[{"command":"openDialog","selector":"#drupal-modal","settings":null,"data":"\u003Cdiv id=\u0022republish_modal_form\u0022\u003E\u003Cform class=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form ecl-form\u0022 data-drupal-selector=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 action=\u0022\/en\/article\/modal\/5738\u0022 method=\u0022post\u0022 id=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 accept-charset=\u0022UTF-8\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHorizon articles can be republished for free under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EYou must give appropriate credit. We ask you to do this by:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 1) Using the original journalist\u0027s byline\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 2) Linking back to our original story\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 3) Using the following text in the footer: This article was originally published in \u003Ca href=\u0027#\u0027\u003EHorizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003ESee our full republication guidelines \u003Ca href=\u0027\/horizon-magazine\/republish-our-stories\u0027\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EHTML for this article, including the attribution and page view counter, is below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textarea form-item-body-content js-form-item-body-content ecl-form-group ecl-form-group--text-area form-no-label ecl-u-mv-m\u0022\u003E\n \n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \u003Ctextarea data-drupal-selector=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 aria-describedby=\u0022edit-body-content--description\u0022 id=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 name=\u0022body_content\u0022 rows=\u00225\u0022 cols=\u002260\u0022 class=\u0022form-textarea ecl-text-area\u0022\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWomen in science: Mobility is good for your career\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2012, more women researchers travelled than ever before, as reflected in the figures from the Marie Curie Fellowships. The fellowships have been in place for almost 20 years, and have helped to promote a culture of mobility for early-stage career scientists throughout the EU and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2009, 37\u0026nbsp;% of the fellowships went to women, and in 2011, this rose to 37.9\u0026nbsp;%. The target is 40\u0026nbsp;% by 2013, for both research and post-doctoral fellowships. But what do these female scientists think about the importance of spending part of their career abroad? Here are some clues. \u003Cblockquote class=\u0022tw-text-center tw-text-blue tw-font-bold tw-text-2xl lg:tw-w-1\/2 tw-border-2 tw-border-blue tw-p-12 tw-my-8 lg:tw-m-12 lg:tw--ml-16 tw-float-left\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022tw-text-5xl tw-rotate-180\u0022\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cp class=\u0022tw-font-serif tw-italic\u0022\u003E\u2018The Marie Curie Fellowship was key to my career promotion.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cfooter\u003E\n \u003Ccite class=\u0022tw-not-italic tw-font-normal tw-text-sm tw-text-black\u0022\u003EProfessor Valeria Nicolosi, Italian researcher at Trinity College Dublin.\u003C\/cite\u003E\n \u003C\/footer\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe professor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EValeria Nicolosi became a full professor at just 34, a feat that would have been impossible if she hadn\u2019t decided to travel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The Marie Curie Fellowship was key to my career promotion,\u2019 said Professor Nicolosi. She moved from her native Italy to Ireland, and then took up a position at the University of Oxford in the UK. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E She is currently a Professor of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a principal investigator at the college\u2019s Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018Career-wise it is essential,\u2019 said Prof. Nicolosi. \u2018It is important to learn different skills and learn about different systems.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018I was able to move [from Dublin] to the University of Oxford and learn crucial skills such as advanced electron microscopy, which enabled me to become an international expert in this field,\u2019 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018My career would have been very different, I believe, had I not had that opportunity.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year, she won a prestigious Royal Dublin Society\/Intel Prize, a medal and a lecture invite, to recognise her contributions to nanoscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022img_legend\u0022\u003E\u003Ca class=\u0022gallery\u0022 title=\u0022Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowships\u0022 href=\u0022\/research-and-innovation\/sites\/default\/files\/hm\/Europe-Map.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg style=\u0022float: left; padding: 5px;\u0022 src=\u0022\/research-and-innovation\/sites\/default\/files\/hm\/Europe-Map.jpg\u0022 width=\u0022200\u0022 height=\u0022218\u0022 \/\u003E \u003Cem\u003EMarie Curie Actions Research Fellowships \u2013 click to enlarge.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe doctor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpaniard, Dr Natalia Balcazar could speak no German when she took up a Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Fellowship to work in industry in the Ruhr region of Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018For me, the support from the Marie Curie Fellowship was more than enough to enable me to travel,\u2019 said Dr Balcazar, who graduated in geology in 1989.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018It was a big help to build up a new life in another country. It gave me some security for two years and showed me what my value was in Germany as a PhD,\u2019 she added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019s been living in Germany for more than 20 years and believes that it is important for researchers to work abroad for a significant length of time \u2013 at least six months \u2013 to get the benefits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018Shorter times do not let you get the whole picture,\u2019 she said.\u003Cdiv class=\u0022tw-text-center tw-bg-bluelightest tw-p-12 tw-my-12 tw--mx-16\u0022\u003E\n \u003Ch3 class=\u0022tw-font-sans tw-font-bold tw-text-blue tw-uppercase tw-text-lg tw-mb-8\u0022\u003ESome Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie statistics\u003C\/h3\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022tw-inline-block tw-w-1\/6 tw-h-1 tw-bg-blue tw-mb-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color: #333333;\u0022\u003EThe country with the highest percentage of female fellows is Portugal \u2013 47\u0026nbsp;%.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color: #333333;\u0022\u003EThe nation ranked lowest in terms of female fellows is Latvia \u2013 17\u0026nbsp;%.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color: #333333;\u0022\u003EThe UK is host to most fellows, followed by Germany and France.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color: #333333;\u0022\u003EThe least number of fellows are resident in Cyprus and Latvia.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe student\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor her Marie Curie Fellowship, Zar Chi Aye travelled to Switzerland from Myanmar, where cyclones can kill thousands of people, to study ways to protect people from climate change and natural hazards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022line-height: 1.538em;\u0022\u003EShe wants to take the skills she has learnt back to her native Myanmar when she finishes her research.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0027I would like to continue in this field working with international organisations like the UN, NGOs or research institutes, and I would like to continue back in my country,\u0027 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0027In 2008 we were hit by cyclone Nargis, and since then, international projects and NGOs have been working on disaster management, but in many sectors I think we still have a lot of things to do and improve.\u0027\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAye, a 26-year-old computer science graduate, is working at the University of Lausanne on ways for people to evaluate the risk to dwellings from climate, land use and population changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0027In Myanmar, we have few risk management activities using this kind of very advanced technology like geo-informatics and remote sensing,\u0027 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor her research she spends a lot of time travelling and meeting people in her field, giving her valuable networking opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0027It is really a good opportunity to get to know these experts who are working in the field, and maybe they could even be a potential employer,\u0027 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022moreinfoblock\u0022\u003E\n \u003Ch3\u003EEURAXESS\u003C\/h3\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003EThe European Commission\u2019s EURAXESS information service supports the mobility of all researchers throughout the EU-27. 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