UAB coordinates the European talent attraction project P-SPHERE

Funded by the EU's COFUND programme and with participation of UAB-CIE Sphere member centres, the project lasts five years and will offer two calls to attract experienced researchers.

19/03/2015

The European P-SPHERE project, coordinated by the UAB and with participation of UAB-CIE member centres, received funding from the latest COFUND-2014 call. It is the only COFUND POST-DOCTORAL project in Spain to receive funding. The project is an institutional initiative put forward by the university's governing team and directed by the Office of the Deputy Executive Administrator for Research.

The COFUND programme, which forms part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions programme, aims to motivate regional, national and international programmes which foster excellence in the training, mobility and professional improvement of researchers. With this overall objective, COFUND co-finances initiatives that work towards the incorporation of researchers, with a strong international and intersectoral component.

The P-SPHERE project is a long-term programme (lasting 5 years) in which two calls will be opened to attract experienced researchers, with same transnational mobility required by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie programme. It is oriented towards interdisciplinary research related to the strategic challenges of Horizon 2020 and to the intersectoral mobility of researchers, with stays in other institutions, businesses and technological centres.

The project, coordinated by the UAB, includes the participation of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC), the Institute for Research and Technology in Food and Agriculture (IRTA), the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE), Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Barcelona Institute for Microelectronics - National Centre for Microelectronics (IMB-CNM), and the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB).