The European Research Council (ERC) announces its 2018 grant competitions with a total budget of around €1.86 billon, most of which earmarked for early - to mid-career researchers across all fields of research. It also includes social science and humanities. In addition, the ERC is reintroducing Synergy Grants, the funding scheme for groups of two to four scientists who jointly address ambitious research problems. Two grant competitions – for...

The event was organised by EURAXESS India in close cooperation with the Research and Innovation Section of the EU Delegation to India. The local partners, IIT Gandhinagar and Marwadi University (Rajkot), were instrumental in making the event a real success. Participants represented European Academic and Research organisation of 9 different Member States including representatives from leading universities and research institutes (Czech Republic...

Deadline: 23 October 2017. The spirit of the Program is to promote cooperation between international companies by means of promoting  and providing funding support for industry-driven and close to market Research...

Call Deadline: 30 November 2017. This EqUIP call aims to bring together a number of social science and humanities funders in India and Europe to support excellent and innovative research on sustainability, equity, well-being and cultural connections. The emphasis of the research will be on Indian and European dimensions, in both contemporary and historical contexts. With a total funding of €5.5 million, it is expected that six projects will be...

Deadline for fellowships: 27 September 2017...

Deadline: 20 October 2017. The call is under Strand 3 : E-Partnership and Research Incubation, focussing on developing jointly funded research and innovation partnerships between Indian and UK Institutions with core societal benefit outcomes. For the detailed guidelines and application form, click here. Pre Bid Workshops: Details here. Register for Pre Bid workshops on the UKIERI website. Also see the attached 'Call for Promotion' flyer...

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A latest bi-monthly compilation of open calls by EURAXESS Brazil to fund researchers' mobility and cooperation with European teams can be read at: http://bit.ly/FO072017 Most calls are also relevant for India.  

The European Commission is carrying out a study on fostering industrial talents in research at European level. The overall objective is to conduct a feasibility study into whether there is a place for additional EU level initiatives in order to increase the level of intersectoral mobility in Europe, and what these could eventually look like. The study foresees web-based surveys of individual researchers, higher education and publicly funded...

Coming soon: India and Israel are expected to sign an agreement to create a $40 million research and development fund for joint innovation in areas of agriculture, water, energy and technology. The two countries will contribute $20 million, or about Rs 130 crore, each over five years to the fund called India-Israel Industrial R...