About 50 researchers participated in a talent attraction workshop organized by the University of Navarra. The goal was to provide clues about the Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowships (MSCA IF 2017) program, one of the most competitive and prestigious of the European Commission.  

Among them were ten candidates from centers in Canada, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Ecuador. They are preparing their applications to join through this program the University's Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), the University's research center at Humanities and social sciences. During their visit they were able to meet their supervisors and the Institute.

Pilar Lostao, Vice President of International Office of the University, was in charge of opening the workshop. Subsequently, Ana Marta González, scientific coordinator of the ICS, and Javier Díez, director of the Cardiovascular Diseases Program of the research center Médica Aplicada (CIMA) intervened. An open infoday was also held with one of the national points of contact in Spain for MSCA, Jesús Rojo, from the Madri+d Foundation for the knowledge.

Among the activities planned were a roundtable with Marie Curie evaluators and with researchers who have received one of these grants, oral presentations to position by the candidates and sessions of work at group.

This is the second year that this activity has been organized. In the last call, two of the participating candidates were awarded Marie Curie fellowships to work at the ICS: framework Demichelis, who has joined the project 'Religion and Civil Society', and Sarali Ginstburg, who will join in August 2017 the project 'Public discourse'.