Discover the SALTGIANT ETN, a four year European project initiated in 2018 and dedicated to understand one of the largest salt deposits on Earth.
SALTGIANT is a rare cross-disciplinary network of natural and social scientists dedicated to understanding the formation of the Mediterranean Salt Giant, one of the largest salt deposits on Earth, and its implications for sub-seafloor microbial life, risk assessment in the oil industry, geo-economics of the Mediterranean region and the history of oceanography.
SALTGIANT contributes to respond to the growing demand for a new generation of scientists working in the interface between the natural and social sciences.
SALTGIANT brings together 24 academic organizations (13 beneficiaries, 11 partners), 6 private sector Oil&Gas companies, 2 mining sector companies, 1 biotechnology company, 1 geopolitics think tank, 1 museum and 1 specialist in transferable skills training from 11 countries to stimulate interdisciplinary and intersectorial knowledge exchange between geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, microbiologist, geographers and historians in a network with PhD students at its core.
News
Two months left to apply !
Two ESR remaining positions are still available ! The deadline to apply is on Septembre, 21th 2018 and all the information to apply (eligibility criteria, selection process, etc.) are listed on the IPGP website: http://www.ipgp.fr/fr/etn-saltgiant Do not hesitate to...
read more
A successful recruitment event for the Saltgiant ETN
On May 14thand 15th2018 the SALTGIANT recruitment event organized at IPGP aimed at finding strong PhD candidates to implement the 15 SALTGIANT ESR projects. This event brought together 28 applicants and 20 members of the SALTGIANT Consortium from the Beneficiary and...
read more