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Job announcement: Marie Curie Fellowships NOVA Norwegian Social Research Institute is seeking to recruit one Early Stage Researcher (Marie Curie Fellow) as of 1 September 2011. The Early Stage Researcher will be recruited within the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network DREAM – Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets. Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets Appointment of PhD Early Stage Researcher (Marie Curie Fellow) (Full time, fixed term for three years, tenable from 1 September 2011) The Early Stage Researcher will receive supervision for the preparation of a PhD thesis and benefit from the combined resources of the DREAM Network. Description of DREAM Research within the DREAM ITN Network focuses on how the rights contained in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can be transformed into practical applications. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD, 2006) imposes legal obligations on States Parties to promote and achieve accessibility across the board for people with disabilities. This includes areas as diverse as access to Information and Communications Technologies and consumer goods and services more generally, access to employment, having legal capacity to act and take decisions, and access to independent living. Accessibility can be achieved through a variety of means, ranging from ensuring goods and services meet Design for All requirements, reasonable accommodation, non-discrimination, and inclusive social and economic policies and legislation. All Member States of the EU and the EEA have signed the Convention, as has the European Union, and all have ratified or concluded the Convention, or are committed to doing so. The DREAM ITN Network consists of the National University of Ireland, Galway, Technosite (Spain), Maastricht University (Netherlands), University of Leeds (UK), NOVA Norwegian Social Research Institute, the University of Iceland and the Swiss Paraplegic Research. In addition, the Network consists of eight associated partners such as leading civil society groups into which the researchers will spend some of their time. These include the European Disability Forum, Interights, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre and the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions and Digital Europe. Altogether 14 Early Stage Researchers (PhD researchers) will be recruited, two of which will be based at NOVA Norwegian Social Research Institute. The DREAM ITN Network offers a unique, research environment where leading academics will integrate accepted applicants into their research teams. We will provide a structured training programme. Academic partners within the DREAM ITN Network will support the researchers to work successfully towards a PhD defence at one of the universities in the Network (Leeds, Maastricht or Galway). More information on the DREAM ITN Network can be found at: www.nuigalway.ie/dream For futher details about the vacancy - see attachment or contact Dr Rune Halvorsen ([log in to unmask]) or Professor Bjorn Hvinden ([log in to unmask]), tel. +47 22 54 12 00