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15 positions are available for a 3-year PhD program at institutions across Europe. Positions are funded by the new Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) ENHPATHY. Candidates with bioinformatics, genomics and/or molecular and cellular biology backgrounds are encouraged to apply. ENHPATHY is a multidisciplinary science consortium regrouping 12 academic and 3 non-academic European organisations in the continuum of basic,...
The European Commission has awarded MSCA Seal of Excellence certificates to over two thousand researchers who applied for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2019. Calls for proposals under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are extremely competitive: the budget for the 2019 call only allowed a grant to be awarded to 15% of applicants. The Seal of Excellence is therefore designed to support MSCA applicants whose proposals show...
The European Union Institutions appoint external experts to assist in the evaluation of grant applications, projects and tenders, and to provide opinions and advice in specific cases. In particular, experts assist in: Evaluation of proposals, prize applications and tenders Monitoring of actions, grant agreements, public procurement contracts In addition, experts provide opinion and advise on: Preparation, implementation and evaluation of EU...
The European Commission has awarded a contract for the setting up of an open access publishing platform for scientific articles as a free service for Horizon 2020 beneficiaries. The launch of the ambitious EU open access initiative is planned for early 2021. The platform will be a peer-reviewed publishing service to support Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries to publish their research in open access free of charge (i.e. without...
The European Commission launched an advisory panel on COVID-19 composed of epidemiologists and virologists from different Member States to formulate EU guidelines on science-based and coordinated risk management measures. This panel, which was created following a mandate by EU Member States, will be chaired by the Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, and co-chaired by Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. President ...
The European Commission has launched the fourth international study to improve the knowledge of mobility patterns, working conditions and career paths of researchers. The European Commission has commissioned PPMI (Lithuania), in consortium with IDEA Consult (Belgium) and WIFO (Austria), to carry out this study which is known as MORE4 (http://www.more-4.eu). This study involves two large surveys. The first one focuses on researchers currently...
12 positions are available for Early Stage Researchers across the members of the ‘Policies for Smart Specialisation’ (POLISS) Marie-Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network from the September 1, 2020 for 36 months. Each appointed researcher will be paid an attractive salary based on the standard MSCA guidelines and will be registered for a PhD at one of the participating universities. Applications must be made to the relevant...
The European Commission has offered up to €80 million of financial support to CureVac, a higly innovative vaccine developer from Tübingen, Germany, to scale up development and production of a vaccine against the Coronavirus in Europe. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, discussed with the CureVac management via videoconference. The Vice-President of...
Supported and co-funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN Programme, the NEWAVE network offers 13 PhD high level fellowships. The students will be selected for a 3-year advanced multidisciplinary research training, preferably starting in May 2020. The NEWAVE project aims to point the way forward in the global debate about water governance. It does so by developing research and training for a new...
On March 4, 2020, the European Commission presented a proposal to enshrine in legislation the EU's political commitment to be climate neutral by 2050, to protect the planet and our people. The European Climate Law sets the 2050 target and the direction of travel for all EU policy, and gives predictability for public authorities, businesses and citizens. At the same time, the Commission is launching a public consultation on the future European...