Welcoming highly-talented international post-docs in Brittany

ongoing

Offering the best conditions to postdoctoral fellows for their bottom-up, self-built research projects, within a consortium that gathers all the research units based in Brittany, with training and career development aimed at internationalisation, intersectoriality and interdisciplinarity, and a unique 6-month placement opportunity: such are the ingredients of the BIENVENÜE+ project, that aims at strengthening regional excellence through the recruitment of 75 high-level international postdoctoral fellows (24-month fellowships). BIENVENÜE+ represents a central pillar for the better articulation of funding opportunities for international post-doc fellows at regional level. It ambitions to promote the implantation and integration of new skills in Brittany and to develop excellence and international visibility of regional research in contribution to Région Bretagne Research and innovation smart specialisation strategy (RIS3). With this approach, BIENVENÜE+ is open to any discipline. BIENVENÜE+ is strongly innovation-oriented and, as such, it offers, in addition to non-academic secondments, an optional unique additional 6-month placement in a non-academic institution, at the end of the 24-month fellowship. In terms of training plan, BIENVENÜE+ includes arising key issues for researchers such as Open Science, science outreach and environmental aspects of research. The BIENVENÜE+ consortium, coordinated by Région Bretagne, is composed of 20 complementary Host Institutions (HI). This large consortium, embracing the entire regional R&I academic community, widens research and career development opportunities for the fellows relying, among others, on the participation in 6 European Universities Alliances.