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BeIPD-COFUND - “Be(lgium) International Post Doc”

MSCA-BeIPD-COFUND: enhancing ULg’s existing postdoctoral fellows hosting practices

The BeIPD-COFUND scheme was launched in February 2013 and till 2018, offers the ULg the opportunity to organise 4 incoming- and 4 outgoing calls for international, experienced postdoctoral researchers. A total of 100 incoming- and 28 outgoing fellowships will be awarded to young scientists and allow them to establish themselves as independent researchers in Academia. A total number of 49 incoming and 14 outgoing fellows have already been recruited at the ULg. The group of attracted BeIPD-COFUND postdoctoral fellows represent a good gender- and origin (EU/non-EU) balance. The selected research projects match the following (main) research sectors: Social Sciences, Health Science and Sciences & Technology. And there’s more to come: 2 more incoming- and outgoing calls will be launched in 2015 & 2016, each of them enabling the ULg to host some more 25 incoming fellows and to send 7 of the most promising young PhD graduates from the University of Liege around the world. Building on our former experience with the ULg institutional IPD scheme, the FP7-COFUND co-financing enabled the ULg to enhance the former post doc programme in quite some aspects: The introduction of external reviewers in the evaluation process Following the evaluation of the institutional Post doc programme (2006-2011), ULg expressed a need to enhance the evaluation & selection procedure. Since the launch of the BeIPD-COFUND programme, each single application is now reviewed by 2 internal and 2 external reviewers. One of the 2 external reviewers is suggested by the applicant. The second external reviewer is a member of ULg’s international scientific network. One of the 2 internal evaluators acts as the reporter. Following the reception of the 4 individual evaluation reports, the reporter writes a feedback report which is validated by the other 3 evaluators and which is presented during the Research Council meetings that is in charge of the selection of the applicants that will be offered a BeIPD-COFUND fellowship. The “bottom-up” approach: foster self responsibility & independence The bottom-up approach that has been decided upon is a particular feature of the ULg BeIPD-COFUND postdoctoral programme. In the past, the research unit leaders introduced the application of the applicants who intended to realise their postdoctoral stay in his/ her research unit. By means of strengthening self autonomy and

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] independence, the applicants now apply for a COFUND fellowship mandate themselves and in doing so, are supported by their future scientists-in-charge. Ethical issues matter! Ethical Issues are to be considered and, in our opinion, go way beyond the completion of the Ethics Issue list which is one of the compulsory documents to introduce whenever applying for a BeIPD fellowship grant. Selection of the applicant also heavily depends on the way the applicant intends to deal with the ethical issues that his/ her research involves. The internal and external evaluators are invited to take the explanations on this matter into account in the ranking of the applications. Insufficient precaution or attention is heavily punished and almost automatically induces that the application will not be ranked among the “A” (top score) applications. Double your research output! Since the start of the BeIPD-COFUND programme, the duration of the incoming fellowships has been extended to 2 years. A survey that was conducted among the applicants and fellows that benefit from an ULg incoming post doctoral research mandate with a duration of 1 year revealed that most of the post docs being hosted at ULg experienced that the duration of their fellowships should ideally be extended. The BeIPD-COFUND scheme enables ULg to provide fellowships that largely enhance the fellows’ capacity of publishing a significant number of publications and displays a valuable contribution to the scientific world. It also enables fellows to take an active part in their host University and host society, to enlarge their personal and transversal skills and to prepare them properly for their professional - and their future scientific career scientific after they’ve completed their COFUND fellowship. The applicant’s right to be informed: the feedback report The feedback report is another valuable improvement of our post doc hosting experience. Each applicant, either successful or not, receives a feedback report that was validated by all 4 evaluators that evaluated his/ her application file. Is constitutes a valuable measure that enables young researchers to readjust their future scientific careers and /or academic aspiration and to focus on matters that revealed to be less convincing in their application and which should be enhanced, enlarged etc. in order to stay competitive on the “academic job market”. Raphaela DELAHAYE M.A.

