GEOCROWD Project: 13 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions are available

I would like to inform you that 13 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions are available at the following institutions:

• National Technical University of Athens, Greece – Prof. Timos Sellis
• Universität Bremen, Germany – Prof. Christian Freksa (Cognitive Systems Group)
• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany – Prof. Jochen Schiller and Prof. Agnes Voisard
• Aarhus Universitet, Denmark – Prof. Christian S. Jensen
• ETH Zürich, Switzerland – Prof. Gustavo Alonso
• National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland – Prof. Stewart Fotheringham (National Center for Geocomputation)
These positions are funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network Programme project GEOCROWD (http://www.geocrowd.eu).
The duration of the positions is 3 years with the possibility of an extension funded from other sources. Applications for smaller periods will be considered. Recruited ESRs will have the option to enroll as PhD students at the various institutions.

More information :
GeoWeb 2.0 is the geographic embodiment of the Web 2.0 moniker for
the next generation Web, that is, it is a term the next generation of
geographic information publishing, discovery and use.
The goal of the GEOCROWD project is to establish a fertile research
environment by means of a training network that will promote the GeoWeb
2.0 vision and advance the state of the art in collecting, storing,
analyzing, processing, reconciling, and making large amounts
of semantically rich user-generated geospatial information available on
the Web. Specifically,activities will be centered on (i) exploiting
user-contributed geospatial data, (ii) Web-geodata management, (iii)
efficient means for data collection and dissemination, e.g., mobile
computing,and (iv) innovative uses for such data. The project goal is to
 tame this data explosion, which applied to the geospatial domain
translates into massively collecting and sharing knowledge to ultimately
 digitize the world. This is the challenging research goal to be
undertaken by the recruited ESRs.
Junior researchers with an MSc in areas such as spatial databases,
query processing and indexing, mobile and pervasive computing, large
scale data management, distributed systems, AI, geographic information
science, geocomputation, and spatial and temporal reasoning are
encouraged to apply.

ELIGIBILITY
• The recruited ESR should be, at the time of selection, in the first
 four years of their research careers (measured from the date when they
obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a
doctorate).
ESRs should not already have a PhD, and they should have the
qualifications to embark on a PhD program (i.e., they should have an MSc
 by the time of the recruitment).

• ESRs must not have resided or carried out their main activities
(work, studies, etc.) in the host country for more than 12 months in the
 last 3 years. This requirement is irrespective of the applicant’s
nationality.

FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
Marie Curie fellows enjoy good salaries and working conditions,
career development opportunities and work-life balance. More
specifically, the financial support of Marie Curie ITN to
the ESR includes:
• a considerable monthly living and mobility allowance,
• a yearly travel allowance (i.e., a fixed amount of money based upon
 the direct distance between the location of origin of the researcher
and the place of work),
• a career exploratory allowance (i.e., a single payment for attending job interviews, additional courses, job fairs, etc.), and
• coverage of the expenses related to the participation of the ESR in
 research and training activities (contribution to research-related
costs, meetings, conference attendance, training actions, etc.).

HOW TO APPLY?
To communicate your expression of interest, please send (i) your
curriculum vitae and (ii) country/institution preference by email to
contact@geocrowd.eu.
While expressions of interest are accepted on a continuous basis,
applications received by February 25, 2011 will be considered in the
first evaluation cycle.

MORE INFORMATION
• About the project: http://www.geocrowd.eu
• Questions? Send an email to contact@geocrowd.eu