FUTURMed. Talent for the medicine of the future

The project

The objective of the FUTURMED project is to set up two programmes (Radix and Folium) to attract research talent, which will lead to the Sanitary Research Institute Foundation of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa) hiring people.

Firstly, the specific objective of the Radix programme is to attract emerging researchers with a track record of international excellence and a leadership profile, for their inclusion as part of the IdISBa research staff. The selected candidates will establish and lead new lines of research in areas that are considered as being strategic for the health system of the Balearic Islands.

Secondly, the Folium programme aims to attract postdoctoral researchers to join groups or lines of research led by the emerging researchers.

Therefore the FUTURMed project sets out to achieve the following main objectives:

- Generate, capture, recover and retain within the IdISBa research talent in the field of health research and innovation, so as to create an excellent research ecosystem that fosters internationalisation and research with a high added-value.

- Promote new lines of research that will meet the strategic health demands of the Balearic Islands population that are currently not being covered.

- Consolidate current existing health research lines that are considered to be strategic and necessary to reinforce.

- Train young researchers in a range of skills (entrepreneurship, leadership, communication) to facilitate the knowledge transfer to society.

The search for candidates will seek to comply with the principles set out by the European Union regarding the recruitment of researchers based on the OTM-R (Open, Transparent and based on Merit) model.  Therefore, through this project, the idea is to regain the investment in R+D+i lost in recent years due to austerity policies both at a regional and state level which seriously affected talent recruitment policies, endangered the continuity of research programmes and forced many young researchers into professional exile.