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Monday, January 4, 2010

Europe: The Ma­rie Cu­rie In­iti­al Trai­ning Net­work (ITN) fun­ded by the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­si­on

Overview

The Ma­rie Cu­rie In­iti­al Trai­ning Net­work (ITN) EX­ACT is an EU wi­de Ph.D. and pro­fes­sio­nal trai­ning pro­gram­me for young re­se­ar­chers, aca­de­mics and pro­fes­sio­nals in the field of EU Ex­ter­nal Ac­tion fun­ded by the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­si­on.

EX­ACT pro­vi­des the op­por­tu­ni­ty to rea­li­se an in­di­vi­du­al re­se­arch pro­ject lea­ding to a dou­ble Ph.D. ("co-tu­tel­le") is­sued by two uni­ver­si­ties.

Star­ting in Oc­to­ber 2010 EX­ACT pro­vi­des trai­ning for 12 par­ti­ci­pants for a pe­riod of th­ree years in­clu­ding lo­cal and net­work-wi­de ac­tivi­ties pro­vi­ded by the part­ner in­sti­tu­ti­ons of the net­work.
The pro­gram­me of­fers aca­de­mic and pro­fes­sio­nal trai­ning as well as a net­work of con­ta­cts th­roug­hout aca­de­mia and the pri­va­te sec­tor.

Who can apply?

Being awa­re of the re­le­van­ce and the de­mand for ex­perts on EU Ex­ter­nal Ac­tion, EX­ACT tar­gets par­ti­ci­pants of any na­tio­na­li­ty and age from dif­fe­rent re­le­vant di­sci­plines dea­ling with EU for­eign po­li­cy, such as po­li­ti­cal sci­ence, law, and eco­no­mics.

EX­ACT is de­si­gned to train uni­ver­si­ty gra­dua­tes, who ha­ve ob­tai­ned their first de­gree (Mas­ter or equi­va­lent) en­t­it­ling her/him to em­bark on a doc­to­ra­te no ear­lier than May 2008. In other words, ap­p­li­cants ha­ving gra­dua­ted be­fo­re May 2008 are not eli­gi­ble, wi­t­hout any ex­cep­ti­on. Ap­p­li­cants must ha­ve pro­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of Eng­lish and must not ha­ve ob­tai­ned a Ph.D. al­re­a­dy.


Conditions of Nationality and Mobility of Researchers

Re­se­ar­chers are re­qui­red to un­der­ta­ke trans-na­tio­nal mo­bi­li­ty (i.e. mo­ve from one coun­try to ano­ther) when ta­king up their ap­point­ment. Two ge­ne­ral ru­les ap­p­ly to the ap­point­ment of re­se­ar­chers in the EX­ACT net­work:
Re­se­ar­chers can be na­tio­nals of any coun­try other than the coun­try of the pre­mi­ses of the host or­ga­ni­sa­ti­on whe­re they will car­ry out the fi­nal pha­se of the EX­ACT pro­gram­me.

Ex­amp­le: A Czech na­tio­nal is not al­lo­wed to car­ry out the EX­ACT fi­nal pha­se (April 2012 - Sep 2013) at the Charles Uni­ver­si­ty Pra­gue.

Re­se­ar­chers must not ha­ve re­si­ded or car­ried out their main ac­tivi­ty (work, stu­dies, etc.) for mo­re than 12 months in the coun­try of the uni­ver­si­ty of the EX­ACT fi­nal pha­se (April 2012 - Sep 2013) in the pe­riod from March 2009 to Sep­tem­ber 2010.

Ex­amp­le: A Ger­man na­tio­nal, who has stu­died for mo­re than 12 months in the UK bet­ween March 2009 and Sep­tem­ber 2010, is not al­lo­wed to car­ry out the fi­nal pha­se of the EX­ACT pro­gram­me at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh.


How to apply

Ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons are to be writ­ten in Eng­lish and sub­mit­ted to the EX­ACT In­iti­al Trai­ning Net­work elec­tro­ni­cal­ly and as a hard co­py
EX­ACT Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on Form (plea­se use the of­fi­ci­al tem­pla­te);
Eu­ro­pass Cur­ri­cu­lum Vi­tae (CV);

Let­ter of mo­ti­va­ti­on (up to two pa­ges), lin­king pre­vious stu­dies/work and ca­re­er as­pi­ra­ti­ons to the trai­ning pro­gram­me;

Draft out­li­ne of the en­vi­sa­ged Ph.D. the­sis in li­ne with EX­ACT’s field of re­se­arch (up to 2000 words in­clu­ding state­ments about the re­se­arch ques­ti­ons, the pro­po­sed hy­po­the­ses, the en­vi­sa­ged me­tho­do­lo­gy, a pro­vi­sio­nal sche­du­le for the re­se­arch, and a brief over­view of the exis­ting li­te­ra­ture in the field);

Cer­ti­fi­ca­te (TOEFL or equi­va­lent) of pro­fi­ci­en­cy in Eng­lish;

Co­py of first de­gree cer­ti­fi­ca­te gran­ting ac­cess to doc­to­ra­te stu­dies and/or con­fir­ma­ti­on of en­rol­ment;

The at­tach­ments (al­so lis­ted in the check­list at the end of the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on form) are to be sub­mit­ted as one PDF file con­for­ming to the above men­tio­ned or­der.

Plea­se use the fol­lo­wing sys­tem for spe­ci­fy­ing the file: “EX­ACT_APPL_[ap­p­li­cant NA­ME_ap­p­li­cant FIRST­NA­ME]”, e.g. EX­ACT_APPL_­CU­RIE_­MA­RIE;

Two con­fi­den­ti­al let­ters of re­com­men­da­ti­on (aca­de­mic and/or pro­fes­sio­nal), using the EX­ACT tem­pla­te, must be sent di­rect­ly to the EX­ACT In­iti­al Trai­ning Net­work by re­fe­rees to ar­ri­ve by dead­line of Ja­nu­a­ry 31, 2010. Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on can be found in the of­fi­ci­al tem­pla­te.

All of­fi­ci­al EX­ACT do­cu­ments and tem­pla­tes re­qui­red can be found he­re:'

EX­ACT Call for Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on
EX­ACT In­for­ma­ti­on on Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on
EX­ACT Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on Form
EX­ACT Let­ter of Re­com­men­da­ti­on

The dead­line for ap­p­li­ca­ti­on ma­te­ri­al, in­clu­ding let­ters of re­com­men­da­ti­on, is Jan 31, 2010.

Plea­se send your ap­p­li­ca­ti­on ma­te­ri­al to the fol­lo­wing ad­dres­ses:
Email:

ap­p­li­ca­ti­on(at)ex­act-trai­ning.net

Hard co­py:
EX­ACT In­iti­al Trai­ning Net­work
c/o Jean Mon­net Chair for Po­li­ti­cal Sci­ence / Prof. Wes­sels
Uni­ver­si­ty of Co­lo­gne
FAO: Wulf Rei­ners
Gott­fried-Kel­ler-Str. 6
D-50931 Co­lo­gne
GER­MA­NY
http://www.exact-training.net/


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