HELEN
High Energy Physics Latinamerican-European Network
Training Programme

Training Types  

Grant-Holders Academic Background
  1. Advanced Training (AT): Members of a Ph.D. Program in Physics holding a Bachelor Degree with thesis work in Particle Physics;
  2. Short Term Training (STT): Same as before,
  3. Complementary Training (CT): Members of an Undergraduate Program in Physics or Engineering;
  4. Research Training (RT): Ph.D. diploma in Particle Physics (Experiment or Theory).

Description of the Training Programme
  1. The Project provides advanced training to young physicists by embedding them in research groups at the forefront of research in High Energy Physics (HEP), in the preparation of detectors, hardware / software analysis tools for LHC, DESY, CNGS or Auger experiments, or in Particle Theory. All Institutions that will receive Grant-Holders have long-established programs of seminars and lectures.
  2. Technology Transfer:
  3. Outreach:


Selection of Grant-Holders

Notice: For non-Spanish and non-Portuguese speaking countries, English is considered sufficient as a working basis for research and training.  Sending Institutions must take care that grant-holders are able to use English as a working language and eventually provide the appropriate training.
  1. Grant-holders participating in exchanges between network institutions will be registered students at their institutions of origin (see the page: Participants).
  2. In the case of academic staff, they will have to have a professional link to the institution of origin prior to the submission of the proposal;
  3. Grant-holders should be nationals of the ALFA Programme's beneficiary countries, that is:
  4. Applications must be addressed to the local Interlocutor (see the Participants page), with a CV and a work program (forms will be provided on this site).
  5. The Rector of each University appoints a Local Committee made by the Interlocutor plus two members; the Local Committee proposes a list of candidates for each Grant, ordered according to merit;
  6. An applicant for a Grant may not be in the Local Committee;
  7. The Standing Executive Committee fills the role of a Central Committee, to ensure homogeneity of the selection criteria between the different nodes;
  8. The Central Committee reviews the proposals and finally assigns the Grants,
  9. The names of Grant-Holders are published on the HELEN's website.

Grant-Holders work programme
  1. Each Grant-Holder of the Training Programme after reaching the University/Laboratory of destination is assigned to one experiment Team Leader or to a Senior Theorist, as appropriate who will insert him/her in the appropriate research group and will assign him/her to a tutor, chosen among the professors or researchers participating in the Project.
  2. The tutor defines with the Grant-Holder the research and academic programme he/she is going to develop and will introduce him/her in the academic life of the Institute and will generally survey the grant-holder during his/her stay.
  3. Grant-holders participating in the AT programme (Advanced Training, for periods of 6 months or more) at one of the High Education Institutes in Europe or LA or at CERN will follow courses in the existing Doctoral Schools or in the CERN Academic Training programme, with the supervision/assistance of the tutor.
  4. Each grant-holder has to take at least three subjects:
  5. Grant holders participating in the AT programme in HEI in Europe are recommended to spend the last 2 months at CERN, for experimental research at the corresponding experiment or for theoretical work, as appropriate. In this case, the appropriate CERN Team Leader or Senior Theorist will assign them a CERN supervisor. These grant-holders can also take some training at CERN in the optional subjects, as part of the programme defined with their tutor at the beginning of the grant.
  6. AT grant-holders at HEI in Latin America are similarly recommended to spend the last 2 months at the Pierre Auger Observatory for experimental work.
  7. Grant-holders in CT (Complementary Training) will follow undergraduate courses in Particle Physics at the HEI of destination, under the supervision of the tutor.
  8. Grant-holders in STT (Short Term Training, up to 3 months) or Research Training (up to 3 months) may follow similar courses, if their schedule permits and if they consider it appropriate.
  9. AT, SST and CT grant-holders submit to the Network Coordinator mid-term and final brief reports of their activity, including judgement on the performance of the network from the point of view of teaching, research and organisational matters.
  10. RT grant-holders need to submit to the Network Coordinator only a final report of their activity.

Visits of Professors
 
Professors/tutors mobility along the network will allow them to give seminars or short lecture series, to:
  1. Enhance training;
  2. Start new, collaborative, EU –LA and LA-LA research;
  3. Oversee research internship of the grant-holders, which is the principal form of training in the Project.  
Professors/tutors submit to the Network Coordinator a brief report of their travel.