GLOBAL_AT_VENICE - Research and Training for Global Challenges Cofund Fellowship Programme

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The Global at Venice - Research and Training for Global Challenges is a new 60-month Cofund Fellowship Programme implemented by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (UNIVE) that aims at exploiting the full potential of UNIVE’s and its strategic partners to offer to 15 Fellows a truly international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training. The G@V programme will strengthen the Fellows’ curricula, providing Europe and the world with a pool of researchers capable of bridging the gaps between academic and applied research, and between research to market. In 2014 UNIVE launched an ambitious Strategic Plan aimed to boost its position to become a leading research-intensive university. Huge investments together with a radical mind-shift led to the following initiatives: ·2014: BRAIN GRAIN programme ·2015: CAREERS+ programme ·2016: HRS4R - Human Resources Strategy for Researchers label ·2016: LAB programme RESULTS 2014-2019: UNIVE is now a top Host Institution with more than 60 Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship awarded, 10 ERC grantees, 97 H2020 projects worth over €27M so far. In 2019 UNIVE set up 6 Research for Global Challenges Institutes to promote an interdisciplinary, challenge based and mission oriented approach to research: 1 Research Institute for Complexity 2 Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage 3 Research Institute for Social Innovation 4 Research Institute for Cross Cultural Relations 5 Research Institute for Green and Blue Growth 6 Research Institute for Innovation Management The key features of the G@V - Research and Training for Global Challenges Cofund Fellowship Programme – are: - 15 Fellowships lasting 24 months; - interdisciplinary research within the Research for Global Challenges Institutes; - excellent research training paths with top supervisors; - connection to UNIVE innovation ecosystem; - outstanding career opportunities ; - attractive working conditions; - a 2.362.000€ budget, more than 50% on own resources