Talent4Iberia — Training
Career development of international talents of the energy research fields in the Iberian Peninsula
Talent4Iberia's training programme will provide researchers with a wide and interdisciplinary set of skills specifically related to their research area, as well as a range of diverse transferable skills, through local training, network-wide training activities and secondments.
The training programme for each researcher will be customised to their needs and will ensure a balance between local and network-wide training opportunities and the contribution from academic and non-academic partners.
This will be achieved through a Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) for each Researcher that will contain training, secondment and networking activities. The first version of the PCDP will be released after two months upon recruitment date and will be elaborated with a diagnostic analysis around the 3 areas of training content, identifying the training for each of the 3 areas of contents and providing the technical basis, the secondments to follow, the communication and dissemination goals (e.g., papers, conferences attendance, etc.).
Training Structure
Talent4Iberia training activities will be led by the Training Coordinator (TCO), FUNDECYT, which has as one of its goals the promotion of R+D+i for Extremadura citizens and companies, encompassing SECTI (Extremadura System of Science, Technology and Innovation). To this end, FUNDECYT has created CAPACYT, a virtual platform that offers training services in areas as specific as science, technology, innovation, research and development.
In particular, the offered training will be based in the following areas
- Researching profile and skills.
- Scientific training to achieve the project’s objectives.
- Advancements around the 15 competences in the 3 key areas of the entrepreneurial mindset included in the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (Figure: Entrecomp Competence Areas).
The training activities will consist of compulsory and optional training, joint and individual training, and combining virtual and in-person activities, as described below:
| Description | Type of Training |
|---|---|
| Area 1) Researching transversal skills | |
| 10 compulsory individual hours per year (total of 30 hours) | Virtual/On-Site |
| 10 compulsory joint hours per year (total of 30 hours) | On-Site (Summer School) |
| 10 optional hours per year (total of 30 hours) | Virtual |
| Area 2) Specific training for individual projects | |
| 20 compulsory individual hours per year (total of 60 hours) | Virtual/On-Site |
| 10 optional hours per year (total of 30 hours) | Virtual/On-Site |
| Area 3) Training to improve transversal entrepreneurial competences | |
| 10 compulsory individual hours per year (total of 30 hours) | Virtual |
| 20 compulsory joint hours per year (total of 60 hours) | On-Site (Summer School) |
| 10 optional hours per year (total of 30 hours) | Virtual |