The Council of Ministers has approved this Wednesday the call 2023 of the ATRAE program specifically aimed at attracting R4 researchers, the highest echelon of a consolidated scientific career, to our universities and public research organizations.
This program will serve to hire a minimum of 25 PhDs with more than seven years of postdoctoral experience to develop their line of research in Spain. This call contemplates the possibility of increasing the endowment by 5 million more, up to 30 million, if the budget is available.
Research personnel eligible for these grants must have more than seven years of postdoctoral experience and have carried out their activity abroad for at least 5 of the last 7 years. The beneficiary research leaders will receive a grant of up to one million euros to develop their line of research in Spain.
This investment will serve to make our country and our public funding system more competitive to pay the salary of these researchers -which will be a minimum of 80,000 euros per year-, to hire the necessary research personnel to form their research group and for the acquisition of equipment and adaptation of spaces for the establishment of their group.
The aid will be requested by the researcher, who must have a letter of acceptance from the organization he/she intends to join and a commitment of consolidation. The contract will be for an initial duration of three to four years and the beneficiary will be the host institution.
