Are you interested in a two-year postdoc stay in Europe with EU funding to work on your dream project? Then the highly prestigious MSCA Individual Fellowships should be on your radar. While the 2020 call will open only on 8 April (with a deadline of 9 September 2020) now is the time to identify a host in Europe and to start developing your proposal.  WHAT IS THIS? The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) contribute to excellent research,...

Applications are invited for 15 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) to be funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network “SOLAR2CHEM” within the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission. ASEAN researchers are eligble. SOLAR2CHEM will train 15 early stage researchers to fill the existing gap in the European industrial landscape in the area of solar chemicals production and usage in technical, economic and policy aspects. The...

The School for Additive Manufacturing (SAM) calls for applications for 16 doctoral fellowships for three years, starting in spring 2020. SAM is a coordinated PhD programme that offers a structured three-year doctoral training in the field of Additive Manufacturing in an excellent research environment with individual support. The full-time fellowships of 1400 € a month are funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture. DETAILS The...

Original Article The second Newton Prize 2019 winner has been announced at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday 14 January. The winning UK-Indonesia partnership is helping to protect coastal communities from the devastation caused by coastal hazards such as flooding and tsunamis. The research has improved Indonesia’s capacity to deal with these events through better communications and warning procedures. Climate change is increasing the...

The University of Toulouse seeks to hire outstanding PhD and Post Doc candidates in artificial intelligence and in particular in machine learning at its new Institute on Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ANITI). ANITI is coordinated by the University of Toulouse: Université fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées within the framework of France's « Investing for the Future – PIA3 » program with the support of the Occitanie Region, the Toulouse...

Ph.D. vacancies in the Doctoral Programme Atoms, Light, and Molecules at the University of Innsbruck, Austria Deadline is 9 February 2020. With 28.000 students and more than 4.500 employees the University of Innsbruck represents the largest and most important institution in research and education in western Austria. Located in the heart of the Alps, the University of Innsbruck offers the best conditions for successful research and teaching....

The aim of the Ulam Programme is to increase the internationalisation of Polish HEIs and scientific institutions. The Programme will allow to invite scientists from all around the world representing all fields of science to the Polish institutions of science and higher education. The Programme will help foreign researchers to develop their career by intensifying international mobility as well as will give them an opportunity to establish...

Article published by ScienceBusiness Eight research journal publishers have agreed to share detailed information about their cost base, in order to help lay the ground for Plan S, the European-led initiative to pull down journal paywalls. A pilot project, allowing journal subscribers such as libraries and funders to get a better understanding of what is costs to process scientific research for publication, will start this week and run until the...

In order to promote the mobility of researchers to Belgium, the SPW research has set up a new mechanism to finance their reception in Wallonia/Wallonia-Brussels Federation: the programme "BEWARE (BElgian WAllonia REsearcher) Fellowships 2". The objective is to attract 75 high qualified researchers to Wallonia / Brussels in an innovative project to boost his / her career as well as the research and the economy in Wallonia and Brussels and to...

Ikerbasque - the Basque Foundation for Science, has launched a new call offering 20 positions for postdoctoral researchers. These positions are financed by the Basque Government, the European Commission and the host institution where the researcher will develop his/her research. Deadline is 14 March 2020. DETAILS These five year Fellowships are directed to promising young researchers; they are intended to offer a track towards a PI role and...