INFO DAY- Implementing the Human Resources Strategy to comply with art. 32 of the H2020 multi-beneficiary grant agreement The event addresses universities, research institutions and research funders investing in researchers’ talents, skills and career development. It also addresses beneficiaries and potential applicants of H2020 contracts/projects who have to comply with article 32 stipulating the need to take measures to implement the European...

The 10th International Virology Summit will be organized around the theme “Advanced Research and Emerging Issues in the Field of Virology”, during July 02-04, 2018 at Vienna, Austria. Universities, research institutions, microbiologists, virologists and diagnostic companies can share their research papers on all aspects of this rapidly augmenting field. The speakers sessions will also present the technologies currently used and the ones to be...

The Geochemical Society is actively seeking applications for student and early career grants to attend the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference in Boston. The society is significantly increasing the amount of funding available this year to support student/early career participation, as detailed below. Apply by March 30 if you meet any of these criteria: students and early career scientists from countries classified as low, lower-middle-income economies...

The European Commission contracted a study on fostering intersectoral mobility (ISM) in Europe. The study identifies and analyses the barriers and drivers of the uptake of ISM, including the availability of, and access to support structures, training and funding mechanisms for researchers. A mapping exercise was undertaken to ascertain the level of ISM among researchers in the EU-28 Member States, EFTA/EEA and candidate countries, and between...

The University of Liège invites colleagues from European universities to its 2018 Erasmus staff training week. This one-week training will focus on Open Access and Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) assessment. It is designed in priority for Human Resources managers and staff. Where : Liège, Belgium When : 12-16 March 2018 Fees : Registration is free, travel and stay costs may be supported via the Erasmus scheme of your own...

The European Commission today announced how it will spend €30 billion of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020 during 2018-2020, including €2.7 billion to kick-start a European Innovation Council. Horizon 2020, the EU's €77 billion research and innovation funding programme, supports scientific excellence in Europe and has contributed to high-profile scientific breakthroughs such as the discovery of exoplanets and...

HR workshop in Tallinn showed that career development and working conditions for researchers are in limelight in Baltic States even if only one institution from Lithuania is currently committed On his way from Tartu, the site of the Estonian Ministry for Education and Research, to the HR – workshop in Tallinn, Taivo Raud, Head of the Ministry`s Research Policy Department, was interviewed by “Radio KUKU”. What was so interesting with Human...

  The European Commission is carrying out a study on fostering industrial talents in research at European level. The overall objective is to conduct a feasibility study into whether there is a place for additional EU level initiatives in order to increase the level of intersectoral mobility in Europe, and what these could eventually look like. The study foresees web-based surveys of individual researchers, higher education and publicly funded...

A new version of the EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals has been released and can be found here: https://www.ec.europa.eu/migrantskills. What is it? The Tool is an online editor that supports the identification and documentation of skills and work experience of the third country nationals (such as asylum seekers, refugees or other beneficiaries of international protection). It serves as a basis for issuing personalised advice on...

  I am Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kanokwan Jarukamjorn from Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. I spend 2 months from June to July, 2016, in Division of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, under the supervision of Ao.-Univ. Prof. Dr. Walter Jaeger, to prepare a research article regarding the effects of plumbagin on regulatory expression of cytochrome P450s in mouse liver and to...