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The EURAXESS Smart Talks podcast for talents is your personal guide to Research Careers, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.

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  • Beyond the Statistics: How to Turn Ambition into ERC Success

    Beyond the Statistics: How to Turn Ambition into ERC Success
    Oct 27 2026

    In this episode, Prof. Alida Timar-Gabor, physicist and two-time ERC grantee from Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania, shares her ERC journey and her research on reading time and origin from ordinary grains of quartz sand using luminescence, electron spin resonance and cathodoluminescence.

    She explains how disappointing results became the starting point for both her Starting and Consolidator Grants, why preliminary results matter, and how she prepared for the ERC interview - from mock interviews and hundreds of anticipated questions to managing time under pressure - and encourages researchers from Widening countries to look at their idea and track record, not at the statistics.

    Link to written story: https://mercuryncp.eu/beyond-the-statistics-how-to-turn-ambition-into-erc-success/

    This episode was prepared in collaboration with the mERCury project (https://mercuryncp.eu/).

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    29 Min.
  • Prof. Inta Mierina "The Idea Comes First: Excellence before the proposal"

    Prof. Inta Mierina "The Idea Comes First: Excellence before the proposal"
    Oct 12 2026

    In this episode, Prof. Inta Mieriņa, sociologist and ERC grantee from Latvia, shares her ERC journey and research on migration, social integration and migrant reception in Central and Eastern Europe.

    She discusses the inspiration behind her project, the value of international mobility and networks, and offers practical advice on preparing for an ERC application and interview - from seeking critical feedback to being ambitious and persistent.

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    58 Min.
  • Beyond Papers and Grants: Brian Cahill on Researcher Mental Health, Networks, and Institutional Change

    Beyond Papers and Grants: Brian Cahill on Researcher Mental Health, Networks, and Institutional Change
    Jul 15 2026
    In this episode of EURAXESS Smart Talks, we sit down with Dr. Brian Cahill — Grant Manager of the ReMO COST Action (CA19117) on Researcher Mental Health for a wide-ranging conversation about why researcher wellbeing has become one of academia's most pressing, and most overlooked, issues.Brian traces his own path into this work back to his years chairing the Marie Curie Alumni Association, where he became a first point of contact for early-career researchers hit by funding cliffs, precarious contracts, and difficult supervisor dynamics. From there, the conversation moves through the ReMO COST Action's community-building approach across policy, institutional, and individual levels; the well-documented bias of "publish or perish" evaluation criteria and the CoARA/OPUS push to reform how researchers are assessed; and practical, evidence-informed advice for researchers, mentors, and institutions — from Brian's own "build a life outside the lab" philosophy to Hochschule Bielefeld's peer-mentoring model for supporting postdocs into professorships.Whether you're an early-career researcher, a supervisor, or a research manager shaping institutional policy, this episode offers a grounded, three-level roadmap — individual, institutional, and policy — for building healthier, more sustainable research careers.Guest: Dr. Brian Cahill is Managing Director of the Center for Cooperation and Career Management at Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and a member of the Learning and Skills Analytics Lab at the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover, where he manages the ReMO COST Action (CA19117) on Researcher Mental Health. He is a Board member of the SciLink Foundation and served as Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association from 2016 to 2018. Brian trained as a mechanical engineer in Ireland, earned his PhD in electrokinetically-driven fluid flow from ETH Zürich, and worked as a Marie Curie fellow researching droplet-based microfluidics before moving into research-career policy and researcher wellbeing.🔑 Key Topics CoveredBrian Cahill's path into researcher mental health work through chairing the Marie Curie Alumni AssociationWhy project-based, fixed-term funding creates precarity — and how it shaped the MSCA Guidelines on SupervisionThe ReMO COST Action (CA19117): building a community of practice across policy, institutional, and individual levelsLessons from institutional culture changeWhy personal relationships and interests outside research matter for wellbeing, especially for internationally mobile researchersMax Weber's 1917 warning and modern survey data on how "publish or perish" still drives career evaluationReforming research assessment: the OPUS project and CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment)How metrics become targets — and stop measuring what they were meant to measureThe PATTERN project's open-access training on supervision, career insecurity, and transferable skillsPeer mentoring and network-building as an individual strategy, including the REBECA mentoring programmeMentoring postdocs into professorships through peer-style supervisionAligning policymakers, funders, and institutions around funding that serves researchers' real needs⏱️ Question Timestamps | Time | Segment | 00:00 | Podcast intro | 00:54 | Guest introduction: Dr. Brian Cahill | 01:09 | Q1: What first drew you into researcher mental health and mobility support? | 01:54 | Brian's path in: chairing the Marie Curie Alumni Association, funding cliffs facing PhD candidates, and the resulting MSCA Guidelines on Supervision | 05:31 | Q2: How much does funding and "publish or perish" culture drive researcher mental health? What is the ReMO COST Action? | 07:04 | Brian on ReMO's three-level strategy (policy, institutional, individual) and case studies from Toronto and Barcelona | 10:34 | Q3: What tips and lessons can researchers take away? | 10:51 | Brian's advice: personal relationships and a life outside research, especially for mobile researchers | 12:39 | Q4: A 1917 Max Weber quote and a survey on how professors are really evaluated — your reaction? | 13:28 | Brian on how evaluation metrics shape behaviour, plus the OPUS project and CoARA research-assessment reform | 15:47 | Q5: What resources would you recommend to listeners? | 16:05 | Brian on the PATTERN project's training modules and ReMO's open resources | 17:38 | Q6: What would you suggest researchers do at an individual level? | 18:09 | Brian on peer networks, mentoring, and the REBECA programme | 19:42 | Q7: What should institutions do differently? | 20:11 | Brian on mentoring postdocs into professorships, and aligning funders, policymakers, and institutions | 24:43 | Closing thanksSend us a message!
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    26 Min.
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