IDEAL PhD fellows will have access to a wide network of collaborators and partner organisations to develop and pursue their research interests and implement their career plan. A compulsory secondment will be supported at a partner organization relevant to the project and the researcher´s career, either in an academic or a non-academic setting. These will have a duration between 3- to 6 months (completed in one or several stays, and within the 3.5 years of the PhD project).

Researchers may be encouraged to spend short-stays (1-2 weeks) at partner organisations according to new skills or technical needs.

For partner organisations this represents an excellent opportunity to work together with the doctoral candidates in disruptive innovation thanks to the frontier research carried out at IMDEA Nanociencia.