Job Offer from September 21, 2022 The Max Planck Research Group Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program, headed by Dr. Alexander Blum, is looking to employ one Student Assistant (m/f/d) (up to 10 hours per week) at the earliest possible date and until September 30, 2023 with the possibility of extension. Duties Range from general support of the Group’s work, to carrying out scientific research and compiling of literature for the...

The Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Korea, together with the 18 of the EU Member States and Ukraine, presents the European Union Film Festival 2022 (EUFF2022). Now into its 5th edition, the EUFF brings 19 award-winning titles to the Seosomun Shrine History Museum and from 5 to 23 October. The EUFF2022 will open with Mariupolis, a Lithuanian documentary film capturing the ordinary lives of Ukrainians as war approaches their...

The Biotechnology and Bioengineering group directed by Prof. Dr Martin Fussenegger at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) of the ETH Zurich in Basel is recruiting PhD students and Postdocs for research projects in the field of Synthetic Biology-inspired human diabetes therapies. The D-BSSE is the first truly interdisciplinary research department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the ETH Zurich where theory,...

The vision for a peaceful and sustainable future starts with education as a fundamental human right and a public common good. Free, universal, equitable and inclusive quality education for all is a prerequisite to equip young generations to address the most pressing challenges of our time: threats to peace and democracy, poverty, growing inequalities, including deepening gender inequalities, climate change and protecting the environment, health...

The Government of Romania is promoting a new scheme for EU researchers as part of the country’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization has created a new scheme for MSCA Seal of Excellence holders who applied to Postdoctoral Fellowships under Horizon Europe or Individual Fellowships under Horizon 2020. The Ministry has published documents and updates on the new scheme in Romanian as...

Biomedical Mathematics Group (BIMAG) is a research group at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS),  Daejeon, South Korea. BIMAG is the place where researchers from various backgrounds including mathematics, physics, biology, and medicine work together to develop mathematical theories and tools and apply them to solve various biological and medical problems. BIMAG consists of intracellular, intercellular, and systematic dynamics teams. In BIMAG,...

Oxford Population Health (Nuffield Department of Population Health) contains world-renowned population health research groups and provides an excellent environment for multi-disciplinary research and teaching. Based within Oxford Population Health, The China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) Study is a uniquely rich and powerful global resource for investigating the environmental and genetic determinants of common chronic diseases. As a Researcher in...

ERC President Maria Leptin  Welcome Address at the Science Summit at the 77 United Nation General Assembly, New York   Dear Dr Berhe, dear Dr Adams, dear organisers, dear ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to be here as part of this year’s Science Summit. Today we will discuss the role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of the objectives of this summit is to provide input for...

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Once again, this year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community, with 7 044 proposals submitted. The second call of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme closed on 14 September 2022. The European Research Executive Agency received 7044 proposals. By comparison, 8356 proposals were submitted in 2021 and over 1200 were eventually selected for...