BoostUrCAreer project

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 847581. It has been co-funded by the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and IDEX UCA^JEDI.

BoostUrCAreer project aims at implementing at Université Côte d’Azur and with the support from the European Commission, the Conseil Region Sud-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and IDEX UCA^JEDI, a multidisciplinary doctoral programme in e-health.

This programme wishes to attract to the French Riviera early-stage researchers (ESRs) with the world highest academic, creative and innovative potentials and enhance their employability. The proposed programme will foster interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international experiences with the objective of contributing to creating a new generation of PhDs equipped for both academic and non-academic careers in e-health and inclined to the great research and innovation challenges of tomorrow.

In line with the strategy of excellence, interdisciplinary and innovation pursued by Université Côte d'Azur, every doctoral project in this programme associates two laboratories of the University and a foreign academic partner. BoostUrCAreer thus provides a diversified education combining the most fundamental aspects of research with the practice of transfer toward the socio-economic world. This dual expertise represents a real added value for career development and is acquired thanks to specific trainings on practical and transferable skills and a six-month mobility abroad at an international research laboratory. In addition, a close follow-up by two academic supervisors in fundamental laboratories as well as by an academic tutor and a local non-academic mentor ensure the quality of doctoral theses and further facilitate the ESRs’ integration to the workforce.

Until now, Université Côte d'Azur launched 2 international call for proposal campaigns: the first one in May 2019 and the second one in January 2020 to attract high potential applicants. Prior to the launch of the call for proposal campaigns, an internal call for PhD topics was launched among the researchers working for Université Côte d'Azur or one of its members. After a rigourous selection, the University has selected 32 PhD topics from which the applicants had to choose from. Now that the 15 ESRs have been selected, they have 42 months to complete their PhD including the six-month mobility abroad.