Aid for pre-doc contracts for the training of doctors 2020

Programa de Actuación Anual 2020

Name

State Programme for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability in R&D&i

Programme

State Training Subprogramme

Call status

Closed

Application deadlines

• 1602540000000-1603753200000

  13/10/2020-27/10/2020

General description

Aid for pre-doc contracts for the training of doctors contemplated in the State Training Subprogram, of the State Program for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020, on a competitive basis and applying the principles of publicity and objectivity.

Specific goals and activities financed

The purpose of the grants is to train doctors by financing job contracts, under the pre-doc contract modality, in order for researchers in training to carry out a doctoral thesis associated with a research project financed by the grants for R&D projects of the State Subprogram for the Generation of Knowledge within the framework of the State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence or by the grants for "Research Challenges" R&D&I projects of the State Program for Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society, respectively, in the 2018 calls, both within the framework of the State R&D Plan 2017-2020, or to a research project that is developed in a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence or in a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, financed by the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 calls, or in a research project developed within a priority research line for 2019, fixed by the INIA.

In turn, the aid is intended to finance the hiring, during a one-year post-doc orientation period (hereinafter POP, by its Spanish acronym), of doctoral students obtaining a doctoral degree before the start of the last year of the aid.

European Funds

European Social Fund

Budget

108.959.250 €

Beneficiaries

Those R&D centres that have obtained aid for carrying out research projects financed by the aid for R&D projects of the State Subprogram for the Generation of Knowledge within the framework of the State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence, or by the aid for R&D&I projects "Research Challenges" of the State Program for Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society may be beneficiaries of this aid, in the 2018 calls, and that such projects have been selected as susceptible of having one or more Aid associated with the training of doctors, through this call.

Beneficiary entities may also be R&D centres that have obtained aid within the framework of the calls for Support for Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence, of the Ministry of Science, Universities and Research, corresponding to 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Beneficiary entities may also be public R&D&I centres for agricultural and food research dependent on Autonomous Communities, integrated into the Councils responsible for the investigation Autonomous Communities, participants in the Coordinating Commission INIA-CCAA and participate in research projects developed within a priority research line for 2019, set by the National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology.

Instructor Entity

Subdivision of Planning and Administrative Management. State Research Agency

Scientific-technical monitoring body

Subdivision of Scientific-Technical Thematic Programs. State Research Agency

Type of financing

Grant

Rules of the call

Competitive tender

Contact information

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