Information about Hosting Offer
Hosting Offer: FAME|GRAPE
Information
| Role | Hosting Offer |
|---|---|
| Organisation | FAME|GRAPE |
| Organisation type | Academic, Research centre, Non-governmental organisation (NGO) |
| City | Warszawa |
| HR Excellence in Research Award from the European Commission | no |
| National evaluation category | A+ (excellent) |
| Faculty / Dept. / Division / Laboratory / Research group | FAME|GRAPE is a non-governmental research institution, not subjected to evaluation |
| Website | https://grape.org.pl |
| Thematic area/field | HS – Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / HS4 Individuals, institutions, markets |
| Key words | equality; efficiency; allocation |
| Short summary of activities and expertise | GRAPE is an independent, non-governmental research center in applied economics operated by FAME. We house a cheerful crew of accomplished academics and brilliant adepts and strive to produce high quality academic research (including working papers). Since foundation in 2011, GRAPE|FAME develops research programs in economics of inequality, pension systems, efficiency and misallocation, applied macroeconomics and cultural economics. Currently, FAME|GRAPE is ranked as the 6th best research economic research institution in Poland in Ideas/RePEc ranking. Each research program is organized in projects, because GRAPE is financed through scientific grants (https://grape.org.pl/projects#archive). In addition to refereed publications (https://grape.org.pl/publications), we circulate working papers (https://grape.org.pl/publications/wps) and policy reports (https://grape.org.pl/grape-on-policy). In the interest of academic integrity and transparency, we openly share data and methods (https://grape.org.pl/grape-on-data). We care about equality in academia, which is why we have developed and implemented a Gender Equality Plan. The academic development is supervised by the Scientific Council (https://grape.org.pl/fame/council). In addition to scientific research, GRAPE crew translates its academic experience to addressing social policy issues in Poland. Our pro bono policy projects are always based on rigorous research and draw on earlier experience from specific research projects. Our key competences include modeling of aging, its fiscal and macroeconomic consequences, analysis of individual and household data as well as field, laboratory and online experiments. |
| Role and profile of key persons (incl. supervisor) | The key strength of FAME|GRAPE is our people. You can read more about our staff here (https://grape.org.pl/people), and about our scientific council here (https://grape.org.pl/fame/council). All people of FAME|GRAPE interact regularly to foster the development of science and its impact on the world. |
| Previous and current involvement in research and training programmes | FAME|GRAPE has been actively leading or partnering in research projects funded by the National Science Center (NCN), for all types of projects and often in international cooperation. The staff of FAME|GRAPE also has an extensive and growing network of international contacts, with multiple foreign co-authors and hosting international researchers, including scholars from the US, Italy, Argentina, Kenya, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey, the Netherlands, the UK, and the Czech Republic. Senior staff members of FAME|GRAPE have long standing experience in supervising PhDs and mentoring students. We do not believe in mentoring independent scholars: we do believe in friendly cooperation, stimulating one another to reach further, coopetition and constructive feedback. Thus, we have no intention to mentor you, we want you to become a member of our team, gain as much as you can and chip in, whatever you are willing to contribute to the development of the others. |
| Relevant publications and/or research/innovation products | Here you can find the papers, which we have already written: https://grape.org.pl/publications |
| Key research facilities, infrastructure, and equipment | FAME|GRAPE disposes of fully equipped office space of 180 m2 located in the center of Warsaw, with high-speed internet access, new and high power computing machines as well as access to scientific literature at par with public academic institutions. There is also a separate space for seminars (equipped with 9.5m wide screen and high-resolution digital beamer) as well as social space for all in-house researchers. FAME|GRAPE has also acquired access and harmonized numerous microeconomic datasets, that may be of use for calibrating the models developed in the project (such as multiple national labor force surveys, and household budgets surveys, individual longitudinal level data for many countries, including the UK, Netherlands, USA, Canada, South Korea, Luxembourg, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and many others. Scientific equipment includes Matlab, Fortran, STATA, etc – making it possible to develop research in most fields of economics. Access to facilities necessary for laboratory experiments is facilitated by the cooperation with LabSEE and the University of Warsaw. Currently, the office space is equipped for 24 scientists, with personal computers, printers, scanner, copying machine, etc. The newly purchased computers are fully equipped with the office as well as scientific software, as well as 256GB RAM high-speed computing server, with remote access, cloud computing, and 24h IT support. Services such as accounting, administrative supervision, documentation, etc. are provided seamlessly for the in-house researchers. FAME|GRAPE is also committed to facilitating the combination of personal and professional life, encouraging work at home, and flexible hours whenever deemed fit by the associates. We have a Gender Equality Plan and we are in the process of EU HR Excellence evaluation. FAME|GRAPE is a recognized research institution at EUROSTAT (ID 2017/059/PL). |
