The One Health Early Career Champions -program continues in 2023-2024!

The One Health Early Career Champions -program continues in 2023-2024!

The One Health Early Career Champions (ECC) -pilot was successfully implemented in the years 2021-2022 and culminated in a festive awarding ceremony at the University of Nairobi in December 2022. The Early Career Champions -program will continue in the years 2023-2024 in the tradition of the ECC-pilot with a second edition of the One Health theme. This thematic focus encompasses a multitude of One Health research areas including, among others, virology, anti-microbial resistance, and food & nutrition. 

The Early Career Champions -program is part of the University’s Africa program and brings together doctoral researchers and mentors from the universities of Helsinki and Nairobi. As part of the strategic partnership between the two universities, the One Health Early Career Champions -program promotes career advancement and international networking of early career researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, focusing on One Health. It includes four workshops with different topics like career planning and entrepreneurship, mentoring sessions, monthly seminars, and an awarding ceremony at the end of the program. ECC Early career champions program university Helsinki Nairobi participants Grande finale

The ECC program creates long-term partnerships, supports international activities of doctoral researchers and more experienced scientists, enables multidisciplinary research, and promotes the development of a lasting community of Early Career Champions comprising active ECC mentors and mentees as well as ECC alumni from Kenya and Finland. 

It is now possible to apply to become an ECC mentor or ECC mentee in the upcoming second term of the One Health Early Career Champions -program.  The application forms for new ECC mentors and ECC mentees will be open 3.4.-24.4.2023. The selections will take place in May 2023. 

Please contact the planning officers Mia Vehkaoja (mia.vehkaoja@helsinki.fi) or Lauri Turpeinen (lauri.turpeinen@helsinki.fi) at the Researcher Training Services, if you have any questions. 

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