ApogeeBio 2023

The ApogeeBio post-doctoral fellowship program gives you an opportunity to join a research team at Genopole, a leading French biocluster for academic research and innovation located just south of Paris.

ApogeebioTimeline

IMPORTANT: Update of the timelines
  • Deadline for submission : 28 february 2024
  • Eligibility phase : 8 March 2024
  • First phase of assessment (up to 3 months time-frame) : May-June 2024
  • Second phase of selection (interview step) : Mid-June 2024
  • Notification of final selections : Early July 2024
  • Grant establishment process : from July to November 2024 at the latest
  • Start of the project no later than 1st December 2024


ApogeebioWho can apply?

The programme is intended to enhance and stimulate the international mobility toward Genopole biocluster. In order to apply to the ApogeeBio fellowship programme, the applicants have to demonstrate that they are responding to the binding eligibility criteria conditions. It will be also the responsibility of the hosting team to check that the application of the candidate is in line with the requirements.

Please check the eligibility criteria and the selection rules presented on the webpage "Reglement / Regulations"



 

ApogeebioApplication file

Sign in to your candidate space to complete your application file.
The application need to be filled out in English and comprise the following items.
  • The candidate’s extended CV must contain all basic data including personal information, educational background (graduate, post-graduate, PhD, other degrees), research and/or trainer activities, track record, etc.
  • The research proposal must contain the following items (10 pages max.)
    • Publishable abstract and up to five keywords (1 page max.)
    • Description of the project, including background and aims, methods, figures and references, significance and scientific soundness compared to the current state of knowledge within the setting of the project (9 pages max.)
  • Ethics and regulation declaration: 1 page max, mandatory: Please describe here how you will deal with the ethics and regulation related to your research if any. Indicate to which regulation and the due authorizations that will be needed from the competent authorities. Your hosting supervisor should help you on this. A check list and guidelines from the EU Horizon 2020 are provided to identify ethical matters relating to their research proposal. You must tick and copy-paste the table related to your field of research from the guidelines: [Human beings ; Human cells or tissues ; Personal data ; Animals ; Non-EU countries ; Environment, health and safety ...etc.]    https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/ethics/h2020_hi_ethics-self-assess_en.pdf 
  • A personal statement (maximum 2 pages, written personally using no templates) to include

    Career objectives

    Activities envisioned to enhance one's scientific profile within the academic or private sector

    Targeted collaboration opportunities beyond the academic sector

    General motivation for participation in the program

  • Letters of recommendation: Two letters of recommendation must be included. The letter authors should describe the applicant's previous research activities, research capacities and working experience.
  • Declaration on one's word of honor for the mobility rule (c.f. eligibility criteria)
  • Copy of PhD certificate or equivalent document attesting to the four-year research experience.
 

ApogeebioETHICS aspects of the research

From the H2020 ETHICS GUIDELINE:
“Consider that ethics issues arise in many areas of research. Apart from the obvious example, the medical field, research protocols in social sciences, ethnography, psychology, environmental studies, security research, etc. may involve the voluntary participation of research subjects and the collection of data that might be considered as personal. You must protect your volunteers, yourself and your researcher colleagues. Start thinking about ethics while designing your research protocols."

Ethics also matter for scholarly publication. Major scientific journals in many areas will increasingly require ethics committee approval before publishing research articles. Thus, you should be prepared for ethics procedures whatever the source of its funding.
How to complete your ethics self-assessment?

 

ApogeeBioo has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034259