Last Friday the event EURAXESS Grants in Practice Shanghai took place in the main hall of the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The event attracted around 100 people that came to learn about European grants and funding opportunitites available to Chinese researcher. The event put the spotlight on grants available to researchers in the field of the Social Sciences and Humanitites.
A special country of focus was Spain and Mrs Carmen Fontes Muñoz, Spanish Consul General in Shanghai addressed the audience with welcoming words and talked about the importance of European grants for researchers coming to Spain. Ass. Prof. Tao Qing, the Vice-Dean of the School of Foreign Languages of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University also addressed the audience and spoke about the many international research projects the school is involved in.
EURAXESS Country Representative Halldor Berg Hardarson gave a comprehensive overview of EURAXESS and European Mobility Grants.
His presentation can be downloaded here:euraxessinfosession.pdf
Prof. Dr. Manuel Pérez García, from the School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the P.I. of the ERC Funded GECEM Project talked about his European Research Council grant, how it was to apply for it and about his research.
To learn more about Dr. García's research click here: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9789811040528.
After a coffee break there was a testimony by Prof. Liu Sifeng, Director of Institute for Grey Systems Studies at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who shared his experience of applying succesfully for Marie Skodovska Curie Individual Fellowship.
His presentation can be downloaded here: some_suggestions_for_a_marie_curie_fellowship_application_1.ppt
The final presentation of the event was from Mr Carlos Quintana de Juan, Chief Representative of CDTI Spain, who introduced Spanish research opportunitites available to researchers based in China.
His presentation can be downloaded here: research_development_and_innovation_in_spain_201810.pptx
Following the presentations there was very lively Q&A session where the audience and the presenters discussed the finer details of applying for grants in Europe.
To see the original event website visit https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/china/grants-practice-2018-shanghai.
The event was organised by
