GRANTS IN PRACTICE 2018 The most comprehensive MSCA IF and ERC grant proposal writing workshop to ever take place in Japan, 9-10 July Tokyo, 11-12 July Osaka, limited seats. Full programme and registration here: bit.do/GIP2018Japan   WHAT'S THIS ABOUT? The Grants In Practice event series brings in professional trainers from Europe to provide here in Japan, directly to you, training on grant proposal writing. In 2018 we focus exclusively on the...

ESOF 2018 official website What is ESOF? ESOF (EuroScience Open Forum) is the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe. It is dedicated to scientific research and innovation and offers a unique framework for interaction and debate for scientists, innovators, policy makers, business people and the general public. Created in 2004 by EuroScience, this biennial European forum brings together over 4 000 researchers, educators, business...

The third edition of our EURAXESS Japan Tour seminars in 2018 will take place at ITbM, Nagoya University. It will provide in half a day a complete overview of opportunities for research cooperation and mobility projects between Japan and Europe, with a particular focus on funding schemes within the EU's flagship research and innovation Framework Programme, Horizon 2020.   Further information and registration: WPI ITbM event page || email...

For the fourth edition of our European Research Nights series in 2018, we decided to focus on Intersectoral mobility of researchers; that is, career movement between private sector and academia. We will highlight the possibilities and challenges of such career movements, in Japan and in Europe. This edition, which will be the second to be held outside of Tokyo and the first in Nagoya, will be jointly organised with the WPI ITbM, which also hosts...

===English below=== Benefits of participation in Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Networks for young researchers - a testimony by the "Enabling Excellence" project   駐日欧州連合代表部、EURAXESSが主催するHorizon 2020 MSCA-ITN-ETN (European Training Network）に関するセミナー開催のご案内です。 Horizon 2020 MSCA-ITN-ETN (European Training Network:若手研究者育成を目的としたトレーニングネットワークの実施)の実例としてEnabling Excellenceプロジェクトをお招きし、EUの参加者からプロジェクトの実施や、日本側との連携についてご講演頂くほか、日本側参加者やプロジェクトメンバーからの発表も予定しております...

For the third edition of our European Research Nights series in 2018, we decided to focus on Open Science; and more particularly on how the different aspects of Open Science can and will change research careers. This edition is co-organised by the French-speaking researchers association Sciencescope and supported by Venture Cafe Tokyo. In a first part, an overview of the recent evolutions of the topic in Europe and Japan will be provided via two...

Japanese below Learn, share and communicate about research: the Falling Walls Lab Tokyo (FWLT) will take place on 12 May 2018 in Tokyo! Based on the idea of "breaking down various walls" around the world, this event provides students, young researchers and professionals of all disciplines and nationalities an opportunity to present their research projects or ideas in 3 minutes and in English, in front of a non-specialised audience. You can now...

Science communication and outreach, especially to global audiences in English, is taking off in Japan. Japan SciCom Forum brings together communicators, writers, scientists, journalists and select experts from abroad to inspire and boost the cohesion of scicom in Japan, learn new skills, network, and inform the community with best practices. Keynote talks and panel discussions in the morning will reflect on the unique challenges and...

====Japanese below==== Horizon 2020 is the EU's largest program to promote research and innovation, in which everyone from around the world can participate, including Japan. The program makes top class research in cooperation with research institutions and companies in Europe possible. In this workshop, a representative from the Delegation of the European Union to Japan will give an outline of the Horizon 2020 program, a representative of the EU...

The EURAXESS Japan Tour is back, with a second edition this year, hosted by Tokushima University on 12 April. It will be the very firstedition of this event in Shikoku! The event will provide local researchers, students and administrators with an overview of their opportunities for research cooperation and mobility with Europe; and will include individual consultation sessions.   Programme: 14:00 - 14:05 Welcome address...