The MedTrain+ Programme aims to enhance the creative, entrepreneurial, and innovative potential of researchers, via advanced training, international and inter-sectoral mobility. Fellows will be based at one of nine CÚRAM academic organisations: University of Galway (NUI Galway), University College Cork (UCC), University College Dublin (UCD), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University of Limerick (UL), Dublin City University (DCU), National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), and Technological University of the Shannon (TUS).

The three-year Fellowships include secondment to a non-academic research partner, located in any country of the world appropriate to further the research, training and career development needs of each fellow. Two fellowship levels will be offered to 50 candidates over two calls, ensuring varying depths of experience:

• Level 1 candidates will have less than four years’ experience post PhD;
• Level 2 candidates will have four or more years’ experience post PhD.

MedTrain+ Fellows will be recruited across two calls over the four-year duration of the programme (2022-2026). 

Who is eligible?

• Must be experienced researchers, as per the MSCA definition: at the submission deadline (for call 2, 12 February 2024), they must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. Full-time equivalent research experience is measured from the date when a researcher obtained the degree which would formally entitled him/her to embark on a doctorate, either in the country in which the degree was obtained or in the country in which the researcher is recruited, irrespective of whether or not a doctorate is or was ever envisaged.
• Must comply with the MSCA mobility rule: have not resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Ireland for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to the submission deadline (call 2, 12 February 2024). Compulsory national service and/or short 

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