CONEX-Plus Postdoctoral Fellowships at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
CONEX-Plus is a training and incoming mobility program funded by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the European Commission’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Action, and Banco Santander. It offers 30 fellowships to experienced researchers with up to 6 years of postdoctoral research experience. The research fellows will undertake a three-year project freely chosen by them and carried out at UC3M and a non-academic secondary organization.

About the Fellowships

The CONEX-Plus programme offers 30 fellowships with a duration of 3 years and a gross annual salary of €41,203.62 in addition to other economic benefits, such as family allowance or research expenses. The fellowships are based on an individual, freely-chosen, research project that will be carried out at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and a non-academic secondary organization. Each fellow will have two supervisors (one from UC3M and another from the secondary organization) to support their career development. A list of UC3M supervisors can be found on the programme website

https://www.uc3m.es/research/conex

The UC3M supervisor will support the fellow to propose and implement a research project.

There are three types of CONEX-Plus fellowships:

  • Standard CONEX-Plus fellowships: open to researchers coming to Spain from any other country.
  • Career Restart CONEX-Plus fellowships: open to researchers coming to Spain who wish to resume research after a career break.
  • Reintegration CONEX-Plus fellowships: open to researchers coming to Spain who wish to return and reintegrate in a research position in Europe.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must

  • be in possession of a Ph.D. degree at the date of the call deadline;
  • have not more than 6 years of postdoctoral research experience.

Furthermore,

  • for the Standard CONEX-Plus fellowships: applicants must not have carried out their main activities in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years before the call deadline;
  • for the Career Restart CONEX-Plus fellowships: applicants must not have been active in research for at least 12 months prior to the call deadline, and they must not have carried out their main activities in Spain for more than 3 years in the 5 years before the call deadline;
  • for the Reintegration CONEX-Plus fellowships: applicants must not have carried out their main activities in Spain for more than 3 years in the 5 years before the call deadline.

For the Reintegration CONEX-Plus fellowships , applicants should be nationals of a European Member State or an Associated State to H2020. For the Standard CONEX-Plus fellowships and the Career Restart CONEX-Plus fellowships , applicants may be of any nationality.

Application Procedure

The period for the submission of applications will start on July 1, 2019 and end on September 30, 2019 at 13:00 CET .

Applications must be submitted through the online application system CONEX-Plus, accessible through the programme website

https://www.uc3m.es/research/conex

Applicants must prepare a proposal, which they can submit and modify at any time until the call deadline.

About UC3M

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid was founded in 1989 and is one of the top universities in Spain. Its main campuses are located in Getafe and Leganés, which are about 10km south of the center of Madrid.

General Information

Further details about the CONEX-Plus programme can be found on the programme website

https://www.uc3m.es/research/conex

Interested candidates may contact Tobias Koch (email: ), who is one of the UC3M supervisors.

 

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