| Hosting arrangements | FAME|GRAPE disposes of fully equipped office space of 180 m2 located in the center of Warsaw, with high-speed internet access, new and high power computing machines as well as access to scientific literature at par with public academic institutions. There is also a separate space for seminars (equipped with 9.5m wide screen and high-resolution digital beamer) as well as social space for all in-house researchers. FAME|GRAPE has also acquired access and harmonized numerous microeconomic datasets, that may be of use for calibrating the models developed in the project (such as multiple national labor force surveys, and household budgets surveys, individual longitudinal level data for many countries, including the UK, Netherlands, USA, Canada, South Korea, Luxembourg, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and many others. Scientific equipment includes Matlab, Fortran, STATA, etc – making it possible to develop research in most fields of economics. Access to facilities necessary for laboratory experiments is facilitated by the cooperation with LabSEE and the University of Warsaw. Currently, the office space is equipped for 24 scientists, with personal computers, printers, scanner, copying machine, etc. The newly purchased computers are fully equipped with the office as well as scientific software, as well as 256GB RAM high-speed computing server, with remote access, cloud computing, and 24h IT support. Services such as accounting, administrative supervision, documentation, etc. are provided seamlessly for the in-house researchers. FAME|GRAPE is also committed to facilitating the combination of personal and professional life, encouraging work at home, and flexible hours whenever deemed fit by the associates. We have a Gender Equality Plan and we are in the process of EU HR Excellence evaluation. FAME|GRAPE is a recognized research institution at EUROSTAT (ID 2017/059/PL). |
| Key research facilities, infrastructure, and equipment | FAME|GRAPE has a long record of institutional cooperation in research, policy and media contexts. In cooperation with IBS, CenEA, and independently, FAME|GRAPE was contributing to several studies by The World Bank and OECD in Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe as well as North Africa. In cooperation with European partners, we have organized several large international conferences. Jointly with think-tanks in Poland we developed numerous policy reports as well as an application for firms to evaluate adjusted gender wage gap. In cooperation with ING Think Forward Initiative we provided several analyses of the old-age poverty in the context of longevity (we have also worked with OECD on this topic). We cooperate with economic departments of Deloitte, EY and several banks. The hosted researcher will be supported in carving the most suitable experience "package" among those partners. FAME|GRAPE has a long standing cooperation with media. We have our own column in major Polish economic daily (open to contributions by all staff members), our own podcast with Forbes and extensive network of collaborations with regional non-governmental media organizations (ResPublica, Liberte, Liberal Culture, etc.). Experience in engaging public through media can be an important part of your research stay with FAME|GRAPE. |
| Intersectoral secondments options | All of the above, depending on your interest and career goals. |
| Other benefits | One thing that we know how to do is we help people grow and reach their potential. We will assist you in your fundraising applications (both in formal aspects and in merits), we will motivate you to get up whenever you trip -- and we will offer a helping hand in whatever other challenges sail your way. Plus, Warsaw is a wonderful place to live, with many opportunities, well connected, and offering a perfect mix of professional intensity and personal leisure pace. You can find everything here: culture, sports, lively social sphere. High quality of public infrastructure makes your life comfortable. |
| Candidate sought | We are looking to support post-docs, who want to build their research portfolio to be able to apply for professorships and third-party funding. Our mission is to engage in high quality academic research, which impacts academia and policy. As a team, we do applied work, but with strong foundations in theory. |
| Have you hosted POLONEZ Fellows or MSCA IF Fellows before? | no |
| Candidatures deadline | 2021-12-10 |
Contact | |
| First name | Joanna |
| Last name | Tyrowicz |
| grape@grape.org.pl | |
| Phone number | 508172198 |
