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Training Programme
Coordinator: Cristina Prat
In 2016, the teaching Programme was considered to be a strategic measure in the 2016 CIBERES Action Plan which focussed on “Encouraging the training of new researchers” and “Fostering internationalisation”. The main objectives of the Teaching Programme are:
• To increase our researchers’ basic, clinical and technological knowledge by creating synergies with receiving organisations.
• To increase the interest for research in respiratory diseases of young researchers in their training period to integrate these into CIBERES groups by fostering talent recruitment.
• To further the mobility of research staff.
• To boost researchers’ intensification measures to enable the presentation of European/international projects.
Training Programme for Research Staff
GRANTS FOR INITIATION TO RESEARCH
This programme proved to be of great interest as in earlier editions. The aim of the grants is to help young researchers in their initial training to join a research programme financed by public institutions for one year and associate this with one of the CIBERES research groups. The official Programme for training research staff (FPI) keeps its co-financing ratio at 66% by the teaching training programme and 33% by the receiving group itself.
Thanks to the increase in the budget, a further 2 calls for 9 grants were launched in 2016.
Improvement and Mobility Programme
In 2016, a further line of action was added to the mobility programme focussing on co-financing the enrolment dues of Doctorate Programmes. 7 applications for payment of dues (500 € per application) and 3 applications for stays in another city were co-financed. Longer stays were encouraged with an increase in the economic endowment of the grants to 600 € per month plus 80% of the return trip, approving a further 2 applications (London and Toronto), which will be financed in 2017.
Intensification Programme
The Intensification programme was proposed in order to strengthen Internationalisation at CIBERES, helping the researcher in drafting and submitting proposals for European/international projects. The final aim of this is to increase the input of external resources by raising the number of projects financed. 2 applications were presented in 2016.
Programme for Fostering Interest in Respiratory Research
TRAINING SESSIONS
On 29 and 30 September 2016 the 9th Training Sessions were held in Madrid, at the Sala Auditorio of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC).
One innovation that we should mention was the participation of CIBERBBN researchers who shared
the presentation of 6 cooperative projects undertaken in the framework of CIBERES-CIBERBBN- SEPAR cooperation displaying the bonds already existing between the two CIBER areas. 48 junior CIBERES and CIBER-BBN researchers took part, presenting 10 oral papers and 38 posters, as well as the value contributed by senior researchers and managers.
3 prizes for the best posters and oral communication were awarded as well as a special “Dr. Constancio González“ prize for the most highly-considered oral paper.
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