The EURAXESS event Advance Your Research Career with Europe, co-organised with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, took place Thursday afternoon, 2nd June 2016. The experience-sharing workshop introduced hands-on information by outstanding researchers who carry out their research between Europe and China. They shared their tips on how to develop research careers with EU funding within the framework of European Research Council (ERC) and Marie...

Researchers are innovators – they are constantly trying to discover new things, develop new methods and push the boundaries of what is known – yet it can sometimes be difficult to take the step from academic pursuits to entrepreneurship. With this in mind, in the afternoon of 24 June, EURAXESS China held a webinar titled "How to Bridge Research and Innovation" with the aim of helping European and Chinese researchers identify funding...

The original article comes from Wellcome Trust blog. The Wellcome Trust Research Career Re-Entry Fellowships (RCREF) support people who want to return to science following a substantial break (2 years or more). Getting back to a career in research is not just a matter of funding, and it may be hard to know where to start. With this in mind, the Trust has created a guide for people thinking of taking a break from research, or planning to return...

In addition to Dr. May Chiao's talk about superconductors 21 May (see more here), on Sunday 24th May at 1:00 p.m., Prof. Richard de Grijs, a professor at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, will give a talk entitled "Is bigger always better? The quest for extremely large telescopes: opportunities for China." This talk will also be held at House Café in Wudaokou. Astronomy is in a golden age. In the past half...

Carlos Moedas,  European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation outlines his vison for the next phase of the European Research Area (ERA). Mr Moedas also outlined the Commission's strategic priortities for the full implementation of a European Research Area built on the principles of "Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World." He states: "Cross-border research cooperation has become a wonderful, every-day reality. Mobility is...

The European Researchers' Night initiative, part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA), the EU flagship programme for researchers' training and career development through mobility, is an annual Europe-wide public event aiming at bringing researchers and research projects to the attention of a wider audience on a single evening, the last Friday of each September. More here.

Science Magazine recently published the article "When Europeans do science in China" written by Jeffrey Mervis. "China’s evolution into a scientific superpower has altered the politics behind the global movement of scientific talent. Once seen as a benign step in fostering international collaboration, such migrations are now viewed as a potential threat to domestic research by officials in the United States and Australia. In this week’s two-part...

The applications for the second edition of the venture leaders China program are opened until June 8th, 2015. The 10 finalists chosen among Switzerland's most promising startups will win a 10 day business development journey in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, from October 20th to 30th, 2015. Founding or managing members of innovative, high-tech, Swiss-based startups ready for export and with a high market impact potential are eligible to...

On 20 September, the day after the Forum on the Mobility of European Researchers in China, EURAXESS China in cooperation with EURAXESS European Network (TOP IV), used the opportunity having all these China based European researchers in Beijing at the same time and held the First Meeting of the European National Scientists' Networks in China. The meeting brought together for the first-time representatives of different national networks of...

  Welcome to the 1st quarterly newsletter of EURAXESS China in 2019! We hope you have all had a good time over Chinese New Years holiday and we wish you a happy year of the pig. We start this edition with special “How to” piece on the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. The applications open at 11 April 2019 and have a great track record of supporting hundreds of Chinese researchers to go to Europe. This issue’s hot topic puts the spotlight on...