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Background A response to Member State requests originated from the need for an alumni communication platform A response to Member State requests Get and Keep with IAEA TCP !

Objectives Establish, maintain and intensify contacts between the Agency and potential, current and former stakeholders in the TC programme Keep with the technical cooperation community Promote the use of Member State capacities through the TC programme

User Groups The main users of are: Fellows and Scientific Visitors Current and potential experts Meeting and training course candidates National institutes and regional offices TC counterparts National Liaison Officers/Assistants IAEA TC and technical staff

Features Online Profile Platform TC Programme Online Information/ Guidelines Online Application Forms Platform Resource Institution Roster Expert Roster

Front Page

Registration

Dashboard

Profile

FEL/SV Candidate

FEL/SV Submit

Counterpart

NLO/NCR

Select Candidate NLO/NCR and Counterpart can fill in the application for the candidate:

History & Forward Entire history can be seen and one can forward for further actions or send back for additional information.

Documents Documents such as signed copy of the supervisor, language certificate, medical certificate… can be uploaded, so that all documents are kept together:

Next steps Fellowship Reports online, especially the final fellowship reports (with limited access to the secretariat) Link to fellowship placement institutions Resource Institution Performance Evaluation in place

Expected Outcome Ownership to project counterparts Pre-selection of qualified candidates Forms are submitted in a complete manner Less rejections/non awards Efficient and timely placement of training requested

Fellow Workflow

SV Workflow

Meeting/Course Workflow

Intouch.iaea.org Nathalie Colinet Maria Angeles Rubin Hasibar For further information please contact: Nathalie Colinet N.Colinet@iaea.org +43 1 2060 26379 Maria Angeles Rubin Hasibar M.A.Rubin-Hasibar@iaea.org +43 1 2060 22402 Intouch.iaea.org

Trends in IAEA fellowship duration

Fellowship Duration (2000-2009)

Long Term Academic Training Duration: maximum 3 years mostly in the field of Medical Physics, Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Oncology (MSc or PhD) Trends: aging scientists, lack of specialists in hospitals, academic training not available in home country Planning: planned in advance within a TC project Funding: IAEA TC project, government cost sharing, extrabudgetary funds or Type I

Types of Long Term Training SPECIALIZED TRAINING: uninterrupted training, in radiation oncology, nuclear medicine and medical physics SANDWICH MODALITY: Fellow registers at a local university and at the same time contacts a university overseas. 2 professors jointly supervise the studies - 6 months locally and 6 months overseas. (ICTP) DISTANT LEARNING ( E-LEARNING): Fellow studies in home country and only travels to take exams/defend thesis in host country (hydrology) CONSIDERATION: costly, limited funds, removes candidate from the workplace for a long period, risk of brain drain

IAEA Fellows/SV Definition Fellowships (FE): awarded to young professionals with a university degree or technical level who must have worked at least 2 years in the project/field. The fellow must be academically or technically qualified, including language The training requested is: practical/on-the-job training of candidates (as a rule duration is 1 month up to 12 months at a single institute)* the most common type of fellowship; long-term academic training (duration 6 months – 3 years) Scientific Visits (SV): awarded to a senior staff who worked at least 5 years in the project/field. Awarded to candidates who hold an appropriate advisory or management position (duration: up to 2 weeks in a maximum of 2 countries/2 host institutes). Age Limit: normally 5 years less the retirement age of his/her country. Similarities: Always at the receiving end (receiving training, knowledge etc.) The differences: Fine line between short fellowship/long visit. Then position (managerial) is the deciding factor rather than age. The difficulties (visits): Importance of limiting no. of host countries/institutes for a sc. visit. We have to work through governmental authorities as for fellowships; the procedure is rather long and cumbersome, and for a short visit the about of administrative work if too many countries are involved cannot be justified. Stress the difficulties in obtaining visas Example: SLO (collect personally, passport to be sent to nearest Embassy in advance) HUN: apply one month in advance for short visit – with passport! IAEA and AUS count, administratively, as two host countries. 2 days IAEA SEIB, 3 days ARC SEIB sounds simple, but: only the former; latter we have to approach through the AUS Govt…