Dr Rahim clinched first place at the Falling Walls Lab Singapore on 18 November with her breakthrough idea „Breaking the walls of antibiotic resistance“. EURAXESS supports Falling Walls comeptitons in both Singapore and Malaysia. Zarina is currently working as a research assistant at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore. She will be competing with representatives from 49 other countries in...

Three Thai women scientists were awarded this year’s L’Oréal “For Women in Science Fellowships” for their groundbreaking research. This year, the fellowship in the Life Science category was granted to Dr Sudjit Luanpitpong from the Siriraj Centre of Excellence for Stem Cell Research, research division, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, for her study titled “Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species in Lymphoma Stem Cells and...

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The European Research Council's blue sky research continues to make an impact, as demonstrated in a new independent study just oublishedwhich looked at the outputs of ERC projects. Overall confirming the outcome of last year's study, 73% of projects evaluated have made breakthroughs or major scientific advances. The report found that the ERC is achieving its goals of funding high-risk/high-gain projects and interdisciplinary frontier research....

On Monday Jerome Pons, Head of Operations, European Union Delegation to Thailand opened a two-day workshop in Bangkok on how to prepare effective proposals for European research funding programmes. This workshop was co-organised by EURAXESS ASEAN and NSTDA with the support of the Thailand-EU Policy Dialogues Support Facility (PDSF). In his opening remarks Mr Pons highlighted the fact that only writing about one's science is no longer enough to...

The spirit of the Program is to promote cooperation between international companies by means of promoting and providing funding support for industry-driven and close to market R...

The objective of NUSANTARA is to promote and support new projects of scientific and technological cooperation, between French and Indonesian researchers in both public and private sectors. This call is Excellence based. Deadline: 13 October 2017 Eligibility The programme is open to the following research fields (not to Nuclear, Defense or Military technologies): - Food Technology; - Energy (new and renewable energy); - Health and Medicine...

Dr Jose Sepulveda, an alumnus of the European Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship programme, and an expert in research proposal preparation  provided information on the essential skills needed to be successful in applying for European research funding programmes through a series of practical hands on sessions. In the months ahead we’re hoping to see a marked increase in the numbers of proposal being submitted by researchers from Khon Kaen and...

  ERC Synergy grants are open to a group of two to the maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) - of which one will be designated as the corresponding PI (cPI) - working together and bringing different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. No specific eligibility criteria regarding academic training are foreseen for ERC Synergy Grants. PIs must present an early achievement track-record or a ten-year tr ack-record,...

This programme is to encourage intellectual exchanges among ASEAN, Europe and Japan. Two scholarships which will be granted to ASEAN applicants. Eligible researchers (mid-career level researchers), intellectuals and policy makers are to be nominated for facilitating intellectual exchanges on political and economic themes in the regions, and those fellows shall conduct for a certain period of time their own research and lecture at an appropriate...