The EURAXESS LAC team is changing! Ingrid Le Van will be leaving EURAXESS for new pastures from January 2020. Farewell, wishing you all a merry Christmas, and a great New Year! Your EURAXESS team (Charlotte, Daniel and Ingrid) EURAXESS Brazil...

David Fernandez Rivas has been awarded this year an ERC Starting grant of € 1.5 million to develop his project focused on the development of needle-free injections, or ‘bubble gun’, as the technology is based on ‘pushing’ liquid into the skin using laser-made bubbles. In this video, David Fernandez Rivas gives tips on a successful ERC proposal and tells us about his experience as a LAC researcher in Europe:   In his project Bubble Gun, Fernandez...

**Breaking news: we have a winner!**   What is the EU - Brazil Innovation Pitch? The EU-Brazil Innovation Pitch is a contest giving promising researchers/innovators the chance to showcase their projects and ideas to solve some of the challenges faced by our globalised world. By awarding the winner a trip to Europe, the organisers reinforce their commitment to increase international scientific and innovation collaboration. The competition is...

Briefing: “Science builds bridges” by Adam Tyson, Head of Research and Industrial Infrastructures, European Commission It has been my great privilege, and indeed pleasure, to be a first-hand witness to a most remarkable change happening in the public policy in generations: science – a topic traditionally seen as technical, opaque, difficult to approach, better left to the "geeks" – is coming to the spotlight of public attention. Where previously...

Karla Palma Alejandro is originally from Merida, Mexico. She studied at Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán for her BSc in Physical Engineering and at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for her MSc in Medical Physics, before moving to the Czech Republic to complete her PhD in nuclear Physics at the Czech Technical University. She is currently a research associate at the faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. In...

Cambridge Trust is pleased to offer the Vice-Chancellor's Awards (for UK and EU students) and the Cambridge International Scholarships (for international students) for those undertaking PhD studies. The aim of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards and Cambridge International Scholarships is to ensure that the 250 highest ranked students, irrespective of nationality, receive full financial support to undertake research leading to a PhD. The Scholarships...

MSCA is a prestigious European funding programme. How did you learn about it? Tell us more about the selection process. I learnt about the MSCA funding programme while I was doing my Master’s through colleagues who were also researchers. They always mentioned the MSCA as competitive top-level fellowships. After obtaining my Master’s degree, I was informed about the call for this joint PhD programme by an Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA)...

You have recently been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. Could you tell us about the research you are conducting with this grant? Nature has surprised us with the wide variety of exoplanets out there: their sizes, masses and orbital locations span a range of parameters not existent in the solar system. The same is true for their host stars: many of them at first sight are similar to our Sun, but if we look closely, we will find host stars that...

Initially published in EURAXESS LAC Quarterly newsletter Q1 2019 Doctoral training in Europe About Doctoral education "Doctoral education is a primary source of new knowledge for the research and innovation systems in Europe. The outcomes of doctoral education are both: young researchers who proved their skills for a professional life as “creative, critical and autonomous intellectual risk takers", and "those who go into roles beyond research...

Via European Commission The European Commission has today announced the higher education institutions from all over Europe that will be part of the first “European Universities” alliances. They will enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education and boost cooperation between institutions, their students and staff.  Out of 54 applications received, 17 European Universities involving 114 higher education institutions from 24 ...