EURAXESS Smart Talks

About EURAXESS Smart Talks

The EURAXESS Smart Talks podcast for talents is your personal guide to Research Careers, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commision. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Publisher

ERA Talent Project funded by the European Commission

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

24 Jun 2022

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

15 of 44 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Prof. Inta Mierina "The Idea Comes First: Excellence before the proposal"

   Sociologist and ERC grantee Prof. Inta Mierina shares her journey and research, offering advice on crafting ambitious ERC proposals and interviews.

2. 

   15 Jul 2026

   Beyond Papers and Grants: Brian Cahill on Researcher Mental Health, Networks, and Institutional Change

   In this episode of EURAXESS Smart Talks, we sit down with Dr. Brian Cahill — Grant Manager of the ReMO COST Action (CA19117) on Researcher Mental Health for a wide-ranging conversation about why researcher wellbeing has become one of academia's most pressing, and most overlooked, issues. Brian traces his own path into this work back to his years chairing the Marie Curie Alumni Association, where he became a first point of contact for early-career researchers hit by funding cliffs, precarious ...

3. 

   8 Jul 2026

   Stress-Testing Resilience: An MSCA Postdoc Journey in Manufacturing AI with Tanel Aruväli

   In this episode of EURAXESS Smart Talks, we sit down with Dr. Tanel Aruväli, an MSCA postdoctoral fellow originally from Estonia (TalTech), now researching at the University of Malta. Tanel shares the story behind his research on simulation-based stress testing for resilience assessment in manufacturing companies — explaining what "resilience" really means for a factory floor using a simple ruler analogy, and how VUCA-era disruptions (geopolitical tension, supply chain shocks, energy crises) ...

Inside a recent episode

Prof. Inta Mierina "The Idea Comes First: Excellence before the proposal"

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Right. So not to delay too much, because, again, there's certain, you know, time limits for starting at seven years or consolidators. Well, right. So so it's always better not to delay too much. And also, what is different for ERC grants is that it's really about this one brilliant idea, and it's about scientific excellence. Like in Horizon Proposals, oftentimes, as you know, we are focusing a lot also on... societal impacts on communication on uh you know all of these different things right you need to describe a lot about this this like management structures and all of i mean some people already like work on this like basically you just have to tick the boxes like for example i don't know the gender dimension and they have similarity and blah blah so basically you know it's just really having the right formula sort of and knowing what you should write about and how to put this together. […]

Who has been a guest on EURAXESS Smart Talks

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Inta Mieriņa
• Elena Pettinelli
• Dr Elisa Garcia Garcia
• Gábor Kismihók
• Siiri Kolka

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

828

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

0

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