15 PhD positions are offered by the 9 host organisations participating in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Action “Advanced Research and Training Network in Food Quality, Safety and Security” (FoodTraNet). FoodTraNet is designed to provide high-level training of a new generation of high achieving Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in a common platform of advanced mass spectrometric tools for food quality, safety and security. FoodTraNet is creating a...

University of Jyväskylä is currently seeking to recruit 5 Postdoctoral Researchers. All positions are connected to the university’s profiling area Multiliteracies for social participation and learning across the life span, MultiLEAP. MultiLEAP is a multidisciplinary research community that examines themes related to multiliteracy. The concept of multiliteracy refers to the wide array of skills needed to process, understand and produce knowledge...

The University of Kassel is establishing a new and unique interdisciplinary centre in the field of Sustainable Development and Transformation. The centre will bring together top global research and teaching expertise across the entire thematic range of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as defined by the United Nations. The centre aims to become a significant force in developing solutions to inspire and enable social transformations through...

EURIdoc, the Eucor Upper Rhine Immunology doctoral programme, is an international, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral PhD programme supported by the European Commission. The 4-year PhD positions are at the Universities of Basel, Freiburg and Strasbourg as well as at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Recruitment of all 28 doctoral candidates is operated via the Freiburg Graduate School SGBM (Spemann Graduate School of Biology and...

On 6 May 2021, the European Research Council (ERC) celebrated a new milestone – the 10 000th researcher awarded an ERC grant: Prof. Inga Berre from the University of Bergen (Norway). During an online ceremony, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President David Sassoli and other European leaders expressed their strong support for frontier research and the ERC. The event was the occasion to mark that the 10 000...

The Strategic Research Programme for Diabetes (SRP Diabetes) at Karolinska Institutet is funding a prestigious fellowship programme for postdoctoral research fellows. The Programme is focused on research in diabetes and its comorbidities. With this postdoctoral programme SRP Diabetes aims to support the next generation of exceptional young scientists within the diabetes area, including both experimental and clinical research. To promote cross-...

Europe Day held on 9 May every year celebrates peace and unity in Europe. The date marks the anniversary of the historic 'Schuman declaration'. At a speech in Paris in 1950, Robert Schuman, the then French foreign minister, set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe, which would make war between Europe's nations unthinkable. His vision was to create a European institution that would pool and manage coal and steel...

[ScienceBusiness] The European Parliament has formally adopted the EU’s new seven-year €7.5 billion investment plan in artificial intelligence, supercomputing and data platforms. While MEPs are disappointed the programme’s proposed budget was cut during the political negotiations on the seven year multi annual financial framework (MFF) at the end of last year, they see it as the EU’s main tool for becoming less reliant on digital technologies...

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is a joint venture of the University of Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging- Associated Diseases (CECAD), the University Hospital Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. Cologne has emerged as a leading global research cluster with a stellar constellation of institutes and scientists dedicated...

The Paris Peace Forum (PPF), of which the European Commission is a Strategic Partner, will hold its fourth edition on November 11th-13th, 2021. The PPF’s aim is to place global governance at the top of the international agenda. Different stakeholders discuss global governance issues and cooperate on solutions through three main spaces: Space for Solutions, Space for Debates and Space for Innovations. The Space for Solutions is mostly to present...