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SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS (Quarter: July - September, 2016)

A Compilation by the Scholarships & Prizes

RESEARCH SERVICES UNIT Early/ Mid Career Fellowships OFFICE OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ORID), UNIVERSITY OF GHANA Pre/ Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Thesis/ Dissertation Funding JUNE 2016

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR JULY 2016 DAVID ADLER LECTURESHIP AWARD ...... 15 HAYMAN PRIZE FOR PUBLISHED WORK PERTAINING TO TRAUMATISED CHILDREN AND ADULTS ...... 15 HANS A BETHE PRIZE ...... 16 TOM W BONNER PRIZE IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS ...... 17 HERBERT P BROIDA PRIZE ...... 18 OLIVER E BUCKLEY PRIZE IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS ...... 18 DANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS...... 19 JAMES C MCGRODDY PRIZE FOR NEW MATERIALS ...... 20 LARS ONSAGER PRIZE ...... 20 GEORGE E PAKE PRIZE ...... 21 WKH PANOFSKY PRIZE IN EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS...... 22 II RABI PRIZE IN ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS ...... 23 ANEESUR RAHMAN PRIZE FOR COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ...... 23 JJ SAKURAI PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS ...... 24 ROBERT R WILSON PRIZE FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THE PHYSICS OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS 25 JOSEPH A BURTON FORUM AWARD...... 25 JOHN H DILLON MEDAL ...... 26 GEORGE E DUVALL SHOCK COMPRESSION SCIENCE AWARD ...... 27 LEO SZILARD LECTURESHIP AWARD ...... 28 EINSTEIN PRIZE ...... 28 JULIUS EDGAR LILIENFELD PRIZE...... 29 EARLE K PLYLER PRIZE FOR MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY & DYNAMICS ...... 30 ARTHUR L SCHAWLOW PRIZE IN LASER SCIENCE ...... 30 SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS ...... 31 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 32 ENID A HAUPT FELLOWSHIP IN HORTICULTURE ...... 33 PHD STUDENTSHIPS ...... 34 MEDAL OF HONOUR ...... 35 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL ...... 36

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EDISON MEDAL ...... 37 JAMES H MULLIGAN JR EDUCATION MEDAL ...... 37 RICHARD W HAMMING MEDAL ...... 38 JACK S KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL ...... 39 JUN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL ...... 39 ROBERT N NOYCE MEDAL ...... 40 DENNIS J PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS ...... 41 SIMON RAMO MEDAL ...... 41 JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL ...... 42 SEYMOUR CRAY COMPUTER ENGINEERING AWARD ...... 43 SIDNEY FERNBACH AWARD ...... 43 PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION AWARDS ...... 44 POLYMER PHYSICS PRIZE ...... 45 ELISE M HAYMAN AWARD FOR THE STUDY OF THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE ...... 45 TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 46 SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 47 NICHOLSON MEDAL FOR HUMAN OUTREACH ...... 47 WICHTIG RESARCH AWARD ...... 48 MAX DELBRUCK PRIZE IN BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS ...... 49 KEN KENNEDY AWARD ...... 50 FOUNDERS MEDAL ...... 51 B RAMAKRISHNA RAU AWARD ...... 51 INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY MEDAL ...... 52 POWER ENGINEERING MEDAL ...... 53 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES MEDAL ...... 53 YOUNG TECHNICAL GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER AWARD ...... 54 EXTENDED DEADLINE: EDCTP FORUM SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 55 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 56 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE...... 57 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 57 SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...... 58 RESEARCH AWARDS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ...... 59 INDUSTRY FELLOWSHIPS ...... 60 AREF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIPS ...... 61

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AFRICA THESIS AWARD ...... 62 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 63 AFRICAN ADVANCED SCHOOL ON NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENOMICS ...... 64 BRAIN PRIZE COURSE STIPENDS ...... 65 WILLIAM HARVEY INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ACADEMY FELLOWSHIPS . 66 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP GRANTS FOR BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ...... 67 GRADUATE TRAINING IN DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 68 PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR CONCORD ...... 68 AFRICAN ADVANCED SCHOOL ON NEUROIMAGING – UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN IN TIME AND SPACE ...... 69 KLUGE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 70 SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS ...... 71 BERND TERSTEEGEN AWARD ...... 72 AOTRAUMA FELLOWSHIPS FOR SURGEONS ...... 72 VISIT THE EXPERT FELLOWSHIPS ...... 73 FERRING INNOVATION GRANTS ...... 74 OTTO BAYER SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 75 CARL DUISBERG SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 75 KURT HANSEN SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 76 JEFF SCHELL SCHOLARSHIP ...... 77 COPERNICUS MASTER PRIZE ...... 78 ARA HEALD FELLOWSHIP ...... 79 GREGORY R MUNDY FELLOWSHIP ON CANCER-INDUCED BONE DISEASE ...... 79 LUSH PRIZE ...... 80 DIGITAL PRESERVATION AWARDS...... 81 GRANTS ...... 82 COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – NEW ZEALAND ...... 83 CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS ...... 84 RUPERT FORD AWARD ...... 84 GLAXOSMITHKLINE PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ...... 85 EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARJORY STEPHENSON PRIZE LECTURE ...... 86 ANDREW W MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS...... 87 GE AND SCIENCE PRIZE FOR YOUNG LIFE SCIENTISTS ...... 87 RESEARCH TRAINING GRANT ...... 88

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KOREAN LANGUAGE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 89 SOFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD ...... 90 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 91 ARTICULUM FELLOWSHIP IN ARTHRITIS AND PAIN ...... 92 ARNOLD W SIEGEL INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AWARD ...... 92 KARL DEUTSCH AWARD ...... 93 BARBARA S BROWN OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD ...... 94 LÉOPOLD GRIFFUEL PRIZE ...... 94 SELIGMAN APV FELLOWSHIP ...... 95 GRADUATE AWARDS ...... 96 POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS ...... 97 RESIDENTIAL AWARDS ...... 98 JP DEN HARTOG AWARD ...... 98 STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 99 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE ...... 100 MENTOR AWARDS ...... 100 DOCTORAL GRANTS CALMETTE AND YERSIN ...... 101 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 102 THIN FILMS AND SURFACES GROUP WOODRUFF THESIS PRIZE ...... 103 MEMBERSHIP IN ORTHODONTICS CASES PRIZE AND MEDAL ...... 104 MAURICE BERMAN PRIZE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE ...... 104 HELMUT-SCHMIDT-PROGRAMME – MASTER’S SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE ...... 105 CID CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR SURGEONS – CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL TRAUMA ...... 107 LIVES BEST PAPER AWARD FOR EARLY SCHOLARS ...... 108

OPPORTUNTIES FOR AUGUST 2016 FRANCIS M PIPKIN AWARD ...... 109 REACTOR TECHNOLOGY AWARD ...... 110 ELECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS DIVISION AWARD ...... 110 FULBRIGHT NEW ZEALAND GENERAL GRADUATE AWARDS ...... 111 RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS: FAA/CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INSTITUTE ...... 112 THOMAS MARSHALL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS ...... 113

