[Takeoff #8] Towards Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship funding

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

Katalin Gosztonyi is a lecturer at Eötvös Lorànd University in Budapest. As part of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship, she is a visiting researcher at the Alexander Grothendieck Institute (Imag) in Montpellier, where she is conducting her research project in mathematics education. She talks about it in the video series "Décollage" produced by the Department of Innovation and Partnerships (Dipa) at the University of Montpellier.

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship is European funding that allows a young researcher—within eight years of completing their thesis—to spend two years in a foreign laboratory conducting research. Katalin Gosztonyi is a specialist in mathematics education at Eötvös Lorànd University in Budapest, in other words, she studies methods of teaching this discipline. It took several years of discussions with Viviane Duran-Guerrier and Simon Modeste, both researchers atImag, to set up this project and put together a strong application.

"It's very competitive funding," explains Katalin Gosztonyi. "It's not enough to have an excellent project; you really have to tick all the boxes, and Dipa can help us refine our application to meet all these requirements." " This approach has paid off, as the young Hungarian now has two years of funding to work on teaching combinatorics, graph theory, arithmetic, and logic. "We want to create a tool that can analyze sets of problems in teaching progression and thus help teachers."

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