Marie Curie

Testimonial from an ITN fellow

By: Nils Kaufmann

Marie Curie – my personal experience

• My ITN - Rainbow

• Why Marie Curie

• What is great

• What problems occurred

• Ask yourself...

Rainbow ITN

My personal background

Active in the European Students Forum (AEGEE)

Studied in Aachen (Germany)

Erasmus year in Trondheim (Norway)

Why did I decided for Marie Curie

• Thesis at the industry

• Wanted to go abroad again

• Industry partner take part in MC ITN

and suggested to take a look…

Pros• Get to know a new Country (or several) !

• Cooperation: University with industry !

• Lots of opportunities for traveling !

• Meeting new people and build a network !

• Good scientific backbone in the project !

• Good funding for your scientific work, for conferences and for visiting partner organizations (and a good salary as well)

Contras• Language problems

(e.g. French course not good)

• Organizational problems(e.g. how to arrange you travel schedule)

• Administrative problems(e.g. difficult to get the right contract and integration problems with the university)

• But don’t worry:

Every problem can be solved!

My personal experienceAsk yourself: What do I want:

If you want to go abroad, Marie Curie is a very good choice!

My new collogues from the Rainbow-project(from Spain, Vietnam, Belarus, India, Poland, Germany and more…)

Thank you for your attention

Any Questions?

The dinner of the first Rainbow meeting…