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DIELECTRIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION THOMAS D CALLINAN AWARD ...... 114 EPILEPSY RESEARCH RECOGNITION AWARDS ...... 114 RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY JOINT POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM ...... 115 MARY JANE OESTMANN PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 116 TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 117 J KIFFIN PENRY EXCELLENCE IN EPILEPSY CARE AWARD ...... 118 JANE DEMPSEY DOUGLASS PRIZE ...... 118 DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 119 PROJECT SUPPORT GRANT ...... 120 JOHN MADDOX PRIZE ...... 121 NORDIC PRIZE IN BASIC AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY ...... 121 AES SERVICE AWARD ...... 122 SCIENCE/SCILIFELAB PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS ...... 123 SCIENCE AND SCILIFELAB PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS ...... 124 RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 125 GEORGE WATT PRIZE ...... 126 JUNIOR SHORT TERM COLLABORATION AWARD ...... 126 UMICORE MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY PHD AWARD ...... 127 BRIAN D NOVIS JUNIOR GRANT ...... 128 MENTOR-BASED POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME IN REHABILITATION RESEARCH ...... 129 EHA/ISTH JOINT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME...... 130 ADVOCACY FELLOWSHIPS ...... 130 OUTSTANDING ABSTRACT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS ...... 131 DEADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: PHARMACOLOGY PRIZES ...... 132 LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS ...... 133 HUGUENOT SCHOLARSHIP ...... 134 FELLOWSHIPS ...... 134 RESEARCH DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP FOR AUD AUDIOLOGISTS (F32) ...... 135 JOHN TYNDALL AWARD ...... 136 PEZCOLLER FOUNDATION/AACR INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR CANCER RESEARCH ...... 137 SCIENCE AWARD FOR ELECTROCHEMISTRY ...... 138 SPECIAL AWARD FOR APPLIED RESEARCH ...... 138

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SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 139 EVIDENCE AWARDS ...... 140 RESEARCH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD ...... 141 JFK LIBRARY FOUNDATION KENNEDY RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 142 SWEDISH STEEL PRIZE ...... 143 EXPOSITORY WRITING AWARD ...... 144 ICTP-IAEA SANDWICH TRAINING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME ...... 144 THOMAS HAMPSON FUND ...... 146 ICTP/OPEC FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP ...... 147 COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – SINGAPORE ...... 148 TECHNO-COLLEGE INNOVATION AWARD ...... 149 PHILIP BRETT AWARD...... 149 SIR HENRY DALE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 150 H2020-HOA-01-2015 HORIZON PRIZE FOR BETTER USE OF ANTIBIOTICS ...... 151 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 152 MARGARET FOTI AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CANCER RESEARCH ...... 153 HEALTHCARE INNOVATION AWARD ...... 154 FELLOWSHIP GRANTS ...... 155 APA EARLY CAREER AND SENIOR SCHOLAR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 156 QUEEN ELIZABETH PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING ...... 157 DISCOVERY AWARDS ...... 157 ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP ...... 158 HARRINGTON PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN MEDICINE ...... 159 MEMBER-IN-TRAINING AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ASTRO PRESENTATION IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY ...... 160 MASTER’S FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE ...... 160 MEMBER-IN-TRAINING AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING RSNA PRESENTATIONS IN DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY AND RADIATION ONCOLOGY ...... 161 FLUIDS ENGINEERING AWARD ...... 162 RESEARCH PRIZE ...... 163 FELLOWSHIPS ...... 164 WOLF PRIZES ...... 165 IRVING SIGAL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 165 HANS NEURATH AWARD ...... 166

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FIELD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 167 TWAS-DBT POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 168 TWAS-SN BOSE POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 169 TWAS-DBT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 170 TWAS-CSIR POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 171 TWAS-CSIR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 173 TWAS-ICCBS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 174 TWAS-ICCBS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 175 TWAS-CEMB POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 176 TWAS-CEMB POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 177 TWAS-IACS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 178 TWAS-SN BOSE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 179 ESSAY PRIZE ...... 180 POSTGRADUATE BURSARY PROGRAMME – PHD, MSC AND MENG BURSARIES ...... 180 ARTHRITIS AUSTRALIA/ZIMMER ORTHOPAEDIC FELLOWSHIPS ...... 181 TWAS-ICIPE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 182 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 183 RESEARCH AND STUDY GRANTS ...... 184 ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS ...... 184 ESSAY PRIZE ...... 185 TWAS-CIIT POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 186 TWAS-CIIT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 187 TWAS-CIIT VISITING SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 188 KIBBUTZ FUND PRIZE ...... 189 ABEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME...... 190 ALBA/PUFFIN AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM ...... 191 COLLEGE TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 192

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SEPTEMBER 2016 ABE FELLOWSHIP ...... 193 PHILIP HAUGE ABELSON PRIZE...... 194 AWARD FOR SCIENCE DIPLOMACY ...... 195 SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AWARD ...... 195 ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DIVISION RESEARCH AWARD ...... 196

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ABE FELLOWSHIP ...... 197 PRIZE LECTURE ...... 198 IDEA GRANTS ...... 199 DINA FEITELSON RESEARCH AWARD ...... 200 FULLERENES, NANOTUBES AND CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES DIVISION RICHARD E SMALLEY RESEARCH AWARD ...... 200 ECCO FELLOWSHIP ...... 201 YC FUNG YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 202 HR LISSNER MEDAL ...... 203 VAN C MOW MEDAL ...... 203 RETURN HOME FELLOWSHIPS ...... 204 STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 205 HEMLOW PRIZE...... 206 AFR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PHD AND POSTDOCTORAL GRANTS ...... 207 FELLOWSHIPS ...... 207 FULLERENES, NANOTUBES AND CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES DIVISION SES RESEARCH YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 208 SUPRAMIAM SRINIVASAN YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 209 ASTRIK L GABRIEL DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EDUCATION ..... 210 ASTRIK L GABRIEL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EDUCATION ...... 210 STRUCTURAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS GROUP BURSARIES ...... 211 DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ...... 212 INNOVATION AWARDS ...... 213 YOUNG RESEARCHERS AWARDS ...... 213 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP GRANTS ...... 214 ECCO-IOIBD FELLOWSHIP...... 215 YOUNG TRIALIST GRANT...... 216 VISITING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 217 HONORARY FELLOWSHIP ...... 217 SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS ...... 218 LONG-TERM INVITATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN JAPAN ...... 219 EI3POD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 221 RESEARCH GRANTS IN BASIC AND CLINICAL SCIENCE ...... 222 AWARD FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE ...... 223

