Call deadline is 28 April 2020   MSCA RISE in a Nutshell Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) funds short-term exchanges of personnel between academic, industrial and commercial organisations throughout the world. It helps people develop their knowledge, skills and careers, while building links between organisations working in different sectors of the economy, including universities, research institutes and SMEs. Who Can Apply Proposals...

ETH Zurich is planning to step up its research activities in Singapore. It aims to extend its current Future Resilient Systems programme by five years and to launch a new programme, Future Health Technologies, in the coming year. On Thursday, 5 December, ETH Zurich announced its future endeavours involving Singapore. Ahead of the CREATE Council meeting, ETH President Joël Mesot, ETH Vice President for Research and Corporate Relations Detlef...

CLARIFY is an innovative, multinational, multi-sectorial, and multidisciplinary research and training programme that links two highly differentiated specialities: engineering and medicine, with a focus on digital pathology. For more information visit www.clarify-project.eu. Applications are invited for full-time Early Stage Researcher/PhD student positions within the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, “CLARIFY – CLoud...

European Research Council (ERC) president Jean-Pierre Bourguignon urged researchers to show their “fighting spirit” over funding talks as he bid farewell to the science faithful in Brussels this week. Bourguignon, who leaves at the end of 2019 after six years in the role, helped spearhead a huge budget increase for fundamental science and establish ERC among the most prestigious of its kind in the world. Full article.

The origin and nature of life and its distribution in the universe are fundamental questions for humanity. How did biomolecules form? How did life emerge? How did cellular functions evolve? Is there life elsewhere? Will life cope with human-induced challenges? You: are an ambitious scientist fascinated by very fundamental questions about life, and you are ready for the next research career step. have research experience in (bio)chemistry, (bio)...

The European Training Network POLYSTORAGE “Innovative Polymers for Next-Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage” announces 16 positions for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) with the option of being awarded a doctoral degree. All positions are limited to a duration of 36 months. Within the program, the young researchers are part of a comprehensive network of European as well as Australian universities and companies right from the beginning. They...

Institut Curie is recruiting 8 PhD students through its new international program called EuReCa. This program, part funded by the European Commission’s MSCA COFUND scheme, provides PhD students with a 3-year full-time doctoral contract, a high level interdisciplinary, inter-sectorial, and international training with personalized career development plans including coaching, training, secondments and mentoring. Application deadline: 9 January 2020...

Reuters has published the 'Reuters Europe’s Most Innovative Universities Ranking', a list that identifies the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power industry. Article.

The Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America related to one of the thirteen departments of the University of Konstanz. As ZUKOnnect Fellow, you can use this time to extend your research networks and to get to know the research environment at the University of Konstanz, without losing your ties to your home university. As these fellowships can build a first bridge to the German and...

This is the first call for applications within Forte’s new international postdoc programme – a programme that aims to increase international researcher mobility and cross-border research collaboration. The programme offers grants to incoming and outgoing postdocs. Focus area Forte’s international postdoc programme aims to increase international researcher mobility and cross-border research collaboration. The programme also provides an...