Marie Curie Actions: Inspiring Researchers - Imdea

she and her former Aquachem colleagues from Italy continueto work together via international collaborations. As a Fellowwho joined the network from outside Europe, Dr Landeatafound Aquachem ‘was a great opportunity for those of uswho wanted to get acquainted with the quality of scienceand excellent programmes that are being supported by theEuropean Commission’.be encouraged by their local governments and institutions toapply for such schemes in order to broaden their views andexperience living and working in a truly international context tobecome the next generation of world scientists.’Dr Chiara Dinoi, an early-stage researcher from Italy who spentthe majority of her fellowship at the Laboratoire de Chimiede Coordination at the French National Centre for Scientifi cResearch (CNRS), agrees. Not only did she develop a deeper,more interdisciplinary understanding of chemistry and thechallenges of modern research, she says, but her additionalresearch training periods in four different laboratories within thenetwork also ‘led to a very fruitful exchange of ideas, resultsand experiences that significantly contributed to the growthof my scientific thought and made me more aware of theimportance of sharing my knowledge with others and society’.The Marie Curie programme is ‘one of the best schemes fortransnational mobility and scientifi c training for young Europeanand third-country scientists,’ concludes Dr Peruzzini. ‘They shouldProject acronymAquachemFull project titleTransition metal chemistry and catalysis in aqueous mediaType of grantTraining NetworkBudgetEUR 1.9 millionDuration of project23-12-2003 - 22-12-2007Scientific disciplineChemistryLead partnerIstituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM) -Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)Dr Maurizio Peruzzini, Research DirectorVia Madonna del Piano 10IT-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence)Tel. +39 055 5225 289 // Fax +39 055 5225 203E-mail: maurizio.peruzzini@iccom.cnr.ithttp://www.iccom.cnr.itOther partnersCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) /Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, France (two research units) - Universityof Debrecen, Hungary - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona, Spain - University of York, United Kingdom - University ofErlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Istituto Superior Técnico, Portugal - Universidad deAlmería, Spain - Institute of Elementorganic Chemistry (INEOS) / Russian Academyof Sciences, Russia19