Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you.   Who can apply? Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants - called Principal Investigators (PI) - are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. The Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in...

Are you interested in a two-year postdoc stay in Europe with EU funding to work on your dream project? Then the highly prestigious MSCA Individual Fellowships should be on your radar. The 2020 call has opened on 8 April with a deadline of 9 September 2020. Now is the time to identify a host in Europe and to start developing your proposal. The EURAXESS hosting database already lists more than 340 offers from universities and research agencies...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's department responsible for creating and managing much of the knowledge used to support the European Commission's policies. Operating in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, with 2000 researchers, the JRC is currently seeking research fellows with sound scientific research experience and a desire to work at the interface of science, knowledge and policy, in the following...

HEL4CHIROLED - In the HEL4CHIROLED project, coordinated by a woman, the principal research goal is the preparation of chiral Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) and Organic Light-Emissive Transistors (OLETs) based on new small helical molecules, helical piconjugated oligomers, and helical lanthanide complexes. Such knowledge will provide a paradigm shift in OLED technologies, developing new material sets and approaches that take advantage of i...

On 24th June 2020, the European Commission’s independent Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA), the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) and Peter Piot, special advisor to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, published a joint statement on scientific advice to European policy makers concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.   President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen said: “...

A funded PhD position on Gender and Urban Governance is offered by the CNRS, based at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud - CEIAS in Paris, and at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi, for the fieldwork part. Application deadline is on July 22nd 2020. The ongoing urban transition in South Asia is a major fact in economic and environmental terms, but also in social and political terms. Indeed cities, especially megacities, are...

CONFIRM Centre for Smart Manufacturing is pleased to announce Call 2 of Smart Manufacturing Advanced Research Training for Industry 4.0(SMART 4.0) a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action COFUND postdoctoral fellowship aiming to attract the very best researchers to live and work in the Republic of Ireland. This is a prestigious and exciting opportunity, with just 16 fellowships to be awarded. Call 2 Open from 1st July 2020 Deadline for applications: 17:...

  Research talent programme worth €12.7m launched by university alliance EuroTech   EuroTech Universities Alliance, a strategic partnership of six leading universities of science and technology, supports the career development of young high-potential researchers with a postdoctoral fellowship programme worth €12.7 million. Within this ‘EuroTechPostdoc2’ programme (ETPD2) – co-funded by EU’s Horizon 2020 – the universities will offer seventy...

The European innovation scoreboard provides a comparative analysis of innovation performance in EU countries, other European countries, and regional neighbours. It assesses relative strengths and weaknesses of national innovation systems and helps countries identify areas they need to address. The European innovation scoreboard 2020 was released on 23 June 2020.   The 2020 edition of the innovation scoreboard highlights that the EU's innovation...

The Collaboration in Training and Innovation for Growing, Evolving and Networked Societies (CITI-GENS) programme at Queen’s University Belfast is a MSCA COFUND Doctoral Training Programme. It will recruit and train 20 outstanding international early stage researchers (ESRs) who will be transformed into a professional and skilled cohort addressing global challenges aligned to the themes of the Belfast Region City Deal innovation ecosystem:...