRE contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 9˙912˙558 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙965˙023 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND |
| Funding Scheme | MC-COFUND |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-10-01 - 2016-09-30 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Organization address
address: STOCKTON ROAD THE PALATINE CENTRE contact info |
UK (DURHAM) | coordinator | 3˙965˙023.20 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Durham University proposes a high-profile international Fellowship scheme. An entirely new Junior Research Fellowship scheme will be launched, aimed at early career researchers with 2-5 years of postdoctoral experience. These Fellowships will be associated with one of Durham’s eight interdisciplinary Research Institutes to provide a supportive and intellectually challenging research environment. We will expand the existing successful Senior Fellowship programme at the Institute of Advanced Study to encompass Senior Fellowships at the other Institutes and introduce a new Senior Fellowship programme aimed at industrialists and policy-makers. All Fellows will retain an association with their Institute after the end of their Fellowship.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An EU-funded initiative is enabling academics to carry out their research projects in natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. The host institution is a university in the United Kingdom, which also benefits from the programme through a strengthened research base.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Early-career and established researchers from across the world are being given the opportunity address challenging problems through the 'Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise' (http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/diferens (DIFERENS)) project. Through a Junior Research Fellowship and three Senior Fellowship schemes, the appointed fellows have access to unique specialist facilities at Durham University. These include specialist collections, supercomputers, state-of-the-art imaging facilities, wind tunnels, a sleep lab, and the University's Palace Green Library. The research projects are designed by the fellows themselves.
DIFERENS has set up a dedicated web page, and three calls for Fellowships have been publicised. The scheme is promoted on various job portals, and through relevant media with global reach, professional societies, networks, and social media platforms. There are five main objectives of the DIFeREns programme.
Three recruitment cycles have already been carried out, with each round witnessing a jump in the number of applications to the programme. To date, Durham University has welcomed 37 Junior Research Fellows, 27 Senior Fellows (Senior Research Fellows and Policy & Enterprise Fellows) and 22 Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Fellows.
Successful applicants come from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America. Fellows have participated in more than 50 academic activities and published or submitted for publication some 75 articles.
Durham University has, through the DIFERENS project, created an https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/diferens/junior/diversity/ (Equality and Diversity) scheme. This underlines its commitment to promoting and maintaining an inclusive and supportive work and study environment.
The programme will run to the end of September 2015, and is co-funded by the EU and Marie Curie Actions. Activities and outcomes are boosting the careers of emerging and established leading academics. DIFERENS will also establish collaborative transnational links, build international networks of scholars and deliver world class research.