BeiPD-COFUND Programme Manager ULg R&D Office Place du 20-Août 7 (bât. A1) B-4000 LIEGE Tel: +32-4-366 91 04 e-mail: beipd@ulg.ac.be

BeIPD-COFUND Internet Portal: http://www.ulg.ac.be/cofund

April 2014

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Europe

80%

Non-

Europe

20%

Origin fellows incoming 2013

Male

48%Female

52%

Gender fellows incoming 2013

SH

52%

ST

20%

SV

16%

intersectoriel

12%

Research area division fellows incoming

2013

SOC

56%LIF

16%

CHE

4%

PHY

8%

ENV

4%

ENG

8%

MAT

4%

Marie Curie research area division

fellows incoming 2013

Spain

10%

Italy

25%

France

40%

Germany

5%

Poland

5%

Czech Republic

5%

Romania

5%

Kroatia

5%

EU origin fellows incoming 2013

EU

61%

Non-EU

39%

Origin applicants incoming call 2013

France

40%

Iran

20%

Russia

20%

Philippines

20%

Australia

20%

USA

20%

Non-EU origin fellows incoming call

2013

Male

56%

Female

44%

Gender applicants incoming call 2013

56%

France

42%

Italy

24%

Spain

8%

Poland

7%

Germany

4%

Romania

4%

Greece

3%

Portugal

3%

United

Kingdom

1%

Belgium

1%

Kroatia

1%

Switserland

1%

Czech

Republik

1%

Incoming applicants: origin EU

France

43%

Zwitserland

29%

Italie

14%

Germany

14%

Destinations fellows outgoing 2013

Male

29%

Female

Gender fellows outgoing 2013

Female

71%

SH

14%

ST

57%

SV

29%

Research area division fellows outgoing

2013

SOC

14%

LIF

29%ENV

57%

Marie Curie research area division

fellows outgoing 2013

Germany

4% Canada

4%Australia

5% United States

of America

5%

French Polynesia

5%

Zwitserland

France

45%

Destinations applicants outgoing 2013

French Polynesia

5%

Zwitserland

9%

United Kingdom

9%

Italy

14%

France

45%

EU

73%

Non EU

27%

Destinations applicants outgoing 2013

EU

100%

Non EU

0%

Destinations outgoing fellows call 2013

Male

36%

Gender applicants outgoing 2013

36%

Female

64%

Europe

96%

Non-Europe

4%

Origine selected fellows IPD2014

Male

68%

Female

32%

Gender Selected fellows IPD2014

68%

SH

40%

ST

48%

SV

12%

intersectoriel

0%

Research area division fellows IPD2014

SOC

44%

LIF

8%

CHE

8%

PHY

8%

ENV

12%

ENG

16%

MAT

4%

Marie Curie research area division 2014

Spain

14%

Italy

5%

France50%

EU origin incoming fellows

EU

60%

Non-EU

40%

Origin applicants IPD2014

France

21%

Pays-Bas

2%Poland

2%Suisse

2%

Belgique

2%

Portugal

2%

50%

Canada

34%

Chili

33%

Inde

33%

Origin non-EU selected fellows IPD2014

Female

40%

Gender applicants IPD2014

Male

60%

Female

40%

Germany

1%

England

5%Belgium

2%Bulgaria

4%

France

30%

Croatia

1%

Spain

15%Greece

6%

Italy

23%

Netherlands

1%

Poland

1%

Portugal

3%

Romania

8%

Origin EU applicants IPD2014

Destination fellows OPD2014

SH

28%

ST

29%

SV

29%

intersectoriel

14%

Research area division fellows OPD2014

Gender division fellows OPD 2014

EU

71%

Non-EU

29%

OPD2014 Fellows destinations EU/ non

EU

EU

71%

Non-EU

29%

Destination fellows OPD2014

male

29%

female

71%

Gender division fellows OPD 2014