The ERC has just announced its biggest ever annual injection of funding in blue-sky research. €2.2 billion will be made available in 2020 to support some 1,100 top researchers. As in previous years, most of the funding (61%) is earmarked for early- to mid-career scientists and scholars. The funding will also support jobs for an estimated 8,000 postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and other research staff employed in ERC-funded teams....

Via European Commission EUR 1,046 billion, i.e. almost 10% of the overall budget for 2020 of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, are allocated to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), announced the European Commission on 2 July. This represents the biggest annual budget MSCA ever had to fund international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training and mobility. With the allocated budget MSCA is expected to...

Great offer to work on industry relevant research and development in laser applications. Great team with sense of strategy, aim and goals usually unheard of in academic world. The HiLASE Center located in the Czech Republic can be your host institution for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellwoship. Don't wait and contact the center now. Deadline to apply for the fellowship is 11 September 2019. About HiLASE “The DNA of HiLASE is composed...

Deadline: 30 September 2019 The Barcelona Supercomputing Center would like to inform you on the recent opening of the second call of its international postdoctoral programme, called STARS (SupercompuTing And Related applicationS Fellows Programme) and cofunded by the H2020 MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE COFUND Plan. STARS programme aims at fostering the training of highly skilled post-doc in all fields of High Performance Computing and related...

Deadline: 1 October 2019 The Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) is pleased to announce the opening of the second call of its international postdoctoral programme, IF@ULB, cofunded by the H2020 MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE COFUND action. IF@ULB offers a unique opportunity to recruit 63 international postdoctoral researchers in total at ULB. 21 postdoc researchers were granted a fellowship for the first call. They will start their project...

Deadline: 11 September 2019 Elvesys is looking for a PhD in physics with a strong interest in microfluidics: "Let’s submit a proposal for a Post-doctoral grant together to create the innovations of tomorrow" - https://bit.ly/2IJjrL0 Deadline: 31 July 2019 SAFRAN is looking for a PhD in physics, chemistry, material sciences: "Post Doc–Materials & technologies for sensor printing in aeronautical applications" - https://bit.ly/2RCHIVP

The Delegation of the European Union to the USA and the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA have the pleasure to invite you to a breakfast event with Jean-Eric Paquet, Director General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission Topic: Research and Innovation at the Heart of Future European Union Policy When: Thursday, July 18, 2019 from 8:15 to 10:00 am Where: Flanders House New York The New York Times...

The European Commission is preparing the implementation of Horizon Europe, the next research and innovation programme (2021-2027).   You can now take part in the online consultation that has been launched. The inputs received will help prepare the ‘Strategic Plan’ for Horizon Europe, which will then guide the work programmes and calls for proposals for Horizon Europe’s first four years (2021-2024).   The consultation period is now open until 8...

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University World News article written by William Saunderson-Meyer  The prosperity of nations is increasingly dependent on their ability to attract talented and skilled individuals from abroad. Countries compete for this pool by implementing benign migration policies, which for the first time the OECD has ranked in an index. Switzerland and Australia lead in attractiveness, appearing in the top six in three talent categories of migrants featured...