
</a></strong><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong>Intra-European  Fellowships for career development (IEF) <br /></strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At various stages of their career, experienced researchers may  welcome an opportunity to acquire new research skills or experience  working in other sectors. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for  Career Development specifically aim at helping experienced researchers  to try something new for a while.</span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Who can apply?</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Researchers can be of any nationality but as a general rule  must move from one Member State or Associated country to another in  order to carry out the project.. You must have either a doctoral degree  or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience, after  obtaining a degree permitting you to embark on a doctorate.</span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />What does the funding cover?</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">IEF funding is provided for advanced training and career  development. This may include the acquisition of new and/or  complementary skills, and transnational mobility. The project is based  on a personal career development programme agreed between the researcher  and the supervisor at the host organisation. Financial support is  provided for a period of 12-24 months (full-time equivalent), for  individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member  States or Associated Countries in liaison with a host organisation from a  Member State or Associated Country.<strong><br />The fellowships may include:</strong></span></span></span>
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<li><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Training-through-research</strong> under supervision,  through an individual personalised project</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong> Hands-on training</strong> to develop your  scientific skills (new techniques or instruments, etc.) and your  complementary skills (proposal preparation to request funding, patent  applications, project management, tasks coordination, technical staff  supervision, etc.)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary <strong>knowledge  transfer</strong></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Building Collaborations </strong></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Active <strong>scientific and financial management</strong> of your research project</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Developing <strong>organisational skills</strong> through  organisation of training or dissemination events.</span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Which topics can be funded?</span></span></span></strong><br /><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">IEF proposals are welcomed from all areas of scientific and  technological research. But there is one exception: research areas  covered by the EURATOM Treaty cannot be funded.</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Who decides?</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />IEF proposals are selected in an open competition. Selection is  through transparent, independent peer review, based on excellence using  a series of predetermined criteria.</span></span></span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">For more information visit </span></span></span></strong><a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=395&act_code=mca&ID_ACTIVITY=12"><span style="color: #808080;">http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=395&act_code=mca&ID_ACTIVITY=12</span></a></p>