The first calls of Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 were published in June 2021.  You can find in the attached table some indicative calls with international cooperation as priority. These particular calls are specifically open or focusing on collaboration with the Latin American region or specific countries of the region, like Brazil and Mexico. Indicative calls of interest for Brazil and LAC About Horizon Europe and how to participate...

Commission to invest €14.7 billion from Horizon Europe for a healthier, greener and more digital Europe   The Commission has adopted the main work programme of Horizon Europe for the period 2021-2022, which outlines the objectives and specific topic areas that will receive a total of €14.7 billion in funding. These investments will help accelerate the green and digital transitions and will contribute to sustainable recovery from the coronavirus...

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) contribute to excellent research, boosting jobs, growth and investment by equipping researchers with the new knowledge, skills and international and intersectoral exposure to fill the top positions of tomorrow and solve current and future societal challenges. The MSCA thrive by being open to all domains of research and innovation, chosen freely by the applicants in a fully bottom-up manner. They are...

Both researchers will conduct their research in Germany. They are among the 327 mid-career laureates who were awarded the 2020 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants to tackle big scientific questions at research centres across Europe.  The funding is part of the EU’s current research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, and worth in total €655 million.  With this support, the new grantees will be able to consolidate their teams...

This piece is part of EURAXESS Brazil and LAC quarterly newsletter and brings some insights into the Horizon 2020 Green Deal call by Alejandro Zurita, former Scientific Counsellor, and Laura Maragna of the Science, Technology and Innovation Sector, EU Delegation to Brazil. The Green Deal call was launched on 17 September in the framework of the EU Research and Innovation (R...

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of national contact points (RED LAC)* has compiled a series of calls that appear on the “Funding and Tenders” portal, which are open so that all of you can disseminate them through your contacts, and they can in turn access it. As you all know, we are in the last calls for the HORIZON 2020 framework program prior to what will be the new program that the European Union will launch from next year, called...

***English version below*** El DAAD México tiene el gran gusto de invitar cordialmente a estudiantes interesados a la gran feria virtual Study in Germany 2020. Se llevará a cabo el día sábado, 9 de mayo, de 09.00 a 13.00 hrs online (hora en México). En esta feria gratuita podrán visitar los stands informativos de 20 prestigiosas universidades alemanas, hacerles preguntas, descargar sus folletos y conocer todas sus alternativas. Además, podrán...

Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? I grew up in Turku, Finland and have lived in Peru since 1986, having met my Peruvian husband during my university years in Helsinki. Despite the large distances, I have maintained close links with Finland (both personal and academic) and enjoy spending my summers there. Please briefly outline your academic career, and its developments before joining the H2020 project. After obtaining my Master’s...

You have recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Could you tell us about the research you are conducting with this grant? How can the general public benefit from it? The project explores what is uniquely human and what is shared with other species in language. The starting point for this project is that humans share with other animals many cognitive capacities, but the ability for language has only developed in us. Of course, other animals...

We have written on MSCA and ERC before, but with the fairly new expansion of EURAXESS beyond Brazilian borders and throughout all of Latin America...