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TYSON PRIZE ...... 223 CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ...... 224 PAUL A SAMUELSON AWARD ...... 225 SPRING MEETING COMPETITIONS ...... 226 DOCTORAL THESIS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ...... 227 H TRENDLEY DEAN MEMORIAL AWARD ...... 228 TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT ...... 229 TEASDALE-CORTI HUMANITARIAN AWARD ...... 229 PULP BIOLOGY AND REGENERATION AWARD ...... 230 SALIVARY RESEARCH AWARD...... 231 WILMER SOUDER AWARD ...... 232 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 232 CRANIOFACIAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD ...... 233 BASIC RESEARCH IN PERIODONTAL DISEASE AWARD ...... 234 PHARMACOLOGY, THERAPEUTICS AND TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD ...... 234 SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 235 MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 236 PETER H ROSSI AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OR PRACTICE OF PROGRAM EVALUATION ...... 237 H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 238 DALAND FELLOWSHIPS IN CLINICAL INVESTIGATION ...... 239 OSBORNE AND MENDEL AWARD ...... 239 CONRAD A ELVEHJEM AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IN NUTRITION ...... 240 MEAD JOHNSON AWARD ...... 241 PFIZER CONSUMER HEALTHCARE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AWARD ...... 241 BIO-SERV AWARD IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL NUTRITION ...... 242 ELR STOKSTAD AWARD ...... 243 DANNON INSTITUTE MENTORSHIP AWARD ...... 243 PHARMACIA-ASPET AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS ...... 244 TORALD SOLLMANN AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY ...... 245 DE DUVE INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 245 INDUSTRIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING DIVISION HH DOW MEMORIAL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 246 NEW RESEARCH WORKERS’ AWARDS ...... 247

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POSTGRADUATE MEETINGS AWARDS ...... 247 ABEL PRIZE ...... 248 VERNON YOUNG INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR AMINO ACID RESEARCH ...... 249 DIVISION FOR DRUG METABOLISM EARLY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 250 JULIUS AXELROD AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY ...... 250 DAVID KRITCHEVSKY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN NUTRITION...... 251 EV MCCOLLUM AWARD ...... 252 ROBERT H HERMAN MEMORIAL AWARD ...... 253 NORMAN KRETCHMER MEMORIAL AWARD IN NUTRITION AND DEVELOPMENT ...... 253 EXCELLENCE IN NUTRITION EDUCATION AWARD ...... 254 ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION/PROQUEST METHODOLOGY PAPER COMPETITION ...... 255 ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION/LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTION PAPER AWARD ...... 255 TWAS-USM POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 256 TWAS-USM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 257 TWAS-BIOTEC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 258 MCCORMICK SCIENCE INSTITUTE RESEARCH AWARD ...... 259 MARY SWARTZ ROSE SENIOR INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 260 MARY SWARTZ ROSE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD...... 261 TWAS-CONACYT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 261 TWAS-USM FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING RESEARCHERS IN MALAYSIA ...... 262 EXTENDED DEADLINE: AWARDS FOR EARLY-CAREER WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD ...... 263 SUSANNE KLEIN-VOGELBACH PRIZE FOR THE RESEARCH OF HUMAN MOVEMENT...... 264 SAMUEL J FOMON YOUNG PHYSICIAN AWARD ...... 265 GENERAL MILLS BELL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION INNOVATION AWARD ...... 266 GILBERT A LEVEILLE LECTURESHIP AND AWARD ...... 266 TWAS-ICIPE POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 267 TWAS-ICIPE FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING SCHOLARS IN KENYA ...... 268 INDUSTRIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 269 FRANZ WERFEL FELLOWSHIP ...... 270 ROLAND L WEINSIER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MEDICAL OR DENTAL NUTRITION EDUCATION ...... 271

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MASTER’S THESIS GRANTS ...... 271 ROBERT R RUFFOLO CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY ...... 272 VARRO E TYLER PRIZE ...... 273 CID CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR SURGEONS – TRAUMA ...... 274 IRREGULAR MIGRATION RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 275 TWAS-UPM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME...... 276 TWAS-NCP POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 277 TWAS-UPM FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING SCHOLARS IN MALAYSIA ...... 278 TWAS-NCP FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING SCHOLARS IN PAKISTAN ...... 279 WZB/ISSC GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 280 INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 281 MEDIEVAL STUDIES SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 282 LECTURE PRIZE ...... 283 VALUE OF MEDICINES AWARD ...... 284 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP GRANT ...... 285 EXTENDED DEADLINE: RESEARCH IN DENTAL CARIES AWARD ...... 285 SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE...... 286 SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE ...... 287 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 289 CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD ...... 290 DEADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: SENIOR NON-CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP – TRANSITION TO LEADERSHIP ...... 291 DEADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD...... 292 VISITING SENIOR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ...... 293 BANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS...... 294 CARL BRÄNDÉN AWARD ...... 295 COMING SOON: ERNEST RUTHERFORD FELLOWSHIPS ...... 295 STUDENT PRIZE ...... 296 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS ...... 297 STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE ...... 298 GARY NEIL PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT ...... 299 WILLIAM B ABRAMS AWARD IN GERIATRIC CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ...... 300 OSCAR B HUNTER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR THERAPEUTICS ...... 301 RAWLS-PALMER PROGRESS IN MEDICINE LECTURE AND AWARD ...... 301

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LEON I GOLDBERG YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 302 ANITSCHKOW PRIZE ...... 303 AID INNOVATION CHALLENGE ...... 304 PHD STUDENTS RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 304 EMEA PHD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 305 AACR/AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION ...... 306 AACR PRINCESS TAKAMATSU MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP ...... 307 H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE CO-FUNDING OF REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES ...... 308 BAILLET LATOUR HEALTH PRIZE ...... 309 ALAIN BENSOUSSAN FELLOWSHIPS ...... 310 BIOMEDICAL PRIZE ...... 310 OUSTANDING YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 311 WALTER L HUBER CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRIZE ...... 312 EMIL THOMAS KAISER AWARD ...... 313 NAS AWARD FOR THE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE...... 313 ICO INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP ...... 314 FERNAND BRAUDEL SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS ...... 315 SAE/TIMKEN-HOWARD SIMPSON AUTOMOTIVE TRANSMISSION AND DRIVELINE INNOVATION AWARD ...... 316 SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 316 YASUO SAKAKIBARA PRIZE ...... 317 SACKS PRIZE ...... 318 WILLIAM PROCTER PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT ...... 319 JOHN P MCGOVERN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY AWARD ...... 320 PHD INTERNSHIPS...... 321 ICTP PRIZE...... 322 ROBERT AND JESSIE COX AWARD ...... 322 FELIX WANKEL ANIMAL WELFARE RESEARCH AWARD ...... 323 MEMORIAL ESSAY PRIZE ...... 324 INTERNATIONAL TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS...... 325 ANIMAL WELFARE RESEARCH AWARD ...... 325 CEA EUROTALENTS FELLOWSHIPS ...... 326 GINETTA SAGAN AWARD FOR WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ...... 327

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HEINZ GERISCHER AWARD ...... 328 HOCHHAUSEN RESEARCH AWARD ...... 329 POSTGRADUATE GRANT SCHEME ...... 330 DOCTORAL GRANTS ...... 330 BORLAUG COCOA FELLOWSHIPS FOR WESTERN AFRICA ...... 331 PETER JONES MEMORIAL AWARD ...... 332 EUROPEAN PHD DISSERTATION AWARD ...... 333 COMING SOON: NUCLEAR PHYSICS GROUP PRIZE ...... 334 ALEXANDRIA SICOT FELLOWSHIP ...... 334

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JULY 2016

AVID ADLER LECTURESHIP AWARD American Physical Society D

Description: Award amount max: $5,000 The American Physical Society invites Award amount min: - nominations for the David Adler lectureship Award budget total: - award in the field of materials physics. This Website: recognises outstanding contributions to the http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards advancement and knowledge in the field of /adler.cfm materials physics. The contributor should be Application form: noted for the quality of their research, review http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE articles and lecturing. =ADLER

