Develop New Training Programs with ITN Projects

Dear Faculty Members,

The specific objectives of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) are:

to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit;

to raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training, extending the traditional academic research training setting, incorporating the elements of Open Science and equipping researchers with the right combination of research-related and transferable competences.

to provide enhanced career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors through international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set.

Institutions which are actively involved in research and (research) training (e.g. universities, public or private non-profit research institutes, large enterprises, SMEs, non-profit or charitable organisations, etc.) can propose a research training network and apply for funding. If selected they will cooperate to recruit researchers and provide them with opportunities to undertake research in the context of a joint research training or doctoral program. These programs should respond to well-identified multi- and inter-disciplinary needs in defined scientific or technological areas, expose the researcher to the academic and non-academic sectors, and offer a comprehensive set of transferable skills relevant for innovation and long-term employability (entrepreneurship, commercialization of results, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), communication etc.). Proposals should reflect existing or planned research cooperation among the participating organizations in which the researchers will take part through individual, personalized research projects.

ITN proposals may take one of three forms:

European Training Networks (ETN)

European Industrial Doctorates (EID)

European Joint Doctorates (EJD)

European Training Networks (ETN): The largest share of the ITN call budget is made available for ETN. These networks have the objective of training highly-skilled early-stage researchers and stimulating entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in Europe. An ETN must be composed of at least three beneficiaries established in at least three different Member States or Associated Countries. All three legal entities must be independent of each other. There is no pre-defined size for these multi-partner networks. However, it is recommended to keep the size of the consortium between 6 and 10 beneficiaries since previous experience has shown this to be a manageable size. Although not a formal requirement, it is expected that beneficiaries will be drawn from different sectors and that ETN proposals will offer inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training as well as high-quality supervision arrangements.https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/msca-itn-2019.html

Please click here for the details of the program.

Deadline for application: January 15, 2019

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us via tto@ozyegin.edu.tr.

Kind regards,

Özyeğin University

Technology Transfer Office