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Interview Trainings for ERC Starting Grant Applicants (apply by 23 May 2024)

The ERC National Contact Point (NCP ERC) supports ERC Starting Grant candidates with 12 online trainings in preparing for their interview.

In individual training sessions (Part II), candidates are provided with a simulated interview experience. Each candidate will present in front of the mock panel and rehearse the Q&A session for approximately 30 minutes. A professional trainer will facilitate the sessions, offering feedback, while colleagues from the NCP ERC and the other candidates will serve as the mock panel.

These training sessions target ERC Starting Grant 2024 candidates with a German host institution who have received the interview invitations and who have no training opportunity at their institutions. If you already have access to individual coaching elsewhere, we kindly ask you to make use of this possibility and to keep the NCP ERC training free for colleagues who do not have this opportunity.

The NCP training sessions will take place online from the end of April until the end of May. The individual training sessions (Part II) which will be conducted in small groups, will be offered for candidates from all three domains (PE, LS and SH). In addition to the individual training sessions, the NCP ERC offers a general information event (Part I).

The general information event (Part I) will take place on 25 April 2024, from 10:00 to 11:30 am.

For the individual training sessions (Part II), the dates are expectedly as follows:

  • 16 May 2024, 08:30-12:30 (preferably LS domain)
  • 16 May 2024, 13:30-17:30 (preferably PE domain)
  • 17 May 2024, 09:00-13:00 (preferably LS domain)
  • 21 May 2024, 08:30-12:30 (preferably LS domain)
  • 23 May 2024, 13:00-17:00 (preferably LS domain)

Registration Deadline: 23 May 2024.

Details: https://www.eubuero.de/en/ncp-erc-interview-trainings-starting-grants-2459.html