Dear colleagues, In the last newsletter of 2015, you can find a lot of information about the European Research Council, Europe's top funding institution: The EU Insight focuses on the ERC's funding activities and analysis of its key facts, patterns and trends. In our "Meet the Researcher" interview, Prof Vincent Gaffney, an ERC Advanced Grantee in Archaeology based in the UK, talks about his research uncovering Europe's "lost lands", and gives...

Network Newsletter Since the launch of this publication, the EURAXESS Links NetworkNewsletter has made it its focus to provide its readership with news regardingthe latest happenings in science and research policy news, both as this newspertains to Europe and the various locations outside of Europe where Linksmaintains a presence. Many changes await EURAXESS Links as the initiative moves into the NewYear, all aimed at improving the experience of...

The first call for proposals under the EU-China Research and Innovation Co-funding Mechanism was published on 16 December 2015 by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) paving the way for deepened cooperation between European and Chinese research and innovation stakeholders within the frame of Horizon 2020. For details of the call in Chinese, please visit this webpage. Please do not hesitate to widely announce this important...

"Economic growth has been a powerful force for reducing poverty, creating jobs and improving general living standards. However, it cannot be taken for granted. Before the 18th century the world economy saw little growth. Poverty was widespread and any substantial improvement in living standards for more than the privileged few was beyond imagining. Since then, the world economy has grown at an unprecedented pace – greatly improving the quality...

On Thursday 26h November in Kaiba Bar in Huangpu district of Shanghai, around fifty researchers from Europe, China and beyond gathered together to network and make new contacts for what has become a regular outlet for Shanghai international research community. The theme of the event this time around was the Silk Road which is in line with one of the hottest topics of research in China this year, but the One Belt One Road initiative of the...

On Thursday 12th November in House Café in Haidian District, around seventy researchers from Europe, China and beyond gathered together to network and make new contacts in a regular outlet for Beijing international research community. The theme of the event this time around was the silk road which is in line with one of the hottest topics of research in China this year, but the One Belt One Road initiative of the Chinese government is a policy...

Please find attached the latest issue of the INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH newsletter including news about:   Commissioner Moedas' first mission to Latin America 12thEU-China Joint Steering Committee in Beijing EU-Africa cooperation Fourth Steering Committee Meeting of the Euratom-China RD-PUNE Agreement Strengthening EU-Eastern Partnership Cooperation in Energy Research and much more...   The on-line version and previous issues can be found here: http...

Beijing, 18 November 2015 - As one of the major activities during this celebratory year of the 40th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic relations, the 2015 Research and Innovation Tour of China came to the end of its ambitious journey at Guangzhou's Sun Yat Sen University today. More than 2,000 Chinese researchers and innovators in 16 cities from 15 provinces learned about the manifold opportunities and great benefits of collaboration with Europe...

Dear colleagues, The 67th issue of our newsletter is online or attached in PDF. For our “Meet the Researcher” interview, we met Dr Ralf Jauch, German scientist based at CAS Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, who answers our questions regarding funding, his research and his experience as a PI in southern China. Our News + Grants and Fellowships sections contain our latest round-up of the most important developments and opportunities...

  On 20 November, more than seventy researchers gathered at the Marriott Northeast for an afternoon workshop organised by EURAXESS and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to China. Representatives of Chinese and European universities, European funding agencies and Sino-European institutions and embassies took part in this lively workshop, moderated by David Pho, Education Counsellor at the Dutch Embassy. The event was kicked off with a...