CIVIS3i is an international postdoctoral programme COFUNDed by the European Commission and four Universities of the CIVIS Alliance: Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Sapienza Università di Roma (SUR) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). The programme aims to recruit 32 postdoctoral researchers in two calls, between 2021 and 2025. At each call CIVIS3i offers 16 24 months positions for incoming mobility at any institute of one of the four CIVIS3i universities. The positions are open to researchers from all over the world, in all fields, who submit a bottom-up project.
CIVIS3i enables scholars of all disciplines to establish their scientific independence and conduct ground-breaking research. CIVIS3i provides outstanding Experienced Researchers with opportunities to perform state-of-the-art research and receive wide-ranging training in a dynamic environment of scientific excellence, under the supervision of renowned academics, and to benefit from an extensive collaboration network with academic and non-academic institutions. CIVIS3i laureates can choose a co-host university among the wider CIVIS Alliance of 11 Universities: AMU, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Universitatea din Bucuresti (UB), ULB, UAM, SUR, Stockholm University (SU), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (UT), University of Glasgow (UG), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), and University of Lausanne (UNIL); and a secondment among the 24 non-academic partners and beyond. The proposals submitted to CIVIS3i calls are evaluated by international experts with high level of professional expertise. The pool of evaluation experts is balanced in terms of gender, geographical distribution and expertise. CIVIS3i follows the ethical guidelines of Horizon 2020.
Researchers recruited in the CIVIS3i programme receive support to maximize the impact of their research. CIVIS3I aims at communicating the activities of research projects to non-scientific audience and at promoting public engagement.
CIVIS3i has three main objectives:
• To offer talented researchers an attractive environment for research, and train a future generation of employable, mobile, first-class researchers, able to conducted a high-level research - interdisciplinary and intersectoral - on five important global societal challenges in 1) Health; 2) Climate, Environment, Energy; 3) Digital and Technological Transformation; 4) Cities, Territories and mobilities; 5) Society, Culture, Heritage.
• To promote the best practices of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions by aligning the recruitment conditions at the local level with the best conditions recommended at the European level, according to the requirements of the “Human Resources Excellence in Research” label, while sharing experience on implementing the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (the Charter and the Code).
• To create a leverage effect on the research component of the CIVIS European University and contribute to the implementation of the European Research Area by developing research collaborations between the universities of the Alliance.
The CIVIS3i universities and institutes provide excellent research environments cooperating with hundreds of international organizations providing a very strong potential for researchers to gain research expertise. Networking activities within CIVIS3i and CIVIS, as well as with a wider scientific community, have strong impacts on fellows career perspectives and notably contribute to strengthening the human potential at the national and international level.
