Next stop Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and France! It has been an exciting few days for the 2018 winners of the EURAXESS Prize. Against the backdrop of a beautiful blue fall sky, the five researchers represented their national labs in the Falling Walls Lab Finals in Germany's capital Berlin. A total of 100 participants from 57 countries presented their current research projects, ideas and initiatives in just three minutes each. Congratulations...

DOC-FAM is an excellence DOCtoral training programme in Functional Advanced Materials awarded to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in the H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016 Call and coordinated through the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) in collaboration with several partner research Institutions from the area, four of them contributing to the co-funding of the programme. During the 60 months of duration of the programme, two...

Application Deadline: 28 February 2019 The EuroTech Universities Alliance (https://eurotech-universities.eu) is a strategic partnership of five leading European universities of science...

The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a unique postdoc program. It awards young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for up to five years. This research fellowship is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. Those in current postdoctoral positions are...

The 2018 winners of the EURAXESS Prize are en route to Berlin where they will be competing in the Falling Walls Lab Finals on Thursday, 8 November. The Lab Finale will be livestreamed via this link. Please click here to find out the exact time when our 5 finalists will be taking the stage in Berlin! Lets all cheer them on! In the days after the competition, the Five will be traveling on to different countries across the European Union to visit...

Applications are now accepted for the Bernd Rode Award 2019. The Bernd Rode award will be awarded in February 2019 during the 17th ASEA-UNINET Plenary Meeting (February 22nd-25th) at the University of Danang, Vietnam. The Bernd Rode Award is granted to outstanding scientific and higher education collaborations between European and South-East-Asian universities in the framework of ASEA-UNINET and is given every 18 months in three different...

As well as being revised and updated to improve the user experience, GERiT also provides an expanded range of information. For many universities it now provides links to careers pages and Wikipedia entries, as well as various identifiers giving access to further information. “GERiT - German Research Institutions” (gerit.org) showcases the diversity of the German research landscape and provides details of more than 25,000 institutes at German...

On 19 October 2018, the official platform for young scientists in the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region, the ASEAN Young Scientists Network was officially launched in conjunction with the 75th ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology Meeting in Cebu, the Philippines. The Interim Co-Chairs, Abhi Veerakumarasivam (GYA member (Malaysia) and Chair of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia) and Orakanoke...

Two ASEAN researchers are among 25 researchers from 21 countries who have been chosen as Green Talents 2018. Thailand's Dr Nithi Atthi is a researchers in electronics and applied physics at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre. His work focuses on large-area flexible polymers with antifouling robust micro-structure for marine and medical applications. Dr Ong Wee Jun is Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Xiamen...

The European Commission has published the new Erasmus+ Programme Call for Proposals and the new Erasmus+ Programme Guide for 2018. The documents provide an overview of the possibilities for projects to be funded by the European Union within the Erasmus+ programme for education, training, youth and sport.   Please see the official pages for the Call and Programme Guide.