EU-LIFE Pathfinder Mentorship Programme for Postdoctoral Women
Following the success of the LIBRA Career Development Compass, EU-LIFE Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Working Group (GEDI WG) relaunched the mentoring initiative to support women early career researchers at the postdoctoral level to advance their careers.
This initiative, addressed to female postdocs of EU-LIFE institutes, brings together over 40 mentors based in 15 different countries, who generously offered to share their experience and support their early-career peers. In addition to online meetings, the mentees will have the opportunity to visit the host institution of their mentor.
Find out more at https://eu-life.eu/women-postdoc-mentoring
EU-LIFE Postdoctoral Exchange Programme
Following up the 2024 EU-LIFE Community Meeting in Vienna, the EU-LIFE Postdoc Initiative started an exchange programme for postdoctoral researchers in the EU-LIFE network that supports them to showcase their research to prospective principal investigators (PIs) and build lasting professional relationships. This programme them with the opportunity to present their work to, and network with, leading PIs in their field across Europe.
Find out more at https://eu-life.eu/postdoc-exchange
Past programmes
Visiting Postdoctoral EU-LIFE seminars programme
This programme offers a great opportunity for postdocs to visit other EU-LIFE institutes to give a talk about their work and the future direction they might take as independent researchers. In this way, these talks support international networking, help to boost a candidate’s career profile and should be seen as ‘practice’ job talks for independent positions. The programme aims to support postdocs on the academic career track and that the program funds two postdocs per year per institute.
We invited postdocs of EU-LIFE in their 3rd Postdoc year or later planning to apply for an independent research positions within the next 12 months to apply for an EU-LIFE Postdoc seminar speaker slot at one of our partner EU-LIFE institutes.
Visiting Scientist programme
This programme aims to open up institutional assets (knowledge, technology, infrastructure, equipment, core facilities) to all scientific community within EU-LIFE. We invite PhD students, postdocs, technicians, staff scientists and PI’s of EU-LIFE to visit partner institutes and participate in several types of training and research activities, plug in on each other’s core facilities, visit colleagues to learn a specific method and/or technique, and ultimately start scientific collaborations. The visits can have the duration of a couple of days up to 6 months.