The lectureship is ordinarily awarded to one Eligibility profile person but a second person can be included if ------the work or review was jointly developed. Country of applicant institution: Any Nominations of qualified women, members of underrepresented groups and scientists from Disciplines outside the US are especially encouraged. ------Materials Sciences; Physics; Materials The lectureship includes US$5,000, Properties & Analysis; Metallurgy honorarium for the lecturer and a certificate. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 Jul 16 APS Deadline information: This call is repeated 1 Physics Ellipse once a year. College Park, MD 20740-3844 Posted date: 03 Jun 16 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Award type: Prizes

AYMAN PRIZE FOR PUBLISHED WORK PERTAINING TO TRAUMATISED CHILDREN AND ADULTS H International Psychoanalytical Association

Description: Hayman prize for published work pertaining The International Psychoanalytical to traumatised children and adults. This Association invites submissions for the recognises the author or authors of the best

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paper on the effects of the Holocaust on children published or accepted for publication Closing date: 01 Jul 16 in a book or recognised journal in the two Deadline information: This call is repeated years preceding the association’s biennial every 2 years. congress. Posted date: 04 Feb 16 Award type: Prizes The study of the nature and characteristics of Award amount max: $4,000 massive trauma to children, of the influence Website: upon their development and functioning, and http://www.ipa.org.uk/en/Events/IPA_Awar on succeeding generations of their children, ds_and_Prizes/en/news_and_events/IPA_Aw should be the central theme of the work. ards_and_Prizes.aspx?hkey=0a26fc4f-2eef- Studies that focus on the subject population 41b8-b161-e516c91d0f73 directly related to the Holocaust or apply the understanding derived from Holocaust Eligibility profile studies to the effects of massive trauma ------suffered by children living under repressive Country of applicant institution: Any regimes elsewhere are prioritised. Disciplines Submissions may be made by IPA members ------and candidates, as well as by non-members. Child Development; Political History; Child & Submissions are accepted in English, French, Adolescent Psychiatry; Political Sociology; German or Spanish. Analytical (Jungian) Psychology; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Crimes Against The prize is worth US$4,000. Humanity

ANS A BETHE PRIZE American Physical Society H

Description: Closing date: 01 Jul 16 The American Physical Society invites Deadline information: This call is repeated nominations for the Hans A Bethe prize. This once a year. recognises one individual for work in theory, Posted date: 08 Jun 16 experiment or observation in the areas of Award type: Prizes astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear Award amount max: $10,000 astrophysics or closely related fields. Website: http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ Nominations of qualified women, members of bethe.cfm underrepresented minority groups and scientists from outside the US are especially Application form: encouraged. http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =BETHE The prize is worth US$10,000.

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Eligibility profile Nuclear Physics; Galactic Astronomy; High ------Energy Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays; Country of applicant institution: Any Cosmology & Extragalactic Astronomy

Disciplines Contact Detail ------Email: [email protected]

OM W BONNER PRIZE IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS American Physical Society T

Description: Deadline information: This call is repeated The American Physical Society invites once a year. nominations for the Tom W Bonner prize in Posted date: 06 Jun 16 nuclear physics. This recognises and Award type: Prizes encourages experimental research in nuclear Award amount max: $10,000 physics, including the development of a Website: method, technique or device that significantly http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ contributes in a general way to nuclear bonner.cfm physics research. Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE The prize is ordinarily be awarded to one =BONNER person but may be shared when all the recipients have contributed to the same Eligibility profile accomplishment. Nominations are open to ------physicists whose work in nuclear physics is Country of applicant institution: Any primarily experimental or a particularly outstanding piece of theoretical work. Disciplines Nominations of qualified women, members of ------underrepresented minority groups and Nuclear Physics scientists from outside the US are especially Contact Detail encouraged. ------

APS The award includes US$10,000. 1 Physics Ellipse

College Park, 20740

Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Email: [email protected]

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ERBERT P BROIDA PRIZE American Physical Society H

Description: Award budget total: - The American Physical Society invites Website: nominations for the Herbert P Broida prize. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ This recognises one individual for broida.cfm contributions to the field of atomic and Application form: molecular spectroscopy or chemical physics. http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =BROIDA Nominations of qualified women, members of underrepresented minority groups and Eligibility profile scientists from outside the US are especially ------encouraged. Preference is given to work done Country of applicant institution: Any within the past five years. Disciplines The prize includes US$5,000 and a travel ------allowance to the award ceremony. Physical Chemistry; Molecular Physics; Structural Chemistry & Spectroscopy; Atomic Physics Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 07 Jun 16 APS Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings One Physics Ellipse etc., Prizes College Park, MD 20740-3844 Award amount max: - Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Award amount min: - Email: [email protected]

LIVER E BUCKLEY PRIZE IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS American Physical Society O

Description: The prize is ordinarily awarded to one person The American Physical Society invites but may be shared when all the recipients nominations for the Oliver E Buckley prize in have contributed to the same condensed matter physics. This recognises accomplishments. Nominations of qualified and encourages theoretical or experimental women, members of underrepresented contributions to condensed matter physics. minority groups and scientists from outside the US are especially encouraged.

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The award is worth US$20,000. Eligibility profile ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 07 Jun 16 Condensed Matter Physics Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $20,000 Contact Details Website: ------http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ APS buckley.cfm 1 Physics Ellipse Application form: College Park, 20740 http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE Tel: +1 301 209 3200 =BUCKLEY Email: [email protected]

ANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS American Physical Society D

Description: Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings The American Physical Society invites etc., Prizes nominations for the Dannie Heineman prize Award budget total: - for mathematical physics. This awards Website: published contributions in the field of http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ mathematical physics. heineman.cfm Application form: The prize may be awarded to multiple http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE contributors. Nominations of qualified =HEINEMAN women, members of underrepresented minority groups and scientists from outside Eligibility profile the US are especially encouraged. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize includes US$10,000 and travel expenses to attend the APS meeting at which Disciplines the prize is awarded. ------Mathematical Physics

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Contact Detail Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 09 Jun 16

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AMES C MCGRODDY PRIZE FOR NEW MATERIALS American Physical Society J

Description: Deadline information: This call is repeated The American Physical Society invites once a year. nominations for the James C McGroddy prize Posted date: 07 Jun 16 for new materials. This recognises and Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings encourages achievement in the science and etc., Prizes application of new materials. This includes: Award amount max: - Award amount min: -  the discovery of new classes of Award budget total: - materials; Website:  the observation of novel phenomena http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ in known materials leading to both mcgroddy.cfm new applications and scientific Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE insights; =MCGRODDY  theoretical and experimental work

contributing to the understanding of Eligibility profile such phenomena. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any Scientists of all nationalities, irrespective of where their work has been carried out, may Disciplines be nominated. Nominations of qualified ------women, members of underrepresented Materials Properties & Analysis; Materials minority groups and scientists from outside Sciences the US are especially encouraged. Nominations are active for three years. Contact ------The prize includes US$10,000 and an APS allowance for travel to the APS meeting at 1 Physics Ellipse which the award is presented. College Park, 20740 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Jul 16

ARS ONSAGER PRIZE American Physical Society L

Description: recognises research in theoretical statistical The American Physical Society invites physics including the quantum fluids. nominations for the Lars Onsager prize. This

