Partner Organisations
Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC) is a private, non-profit organization created in 2008 by a joint institutional initiative of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and its founding patrons. Its goal is to promote public-private collaboration in the environment of scientific research, innovation and knowledge enhancement.
A prosperous and advanced country needs to ensure the generational renewal of scientific researchers who provide real, sustainable and innovative solutions to the productive fabric and to society. And the conventional ways of consolidating scientific careers are not always enough.
In order to contribute to this goal, in 2014, FGCSIC launched the ComFuturo programme, an acronym in Spanish for “A public-private collaboration committed to science and the future”, an alliance with the CSIC and leading private entities to attract the best young research and entrepreneurial talent in the Spanish R&I system.
After four successful previous calls for young researchers at the national level, now, FGCSIC wants to expand ComFuturo, attracting international talent, offering 15 ComFuturo 36-month fellowships to Experienced Researchers. These will freely propose a research project to be carried out in one of the more than 120 institutes belonging to CSIC, Spain’s largest research institution, distributed throughout the Spanish territory.
The ongoing third edition of ComFuturo belongs to the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, as a COFUND postdoctoral programme. This allows the consolidation and reinforcement of the ComFuturo initiative, which aims to contribute to obtain a generation of researchers who are leaders in their fields of specialization, but at the same time, versatile and multifaceted, for an improvement in their employability prospects and a successful development of their professional careers, whether in the public or private sector.
Link to Call announcement in EURAXESS
