The final of the Coimbra Group Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition will take place on 22 October at 10 CET. Watch live on YouTube the three pitches from the three finalists, followed by the announcement of the winner of the 2020 edition. The Coimbra Group, a network of 41 long-established European Universities, has been holding a network-wide 3MT competition since 2017. This year, the association’s flagship event on Science Communication will...

On 30 September, the Commission adopted a Communication on a new European Research Area for Research and Innovation. Based on excellence, the new European Research Area will improve Europe’s research and innovation landscape, accelerate the EU’s transition towards climate neutrality and digital leadership, support its recovery from the societal and economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, and strengthen its resilience against future crises....

The MSCA Conference Achieving more together will take place on 29 September as a virtual event. The event will be hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the first Conference under the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Conference will address two main topics: synergies between the MSCA and the European Universities Initiative, and supervision in the MSCA and beyond. Furthermore, the fellows for...

The European Commission’s annual Research and Innovation flagship event will take place on 22 – 24 September as a virtual event. The R...

Within the framework of CARe project, which aims to support the integration of refugee researchers into the European research labour market, three reports on labour market conditions for researchers with a refugee background have just been published. Two reports comprise extensive findings from the 10 focus groups and the employer survey, conducted in the period June 2019 – February 2020 to gather researchers and employers' views and...

Take part in Vitae Connections Week 2020 (#VitaeCon2020); a collection of live and on demand opportunities for knowledge and practice sharing, networking and discussion among those with an interest in researcher development globally. The week of online activities will run from 14 to 17 September and will include live-streamed keynote presentations, small-group interactive and discussion sessions, our popular poster session and exhibition area...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of people in the EU to lose their jobs or experience significant income loss. Many will need to acquire new skills for new jobs in different sectors or upskill to keep their job in a new work environment. For many young people, entry in the labour market will be very challenging. The pandemic has proven that digital skills are not an asset for career progress but essential in many aspects of our lives....

As Europe starts the long path to recovery from COVID-19, the European Commission is launching a new, modernised Europass which will offer a multilingual ‘e-Portfolio tool’, for people across Europe to manage their career. The launch of the new platform marks a new chapter in the modernisation of EU tools for skills. The new Europass will be live on 1 July 2020. What’s in the new Europass? E-portfolio: to support users to document and describe...

Join the webinar Preparing for the known unknown - How to navigate through unprecendented pension challenges? organised by the RESAVER Consortium on 22 June, 12h CET. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected public life around the globe and has completely modified the outlook for the European and world economy. As long-term investors, Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs) can play a stabilising role in current volatile...

Join the MSCA2020 Conference organised as a virtual event on 19 June 2020. Through two topics, the MSCA2020 Conference will contribute to the debate on the importance of mobility and brain circulation as a key priority of Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the field of research: The contribution of brain circulation to a better research environment for national and international researchers, attracting foreign...