On 17 September the European Commission launched the last and largest call under Horizon 2020, the European Green Deal Call - with a €1 billion budget - to respond to the climate crisis and help protect ecosystems and biodiversity, while spurring Europe's and world’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis by turning green challenges into innovation opportunities. The full Work Programme of the European Green Deal call is available online (https://...

The Asia Europe Sustainable Scientific Conference (AESCON) is the first scientific conference on Asia-Europe sustainable connectivity, bringing together researchers, data and policy analysts working in the field of international connectivity, globalisation and their impacts on sustainable development, with a particular focus on Asia-Europe connections. The conference aims to provide an academic forum to discuss global challenges on transport...

Are you a brilliant researcher with an innovative project in mind? Are you looking for support and funding to develop your ground-breaking idea? The European Research Council (ERC) provides long-term grants to individual researchers from all over the world to fund high-risk/high gain pioneering projects in any field of frontier research. A total of 872 researchers from countries other than those of the European Research Area (ERA), that includes...

Invitation to participate in a survey on the impact of Covid-19 on researchers’ work and mobility Covid-19 changes researchers’ work, interaction and mobility dramatically! Beyond its huge impact on health, welfare of both societies and economies, Covid-19 is greatly affecting academic research. Pandemic restrictions influence not only the way the researchers work but also create new barriers for interacting with peers, for ensuring continuity...

See a recording of webinar here: https://ifinchina.com/XDMFBYW EURAXESS and the European Research Council (ERC) are working together on a webinar about the ERC for researchers in Asia. The webinar will take place Tuesday 15 September 2020 between 17:00-18:00 Beijing time. This online information session will highlight how the ERC supports top researchers from anywhere in the world. Participants will learn about the different ERC Funding Schemes...

What can be done to improve the efficacy of vaccines? How can we predict our future climate? What is the environmental impact of nanoplastics? Are there alternative economic models to endless economic growth? What is the nature of dark matter in the Universe? Four hundred thirty-six laureates of the 2020 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants competition, including 8 Chinese nationals, will now be able to tackle these and other big...

On 26 August, EURAXESS China launched a new webinar series called Mobility Compass, with the aim of introducing researchers’ mobility funding offered by the EU member states and associated countries and open to Chinese researchers. The first webinar of the series was on the topic of How to Get Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. Following the success of the first webinar on MSCA IF, EURAXESS China decided to hold a second more hands-on webinar on...

Video Recordings of our Webinars Last Quarter   How to Get Marie Curie Individual Fellowship A presentation of the fellowships offered by MSCA to individual researchers, and the testimony from Dr Huang He, MSCA Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. MSCA Innovative Training Networks and European PhD opportunities for Chinese students A presentation on the MSCA ITN fellowships, the testimony of Ms Min Wan, about her experience as a PhD...

Covid-19, the pandemic that has ravaged the world for most of 2020, continues to take a massive toll on lives, health systems, economies and society in general. It also has a huge impact on researchers – their physical mobility, the way they work, and how they interact and cooperate through international research networks. Restrictions on travel and social interactions, which hinder movement within and between countries, make conference...