Objective The BP fellowship programme aims at widening the trans-national mobility possibilities of the researchers and enabling the recruitment of quality researchers from world wide countries in Catalonia. Thus, it will promote career development opportunities for experienced researchers in the ERA. This programme addresses the incoming and outgoing schemes responding to the Research and Innovation Plan of Catalonia two main objectives: - To increase the dimension of the research and development system by attracting talent and promoting the insertion of young researchers into the system. - To boost the mobility of researchers in a trans-national level, allowing the transfer of knowledge between countries and regions within the EU and between the public and the private sectors. The Cofunding action will help to strengthen the BP programme by improving its conditions, extending the outgoing scheme with a return phase of one year and increasing the number of incoming fellowships. This fellowship offers the applicants the possibility to choose the research topic and the destination freely. This fact will increase trans-national possibilities of researchers for fitting their individual needs in an adequate host institution which will commit to provide competitive working conditions, reinforcing its requirements to meet the recommendations and principles of the “European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers”. This action will endorse common and complementary objectives in the field of careers and mobility of researchers, creating synergies with the mobility community actions by adapting this regional programme to the "People" programme of the 7th Framework Programme. Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-COFUND-2008 - Marie Curie Action: "Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-COFUND-2008 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-COFUND - Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes (COFUND) Coordinator AGENCIA DE GESTIO D'AJUTS UNIVERSITARIS I DE RECERCA EU contribution € 4 964 686,40 Address PASSEIG LLUIS COMPANYS 23 08010 Barcelona Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Victòria Miquel Marti (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data