The RISE scheme promotes international and cross-sector collaboration through exchanging research and innovation staff, and sharing knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa). The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps to turn creative ideas into innovative products, services or processes. The deadline to the 2019 call is 2 April 2019 (...

  Norway’s primary objectives The Government has set out three primary objectives in the long-term plan for research and higher education. To strengthen competitiveness and innovation capacity. To solve major challenges to society. To develop high-quality research groups.  The Norwegian government aims to strengthen its investment in research and development. Key goals for research policy is to support ground-breaking and high quality research,...

The EU and Japan has concluded a new agreement to encourage top Japanese researchers to join teams in Europe that are funded by the  European Research Council (ERC). The initiative is a collaboration with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and is the second of its kind for the ERC with a Japanese funding body. It is the eleventh such agreement aimed to help the ERC attract the brightest mind to Europe and to encourage cooperation.  ...

About Kazuya Koyama: Professor of Cosmology at the University of Portsmouth. His research interests lie in theoretical cosmology, particularly the origin of structure in our Universe and the late time acceleration of the Universe. He was awarded a PhD from Kyoto University. After moving to Europe, he received an ERC Starting Grant (2008-2013) and is currently supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015-2020). This piece was originally published...

==== Japanese version below ==== My name is Ferran Marti and I am working in AIMPLAS a research centre in Spain. We are very active in EU H2020 projects (see attached document). We are involved in the preparation of a new project related to the topic NMBP-25-2019 Photocatalytic synthesis (RIA, deadline 22/01/2019 Stage 1). http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/ce-nmbp-25-2019.html and we are...

Nerd Nite Tokyo (NNT) is a monthly science/tech/art communication event held in Tokyo. Nerd Nite is “the Discovery Channel with beer”, a worldwide monthly event series that mixes presentations, performances, trivia, demos, music, and of course drinking. Nerd Nite Tokyo events are held in English. NNT grant scheme is intended for Japan-based projects in science, art, technology, culture, making/hacking, etc; rewarding projects that "expand our...

MSCA ITN The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) are the main European doctoral training programme, putting a special emphasis on non-academic sector participation and the innovation dimension. They bring together universities, research institutes and other sectors from across the world to train researchers to doctorate level.   Who may apply? The call is open to consortia of organisations such as universities, research centres or companies, that...

The Embassy of France in Japan just launched the third edition of its call for projects 'Exploration Japan'. The purpose of this programme is to allow France-based scientists and researchers to visit Japanese counterparts so as to kickstart new collaborative projects. All scientific domains, including the social sciences and humanities, are eligible. The available funding includes round trip flight and daily allowance. Application deadline: 12...

The ERC Synergy Grants ERC Synergy Grants are intended to enable minimum two to maximum four Principal Investigators and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways, in order to jointly address ambitious research problems. The aim is to promote substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, to cross-fertilize scientific fields, and to encourage new productive lines of enquiry and new methods and...

The European Research Council (ERC) selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age to run five-to-six year projects in a public or private research organisation based in EU Member States and Associated Countries to the Framework Programme Horizon 2020.  The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators (PIs) in a career stage at which they are starting their own independent...