Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, revealed the four winners of this year’s edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The prize is funded under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme. The winners, chosen by a jury of independent experts, were announced at the European Research and Innovation Days, this year taking place entirely online. They are (in alphabetical order): Madiha...

The Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Fellowships Programme (MFP) is a redesign of the existing MF programme, offering 100 doctoral contracts (in four editions: 2017, 2018 and 2020, 2021) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). The programme is uniquely shaped to offer the best training stemming from the "triple i" principles of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial.  In order to achieve these...

UNA4CAREER is a MSCA COFUND project, coordinated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.  The first call for the postdoctoral recruitment programme has just closed and the project is looking for experts to evaluate the proposals received. Proposals can be addressed to any of the four knowledge areas, namely, Humanities, Social Sciences, Experimental Sciences and Health. Therefore expert evaluators from any of these areas will be...

The European Commission has announced the 10 projects to reach the final stage of the second edition of Horizon Impact Award – a prize dedicated to EU-funded projects whose results have created societal impact across Europe and beyond. The prize acknowledges and rewards the most influential and impactful project results under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme, and its predecessor, the 7th Framework programme (FP7, 2007-2013...

ETERNITY – “European Training Network on Electromagnetic Risks in Medical Technology” is a European funded Marie Curie project (starting date 1st March 2021), with partners from Belgium, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands. Each of the 14 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will be trained to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, with a new mindset tuned towards the inclusion of the three main elements of a risk-based approach into...

The MSCA ITN Hyperboost - Hyperthermia boosting the effect of Radiotherapy, is looking for 14 PhD candidates with a master degree in a relevant discipline (life /technical/computational sciences) interested in combining clinical, experimental and computational research.  Please click on the respective ESR for recruitment details. ESR 1: Understanding biology of hyperthermia in the context of cancer treatment via multi-omics approach ESR 2: ...

11,573 researchers from all over the world submitted their proposals under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships.  This is the highest number of proposals ever received under a call of Horizon 2020, the biggest Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. This figure represents an absolute record and shows an increase of 1,698 applications in total numbers and of 17% compared to last year’s call. In particular, an...

Covid-19 changes researchers’ work, interaction and mobility dramatically! Beyond its huge impact on health, welfare of both societies and economies, Covid-19 is greatly affecting academic research. Pandemic restrictions influence not only the way the researchers work but also create new barriers for interacting with peers, for ensuring continuity in funding of research work, setting-up and pursuing international research collaborations and for...

What can be done to improve the efficacy of vaccines? How can we predict our future climate? What is the environmental impact of nanoplastics? Are there alternative economic models to endless economic growth? What is the nature of dark matter in the Universe? Four hundred thirty-six laureates of the 2020 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants competition will now be able to tackle these and other big scientific questions at universities...

The European Commission has selected 74 new consortia to support international and inter-sectoral collaboration under the 2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) call for proposals - part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). 7 institutions (involved in 4 projects) from Australia and 2 institutions (involved in 2 projects) from New Zealand are among the beneficiaries! Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation,...