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NILS Science and Sustainability

NILS Science and Sustainability. Marta Arregi Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain April 26, 2012, Bergen marregi@mat.ucm.es Tel. +34 91 394 4385 http://www.ucm.es. NILS Science and Sustainability. Programme operator Universidad Complutense de Madrid Background:

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NILS Science and Sustainability

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  1. NILS Science and Sustainability Marta Arregi UniversidadComplutense de Madrid, Spain April 26, 2012, Bergen marregi@mat.ucm.es Tel. +34 91 394 4385 http://www.ucm.es

  2. NILS Science and Sustainability Programme operator • UniversidadComplutense de Madrid Background: • NILS mobilityproject 2009 – 2011 • Some NILS outputs NILS Science and Sustainability • Aim and strategy • Students’ mobility challenges: why to link EEA Grants to Erasmus scheme? • Research: why to focus on Sustainabilty? • Researchprojectsshould… • Researchers’ mobility: challenges • Measure: Students’ mobility • Measure: Abel – ResearchersIndividualMobility • Measure: Abel – ResearchersCoordinatedMobility • Expectedoutputs • Spanishuniversities and public researchorganisms

  3. NILS Science and Sustainability UniversidadComplutense de Madrid la energía de la diversidad Seven centuries of history Quick facts (2010 – 2011 academicyear) • Students: 83.694 • Teaching and research staff: 6.989 • Administrative and service staff: 4.625 • Budget 2010:  600 Mill. € • Officialdegrees: 170 • Complutense qualifications 179 • Centers: 21 Faculties, 5 UniversitySchools, 9 Associated Centres, • 40 UniversityResearchInstitutions, 8 Schoolsfor Professional specialization, 4 UniverstityHospitals, 17 ResearchAssistance Centres, 39 UniversityResidences.

  4. NILS Science and Sustainability Background NILS mobilityproject Jan 2009 – Apr 2011 • General aims • Increasedcooperationbetweenresearchers/artistsfrom Spain and fromNorway, Iceland and Liechtenstein • To set up thebasisforfurthercooperationschemes • Increasedcooperationconcerningpostdegreestudies • Increasednumber of LLP-Erasmus agreements • Budget: 1.865.555 euro • Measures • Degreestudentsmobility (Erasmus scheme) • Researchersmobility: focusedonmathematics and connected disciplines

  5. NILS Science and Sustainability Background 103 Spanish degree students moved 92, to 17 Norwegian HE institutions 11, to 3 Icelandic HE institutions 24 HE institutions involved 81 researchers moved 24 Spanish, 12 Norwegian, 5 Icelandic institutions involved 120 lectures, seminars, courses, talks, … 124 publications, exhibitions 20% of grantees, planning further cooperation http://www.nilsmobilityproject.es

  6. NILS Science and Sustainability Aim and Strategy • To enhance human capital and knowledge base in Spain and in the DS by improving and deepening academic and research collaboration, promoting scientific research on strategic fields for human well-being and Earth sustainability. • We will provide the opportunity for international training and research cooperation to researchers at different stages of their careers as well as the opportunity for degree and master students to make a part of their studies abroad. • Degree and master students: Erasmus scheme. • Researchers’ training and research co-operation : based both on individual and coordinated mobility schemes. Period: Summer 2012 – December 2015 EEA Grants Budget: 3.918.000 €

  7. NILS Science and Sustainability Students’ mobilitychallenges: whyto link EEA grantsto Erasmus scheme? Provides a proved solution for the main challenges for students’ mobility: • Recognition and accreditation of learning; • Support services such as academic guidance, language training, support for finding lodging, etc. • Provides access to some (although insufficient) funding; • Shared scheme: most of higher education institutions participate. • New cooperation agreements are easy to develop between higher education institutions and their centres.

  8. NILS Science and Sustainability Research: WhytofocusonSustainability? Whytopromotemultidisciplinarity? Whytopromotemathematics? Major human challenge: Earth and Human Sustainability ”Learning to live sustainably on Earth is going to require enormous advances in our understanding of the natural world and our relationship with it” “Doing so requires answering extremely complex, multi-disciplinary questions” ”To acquire such understanding, progress in mathematical sciences is essential, as ”almost every sustainability challenge we face requires mathematical tools”

  9. NILS Science and Sustainability Researchprojectswithin NILS S&S should: • Be multidisciplinary or have a clear mathematical content • Have a clear experimental scientific/technological approach • Deal with problems related to Sustainability: • climatic change and its impact on socioeconomic changes, … • demography, population, migration flows,… • natural resources (including renewable energies and sustainability), • health (public and individual, population aging, …), • social dynamics (i.e. social change, social phase transitions, resources distribution….), • methodologies (modeling, simulation, validation….) • Etc.

  10. NILS Science and Sustainability Reseacher’smobility: challenges Common challenges: Internationalisation of research Increase of human resources and their competences in R&D Improvement of their mobility and stability Preventing drop out by PhD students;... Specific Spanish challenges: Low funding (and decreasing with the crisis) Brain drain Rigidity of existing funding mechanisms Rigid selection procedures High cost of life in DS

  11. NILS Science and Sustainability Measure: Studentsmobility • Callsaddressedto HE institutionslaunchedby UCM • HE institutionswillthenlaunchtheirowncalls • Initialfunding: 1.010.000 euro • Granttostudents: 600 euro /month

  12. NILS Science and Sustainability Measure: Abel ExtraordinaryChair – Individual MobilityforResearchers • Beneficiaries: researchers active in Universities and publicresearchinstitutions, supportedbytheirauthorities • Types of grants: predoctoral, postdoctoral, senior • Applicationsmustbesupportedby at leasttwoinstitutions (one in Spain and theother in a DS) • Applicantsmustsubmitt a commonresearchactivity plan • Initialbudget: 1.627.800 euro

  13. NILS Science and Sustainability Measure: Abel ExtraordinaryChair – CoordinatedMobilityforResearchers • Beneficiaries: researchersgroups active in Universities and publicresearchinstitutions, supportedbytheirauthorities • Applicationsmustbesupportedby at leasttwoinstitutions (one in Spain and theother in a DS) • Participatinggroupsmustsubmitt a commonresearchactivity plan • Projectsmaylast up to 36 months • Initialbudget: 700.000 euro

  14. NILS Science and Sustainability Expected outputs • 200 HE studentsbenefitingfrom a NILS S&S Grant • 30 HE institutionsinvolved • 90 researchersbenefitingfrom a NILS S&S Grant • 10 researchgroupsinvolved in coordinatedmobilityschemesfundedby NILS S&S • 90 seminars, scientificpublications and similars • 20 forecastedjointproject/activities/collaborationsafter NILS S&S completion

  15. NILS Science and Sustainability List of Spanishuniverstities http://www.educacion.gob.es/educacion/universidades/educacion-superior-universitaria/que-estudiar-donde/universidades-espanolas.html Spanishpublicresearchorganisms http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.7eeac5cd345b4f34f09dfd1001432ea0/?vgnextoid=a6cbc18d48530210VgnVCM1000001034e20aRCRD&lang_choosen=en

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