Deadline: January 31 2020
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is calling candidates for its European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme 2020 – 2021 (EU-FORA).
Are you an early to mid-career scientist with less than 15 years of experience in the field of food safety? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to boost your professional development and get hands–on experience at leading European organisations in the food safety area? Then this opportunity may be for you!
The EU-FORA Fellowship is a unique, 12–month paid programme for highly motivated professionals who want to contribute to food safety in Europe.
EU-FORA Fellows will start a challenging journey in different hosting sites across the EU.
With the “learning-by doing” approach of the fellowship programme, you will gain extensive knowledge of many scientific aspects related to food safety risk assessment; you will discover
- how to select and apply risk–assessment methodologies,
- how to collect and analyse relevant data,
- how to use computer models in risk assessment,
- how to provide effective risk communication.
- In addition, you will benefit from several high–level trainings; a 3- week induction training at EFSA and further training modules spread over the 12 months of the fellowship at several leading European food safety institutions.
- At the end of the fellowship, the technical report of your work will be published in a special issue of the EFSA Journal.
Fundings:
- During the Fellowship, you will receive a monthly net subsistence allowance of € 2,200 (multiplied by the yearly revised correction coefficients reflecting the cost of living in the country of the hosting site) for the 12-month duration of the fellowship.
- To help you settle in, you will also receive an additional one-month allowance at the start of the programme.
- You will be responsible for all other costs.
Eligibilities:
1. General requirements
- Be national of a Member State of the European Union or EFTA state;
- Enjoy full rights as a citizen;
- Have a good knowledge of English language (at least B2 level according to CEFR);
- Meet the character requirements for the duties involved.
2. Qualifications
- A level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least three (3) years attested by a diploma in one of the following fields: agriculture, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biology, biometrics, biotechnology, chemistry, dietary exposure, environmental sciences, epidemiology, food science, food technology, genetics, health and food safety, human medicine, life sciences, mathematics, microbiology, molecular biology, natural sciences, nutrition, pharmacy, public health, statistics, toxicology, veterinary medicine or related areas.
3. Experience
- Less than 15 years of experience in food safety (including risk assessment, risk communication, risk management) related jobs.
Note:
- In case you do not fulfil all the eligibility criteria, your application will not be taken into consideration.
