1. Intouch.iaea.org

2. 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 !

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. Front Page

7. Registration

8. Dashboard

9. Profile

10. FEL/SV Candidate

11. FEL/SV Submit

12. Counterpart

13. NLO/NCR

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

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

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Fellow Workflow

20. SV Workflow

21. Meeting/Course Workflow

22. Intouch.iaea.org Nathalie Colinet Maria Angeles Rubin Hasibar
For further information please contact:
Nathalie Colinet
Maria Angeles Rubin Hasibar
Intouch.iaea.org

23. Trends in IAEA fellowship duration

24. Fellowship Duration (2000-2009)

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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…