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Nominations are accepted from researchers of Application form: all nations in statistical physics, as long as the http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE nominee is active at the time of the award. =ONSAGER Nominations of qualified women, members of underrepresented minority groups and Eligibility profile scientists from outside the US are especially ------encouraged. Country of applicant institution: Any

The prize is worth US$10,000. Disciplines ------Statistical Mechanics; Quantum Field Theory; Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Theoretical Physics; Fluidisation & Fluid Deadline information: This call is repeated Mechanics; Superfluidity once a year. Posted date: 07 Jun 16 Contact Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $10,000 APS Award amount min: - 1 Physics Ellipse Award budget total: - College Park, 20740 Website: Tel: +1 301 209 3200 http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ Email: [email protected] onsager.cfm

EORGE E PAKE PRIZE American Physical Society G

Description: Closing date: 01 Jul 16 The American Physical Society invites Deadline information: This call is repeated nominations for the George E Pake prize. This once a year. recognises one individual for work Posted date: 08 Jun 16 combining original research accomplishments Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, with leadership in the management of meetings etc. research or development in industry. Award budget total: - Website: Nominations of qualified women, members of http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ underrepresented minority groups and pake.cfm scientists from outside the US are especially Application form: encouraged. http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =PAKE The prize includes US$5,000 and an allowance Eligibility profile for travel to the APS meeting at which the ------award is presented. Country of applicant institution: Any

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KH PANOFSKY PRIZE IN EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS American Physical Society W

Description: Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings The American Physical Society invites etc., Prizes, Young investigator awards nominations for the WKH Panofsky prize in Award amount max: - experimental particle physics. This recognises Award amount min: $10,000 a scientist, or a group of scientist, for Award budget total: - achievements in experimental particle Website: physics. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ panofsky.cfm Nominations are open to scientists of all Application form: nations and will normally be awarded for http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE contributions made at an early stage of the =PANOFSKY recipient's career. Nominations of qualified women, members of underrepresented Eligibility profile minority groups, and scientists from outside ------the US are especially encouraged. Country of applicant institution: Any

The award includes US$10,000 and an Disciplines allowance for travel to the APS meeting at ------which the award is presented. Particle Physics

Contact

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated APS once a year. 1 Physics Ellipse Posted date: 06 Jun 16 College Park, 20740 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Email: [email protected]

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I RABI PRIZE IN ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS American Physical Society I

Description: Posted date: 08 Jun 16 The American Physical Society invites Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings nominations for the II Rabi prize in atomic, etc., Prizes, Young investigator awards molecular and optical physics. This recognises Award budget total: - and encourages research in atomic, molecular Website: and optical physics by investigators who have http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ held their PhD for 10 years or less. rabi.cfm Application form: Nominations are open to scientists of any http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE nationality and from any location. =RABI Nominations of qualified women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and Eligibility profile scientists from outside the US are especially ------encouraged. Country of applicant institution: Any

The prize includes US$7,500 and a travel Disciplines allowance to the society meeting at which the ------prize is presented. Atomic Physics; Classical Optics; Molecular Physics; Nonlinear Optics

Contact Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated ------every 2 years. Email: [email protected]

NEESUR RAHMAN PRIZE FOR COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS American Physical Society A

Description: Nominations of qualified women, members of The American Physical Society invites underrepresented minority groups, and nominations for the Aneesur Rahman prize scientists from outside the US are especially for computational physics. This recognises a encouraged. scientist, or a group of scientists, for achievements in computational physics research. The prize includes US$10,000 and an Nominations are open to scientists of all allowance for travel to the APS meeting at nationalities regardless of the geographical which the award is awarded and at which the site at which the work was done. recipient will deliver the Rahman Lecture.

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Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Eligibility profile once a year. ------Posted date: 06 Jun 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Mathematical Physics http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ rahman.cfm Contact Application form: ------http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE Email: [email protected] =RAHMAN

J SAKURAI PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS American Physical Society J

Description: Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings The American Physical Society invites etc., Prizes, Young investigator awards nominations for the JJ Sakurai prize for Award budget total: - theoretical particle physics. This recognises a Website: scientist or a group of scientists for http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ achievement in particle theory. sakurai.cfm Application form: The prize is normally awarded for theoretical http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE contributions made at an early stage of the =SAKURAI recipient’s career. Nominations of qualified women, members of underrepresented Eligibility profile minority groups, and scientists from outside ------the US are especially encouraged. Country of applicant institution: Any

The prize includes US$10,000 and an Disciplines allowance for travel to the APS meeting at ------which the award is presented. Particle Physics

Contact Closing date: 01 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated APS once a year. 1 Physics Ellipse Posted date: 10 Jun 16 College Park, 20740 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Email: [email protected]

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OBERT R WILSON PRIZE FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THE PHYSICS OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS R American Physical Society

Description: Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, The American Physical Society invites meetings etc., Young investigator awards nominations for the Robert R Wilson prize for Award amount max: - achievement in the physics of particle Award amount min: - accelerators. This recognises achievements in Award budget total: - the physics of particle accelerators. It is Website: normally awarded for contributions made at http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ an early stage of the recipient's career. wilson.cfm Application form: Nominations are open to scientists of all http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE nations regardless of the geographical site at =WILSON which the work was done. Nominations of qualified women, members of Eligibility profile underrepresented minority groups, and ------scientists from outside the US are especially Country of applicant institution: Any encouraged. Contact The award includes US$7,500 and an ------allowance for travel to the APS meeting to APS receive the award. >1 Physics Ellipse >College Park, 20740 +1 301 209 3200 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated [email protected] once a year. Posted date: 06 Jun 16 Disciplines ------Particle Physics

OSEPH A BURTON FORUM AWARD American Physical Society J

Description: arms control, energy policy, protection of the The American Physical Society invites environment, international cooperation nominations for the Joseph A Burton forum among scientists, physics education, and the award. This recognises contributions to the achievement of equity. public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society. Examples include issues of public education,

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Nominations of qualified women, members of Eligibility profile underrepresented minority groups, and ------scientists from outside the US are especially Country of applicant institution: Any encouraged. Disciplines The award consists of US$3,000 and an ------allowance for travel to the meeting of the Sociology of Science & Technology; Science & society at which the award is presented. Technology Education; Energy Conversion; Ethical Use of Technology; Physics

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Contact Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. American Physical Society Posted date: 06 Jun 16 1Physics Ellipse Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings College Park etc., Prizes MD 20740-3844 Award amount max: $3,000 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards /burton.cfm

OHN H DILLON MEDAL American Physical Society J

Description: Closing date: 01 Jul 16 The American Physical Society invites Deadline information: This call is repeated nominations for the John H Dillon medal. This once a year. recognises research accomplishments by Posted date: 06 Jun 16 young polymer physicists who have Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings demonstrated research promise early in their etc., Prizes, Young investigator awards careers. Award amount max: $3,000 Award amount min: - The award date of the nominee’s terminal Award budget total: - degree should be within the past 12 years. Website: Nominations of qualified women, members of http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards underrepresented minority groups and /dillon.cfm scientist from outside the US are especially Application form: encouraged. http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =DILLON

The award includes US$2,000 and up to Eligibility profile US$1,000 allowance for travel to the society ------meeting where the medal is presented. Country of applicant institution: Any

