Periodic Reporting for period 2 - EMPAPOSTDOCS-II (EMPAPOSTDOCS-II MSCA COFUND International, interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral PostDoc Fellowship Programme at Empa)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2019-05-01 al 2022-11-30
The overall objectives of Empapostdocs-II are:
Recruitment and training of 51 fellows over 3 calls
Enhancing fellow’s scientific experience
Acquisation of life-long skills to make them ‘contributing players’ of the research community
Carrying out cutting-edge research at intersection of academia and industry
We carried out three calls for applications: the first call from June 1st to August 31st 2017; the second call from June 1st to August 31st 2018 and the third call from June 1st to August 31st 2019 . For all calls we received an adequate number of eligible submissions.
Call 1 statistics:
Submitted applications: 38
Eligible/ineligible: 38/0
Withdrawn before evaluation: 1
Total of remotely evaluation proposals 37
Interviewed candidates (above the grade of 4.0) 27
Withdrawn during interview phase 1
Offered fellowships 20
Call 2 statistics:
Submitted applications Call 2 35
Eligible/Ineligible 35/0
Withdrawn before written evaluation 1
Total of remotely evaluation proposals 34
Interviewed candidates (above the grad of 4.0) 27
Withdrawn during interview phase 1
Offered fellowships 20
Call 3 statistics:
Submitted applications Call 2 34
Eligible/Ineligible 33/1
Withdrawn before written evaluation 1
Total of remotely evaluation proposals 32
Interviewed candidates (above the grad of 4.0) 29
Withdrawn during interview phase 0
Offered fellowships 11
The evaluation processes for all three calls was carried out according to the time schedule in the grant agreement and led to the establishment of the ranking lists and the subsequent 20 Fellowships for each of the two calls an 11 Fellowships for the third call.
We offered a number of additional research and transferable skills trainings and the analysis of fellows' Career plans after one year Shows satisfactory results for their Progress.
Expected results until the end of the project
The fellows of the first cohort finished their fellowships in the first quarter of 2020. The fellows of the second cohort finished their fellowships in the first quarter of 2021. The third call was opened on June 1st 2019 with a deadline on August 31st. The evaluation and selection period took place until mid December and the fellows had time until December 23rd to accept the offered fellowships. The fellowships of the third cohort began in the first quarter of 2020, with a duration until 2022. We fullfilled all the grant agreement’s obligations of offered 51 fellowships with a duration of 24 months, and we continued to offer a wide range of postdoctoral career training and networking possibilities.
The expected impact will was measured a number of high level publications and patents, additional Networks and highly trained cohorts of future research leaders.
The fellows attended more than 40 trainings and courses.
The fellows authored or co-authored more than 185 high level publications and 3 patents!