96 */     SAVE THE DATE The II Latin America MCAA Conference will bring several online activities and discussions on topics that are relevant to both the European Research Area and the Latin American research community. The event will feature speakers from the two regions in a rich programme available at mcaabrazil.org/latam21. EURAXESS LAC is proud to co-organise the event and would like to draw your attention to the following sessions (check...

  The DEEPICE project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Innovative Training Network) calls for applications for 15 fully-funded PhD positions (early-stage researcher, ESR) to be filled between July and October 2021, with attractive complementary training activities and associated research and travel budgets. The overall objective of DEEPICE is to equip a new generation of...

The EU is a strong global performer in the transition towards sustainability, according to the new Transitions Performance Index (TPI), published by the Commission today. The index ranks all EU countries plus 45 others around the world on their performance along four transitions: economic, social, environmental and governance. It will help the EU to monitor progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and delivering on its...

The "Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme for Young Professors and Researchers from Latin American Universities" was launched for the first time in January 2004. This initiative, which offers grants to finance short-term research visits, aims at favouring mobility and academic exchange between the two regions, Europe and Latin America. The Coimbra Group is an association of 41 European universities which promotes exchanges between European and...

The innovation promotion agency of Brasil, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa e Inovação Industrial (EMBRAPII) and the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) are happy to announce their collaboration for 2021 to fund joint innovation projects between Switzerland and Brazil. This is the 2nd edition of TechMaker Brazil...

Instituto Serrapilheira and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics – South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP – SAIFR) are jointly launching the Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology. The goal of the program is to prepare future generations of Brazilian and Latin American researchers in the life sciences with a focus on the use of tools from mathematics, physics and computer science. They are seeking...

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. awards full scholarships for a Master's degree, a doctorate or a research stay of at least three semesters at a university in Germany.  Who? We are looking for socially or politically committed students and doctoral candidates from all disciplines who are not older than 30 years and who can prove that they have knowledge of German at level B2 of the European Framework of Reference (at least B1 level at the time...

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme in all scientific fields. Deadline: 8 April 2021.  More HERE.   ERC Starting Grants in brief: For researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD or an equivalent doctoral degree (Extensions are possible under...

The Cologne Graduate School (CGS) in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences offers a doctoral (PhD) programme with an integrated M.Sc. Economic Research. It consists of two stages: The first stage of the programme is the two-years M.Sc. Economic Research. It prepares students for high-level research in economics. It is fully taught in English. In the second stage, PhD students work on research projects for their dissertation and interact...

The CBMR International Postdoctoral Program supports competitive international recruitment of postdoctoral fellows to the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center of Basic Metabolic Research. CBMR was established in 2010 at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. CBMR's vision is to strengthen interdisciplinary research that transforms the basic understanding of the mechanisms involved in metabolic health and disease, and to...