Talent4Iberia — Partnership — Hosts
Career development of international talents of the energy research fields in the Iberian Peninsula
Programme Coordinator
Junta de Extremadura (JUNTA-EX)
Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Formación Profesional (Council of Education, Science and Vocational Training of the Regional Government of Extremadura, shortly JUNTA-EX). The Programme will be managed by the General Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation, the governing body with competences in regional R&D. It finances grants for research training (predoctoral and postdoctoral) aimed at increasing the potential of human resources in R&D, attracting national and foreign research talent to research centres of Extremadura’s Ecosystem of Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI), as well as research projects and actions complementary to research aimed at boosting the research activity of Extremadura research groups.
Host Institutions
Foundation FUNDECYT Science and Technology Park of Extremadura - Iberian Centre for Research in Energy Storage (Fundecyt-CIIAE)
CIIAE is the newly created Iberian Centre for Research in Energy Storage which is affiliated to the Foundation “FUNDECYT Science and Technology Park of Extremadura” (FUNDECYT), one of the cornerstones of the Extremadura innovation system, with a focus on improving the socioeconomic competitiveness of the region. FUNDECYT has more than 25 years of experience in managing national, European, and international projects in fields like digital and social innovation, entrepreneurship, innovation public policies, bioeconomy or circular economy, and has been an agent of change in this process of co-creation of public policies, in the design of the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Extremadura (RIS3 Extremadura), the Digital Agenda and other processes aimed at increasing the quality and impact of research, like the Strategy for a Green and Circular Economy (Extremadura 2030) or the Energy and Climate Integrated Plan 2030.
The CIIAE is the response to the technological and scientific challenges in manageability of green energy. It aims to be a world-leading research centre throughout the entire energy storage cycle, from the physical chemistry of the materials to their scaling and application, combining the basic research supported by the public sector, the technological development driven by public-private collaboration and business innovation.
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University of Extremadura (UEX)
The University of Extremadura (UEX) is the main public research institution in Extremadura (Spain)
with 4 university campuses, with over 24,000 students and 2,405 Researchers and Professors, and ranked 1,042 amongst
universities all over the world (Scimago Institutions Ranking, SIR 2023) from over 4,533 institutions surveyed;
and has been awarded
Campus of International Excellence since 2011
in association with two Portuguese universities.
The Campus addresses high levels of excellence in teaching and research activities, transfer of knowledge and dissemination
of science and innovation to the society. UEX provides extensive, state-of-the-art research laboratories and specialized infrastructures
to support the transfer of research from the research teams to industry.
In Talent4Iberia, UEX participates as Host Institution with two main research groups dedicated to energy: the Power Electrical and Electronic Systems Research and Development Group (PE&ES) with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of power electronics applied to electric power grids, renewable energy sources, smart energy grids, energy storage and monitoring and control systems; and the Group for the Integral Use of Biomass Waste and Renewable Energies at UEX (GAIRBER Research Group) focussed on the comprehensive use of biomass resources for energy production (combustion processes, pyrolysis, gasification, obtaining biofuels), the preparation of porous materials (particularly activated carbons), with porosity and surface chemistry suitable to be used in specific applications; and the preparation of composite materials based on residual biomasses. On the other hand, the group investigates the use of wind and solar renewables in integrated systems supported with hydrogen.
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Centre for Scientific and Technological Research of Extremadura (CICYTEX)
CICYTEX is a public entity with patrimonial, organizational and functional autonomy, from the Regional Government of Extremadura (JUNTA-EX). It is made up of the 5 following institutes: Institute of Agricultural Research 'La Orden-Valdesequera', the Agro-Food Technology Institute of Extremadura(INTAEX), the Institute of Cork, Wood and Vegetal Carbon(ICMC), the Centre for Ecological and Mountain Agriculture (CAEM), and recently by the Technological Institute of Ornamental Rocks and Construction Materials (INTROMAC).
In Talent4Iberia, CICYTEX participates as Host Institution, as one of the Supervisors is the Scientific Director of this research centre, and he is also part of the GAIRBER Research Group (Group for the Integral Use of Biomass Waste and Renewable Energies at UEX)
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