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Contact Tel: +1 301 209 3200 ------Email: [email protected] APS 1 Physics Ellipse Disciplines College Park ------MD 2070-3844 Physics; Polymerisation Mechanisms

EORGE E DUVALL SHOCK COMPRESSION SCIENCE AWARD American Physical Society G

Description: Award amount min: - The American Physical Society invites Award budget total: - nominations for the George E Duvall shock Website: compression science award. This recognises http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards contributions to understanding condensed /shock.cfm matter and non-linear physics through shock Application form: compression. http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =DUVALL All members of the scientific community may be nominated. Qualified women, members of Eligibility profile underrepresented minority groups and ------scientists from outside the US are especially Country of applicant institution: Any encouraged for nomination. Contact The award includes a cash prize of US$5,000 ------and a travel allowance to the award APS Honours Programme presentation meeting. One Physics Ellipse College Park MD 2070-3844 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] every 2 years. Posted date: 06 Jun 16 Disciplines Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Prizes Condensed Matter Physics Award amount max: -

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EO SZILARD LECTURESHIP AWARD American Physical Society

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Description: Award amount max: $5,000 The American Physical Society invites Award amount min: - nominations for the Leo Szilard lectureship Award budget total: - award. This recognises accomplishments by Website: physicists in promoting the use of physics for http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards the benefit of society in such areas as the /szilard.cfm environment, arms control and science policy. Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE Nominations of qualified women, members of =SZILARD underrepresented minority groups and scientists from outside the US are especially Eligibility profile encouraged. Any living physicist is eligible. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award includes US$3,000 and US$2,000 for travel expenses for lectures given by the Disciplines recipient at an APS meeting and at two or ------more educational institutions or research Sociology of Science & Technology; Politics & laboratories in the year following the award. International Studies; Physics; Use & The lectures should be especially aimed at Management of Natural Resources; Research physicists early in their careers. & Innovation Economics & Policy

Contact Closing date: 01 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated APS once a year. 1Physics Ellipse Posted date: 03 Jun 16 College Park, MD 20740-3844 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Tel: +1 301 209 3200 etc., Prizes

INSTEIN PRIZE American Physical Society

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Description: Nominees may be scientists anywhere in the The American Physical Society invites world. Nominations of qualified women, nominations for the Einstein prize. This members of underrepresented minority recognises accomplishments in the field of groups and scientists from outside the US are gravitational physics. especially encouraged.

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The prize includes US$10,000 and a travel allowance for a society meeting to receive the Eligibility profile award and deliver a lecture. ------Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Contact Deadline information: This call is repeated ------every 2 years. American Physical Society Posted date: 09 Jun 16 One Physics Ellipse Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, College Park meetings etc. MD 20740-3844 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Website: http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ Disciplines einstein.cfm ------Application form: Physics; Gravity & Gravitation http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =EINSTEIN

ULIUS EDGAR LILIENFELD PRIZE American Physical Society J

Description: Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings The American Physical Society invites etc., Prizes nominations for the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Award budget total: - prize. This recognises an individual for Website: contributions to physics. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ lilienfeld.cfm Nominations of qualified women, members of Application form: underrepresented minority groups and http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE scientist from outside the US are especially =LILIENFELD encouraged. Eligibility profile The prize includes US$10,000 and expenses ------for three lectures by the recipient given at an Country of applicant institution: Any APS meeting, a research university and a predominantly undergraduate institution. Disciplines ------Physics Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact once a year. ------Posted date: 08 Jun 16 Email: [email protected]

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ARLE K PLYLER PRIZE FOR MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY & DYNAMICS American Physical Society E

Description: Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings The American Physical Society invites etc., Prizes nominations for the Earle K Plyler prize for Award amount max: $11,000 molecular spectroscopy and dynamics. This Award amount min: - recognises contributions to the field of Award budget total: - molecular spectroscopy and dynamics. Website: http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ The prize is ordinarily awarded to one person plyler.cfm but a prize may be shared when all the Application form: recipients have contributed to the same http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE accomplishments. Nominations of qualified =PLYLER women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and scientists from outside Eligibility profile the US are especially encouraged. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize includes US$10,000 and an allowance, up to US$1,000, to attend the Disciplines meeting at which the prize is to be presented. ------Structural Chemistry & Spectroscopy; Molecular Physics Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact once a year. ------Posted date: 08 Jun 16 Email: [email protected]

RTHUR L SCHAWLOW PRIZE IN LASER SCIENCE American Physical Society A

Description:  nonlinear optics; The American Physical Society invites  ultrafast phenomena; nominations for the Arthur L Schawlow prize  laser spectroscopy; in laser science. This recognises contributions  squeezed states; to basic research that uses lasers to advance  quantum optics; knowledge of the fundamental physical  multiphoton physics; properties of materials and their interaction  laser cooling and trapping; with light. Relevant areas of research include:  physics of lasers;  particle acceleration by lasers; Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

 short wavelength lasers. Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?prize= Nominations of qualified women, members of SCHAWLOW underrepresented minority groups, and scientists from outside the United States are Eligibility profile especially encouraged. Nominations are ------active for three years. Country of applicant institution: Any

The prize consists of US$10,000 and a Disciplines certificate, plus an allowance for travel to the ------APS meeting. Structural Chemistry & Spectroscopy; Materials Properties & Analysis; Classical Optics; Photonics & Optical Communication; Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Lasers & Quantum Optics; Nonlinear Optics Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Posted date: 09 Jun 16 ------Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings APS etc., Prizes 1 Physics Ellipse Award amount min: $10,000 College Park, 20740 Website: Tel: +1 301 209 3200 http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ Email: [email protected] schawlow.cfm

ENIOR FELLOWSHIPS International Research Center for Cultural Studies – Internationales Forschungszentrum S Kulturwissenschaften

Description:  well-defined and innovative research The International Research Center for question; Cultural Studies (IFK) invites applications for  clear definition of the uniqueness or its senior fellowships. These support excellent the significance of the work, covering senior scholars, who are well advanced in important theoretical and their careers, to conduct research on the IFK methodological issues in premises at the University of Arts and Design interdisciplinary culture studies and Linz, in Vienna. Social sciences and humanities; humanities proposals may be within the scope  international understanding of the of the institute’s current focus theme cultures research theme; of translation. The emphasis is on  clear methodological provisions that interdisciplinary research that has both guarantee an interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical contribution. The research focus. proposals must include:

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Qualified scholars of all nationalities may Award amount min: - apply regardless of institutional and Award budget total: - departmental affiliations. They must hold a Website: PhD level degree or higher. Preference is http://www.ifk.ac.at/index.php/latest- given to applicants of international repute calls.html whose track record in academic publications Application form: establishes them as a leading expert in their http://www.ifk.ac.at/tl_files/files/Applicatio field. n%20Forms/RF-SF-Formular2016.pdf

Fellowships are granted for one academic Eligibility profile semester of four months and include a stipend ------worth up €2,325 per month, contribution for Country of applicant institution: Any travel costs of a return trip to Vienna, accommodation and office facilities. Disciplines Applications may be submitted either in ------English or German. Social Sciences; Arts and Humanities

