Upcoming deadlines for Horizon 2020 Flagship initiatives available for cofunding in China 申请截止日期迫近：“地平线2020”与中国相关旗舰项目   Horizon 2020 Sino-European Cofunding: SC5-13-2018-2019: Strengthening international cooperation on sustainable urbanisation: nature-based solutions for restoration and rehabilitation of urban ecosystems. a) Strengthening EU-China collaboration (2018) 加强城市可持续发展的国际合作：以自然为基础的解决城市生态系统恢复与重建的方法。a)加强中欧协作（2018）Deadline 27 February 2018...

  穗签发全国首张微信身份证"网证"，明年1月推向全国 First WeChat ID card issued in China - The first WeChat ID card was issued during a ceremony held in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, on Monday. The WeChat ID service will be trialed in Guangdong first, and is expected to be launched nationwide from January. A WeChat ID card, regarded as the network certificate or electronic version of one's ID card, is recognized by the Ministry of Public Security. It can...

  欧洲大学学院 – Fernand Braudel高级奖学金 European University institute (EUI) - Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships. Fellowships last for up to ten months in one of the EUI's four Departments which in turn invite fellows to participate in departmental activities (seminars, workshops, colloquia, etc.). Fellows are encouraged to make contact with researchers sharing their academic interests, may be involved in the teaching and thesis supervision tasks of EUI...

  中英两国共同启动10亿美元投资基金 China-UK to jointly launch $1b investment fund - China and the United Kingdom agreed to set up a bilateral investment fund with an initial round of $1 billion to support projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, according to a statement released after an annual dialogue between the two sides. The fund will be led by institutional investors from China and the UK, and "it will invest in innovative, sustainable and...

Upcoming deadlines for Horizon 2020 Flagship initiatives available for cofunding in China 申请截止日期迫近：“地平线2020”与中国相关旗舰项目   Horizon 2020 Sino-European Cofunding: SC5-13-2018-2019: Strengthening international cooperation on sustainable urbanisation: nature-based solutions for restoration and rehabilitation of urban ecosystems. a) Strengthening EU-China collaboration (2018) 加强城市可持续发展的国际合作：以自然为基础的解决城市生态系统恢复与重建的方法。a)加强中欧协作（2018）Deadline 27 February 2018...

  中国将引领电动汽车的未来 China Will Lead an Electric Car Future - China government has taken a major role in electric car development and is pushing to dominate the market. Beijing hopes the push will add to its technological know-how and help address the pollution problems.   “中欧蓝色产业园”落户深圳 China-EU launch work on industry park plan in Shenzhen - China and the European Union have begun joint work on an industry park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, to...

  西班牙－ 列伊达的博士学位SPAIN - PhD position in Lleida - It is related to the development of data driven algorithms for the application of flexibility in buildings. This PhD position will be held in the Building Energy and Environment Group of The International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering. It will be linked to several EC funded research projects such as SIM4BLOCKS and FLEXCOOP projects. All the details can be found here.   ERC优秀科技团队基金项目－...

今年12月将有两场<懂>科学讲座。详细信息如下。There will be two Understanding Science lectures in December. Information about both lectures is listed below.   1). 12月12日周二晚7:30，大卫·布莱尔教授将发表题为“倾听宇宙的声音：引力波天文学的未来”的演讲。On Tuesday, December 12 at 7:30 pm, Prof. David Blair will give a lecture entitled “Listening to the Sounds of the Universe: The Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy.” Prof. Blair is from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for...

  专家称：欧洲创新理事会在为突破性创新者赋能方面很关键 European Innovation Council essential to empower breakthrough innovators, experts say The independent High-Level Group of Innovators published today their recommendations on the European Innovation Council (EIC), indicating it should support breakthrough innovation for the benefit of all, meeting the needs of high potential innovators from across the EU from start-up to scale-up. (European Commission> Research...

Introducing a New Lecture Series on Global History, organised by Prof. Manuel Perez Garcia (The PI of the ERC project GECEM and professor at the Department of History, School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao tong University). The first lecture is on "The Economic History of the Ancestral Halls of Huizhou" by Prof. Joe P. McDermott (Emiritus Reader in Chinese History, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK). Venue: Room 312,  School of...