How funding boosted my career · 2016-06-20 · Csaba Papp MSc Students: Benedikta Balla Henrietta...
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Infect-Era Young Scientists Networking Workshop
How funding boosted my career
14. 10. 2015.
Attila Gacser
University of Szeged, Department of Microbiology
European Funding (Marie Curie Fellowship and
other fundings)
FP5 (1998-2002) vs. FP7 (2007-2013) vs. H2020
Personal experience
Subjective opinion
Life After the MC fellowship
How funding boosted my career?
Topic of my talk
Viruelence and pathogenesis of
human fungal pathogens
DIC CD83 FITC DAPI Merge
The “Candida Group” in Szeged
Postdoc Scientists: Dr. Adél Tóth
Dr. Tibor Németh
PhD Students: Katalin Csonka
Tanmoy Chakraborty
Anita Kecskeméti
Dhirendra K Singh
Erik Zajta
Renáta Tóth
Judit Szenzenstein
Csaba Papp
MSc Students: Benedikta Balla
Henrietta papp
Gergely Molnár
BSc Students: Gergő Drabbant
Katica Kocsis
Guest PhD Student: Luis Antonio Pérez García (Mexico)
Medical PhD Students: Dr. Csaba Berkovits (Faculty of Dentistry)
Dr. Lilla Tiszlavicz (Children Hospital Szeged)
Early time...
FP5 vs H2020
FP5 (1998-2002) Marie Curie Fellowships: Individual
Fellowships
Human Potential, Energy/Environment, Growth, Nuclear
Energy
Quality of Life all submitted proposal:1152 selected
proposals: 583 success rate: 50.6 %
(The full program: 6461/2601/40.3%)
FP5 vs H2020
H2020 (2014-2020) Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions:
2014 : 7472 proposals vs. 1066 selected proposals
Success rate about: 11%
Very high competition! Independent evaluation!
However:
• more solid system
• competitive salary (even with industry)
• better administration
• “more personal experience”
Personal experience
Selection of the host institute! (Excellence on the
field! )
The criteria of the selection:
• international recognition!
• new techniques, new knowledge
• long term utilization of the knowledge
How to contact to the Host Institute:
• supervisor’s “network”
• publications, internet
• former postdoctoral fellows
Project proposal (a short summary)
The project:
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL QUALITY
• The major selection criteria QUALITY of Science (The
excellence of the host institute is essential !)
RESEARCHER
• “Self management” ! (CV and the introduction of your
qualities )
IMPACT
How the fellowship will contribute to your personal career.
Personal experience
Subjective opinion
Scientific career:
• Further career options (position, second postdoctoral
period initiation)
• Language skills
• Networking
• Teaching, scientific community involvement
• Laboratory management, project management
Personal opinion:
• Financial stability
• Networking
• Cooperation potential and VISIBILITY
Collaborators
Prof. Karl Kuchler (Vienna)
Prof. Jozef Nosek (Bratislava)
Dr. Olga Hruskova-Heidingsfeldova (Prague)
Prof. Bernhard Hube (Jena)
Prof. Uwe Gross (Göttingen)
Dr. Oliver Bader (Göttingen)
Prof. Christophe d’Enfert (Paris)
Dr. Oscar Zaragoza (Madrid)
Dr. Toni Gabaldon (Barcelona)
Prof. Geraldine Butler (Dublin)
Prof. Mihai Netea (Nijmegen)
Prof. Héctor M. Mora Montes (Mexico)
Prof. Joshua D. Nosanchuk (USA)
Prof. Andras Fiser (USA)
Dr. Leonardo Nimrichter (Brazília)
Life after the MC fellowship
Return:
Reintegration Grant! Must to try!
Other funding options: EMBO, ERC, MTA
Other option: (Second postdoctoral period)
In Europe or outside (USA), support and further strengthen
your POSITION.
Selective advantage in severeal grant types.
EMBO Installation
Grant (2008)
Benefits:
- 50.000
Euro/year
-Flexibility
-3+2 years funding
-Opportunity to
attend on
workshops and
courses
Understanding colonisation and the transition to
pathogenic dissemination by Candida species:
towards early diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
“CANDICOL”
“CandiCol” project partners
Attila Gacser (P1)
Leader of the Fungal pathogenesis group
University of Szeged (Hungary)
Christophe d’Enfert(P2)
Head of the Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity Unit in the Genomes and
Genetics Department
Institut Pasteur (France)
Uwe Groß (P3)
Head of the department of “Medical Microbiology”
University Medical Centre Goettingen (Germany)
Bernhard Hube (P4)
Head of the department “Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms”
Hans Knoell Institute (HKI) Jena (Germany)
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Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
Conferences
Activities over 4 years project max:
Average size of consortium = 6-10
Max support 36 months for ESRs
Training: Seminars, Workshops, summer
schools modules
Supervision
Networking
Secondments , placements
Research and Innovation
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Communication & Dissemination
Collaboration & Exchange of
Knowledge
Public Engagement
Success rate of an ITN application is about
10%
Organization of meetings
Other funding oppotrunities and
advantages on networking
Scientific collaborations:
-Science without Borders (funded by the Brazilian
Government) 2014-2017
-International collaboration grant funded by NKFIH (OTKA)
-Bilateral collaborative projects: Austria-Hungary
Personal fellowships:
-Short research visits
-Scientific research visits sponsored by other sources
-Etc.
• Short research visit for PhD students: 4 months
(Hungarian Partner) 9 months (Brazilian partner)
• Scientific grant
• Visiting professorship (teaching at Brazilian Universities)
• Boosting collaborations between Europe and Brazil
• Joint application for grant support on the field of
Infectious diseases.
Thank you for your attention !