Contact Closing date: 01 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated IFK once a year. Reichsratsstraße 17 Posted date: 18 May 16 1010 Wien Award type: Senior fellowships, Travel for Tel: +43 1 504 11 260 research purposes, Directed grants for Fax:+43 1 504 1132 individual investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: €9,300

ESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS International Research Center for Cultural Studies – Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften R

Description: The International Research Center for  well-defined and innovative research Cultural Studies (IFK) invites applications for question; its research fellowships. These support post-  clear definition of the uniqueness or doctoral scholars early in their careers to the significance of the work, covering conduct research on the IFK premises at the important theoretical and University of Arts and Design Linz, in Vienna. methodological issues in Social sciences and humanities proposals may interdisciplinary culture studies and be within the scope of the institute’s current humanities; focus theme cultures of translation. The  international understanding of the emphasis is on interdisciplinary research that research theme; has both theoretical and empirical contribution. The proposals must include:

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 clear methodological provisions that Award amount max: €9,300 guarantee an interdisciplinary Award amount min: - research focus. Award budget total: - Website: Qualified scholars of all nationalities may http://www.ifk.ac.at/index.php/latest- apply regardless of institutional and calls.html departmental affiliations. They must have a Application form: PhD or a doctorate at the time of application. http://www.ifk.ac.at/tl_files/files/Applicatio Preference is given to qualified Austrian n%20Forms/RF-SF-Formular2016.pdf applicants. Eligibility profile Fellowships are granted for one academic ------semester of four months and include a stipend Country of applicant institution: Any worth up €2,325 per month, contribution for travel costs of a return trip to Vienna, Disciplines accommodation and office facilities. ------Applications may be submitted either in Social Sciences; Humanities

English or German. Contact

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IFK Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Reichsratsstrasse 17 Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. 1010 Wien Posted date: 18 May 16 Tel: +43 1 504 11 260 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +43 1 504 1132 investigators, Travel for research purposes, Email: [email protected] Early-Career fellowships

NID A HAUPT FELLOWSHIP IN HORTICULTURE Smithsonian Institution E

Description: The Smithsonian Gardens of the Smithsonian Proposals may address, but are not limited to, Institution invites applications for the Enid A the following topics: Haupt fellowship in horticulture. This enables graduate students to conduct in-residence,  the cultural significance of public independent thesis and dissertation research gardens in urban society; with access to the Smithsonian’s Archives of  the environmental effects of urban American Gardens, the Garden Furnishings settings on horticultural endeavours; and Horticultural Artifacts Collection and the  art in the garden; expertise of horticulturists and landscape  vernacular gardens; architects who manage the Smithsonian  regional garden types; gardens in Washington, DC.

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 the business of horticulture or Award amount max: - floriculture; Award amount min: -  historic garden trends and design Award budget total: - features; Website: http://www.gardens.si.edu/get-  historic garden preservation; involved/enid-haupt-fellowship.html  public garden administration. Application form: https://solaa.si.edu/

Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate Eligibility profile programme seeking, or having received, their ------master’s or PhD in horticulture, landscape Country of applicant institution: Any architecture, cultural studies or a related discipline with concentrations in garden Disciplines ------history or landscape studies. Fluency in Horticultural & Crop Production; Botanical written and spoken English is required. Gardens; Urban Design; Landscape Architecture; Floriculture The fellowship is full-time and tenable for six to 12 months. Contact

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Smithsonian Gardens Closing date: 01 Jul 16 PO Box 37012 Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Capital Gallery, Suite 3300, MRC 506 Posted date: 13 Jan 16 Washington, DC 20013-7012 Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Tel: +1 202 633 2220 Directed grants for individual investigators, Email: [email protected] Thesis/Dissertation funding, Access to libraries

HD STUDENTSHIPS Breast Cancer Now P

Description: the UK or the Republic of Ireland. Established Breast Cancer Now invites applications for its independent researchers and new PhD studentships. These are for established independent researchers with a strong track researchers in the UK and Ireland who have a record and based within a research institution strong track record in their field, and have in the UK or Ireland may apply. Collaborative previous experience in supervising PhD applications from within the UK and Ireland students. are welcome. In addition, named academic or clinical collaborators are permitted from Only applications from the proposed outside these countries. supervisor are accepted. They must be a permanent salaried member of staff at a Studentships are worth up to £96,000, recognised clinical or academic institution in excluding conference travel costs, over three

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years. Funding covers student stipends, researchers/apply-for-funding/phd- student fees, college fees, research expenses studentships and essential equipment. Application form: https://grants.breastcancercampaign.org/

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 18 Apr 16 Country of applicant institution: Ireland, Award type: Equipment and materials, United Kingdom Studentship allocations, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Contact Networking/collaboration, Travel to ------conferences, meetings etc. Tel: +44 20 7749 4114 Award amount max: - Email: Award amount min: - [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://breastcancernow.org/breast- Disciplines cancer-research/funding-for------Breast Cancer

EDAL OF HONOUR IEEE M

Description: Posted date: 09 Jun 16 The IEEE invites nominations for its medal of Award type: Prizes honour award. This recognises contributions Award amount max: - to, or a career in, the electrical and electronic Award amount min: - engineering profession. Award budget total: - Website: The award is open to any individual, http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/m regardless of IEEE membership. edalofhonor.html Application form: The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. The ms/medal_nomination.pdf recipient will be automatically recommended to the IEEE board of directors of IEEE Eligibility profile honorary membership. ------Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Contact Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. IEEE Awards Activities

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445 Hoes Lane Email: [email protected] Piscataway NJ 08855-4141 Disciplines Tel: +1 732 562 3844 ------Fax: +1 732 981 9019 Electrical & Electronic Engineering

LEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL IEEE A

Description: Award budget total: - The IEEE invites nominations for the Website: Alexander Graham Bell medal. This award is http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/be intended to provide recognition for ll.html outstanding contributions to Application form: telecommunications. It may be presented each http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awar year to individuals or a team up to three in ds/noms/bellnom.html number, for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and Eligibility profile engineering. ------Country of applicant institution: Any This award is open to all persons, regardless of IEEE membership. The award consists of a Contact gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and a ------cash honorarium. IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08855-133 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 (Forecast) Tel: +1 732 562 3844 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Fax: +1 732 981 9019 been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected] approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 05 Jul 12 ------Award type: Prizes Network Infrastructure; Computer Networks; Award amount max: - Electrical & Electronic Engineering Award amount min: -

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DISON MEDAL IEEE E

Description: Application form: The IEEE invites nominations for the Edison http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for medal. This recognises an individual for a ms/medal_nomination.pdf career in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts. Eligibility profile ------Any individual may be nominated regardless Country of applicant institution: Any of IEEE membership. Contact The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze ------replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway Closing date: 01 Jul 16 NJ 08855-133 Deadline information: This call is repeated Tel: +1 732 562 3844 once a year. Fax: +1 732 981 9019 Posted date: 10 Jun 16 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/ed Electrical & Electronic Engineering ison.html

AMES H MULLIGAN JR EDUCATION MEDAL IEEE J

Description: The IEEE invites nominations for the James H Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Mulligan Jr education medal. This recognises Deadline information: This call is repeated contributions to education in the engineering once a year. profession. Posted date: 09 Jun 16 Award type: Prizes Any individual can be nominated regardless Award amount max: - of IEEE membership. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze Website: replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/ed ucation.html

