[Takeoff #8] Toward a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

[Article, Video] - Published on May 14, 2024 in Major Programs, Development

Katalin Gosztonyi is an associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. As part of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, she is a visiting researcher at the Alexander Grothendieck Institute in Montpellier (Imag), where she is conducting her research project in mathematics education. She discusses this in the “Décollage” video series produced by the University of Montpellier’s Department of Innovation and Partnerships (Dipa).

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship is a European grant that enables a young researcher—within eight years of completing their dissertation—to spend two years in a foreign laboratory conducting research. Katalin Gosztonyi is a specialist in mathematics education at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest; in other words, she studies teaching methods in this discipline. It took several years of collaboration with Viviane Duran-Guerrier and Simon Modeste, both researchers atImag, to develop this project and put together a strong application.

“This is a highly competitive grant,” explains Katalin Gosztonyi. “It’s not enough to have an excellent project; you really have to check every possible box, and that’s where DIPA can help us refine the proposal to address all these requirements.” ” It’s an approach that’s paying off, as the young Hungarian researcher now has two years of funding to work on teaching combinatorics, graph theory, arithmetic, and logic.“We want to create a tool that allows us to analyze sets of problems designed to help students progress in their learning and thereby assist teachers.”

Keywords: Takeoff, Takeoff, doctoral students, Partnership, Research