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...

This year the ERC will reach an important milestone: 10.000 scientists and scholars from all over the world will have received ERC funding to pursue their best ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. During an online ceremony, the ERC welcomed the 10.000th grantee and highlighted a few other ERC grantees who, in different ways, have contributed to transform science and research. Check the celebration event here You should also check how the ERC...

The Paris Peace Forum (PPF), of which the European Commission is a Strategic Partner, will hold its fourth edition on 11-13 November 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...

The Impulz project scheme aims to improve the scientific organizations of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) by recruiting internationally recognized scientists and highly talented young researchers who come from abroad or do not leave for abroad. The scheme is intended to help increase the Academy's excellence, internationalization and competitiveness in the European Research Area and its success in obtaining prestigious grants. Who?...

In October 2015, the DFG Research Training Group “Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World” (NatRiskChange) was established at the University of Potsdam and is run in cooperation with the Freie Universität of Berlin, the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). NatRiskChange aims to develop methods that...

Università della Calabria announces a public selection process for early admission of Extra-EU students and award 120 scholarships to foreign students enrolled to English-taught Master's Degrees. The scholarships include University fee (€ 1.000,00), free accomodation and canteen access in the University's Campus (value € 6.000,00), and pocket money for roughly € 1.700,00.  You can apply ONLY for one Degree Course, if you want to change degree...

The new Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research is an international center for advanced studies at RWTH Aachen University, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The center has openings for a total of 10 international fellows from the humanities and social sciences, as well as from natural, life, and technical sciences. Fellows will be offered a free space in which to develop their own research and to exchange ideas...

In order to promote international cooperation, particularly with Developing Countries (Ref. World Bank Classification Income), the University of Pavia and EDiSU (Institute of the Right to University Studies) provide 5 scholarships to visiting scholars for the year 2022 for a period of stay of 4 to 12 weeks at the University of Pavia. Who? Applicants must have at least two years of either teaching experience or activity within international...

The doc.funds "Biomolecular Structures and Interactions" (BioMolStruct) offers an excellence PhD program that provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary training in biomedical research in a stimulating international environment. The thesis projects center around biomolecules and biomolecular complexes playing essential roles in cellular signaling and metabolism, with a focus on proteins, protein complexes, and lipid/protein interactions that are...

The MAster your Research and Training Needs programme (MaRaThoN) at University of Padova (Unipd) is addressed to international post-doctoral researchers who wish to apply for the upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA –PF) call indicating the University of Padua as their Host Institution. Due to the Covid-19 emergency the MSCA MaRaThoN 2021 is fully delivered online through a combination of recorded thematic...