The doctoral rift science network for the energy transition (TALENTS)

Talents是一个总部设在欧洲的研究网络，旨在培养具有跨学科、科学驱动的理解和技能的早期职业研究人员，这些知识和技能是为能源转型的全球挑战开发新的可持续解决方案的基础。我们的联合研究重点是大陆裂谷，这些裂谷是地热能、碳捕获和储存的关键区域，是天然氢等新资源的关键区域，也是地震和火山活动等地质灾害造成的高风险人类栖息地。我们认为，只有通过调查主要的自然实验室，更好地了解形成裂谷和被动大陆边缘的自然过程链，表征裂谷起始(东非裂谷)、裂谷成熟(希腊科林斯湾，中欧裂谷)和大陆解体(西伊比利亚边缘)，我们才能获得关键知识，以便安全和可持续地勘探新的无碳能源。人才融合了18个受益者和学术合作伙伴的研究和培训，这些合作伙伴是裂谷系统研究的世界领先者，以及11家积极参与能源转型的公司。这11个博士项目涉及裂谷系统过程的基本科学方面，共同弥合了几个数量级的空间和时间尺度。每名博士生与(1)学术合作伙伴联系，以补充和扩大他们的科学培训，(2)与专门的行业合作伙伴联系，以获取与行业相关的技能，并预览可能的非学术职业道路，以及(3)与媒体联系，以积极培训向公众传播他们的科学。通过研究和互动进行的培训将得到各种形式的教育的补充，这些教育涵盖广泛的主题，以发展科学和专业技能、建立道德标准和拓宽职业视野。

TALENTS is a European based research network aiming to train early career researchers with the interdisciplinary, science-driven understanding and skills that are the foundation to develop new sustainable solutions for the global challenges of the energy transition. Our joint research focuses on continental rifts which are key regions for geothermal energy, carbon capture and storage, for new resources such as native hydrogen as well as high-risk human habitats due to geohazards such as earthquakes and volcanic activity. We believe that only if we better understand the natural process chains that shape rifts and passive continental margins by investigating key natural laboratories, characterising rift initiation (East African Rift), rift maturation (Gulf of Corinth in Greece, Central European Rifts), and continental breakup (West Iberian margin), we will obtain key knowledge for a safe and sustainable exploration for new, carbon free energies. TALENTS fuses research and training at 18 beneficiaries and academic partners that are among the world leaders in the study of rift systems and 11 companies that are actively involved in the energy transition. The 11 PhD projects address fundamental scientific aspects of rift system processes, collectively bridging several orders of magnitude of spatial and temporal scales. Each doctoral candidate is linked to (1) an academic partner to complement and broaden their scientific training, (2) to a dedicated industry partner to acquire industry-relevant skills and preview possible non-academic career paths, and (3) to a media contact to actively train in communicating their science to the public. Training by research and interaction will be complemented by various forms of education, spanning a wide range of topics to develop scientific and professional skills, to establish ethical standards and to widen career perspectives.