Romanian Mobility Centre and other initiatives for supporting the mobility of young scientists

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Romanian Mobility Centre and other initiatives
for supporting the mobility of young scientists
Rusu Teodora Regional Contact Point Romanian
Mobility Center Scientific Research - Petru
Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry,
Iasi, Romania
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• Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular
  Chemistry, Iasi is regional contact point for FP6
  programs and Romanian Mobility Centre with
  specific responsibilities for the
• NE Region of Romania
• Iasi
• Bacau
• Botosani
• Neamt
• Suceava
• Vaslui

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• RoMob - Romanian Mobility Centre
• FP6-2003-Mobility-Centres
• Contract No. 513461

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• RoMob project
• FP6 type of instrument Specific Support Action
• Consortium
• ANCS Coordinator
• UEFISCSU Executive Agency for Higher
  Education and Research Funding
• CCIRB Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
  Romania
• AR Romanian Academy
• Duration 3 years
• Budget 200 000 Euros

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• ROMANIAN MOBILITY CENTRE
• Headquarter in Bucharest (21-25 D.I. Mendeleev
  Street), under the authority of ANCS 7 regional
  offices for mobility
• part of the European Network of Mobility Centers,
  established within the call FP6 MOBILITY
  CENTERS, launched by the European Commission and
  dedicated to research authorities in Europe

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• OBJECTIVES
• stimulating, encouraging and facilitating
  mobility of foreign researchers in Romania
• enhancing the visibility of Romanian research
  activity and promoting the Romanian research or
  business organizations within the European
  Research Area
• INFO POINT for foreign researchers coming to
  work in Romanian research organizations,
  providing practical assistance on issues related
  to their mobility
• entry conditions
• work permits
• job opportunities
• salaries and taxes
• pension rights
• health care social security
• accommodation
• day care and schooling
• Romanian language courses
• intellectual property rights

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• Steps done so far
• Documentation package for legal approval
• RMC central structure and regional offices set up
• Romanian Mobility Portal activities -
  subcontracted
• Management structure established
• Personnel hired
• IT infrastructure/equipments provided by the
  RoMob project

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• Romanian Mobility Centre Territorial Structure

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• Romanian Mobility Centre Regional Contact
  Points for Mobility
• 1. IASI Petru Poni Institute for
  Macromolecular Chemistry
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]
• 2. CONSTANTA Chamber of Commerce, Industry,
  Navigation and Agriculture
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]
• 3. TARGOVISTE - Valahia University
• Tel/fax [phone]
• 4. CRAIOVA IPA CIFFAT
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]
• 5. TIMISOARA Politehnica University
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]
• 6. CLUJ- NAPOCA Chamber of Commerce and
  Industry
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]
• 7. BRASOV Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]
• 8. BUCHAREST ANCS
• Tel. [phone] fax [phone]

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• THE ROMANIAN MOBILITY PORTAL www.eracareers.ro
• Specific workpackage within the RoMob project
  (task subcontracted to a private company)
• conceived to meet the general features of the
  European Researchers Mobility Portal
• key instrument (English/Romanian version) to
  provide up-to-date and comprehensive information
  on the host country as well as on the research
  community

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• Future events foreseen
• Training sessions for the Centres personnel
  (yearly)
• Awareness raising events in all development
  regions (yearly)
• Guide for foreign researchers in Romania

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• Reintegration Grants (RIG)
• This Grants allow young scientists from Partner
  countries working in NATO countries abroad to
  return and reintegrate into the research
  communities of their home countries.
• The size of the grant should is calculated
  according to the home country of the returning
  fellow. The expected average awards for
  Reintegration Grants is in the range of EUR
  20,000 to EUR 25,000.
• Eligibility criteria for a Reintegration Grant
  are
• being a scientist of a Partner country, or
  Bulgaria and Romania
• having received a PhD no more than 5 years ago,
  or currently studying for a PhD
• being formally accepted for the 3-year period of
  the Reintegration Grant by the Director of the
  Host Institution in the home country.

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• ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCHTHE
  EXCELLENCE RESEARCH PROGRAMMEHuman Resources and
  Mobility
• Research projects supporting post-doctoral
  programmes
• Research projects for the young researchers
• Projects supporting the mobility of researchers
• Research management training and improvement
  projects

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• Research projects supporting post-doctoral
• AIM attracting young PhDs in excellence
  post-doctoral programmes and increasing the
  attractivity of a scientific career in Romania
• SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• providing financial and logistic support in
  Romania
• creating teams with scientific excellence
  potential (at national and international level)
• cooperation with international similar
  post-doctoral programmes
• Project duration 24 months
• Budget/postdoc programme maximum 150 000 Euros

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• 2. Research projects for the young researchers
• Supporting excellence and originality in the
  scientific creation of the young researchers
  (postgraduates and PhDs)
• project budgetmaximum 40 000 Euros
• Stimulating the reintegration of researchers in
  Romania
• with PhD title obtained abroad project budget
  maximum 40 000 Euros
• PhD with minimum 2 year postoctoral studies
  completed abroad - minimum 3 year employment
  contract with the Romanian host (mandatory)
  project budgetmaximum 50 000 Euros
• project duration 24 months
• specific eligibility conditions for both the
  project manager and the research team (max 35
  years old)

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• 3. Projects supporting the mobility of
  researchers
• achieving new research competencies and
  intersectorial transfer of knowledge
• for young postgraduates (max 35 years old)
  undertaking doctoral studies
• PhD coordinator agreement for undertaking the
  research lab-based activity elsewhere in the
  country
• project duration max 3 months
• project financial support 1200-1500 Euros
• eligible costs travel, mobility, daily
  allowance, accommodation, access to research
  infrastructure

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• 4. Research management training and improvement
  projects
• Individual and institutional competencies
  development in research management, in order to
  raise the participation level in European
  research projects
• project proposals training for min. 500
  researchers
• creation of management divisions within the
  research institutes
• specific steps to be followed when financing the
  projects
• list of course providers (competition to be
  launched)
• submission by the entities applying for research
  management courses (max. 2 applications per
  organization)
• 1 course 15-30 persons/ max. 48 hours

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The NE Romanian Mobility Center is waiting to
welcome you in our beautiful region !
Thank you for your attention! Teodora Rusu RCP
NE Romanian Region E-mail rusu_teodora_at_yahoo.com