- Are you interested in joining a network of organisations to develop a state-of-the-art research andtraining programme for early-staged researchers? - Do you wish to learn more about EU funding opportunities for enhancing researchers’ career prospectsthrough developing their skills in entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation? The European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has diversified funding schemes suiting different...

Curing cancer, tackling climate change, forecasting earthquakes - such challenges and other scientific quests are simply too big to address for one researcher - even the most excellent. That is why the ERC awards the Synergy Grants. In the 2019 competition for these grants, 37 research groups will receive funding for their curiosity-driven science, oneof which including a Japanese researcher. Worth in total €363 million, these special grants...

The European Research Council’s (ERC) Public Engagement with Research Award 2020 is designed to recognize and celebrate ERC grantees who have demonstrated excellence in public engagement and outreach. ERC grantees have a contractual obligation to communicate their project and many of them are outstanding science communicators. The ERC would like to recognise those who engage with audiences outside their domain to communicate their research...

The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to deliver stimulating content and lively debate around the latest advancements and discoveries in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. ESOF brings together over 4,500 leading thinkers, innovators, policy makers, journalists and educators from more than 90 countries, to discuss...

On 7 October 2019, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Professors William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability” The European Research Council (ERC) supported the work of Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe for five years. He is the seventh ERC-funded researcher to be awarded a...

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A first trilateral call for research proposals on “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) is announced by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) together with the French National Research Agency (ANR, France), and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, Japan). There has been remarkable progress in AI research in recent years. The progress of AI brings a tremendous opportunity, though at the same time it can...

Excellent young scientists, PhD and postdoctoral students of all natural science disciplines can apply for the Lindau Meeting 2020. Find here the selection criteria...

=== English version below === フェローシップについて この度、フランス国立社会科学高等研究院・日仏財団（以下「FFJ」）は、 以下のテーマの研究フェローの募集をいたします。ミシュラン財団フェローシップ：「21世紀の大都市のためのモビリティとは」 応募の締め切りは 2019年9月29日です。応募資料は以下のアドレスにメールにて提出してください。 applications_ffj@ehess.fr フェローシップ期間は、2020年4月1日から2021年6月30日までの間に5ヶ月ないし10ヶ月の在籍期間を選ぶことができ、フェローのご都合に合わせてご申請いただけます。フェローは、パリの生活費と移動のための固定金額を授与されると同時に、研究プロジェクトの実現に関連する一定額を授与されます。本フェローシップとは別に外部の研究資金を同時に獲得することも可能です。   2020年公募トピックについて 世界規模での急速な都市化という状況によって、現在、...

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) announces a Call for Papers for the conference “Virtual Exchange – borderless mobility between the European Higher Education Area and regions beyond” in Berlin, Germany, on 11th December 2019.   Description of the conference and Call for Papers: "Virtual exchange" constitutes an important element in the current Higher Education internationalisation discourse. In the conference context, virtual exchange...