{"id":21706,"date":"2023-02-17T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vesti.mas.bg.ac.rs\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2023-02-17T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:34:27","slug":"mobility-gt-24-post-doctoral-3-year-fellowships-for-own-idea-projects-on-green-tribology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vesti.mas.bg.ac.rs\/?p=21706","title":{"rendered":"Mobility GT: 24 Post-Doctoral 3-year Fellowships for own-idea projects on Green Tribology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Application process of Call 1 starts on 1. March 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

This international programme involves 4 academic partners \u2013 it is coordinated by the Laboratory for Tribology and Interface Nanotechnology of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in cooperation with the University of Leeds (UK), Lule\u00e5 University of Technology (Sweden) and University of Coimbra (Portugal) \u2013 and 50 associated partners, mainly from industry (e.g., Volvo, Scania, Oerlikon, SKF, Hidria, Kolektor, Mahle, Cummins, and others). The programme will host 24 post-doctoral researchers<\/strong>, each with a 3-year contract<\/strong>. The annual salary available to each postdoc is a minimum of \u20ac69,360<\/strong>, or \u20ac77,280<\/strong> for a postdoc who is entitled to a family allowance.<\/p>\n

Mobility GT will be realised in two calls for two cohorts of 12 postdocs each. Half the positions in each cohort will ini\u00adtially focus on fundamental nanoscale research at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), with the other half working on macroscale, application-oriented tribology research of materials, surfaces, coatings and lubrication<\/strong>\u00a0at the University of Leeds (UK), Lule\u00e5 University of Technology (Sweden) or the University of Coimbra (Portugal). This will be followed by what will be an exciting, compulsory switch between the two length scales after 27 months (and includes a mandatory secondment at an intersectorial\/industrial partner) as the \u201cnanoscale\u201d postdocs take what they have discovered to the macroscale, and the \u201cmacroscale\u201d postdocs get the chance to look more deeply into their findings on the nanoscale. This means the postdocs will finish off with a 9-month academic sec\u00adondment to complement the main period of research.<\/p>\n

Each post-doc can propose their own project with bottom-up ideas, but in agreement with the host university. So preliminary contacts<\/a> and a discussion with provisional mentors are mandatory.<\/p>\n

The first call will be available on Jan 1st<\/sup>, 2023, with the submission of a <\/strong>post-doc project proposal in May 2023<\/strong>. After an international review, led by six high-profile tribologists (including three Tribology Gold Medallists), the winning proposals will be announced in August 2023. After the necessary administrative procedures for the winning proposals, the first 12 postdocs<\/strong> will start in January 2024<\/strong>. The whole procedure will then be repeated, to recruit the next cohort of 12 post-docs, who will start in January 2025.<\/p>\n

The Mobility GT post-docs, with their individual research projects, will be able to address major challenges in green tribology in the following research areas:<\/p>\n