Funding the Lung Funding support for junior scientists interested in cardiopulmonary research

The second career development symposium of the Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center School

Burg Staufenberg, Hessen, Germany 11th June, 2012

08:30 Bus arrival from Giessen to Burg Staufenberg

08:30 – 08:50 Coffee

08:50 – 09:00 Welcome Dorothea M. Peters and Florian Veit

09:00 – 10:30 Funding Opportunities I Chairs: TBA

09:00 – 09:30 MINA HORESH AND TALI ROSENBAUM (German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development) The GIF in brief

09:30 – 10:30 MASASHI NAKAGAWA (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) JSPS fellowship programme for research in Japan

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 Funding Opportunities II Chairs: TBA

11:00 – 12:00 NICOLA STAECK (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Marie Curie Actions) Young researchers explore Europe and beyond - EU research fellowships

12:00 – 13:00 ANJANA BUCKOW (German Research Foundation) DFG funding opportunities for early career researchers

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:15 Funding Opportunities III Chairs: TBA

14:00 – 14:30 ROBERT BALS (University Medical Center of the Saarland) Fellowship program of the European Respiratory Society: the next generation

14:30 – 15:30 NICOLA STAECK (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Marie Curie Actions) Connecting academic excellence worldwide - postdoctoral sponsorship programmes

15:30 – 16:15 CHRISTIAN SCHÄFER (German Academic Exchange Service) DAAD funding opportunities for PhD students and post-docs

16:15 – 16:45 Group photograph, followed by coffee break

16:45 – 17:15 Concluding remarks Dorothea M. Peters and Florian Veit

17:15 Bus departure from Burg Staufenberg to Giessen

The symposium webpage is: www.uni-giessen.de/cms/ugmlc/symposia/funding

The scientific organisers are: Rory E. Morty, Dorothea M. Peters, Florian Veit and Werner Seeger of the University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center

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