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Any young candidate nominated by a GÉANT Project NREN partner registered at a university or college in a GÉANT partner country or working in the NREN community.

We accept max 1 candidates per NREN.

Ideal candidates are (under) graduate, master and PhD students (possibly interns at the NREN), who want to commit time and energy to learn and develop themselves beyond the basic university programme.

The Trust & Identity Incubator offers students trainees practical topics in different work areas that are being announced before each new print. The topics for the next sprint can be found in TIM TOPICS 2019.

Everything starts with motivation. After all hosting a young professional for 6 months Motivation is everything! Both for the student and for the hosting NREN. A six months' professional internship should not be underestimated and requires someone's time and dedication and interest in the working area. After a positive review of the NREN motivation and suitability and the candidates CV and motivation, the young professional will be invited for a preliminary interview,  followed by a second interview with T&I experts of the incubation team.  The hosting NREN will be contacted within ... days after the second interview for completion of the selection processfrom all parties involved.  That is exactly what the TIM selection committee will be looking for. We advise hosting NRENs to be selective when nomination potential candidates.  After  a positive review, the T&I selection Committee ( consisting of 3 community members: Ann Harding, NIels van Dijk , Irina Mikhailava) will invite the hosting NREN together with their young professional for an  interview  to complete the recruitment.  The recruitment process closes on 15th October. This should give you sufficient time to make all the necessary arrangement with regard to make  necessary arrangements involved with hiring an intern.  

A complete application includes the online registration at EVENTR including your contact details as a mentor, your candidate’s contact details and university and a short description of the topic the candidate wants to submit as a Lightning Talk. The application must be submitted by 28 February 2018a motivation letter of the hosting NREN and candidate's motivation letter and CV. This can be emailed to glad@geant.org.  The application can be submitted until 15 October 2019.

The programme runs for 3 months from March to June.  Depending on the number of participants the e-workshops will be organised in groups of max 5 participants and will run in March and April. Finalists whose proposals are accepted by the TNC Programme Committee will get 1:1 coaching from a professional coach prior to the conference. The TNC conference will take place from 17-20 June in Tallinn, Estonia.in two cycles of 6 months parallel to the T&I incubation sprints. Dates and running times can be found  from here: TIM Programme

Your role as a mentor is to engage with your candidate trainee on a regular basis, provide encouragement and advice during the programme and attend related events. If your candidate trainee is selected to speak at TNCany event, we encourage you to support him or her at the conferenceevent. Travel cost for mentors can be funded. We ask the hosting NREN to support the candidate's travel arrangements. CandidatesTrainees' travel and accommodation to meetings and events is funded by the programme and can be reclaimed from GN4.3-WP1-T5 following the normal GÉANT project claimant rules and procedures.

February: Registration deadline 28 Feb
March: Submission Lightning Talk topic to TNC until 15 Mar
March: e- workshops
May: 1:1 coaching for finalists
June: Participation in TNC19 programme

Email: glad@geant.org

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