Applications are now open for the three month summer IIASA 2020 Science Communication Fellowship. Background The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is currently accepting applications for its summer 2020 Science Communication Fellowship. The fellowship starts on 25 May and ends on 31 August. The fellowship covers the cost of travel to and from Vienna and the awardee’s home country at the beginning and end of the...

IIASA offers PhD student fellowships to undertake a summer project on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. Annually, from 1 June to 31 August, IIASA hosts up to 50 doctoral students from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). Registrations for the 2020 program are being accepted from 7 October 2019 - 11 January 2020! APPLY HERE   Who should apply? The program is designed for PhD students (ideally about 2 years...

Max Planck Institute of Astronomy: Summer internships at MPIA Location: Heidelberg, Germany The MPIA offers up to four positions for internships every year to bright bachelor and master students who desire to acquire hand-on experience of research and instrument development in astronomy, or wish to fullfil their degree's requirement. The institute proposes students to work full-time for two to three months. Travel costs are supported and a...

10 positions are available for a 3-year PhD program at institutions across Europe. The positions are funded by the new Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) (https://cell2cell.eu/) Deadline: 15 February 2020 Cell2Cell is an international network of leading academic institutions and industry groups, which provides multidisciplinary and intersectoral training for 15 early stage researchers (ESRs) in the fields of pathogen...

The scientific aim of MANIC is to synthesize materials that can function as networks of neurons and synapses by integrating conductivity, plasticity and self-organization. Successes in deep learning show that the paradigm of neuromorphic computing is very attractive. However, current technology is based on the Turing/von Neumann architecture, requiring extensive communication and an excessive amount of energy for computing. The human brain...

As the year draws to a close (and my mandate too for that matter), the time has come for me to look back at my past six momentous years at the helm of the ERC. I feel I have much to look back on and be grateful for – it has been a truly exhilarating experience towards the end of my career that actually was not planned at all. After having just retired as IHES Director and with plans to continue visiting several mathematical institutes in the...

Our Summer Internship Program provides the opportunity for highly motivated undergraduate students to join one of the labs at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. The program will allow you to become familiar with different scientific approaches and laboratory methods. The aim of our internship program is to provide excellent students with a broad range of research experiences and knowledge to...

INSPIRE is looking for talented and motivated candidates with the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to help the network make significant research breakthroughs. ESRs will enrol on PhD degree programmes and be employed for 36 months in a network composed of 5 academic research beneficiaries, 5 industrial beneficiary and 12 partner organisations. The vision of INSPIRE is to advance and “inspire” Safety Pharmacology by exploring new technological...

The ERC’s mission and funding principles have been fully maintained by the European Union (EU) Parliament and Council during the negotiations on Horizon Europe, the successor programme to Horizon 2020. The ERC Scientific Council acknowledges this fact with satisfaction as it is in line with its position paper on that matter. Consequently, it is working to ensure a smooth transition of the ERC to Horizon Europe, which is expected to start in...

We are pleased to present to you the final newsletter of 2019! December is an opportunity for us here at EURAXESS ASEAN to take stock of our activities throughout the year – and what a brilliant year it has been! Over the past 12 months we have hosted and participated in over 40 events reaching out to over 1500 researchers across ASEAN to inform you about the research opportunities Europe has on offer. We thoroughly enjoyed interacting with so...