ADAPT announces sixteen new two year Elite S fellowships

The ADAPT Research Centre has announced Elite S, a new programme that will offer sixteen fellowships in the areas of regulations and compliance, content analytics and content preservation, data and process management and interoperability.

The programme, which will have two calls over four years (eight fellows each time), is funded by the European Commission and ADAPT and is targeted at experienced international researchers (who either have PhDs or four years research work behind them) and also researchers at risk or who have had a career break.

Elite S will open for submissions in February, with the deadline at the end of May and the first fellowships will begin in November 2019.

The management team for Elite S are based in DCU

– Dr Markus Helfer – Project Coordinator
– John Judge – ADAPT EU Funding Manager
– Paulo Soncini – Project Manager
– Caitriona Mordan – Project Manager

Paulo Soncini said “ICT standards play an essential role in achieving interoperability of new technologies and can bring significant benefits to both industry and consumers. ELITE-S will offer excellent quality in the selection of researchers, and high-quality training and supervision to form the next generation of leaders in ICT Standards.  We are very excited to launch this programme today.”

Programme details

Elite S both an academic and industry components.  The industry secondment is for six months and can be anywhere in the world.

Applicants must have a specific piece of research they want to do and must propose this and reach out to a potential academic supervisor during the application process.

They also have to develop a personal career and development plan as part of the fellowship as the programme is very much managed, structured and real-world goal orientated.

Across the four disciplines of 1) Regulations and compliance, 2) Content analytics and content preservation, 3) Data and process management and 4) Interoperability, the project expects to create significant impact in the following areas:

Digital health apps, digital government, fintech, smart cities, smart buildings, smart transport, trust and e-signatures, long term data preservation and machine learning.

The programme launched this morning (January 23rd) at IBEC, 84-86 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.  Details of the event are here.