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Application form: Piscataway http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for NJ 08855-133 ms/medal_nomination_mulligan.pdf Tel: +1 732 562 3844 Fax: +1 732 981 9019 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any Disciplines ------Contact Engineering Education; Electrical & Electronic ------Engineering IEEE Awards 445 Hoes Lane

ICHARD W HAMMING MEDAL IEEE R

Description: Website: The IEEE invites nominations for the Richard http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/ha W Hamming medal. This recognises mming.html contributions to information sciences, systems Application form: and technology. http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for ms/medal_nomination.pdf The award may be presented to an individual or a group up to three in number. Any Eligibility profile individual can be nominated, regardless of ------IEEE membership. Country of applicant institution: Any

The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze Contact replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. ------IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Deadline information: This call is repeated Tel: +1 732 562 3844 once a year. Fax: +1 732 981 9019 Posted date: 10 Jun 16 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award amount max: - Disciplines Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - Computer Science & Informatics; Information Retrieval

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ACK S KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL IEEE J

Description: Website: The IEEE invites nominations for the Jack S http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/ki Kilby signal processing medal. This lby.html recognises theoretical, technological or Application form: commercial achievements in signal http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for processing. ms/medal_nomination.pdf

The award is presented to an individual, or a Eligibility profile team up to three in number, and is open to all ------regardless of IEEE membership. Country of applicant institution: Any

The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze Contact replica, a certificate and an honorarium. ------IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Piscataway Deadline information: This call is repeated NJ 08854 once a year. Tel: +1 732 562 3844 Posted date: 09 Jun 16 Fax: +1 732 5623844 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: - Award amount min: - Disciplines Award budget total: ------Signal Processing

UN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL IEEE J

Description: The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze The IEEE invites nominations for the Jun-ichi replica, a certificate and an honorarium. Nishizawa medal. This recognises contributions to material and device science and technology, including practical Closing date: 01 Jul 16 application. Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. The award is presented to an individual, Posted date: 10 Jun 16 multiple recipients, or a team of up to three in Award type: Prizes number and is open to all regardless of IEEE Award amount max: - membership. Award amount min: - Award budget total: -

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Website: 445 Hoes Lane http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/ni Piscataway shizawa.html NJ 08854 Application form: Tel: +1 732 562 3844 http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for Email: [email protected] ms/medal_nomination.pdf Disciplines Eligibility profile ------Materials Sciences; Nanotechnology; Applied Country of applicant institution: Any Electronics; Acoustics; Display Devices; Mobile Devices, Apps & Ecosystems; Medical Contact Devices; Prosthetic & Orthotic Devices ------IEEE Awards Activities

OBERT N NOYCE MEDAL IEEE R

Description: Application form: The IEEE invites nominations for the Robert N http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for Noyce medal. This recognises an individual or ms/medal_nomination.pdf a team, up to three in number, for contributions to the microelectronics industry. Eligibility profile ------Any person may be nominated for an IEEE- Country of applicant institution: Any level Award, regardless of IEEE membership Contact The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze ------replica and an honorarium. IEEE Awards Activities >445 Hoes Lane >PO Box 1331 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 >Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Deadline information: This call is repeated +1 732 562 3844 once a year. +1 732 981 9019 Posted date: 09 Jun 16 [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/n Microelectronics oyce.html

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ENNIS J PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS IEEE D

Description: Application form: The IEEE invites nominations for the Dennis J http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for Picard medal for radar technologies and ms/medal_nomination.pdf applications. This recognises accomplishments in advancing the fields of Eligibility profile radar technologies. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Nominations are open to individuals or groups of not more than three in number. Any Contact Details person may be nominated for an IEEE-level ------Award, regardless of IEEE membership. IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze PO Box 1331 replica, a certificate and an honorarium. Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Tel: +1 732 562 3840 Fax: +1 732 981 9019 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 09 Jun 16 ------Award type: Prizes Telescopes & Space Instrumentation; Award budget total: - Navigation & Tracking Systems; Radar & Website: Sonar Systems http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/pi card.html

IMON RAMO MEDAL IEEE S

Description: IEEE-level Award, regardless of IEEE The IEEE invites nominations for the Simon membership. Ramo medal. This recognises achievement in systems engineering and systems science or for technical leadership in a major innovative engineering project. The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. The medal may be presented to an individual or to multiple recipients up to three in number. Any person may be nominated for an Closing date: 01 Jul 16

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Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact once a year. ------Posted date: 09 Jun 16 IEEE Awards Activities Award type: Prizes 445 Hoes Lane Award budget total: - PO Box 1331 Website: Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/ra Tel: +1 732 562 3844 mo.html Fax: +1 732 981 9019 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for ms/medal_nomination.pdf Disciplines ------Eligibility profile Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Systems ------Engineering & Risk Analysis Country of applicant institution: Any

OHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL IEEE J

Description: Award type: Prizes The IEEE invites nominations for the John von Award budget total: - Neumann medal. This is awarded for Website: achievements in computer-related science and http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/vo technology. Achievements may be theoretical, nneumann.html technological, entrepreneurial and need not have been made immediately prior to the date Eligibility profile of the award. Contributions may be in ------computer hardware, software or systems art. Country of applicant institution: Any The scope of the project must be the processing of information and includes the Contact subject areas of computer architecture, base ------technologies, systems, languages, algorithms IEEE and protocols, and application domains. 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York Any individual or team of up to three NY 10016-5997 members are eligible to apply. Tel:+1 212 419 7900 The award consists of a gold medal, bronze Fax: +1 212 752 4929 replica, certificate and honorarium. Email: [email protected]

Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Computer Science & Informatics Posted date: 24 Nov 15

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EYMOUR CRAY COMPUTER ENGINEERING AWARD IEEE S

Description: Website: The IEEE Computer Society invites http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/view nominations for the Seymour Cray computer Awards.action engineering award. This recognises Application form: innovative contributions to high-performance http://awards.computer.org/ana/nomination/ computing systems. Each nomination requires create.action?award.id=14 a minimum of three endorsements. Eligibility profile The award is worth US$10,000 and includes a ------crystal memento and an illuminated Country of applicant institution: Any certificate. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Computer Science & Informatics; Computer Deadline information: This call is repeated Engineering & Hardware once a year. Posted date: 26 Nov 15 Contact Award type: Prizes, Innovation grants ------Award amount max: $10,000 IEEE Computer Society Award amount min: - 2001 L St., NW Suite 700 Award budget total: - Washington, DC 20036-4910 Email: [email protected]

IDNEY FERNBACH AWARD IEEE S

Description: The award is worth US$2,000 and includes a The IEEE Computer Society invites certificate. nominations for the Sidney Fernbach award. This recognises contributions in the application of high performance computers Closing date: 01 Jul 16 using innovative approaches. Nominees must Deadline information: This call is repeated be members of the IEEE computer society. once a year. There are no other limitations for this award. Posted date: 04 Sep 15 Award nominations require at least three Award type: Prizes endorsements. Award amount max: $2,000

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Website: Contact http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/view ------Awards.action IEE Computer Society 2001 L St, NW Suite 700 Application form: Washington, DC 20036-4910 http://awards.computer.org/ana/nomination/ Email: [email protected] create.action?award.id=16 Disciplines Eligibility profile ------Supercomputers; Computer Science & