Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? I grew up in Turku, Finland and have lived in Peru since 1986, having met my Peruvian husband during my university years in Helsinki. Despite the large distances, I have maintained close links with Finland (both personal and academic) and enjoy spending my summers there. Please briefly outline your academic career, and its developments before joining the H2020 project. After obtaining my Master’s...

You have recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Could you tell us about the research you are conducting with this grant? How can the general public benefit from it? The project explores what is uniquely human and what is shared with other species in language. The starting point for this project is that humans share with other animals many cognitive capacities, but the ability for language has only developed in us. Of course, other animals...

We have written on MSCA and ERC before, but with the fairly new expansion of EURAXESS beyond Brazilian borders and throughout all of Latin America...

By Heitor Shimizu, in Brussels | Agência FAPESP (edited) – "There is enormous potential in terms of scientific cooperation between Belgium and Brazil," said Arnaud Goolaerts, managing director of research at Belgium's National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) at the opening session of FAPESP Week Belgium held in Brussels this Monday (10/8). According to Goolaerts, 58% of the articles published by researchers supported by the F.R.S.-...

With the International Climate Protection Fellowships, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables prospective leaders in academia and industry to implement a research-based proposal in the field of climate protection or climate-related resource conservation during a one-year stay in Germany. Up to 20 International Climate Protection Fellowships are granted annually, funded under the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature...

The doctoral training programme is offered by the Asociación Universitaria Iberoamericana de Posgrado (AUIP). Its objective is to provide doctoral training opportunities to students, professors and Latin American researchers enrolled in universities affiliated to the AUIP. The selected candidates will undertake their PhD training at Malaga university in Spain. Twelve (12) scholarships will be awarded to students from Universidad Tecnológica...

Brazilian researchers are informed of an upcoming Horizon 2020 call for proposals entitled MIGRATION-07-2019: International protection of refugees in a comparative perspective. Three Research and Innovation Actions of EUR 3 million each will be selected under this call. Note that "International cooperation is encouraged, in particular with Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Jordan, as well as relevant international organisations. Furthermore, the...

The LEaDing Fellows Programme provides 90 researchers from all over the world who recently obtained a PhD, with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience establishing their own research programme in research projects embedded in the three universities and their medical centres. The programme offers 30 Postdoc Fellowships in Medical Sciences. Researchers in this project work together in nanotechnology, nano-biology, quantum physics,...

With the PEARL programme, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) offers Luxembourg research institutions attractive funding to enable them to draw established and internationally recognised researchers from abroad to Luxembourg. PEARL projects have a lifespan of five years with a financial contribution of between 3 to 4 million euros by the FNR. The financial contribution can be used flexibly to implement the research programme at the host...

ENRICH in Brazil is organising an ‘Innovation Tour to Brazil’ (5-9 November 2018), considered as a unique networking opportunity for European researchers and organizations with technology focus. The five-day tour through the most innovative Brazilian cities, namely São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, includes visits at top Research and Technology organizations to gain insights into the cutting edge research and technology in Brazil....