8 Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers) among 25 projects in e-health

Université Côte d’Azur, France is pleased to announce the advertisement of 8 Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers) among 25 projects in e-health.

Co-funded by the European Commission, “BoostUrCareer” doctoral programme wishes to attract to the French Riviera 8 early-stage researchers (ESRs) with the world highest academic, creative and innovative potentials and enhance their employability. BoostUrCareer will foster interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international experiences with the objective of contributing to creating a new generation of PhDs equipped for both academic and non-academic careers and inclined to the great research and innovation challenges of tomorrow.

BoostUrCAreer will thus provide a diversified education combining the most fundamental aspects of research with the practice of transfer toward the socio-economic world. This dual expertise represents a real added value for career development and is acquired thanks to specific trainings on practical and transferable skills and a six-month mobility abroad at an international research laboratory. In addition, a close follow-up by two academic supervisors, as well as by an academic tutor and a non-academic mentor, will ensure the quality of doctoral programmes and further facilitate the ESRs’ integration to the workforce.

The doctoral candidates will be provided with:

• an excellent research environment composed of top institutions;
• attractive and selective working conditions;
• interdisciplinary research options;
• exposure to non-academic employment sectors. Thanks to the mentoring programme and the classes taught by non-academics, the BoostUrCAreer students will be highly and regularly exposed to the industry and other relevant employment sectors;
• international networking. With two supervisors, each BoostUrCAreer student will have access to two research networks. They will also have a dedicated budget for participating to conferences and for the academic secondment, which must be abroad;
• training on transferable skills. The modules of the BoostUrCAreer common training focuses only on transferable skills (Open Science, ethics, management, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights (IPR), communication to name a few);
• high-quality supervision and mentoring schemes;
• support for the possible commercialisation of doctoral research work, and will use the alumni network as much as possible;
• provision to participate or organise events to disseminate and communicate their results.

BoostUrCareer will also provide excellent working conditions to the ESRs:

• Attractive salary: doctoral candidates will get 2709 € as living allowance, including employer cost (gross salary ~ 1900 €, netto salary ~ 1500 €). In addition, the fellows will get travel and mobility allowances (815 € per month, not taxable);
• A legal working time is 37 hours per week, with a daily working duration that does not exceed 10 hours;
• Subsidized lunches and monthly pass for public transportation;
• A total amount of yearly vacations of 45 days;
• Paid sick leaves;
• Parental leaves following the birth/adoption of a child;
• Sick and parental leaves add up to the 42-month duration of the contract;
• In addition to their income, the doctoral candidates who have family obligations will receive an extra family allowance of 400 € per month.

Applicants cannot have spent more than 12 months in France in the 3 years immediately prior to 1st September 2020.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklowdowska-Curie grant agreement No 847581