The programme enables selected applicants to undertake a PhD / Post-doctoral / research stay from all academic fields at one of the 10 Swiss cantonal universities, the two Swiss federal institutes of technology or public teaching and research institutes. Call open to citizens of more than 180 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and many other LAC countries. The selection is under the responsibility of the relevant...

You have recently been appointed as Horizon 2020 National contact Points for health topics. What are your roles and responsibilities as NCPs? As mentioned in the H2020 policies, our roles will be to provide guidance on choosing relevant H2020 topics and types of action, as well as giving advice on administrative procedures and contractual issues. We are ready to support researchers with training and assistance on proposal writing, including  ...

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grants provide young foreign academics and artists with an opportunity to continue their education in Germany. There are funding programmes for various qualification phases and stages in a career. The aim of this programme is to promote artistic cooperations with German host institutions. Postgraduate scholarships (open to most LAC nationals, including Brazil) DAAD awards scholarships for postgraduate...

** Presentation available below **  * Versão em português abaixo * CONFAP and FAPES invite to the Internationalization Day on Horizon 2020 and mobility to be held in Vitória, at UFES, on 29 August 2018. EURAXESS Brazil will be in attendance and show how EURAXESS can help researchers will to undertake a research stay in Europe. * Infoday - Colaboração internacional com o Brasil em pesquisa e inovação 29 de Agosto de 2018, 
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The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) recently released a call to finance outgoing and incoming research mobility with an estimated 60 million BRL budget. The goal is to support research projects that aim to contribute significantly to the development of science, technology and innovation in Brazil, through the granting of scholarships within the country and abroad. The outgoing calls aim to support...

Set up in 2007 by the EU, the European Research Council is the first pan-European funding organization for frontier research. It aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by encouraging competition for funding between the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age. The ERC also strives to attract top researchers from anywhere in the world to come to Europe. It funds young, early-career top researchers ('ERC Starting...

The 2018 Fields Medals were awarded today, 1 August, to outstanding mathematicians, of whom one grantee of the European Research Council (ERC): Prof. Alessio Figalli (Italy), an ERC Consolidator grant holder since 2016 at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He receives the prize for his work on Partial Differential Equations. The Medals were announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) taking place from 1 – 9 August in Rio de Janeiro,...

How to look for a supervisor in Europe to host your MSCA fellowship Latin American and the Caribbean-based researchers interested in doing an Individual Fellowship in Europe can apply for a Marie Sklodowska Curie European Fellowship (more at http://bit.ly/MSCAIF2018, call here) To apply for the fellowship the researcher has to secure the support of a research organisation in Europe that is willing to host him or her for the duration of the MSCA-...

In the last week of July, the European Space Agency launched four navigation satellites into orbit, already gathering 26 satellites in Europe's Galileo navigation system. The goal is to have 30 of them in the future, but the system is already benefiting people around the globe. Galileo is Europe’s Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS), providing improved positioning and timing information with significant positive implications for many...