Enabling Excellence - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) Grant No. 642742 Workshop: Graphene Materials and preparing for the future Organizers: Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB-CSIC) and Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA) (Supervisors: Wolfgang Maser, Ana Benito, Alejandro Anson and Raul Arenal / ESR4: Emin Istif; ESR5: Lorenzo Vallan; ESR6: Ana Santidrian; ESR11, Mario Pelaez) Location: Instituto de Carboquimica (ICB-CSIC), Zaragoza 30-31 January 2018 Programme Tuesday 30 th January: GRANT APPLICATIONS AND CV WRITING 9:00-9:15 Introduction and Welcome (Local, Institute Director, Chris, Wolfgang and Raul) 9:15-10:30 The Next Step Part 1 - Academic options - Round table: Steps towards tenure in France, Spain, UK, Greece (supervisors) - 'European academic financial framework' - brief overview of how European research financing is structured. (Chris + Wolfgang) - Postdoc options (Marie Curie, JSPS Japan, US grants, conventional postdocs, ) (Chris + Wolfgang + ) 10:30:11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:00 How to write a fellowship / grant proposal (the official story) (Izabela Jurewicz) 12:00-13:30 Grant writing exercise (Izabela Jurewicz) 13:30-15:00 Lunch 15:00-15:45 Tips and Tricks on successful Marie Curie Projects (the unofficial story) (Chris + Nikos) 15:45-16:30 Second Exercise: Project Evaluation - With genuine sample Marie Curie individual fellowship applications. Evaluate the impact section (impact + communication), judging strengths and weaknesses. - Then exchange evaluations and produce a consolidated report. - Then rank and score proposals. - Debriefing on grant applications, compare to genuine evaluation reports. Parallel session Supervisor science meeting. 16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-19:00 The Next Step Part 2 Non-Academic Options - CV writing training (Jorge Torres Quilez) 18:00 Optional Site Visit (depending on Part 2) The Enabling Excellence project has received funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642742
Enabling Excellence - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) Grant No. 642742 Wednesday 31 st January: PhD THESIS WRITING AND GRAPHENE MATERIALS 09:00-09:30 Thesis Writing How to do it? 09:30-10:30 Individual Sessions second supervisors in one-to-one with student about their thesis - How is it going (debriefing) - Structure? Overall theme? Calendar? - Specific issues for the student? Advice and feedback from the second supervisor 10:30-Lunch EnEx Administrative meeting - Exchanges, deliverables, forthcoming meetings, money, sabbaticals, - Communication opportunities - Beyond EnEx (new ITN? Other funding sources) Lunch 16:00 Scientific Brainstorming: Graphene Materials - Each ESR presents at least ONE open scientific and technical challenge / problem - and optionally ONE interesting finding 16:00 Tour of the lab / continued scientific discussions around Graphene Materials Following: practical information for the trip and during the workshop (How to reach Zaragoza, location of ICB, hotels ) The Enabling Excellence project has received funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642742
ZARAGOZA a) Direct Ryanair Flights: London Stansted, Charleroi, Bergamo c) Car (Motorway) about 300 km b) Flights to Barcelona or Madrid and then from Barcelona, Madrid, San SebasLan High-speed train to Zaragoza (1 h 30 min) More See next page Autobus (coach) to Zaragoza (3-4 h)
FLIGHT ZARAGOZA HOW TO REACH Direct InternaLonal flights: London Stensted, Bergamo, Charelroi Otherwise: Flight to Barcelona or to Madrid. From Barcelona (Estación de Sants) or Madrid (Estación de Atocha) By high-speed train (AVE): Takes about 1h30min beuer book beforehand at www.renfe.com (Please note that seats need to be reserved. If you do on-site, the next out-bound train might be complete and you have to wait for the next one with seats available. ) COACH (www.alsa.es): Takes about 3-4 hours. Madrid: usually form Avenida America (estación intercambiador) somelmes from Airport (T4) (not all) Barcelona (Estación Norte)
ENEX MEETING AT INSTITUTO DE CARBOQUÍMICA (ICB-CSIC) C/Miguel Luesma Castán 4, 50018 Zaragoza INA (Raul s site) TRAM STOP Campus Rio Ebro CARBOQUÍMICA (ENEX-MEETING) CITY CENTER
Tramway Line 1 Parque Goya (final stop) InsLtuto de Carboquímica Campus Rio Ebro ca. 15 minutes City center Price: 1 way Lcket: 1.35 EUR Ticket machines at stops (validize inside tram) Mago de Oz (final stop)
HOTELS Book at city center (any Hotel close to Plaza de Pilar à Tram stalon: Murallas C/Cesar Agosto à Tram stalon: Murallas, or Cesar Augusto Plaza España à Tram stalon: Plaza España e.g. Hotel Tibur, Hotel Catalonia, Hotel Hispania,Hotel Avenida, Hotel NH Ciudad Zaragoza,... Most of them are *** all are in walking distance to each other, and close to Tramway stalon and close to any kind of restaurant and bar (all what you need) A bit higher category Hotels **** - ***** Hotel Palafox Hotel Goya Hotel DonYo Hotel Melía (closed)
Train StaLon Zaragoza Delicias From Train StaLon to City center City Center Taxi: about 10 minutes, reasonable price (probably less than 10 EUR) Public bus: several more or less complicated possibililes: look up at hup://zaragoza.avanzagrupo.com/