The Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges (MSCA SE) support up to 4-year joint research and innovation projects implemented by seconding and/or hosting eligible staff members. The next call is due to open on 6 October 2022. The call is open to international consortia of universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs and other non-academic organisations to exchange their staff for up to 12 months. Information in a nutshell - MSCA...

You are part of the MSCA-RISE consortium ‚ULTRACEPT‘. In a nutshell, what is this project all about? The project ‘Ultra-layered perception with brain-inspired information processing for vehicle collision avoidance’ (ULTRACEPT), is being funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) grant number 778062. The project has...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for over a decade, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.  He is the tenth ERC grantee to win a Nobel Prize, since the ERC was created by the EU in 2007. Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture,...

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and TWAS have established a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in a field of the natural and related applied sciences in the departments and laboratories of public and private universities of Turkey and TÜBİTAK Research Centers and Institutes. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (...

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers Jean Monnet Fellowships for the academic year 2023/24 for scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than 5 years prior to the start of the fellowship, i.e. before 1 September 2018. The Fellowship programme is open to post-docs, tenure track academics and those wishing to spend their sabbatical at the Robert Schuman Centre, a lively and creative academic community at the European...

Applications are now open for the 2023/24 entry to the Max Weber Post-doctoral Programme at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Amongst the largest, most prestigious, innovative and successful post-doctoral programmes in the historical and social sciences, the Max Weber Programme is located in an exceptionally beautiful setting with truly outstanding research and training facilities. As a multidisciplinary programme, we...

The Lindau Meetings bring together Nobel Laureates and young researchers to foster scientific exchange between generations. These annual scientific conferences have been taking place in the southern German town on the shores of Lake Constance since the 1950s. Physiology and Medicine meeting in June 2023 The meeting of Nobel Laureates in Physiology and Medicine will be held from 25 to 30 June 2023.   Each year, highly talented young scientists...

The second call of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme closed on 14 September 2022. The European Research Executive Agency received 7 044 proposals. By comparison, 8 356 proposals were submitted in 2021 and over 1 200 were eventually selected for funding. From this year, resubmission restrictions apply for applications that received a score below 70% in the previous call. This year’s submitted proposals are...

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen from University Copenhagen has won the 2022 Balzan Prize in the category “Glaciation and Ice-Sheet Dynamics”. She will share the prize with Johannes Oerlemans from Utrecht University. Prof Dahl-Jensen received an Advanced Grant in 2009. In her ERC-funded research, she used radio echo sounding data together with ice flow models to map the water under the ice and to understand how water influences the evolution of the Greenland...

The ERC will take part in the annual European Research and Innovation Days, the European Commission’s flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond. This year’s European Research and Innovation Days will focus on discussing and shaping new solutions to strengthen Europe’s resilience and its strategic autonomy. Join the event...