The Research Executive Agency has received 9 875 proposals for the three MSCA Individual Fellowships calls that closed yesterday, 11 September. This represents a small increase compared to last year. Just over €300 million are available to fund researchers mobility in all areas of science. €6 million are earnmarked to the widening fellowships which aim providing support to researchers to undertake their fellowship in a Widening Country. This...

Congratulations to the researchers from Indonesia and Singapore who have just been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. They are part of the 408 early-career researchers have been awarded European Research Council grants in this year’s first completed ERC call for proposals. The highly-coveted funding will help individual scientists and scholars to build their own teams and conduct pioneering research across all disciplines. The grants, worth in total...

DTA3/COFUND offers a chance to be trained at the UK’s top professional and technical universities. Operated by University Alliance, the programme is supported by a €6.5 million grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellowship programme which has been guaranteed up until 2020. DETAILS Our work includes developing collaborative programmes through which our member universities seek to enhance their student experience and research such as the...

Deadline: 30 November 2019 The Helmut Veith Stipend is awarded annually to motivated female students in the field of computer science who pursue (or plan to pursue) one of the master’s programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English. The Helmut Veith Stipend is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and...

The Max Planck Society is seeking nominations for Max Planck Directors The Max Planck Society is looking for the strongest and most creative scientists worldwide. Core criteria for directorship are scientific and scholarly excellence, an innovative and visionary research program, and personal and intellectual leadership, rather than seniority. Max Planck Directors enjoy complete scientific freedom. The Max Planck Society offers an international...

This programme provides institutions and research groups in developing countries, especially the Least Developed Countries and those with limited outside contacts, with opportunities to establish long-term links with world leaders in areas of science other than mathematics and physics, and help develop capacity-building in their country. Details here

We are pleased to advertise 9 Early-Stage Researcher (PhD) positions to begin in January 2020 as part of the Innovative Training Network of the European Commission CHARISMA “Entrepreneuring CHEMICAL IRREVERSIBILITY TO PROTOTYPE RESPONSIVE SMART LABELS”. The positions will all last three years and will allow all students to participate in an exciting programme comprising international schools, workshops, and secondments at academic as well as...

The Cluster invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships for a duration of 12 months each, during which Fellows will pursue individual research projects. The earliest starting date is 1 October 2020. In principle, each position can be divided into two part-time positions. Candidates from Non-OECD member countries are explicitely encouraged to apply. “The Politics of Inequality” is a Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz. The...

The shortlist for the Newton Prize 2019 has been anounced featuring 20 research projects tackling pressing health and development issues such as malaria, antimicrobial resistance and climate change. The Newton Prize celebrates outstanding international research partnerships; the £1 million prize will be divided between four winning projects. It is designed to enable international research partners to continue working together on solutions to...

  Once a year the Technical University of Munich (TUM) selects 50 young scientists from all over the world and invites them to the Research Opportunities Week (ROW) in Munich. During this week, the participants have the opportunity to visit different research facilities at TUM, to meet Professors of their disciplines, to inform themselves about possible postdoc funding opportunities in Germany and to create a scientific network. The Postdoc...