8th CRG Awards for Training Technicians

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the CRG Awards for Training Technicians (Spring and Autumn calls), an initiative by the CRG to enhance and promote the high-quality training of the technician’s community.

The CRG is committed to strengthen and promote high-quality training for technicians, in the laboratories and at core technologies. This call aims to provide the CRG technicians with additional opportunities to undertake training in the form of courses or workshops that are essential to their professional development and are NOT available within the CRG or PRBB Intervals and BIST training portfolio.

The CRG Awards for Training Technicians will cover the costs of external training for technicians employed by the CRG that is of high relevance to their professional career. External training refers to structured training courses, workshops or e-learning courses on specific scientific/technical topics or complementary skills, offered by any recognized training institution, excluding the CRG, the PRBB Intervals and BIST. The principal objective of a training application must be developing or improving specific professional skills. The proposed training should be relevant to the present or future work of the applicant, and have an impact on her/his career development.

Eligibility

Laboratory, Core Technologies and EGA technicians employed by the CRG are eligible to apply. The application needs to be supported by a letter from the supervising PI, Team Leader or Head of Unit.

Funding
Awards are launched twice per year (Spring and Autumn call).
In each call, two grants, each up to €1.000 are available to cover travel, accommodation, and course fees. The proposal should include detailed budget break down.

Indicative timeline, deadline and submission:
The applicants should apply for a specific training opportunity, which takes place from 1st July to 31st June the following year for the spring call and from January to December for the Autumn call. The retrospective applications (for expenditure already incurred on training courses) will not be considered.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 31st of May and 31st of October. Proposals have to be submitted online through this form HERE

Final decision will be announced to the applicants by early July for spring call and early December for autumn call.

Evaluation:
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee, formed by Damjana Kastelic, PhD (Head of CRG Training and Academic Office); Monica Morales, PhD (Head of CRG Core Technologies); and Marc Bataller, PhD (Program Technician). Evaluators will be required to state any potential conflict of interest.

Successful applicants are expected to contribute back to the CRG community by sharing the knowledge and skills gained through the funded course.

For any question, please drop an email to:

CRG Training & Academic Office (TAO)
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) 
C./Dr. Aiguader, 88, 4th floor (office 460)

training@crg.eu