Diversity and Gender in Science: Enhancing the Value of Research and Innovation Singapore Women in Science are hosting the 2019 Gender Summit. SGWIS is hosting the 16th Gender Summit in Singapore with partnership support from other women in science groups from leading science institutions in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. This gender summit will continue the work of previous events to enhance scientific excellence by drawing focus to the...

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) announces a Call for Papers for the conference “Virtual Exchange – borderless mobility between the European Higher Education Area and regions beyond” in Berlin, Germany, on 11th December 2019. Description of the conference and Call for Papers: "Virtual exchange" constitutes an important element in the current Higher Education internationalisation discourse. In the conference context, virtual exchange...

The Asia-Europe Sustainable Connectivity Scientific Conference (AESCON) will be held in Singapore 26-28 February, 2020 and will be hosted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the Asia Europe Foundation, the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia and the Center for China and Globalization. AESCON is the first scientific conference on Asia-Europe sustainable connectivity, bringing together researchers and policy...

Via European Commission EUR 1,046 billion, i.e. almost 10% of the overall budget for 2020 of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, are allocated to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), announced the European Commission on 2 July. This represents the biggest annual budget MSCA ever had to fund international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training and mobility. With the allocated budget MSCA is expected to...

The ERC is today announcing its biggest ever annual injection of funding in blue-sky research. €2.2 billion will be made available in 2020 to support some 1,100 top researchers. As in previous years, most of the funding (61%) is earmarked for early- to mid-career scientists and scholars. The funding will in also support jobs for an estimated 8,000 postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and other research staff employed in ERC-funded teams....

What are the European Research and Innovation Days? European Research and Innovation Days is the first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. Speakers will include ministers, commissioners, members of European Parliament, researchers, as well as surprise guests each day. Aim of the event A key challenge for Europe is delivering the next...

Berlin Science Week is an international gathering, bringing together people from the world’s most innovative scientific institutions to celebrate science, to connect and engage with the local and international science community and the public. It is dedicated to the dialogue between science and society to inspire a deeper understanding of our world. Berlin Science Week fosters interdisciplinary exchange and encourages participants to connect and...

These schemes are for scientists based in the UK who want to stimulate collaborations with leading scientists overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral travel. Standard Programme The Standard Programme is available for travel to/from all countries outside the UK. The funding available is dependent upon the length of the visit. Am I eligible to apply? Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes...

DOCC is an interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND doctoral programme at the University of Innsbruck that will train 15 PhD students for 3 years on modelling and simulation of complex dynamical continuum systems in research fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, atmospheric sciences, material and engineering sciences, and computer science. DOCC provides training in both research-relevant and professional skills, by building expertise...

The Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob" is a large-scale research initiative that has been funded in the context of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments. The technology- driven novel approach of PhenoRob uses multi-scale monitoring of plants and their environment with autonomous robots and big data analytics combined with machine learning to improve our understanding of the relation between input and output parameters...