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D1: Exchange of post-doc researchers, students, and experts

 

Responsible: INA, IPM

Assistence: UNIMI, NIEB, all partners 

 

The integration of European research is strongly based on tight personal relations among partners from different countries. When the number of partners is large, as in CARiMan, effective methods for providing personal contacts among researchers are required.

 

In order to facilitate the exchange of researchers, students, and experts among the partners of CARiMan, a Researcher Marketplace (RM) Web site will be set up. RM will provide a shared place where to publish both the available positions in the different institutions of the CARiMan NoE and the abilities of the researchers aiming to spend some periods abroad. RM will facilitate the matching between the exigencies of institutions and the interests of researchers in a cooperation framework that enhances the mobility and the European experience and technological transfer. RM will also provide an alert service and a mailing list to keep the partners actively informed about the different possibilities of people exchanging. Typical users of RM will be post-doc students seeking for a period of specialization and training in foreign universities, institutions, and companies. Another class of typical users are the students about to complete their graduation programs and who want to carry on (part of) their master of PhD curricula or theses in another university. In this last case, the student exchange among CARiMan partners will be part of more general European initiatives, such as the Socrates student exchange program. The exchange of graduate students is a well-known practice for Univerisities but must be extended also to companies. Sometimes some financial support must be provided to smooth the standard of living in different countries. This will help people coming from countries with low standard of living to be in foreign countries by improving their home salary.

 

The researcher exchanges promoted by RM will enhance the different activities of the CARiMan NoE. The adoption of standards, demonstration of software components, training in using of the software tools, and the survey works are all improved when the researchers can meet and discuss personally. More precisely, the following specific exchange activities emerge as required by the CARiMan partners.

As a more concrete example of how the exchange of researchers can promote the integration of European research, the JPA about a new system for early diagnosis of children at risk of dyslexia requires the following specific researcher exchanges.

·        During the elaboration of the conceptual model, mutual visits between researchers from scientific laboratories are necessary to define most promising approaches to dyslexia problem. Moreover, visits to technical partners aiming at recognising technical resources of CARiMan NoE are foreseen.

·        During the development of the real system, visits in two directions (from scientific laboratories to technical partners and from technical institutions to scientific laboratories) are planned.

·        During the experimental validation of the system technical experts will provide their professional advice to scientists.

·        The adjustment of the new tools to specific clinical purposes (diagnose and support of dyslexia) requires mutual contacts between scientists, clinicians (educators), and technical experts.

·        Participation of all (technical, scientific and clinical) partners will be required at the stage of spreading the achieved potential to the end users by organisation of workshops and practical trainings

 

Besides the above-mentioned forms of researcher exchange among the CARiMan partners, more informal ways for knowledge transfer can be adopted. For example, researchers can spend just some days or few weeks in another institutions in order to complete a very short and detailed research activity, or to provide a professional advice, or to write a paper summarizing the results obtained during a joint activity, and so on. These short informal visits will arise as a spontaneous form of cooperation among the partners and will not be regulated in order to fully exploit their innovative and creative potential.

 

Finally, it will be important to evaluate how the researchers exchange solutions of CARiMan could be integrated with corresponding solutions adopted in other Networks of Excellence. This will favour "horizontal" meetings among different NoEs in order to focus on the exchange of ideas for possible collaborations or publications at the light of the integration of the European research. For example, activities B4.3, D1, D2, and D3 of CARiMan could all benefit from these "horizontal" meetings.

 

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