On 19 October, the Commission adopted its 2021 work programme, designed to make Europe healthier, fairer and more prosperous, while accelerating its long-term transformation into a greener economy, fit for the digital age. It contains new legislative initiatives across all six headline ambitions of President von der Leyen's Political Guidelines and follows her first State of the Union Speech. While delivering on the priorities set out in this...

he Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), located in Barcelona, Spain, is a non-profit research institute created in 2003 to foster cutting-edge research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. ICN2 is a member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and the Catalonian network of excellence CERCA. It is one of eighteen Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence in Spain. It is located at the Bellaterra campus of the...

Citizen science can be described as the voluntary participation of non-professional scientists in research and innovation at different stages of the process and at different levels of engagement, from shaping research agendas and policies, to gathering, processing and analysing data, and assessing the outcomes of research. Active engagement with citizens and society has the potential to improve research and its outcomes and reinforce societal...

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: 20/11/2020 The Human Technopole Foundation is looking for a Senior Research Technician to work in the Structural Biology Research Centre in the laboratory of Prof. Alessandro Vannini. Research in the laboratory is focussed on the structural analysis of large macromolecular complexes involved in regulating the function, structure and organization of the eukaryotic genome. Using state-of-the-art structural biology...

The European Union, and all of its member states, are planning for a safe re-opening of Europe. While protecting the public health remains our priority, we want everyone to enjoy their holidays, to reunite with family and friends, and to be able to travel for any purpose. This interactive tool provides you with the information that you need to confidently plan your European travel and holidays, while staying healthy and safe. The information is...

Dr. Gabriel Zoldaks group at the Center for interdisciplinary biosciences (CIB, https://cib-center.org/rndr-gabriel-zoldak-phd/) at the PJ Safarik University  in Kosice is seeking to fill one position at the Postdoctoral level in the field of protein engineering and molecular biophysics The appointment is initially for two years but may be extended based on the performance and availability of resources. It is expected to start in January 2021....

The Chair for Science Studies at ETH Zurich offers a post-doctoral position to begin on February 1, 2021. Job description Applicants should pursue a research project in one of the following main areas:  The history of the humanities (any period).  The history of the sciences in the 20th century, with a focus on the life sciences or human sciences.  Ideally, but not compulsory, your project would fit into to the research areas currently pursued...

Press statement by President von der Leyen: Tackling climate change and caring for our environment requires us to rethink the way we live. That is why we have made the European Green Deal our priority We are taking the steps, one by one, to get there. Today's strategy for a Renovation Wave will help us cut emissions and cut energy poverty. It will bring economic, environmental and social benefits. But our European Green Deal is bigger. It is a...

The Korean government has announced that the businesspeople from South Korea to Japan are exempted from a two-week quarantine if they test negative for COVID-19 starting October 8, 2020. The special entry procedure, comes about seven months after Tokyo slapped entry restrictions on Seoul in early March to stem the spread of the COVID-19.  Fresh talks began in late July between the two countries about easing the entry curbs out of concerns that...

Description of Group/Project: The Theory and Simulation Group developes efficient methods for atomistic simulations in nanostructured systems, which can fully exploit modern computer multiprocessor architectures, and applies them to selected problems in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. These include (but are not restricted to) the SIESTA (see www.icmab.es/siesta) and TranSIESTA codes. SIESTA is a multi-purpose first-principles method and program...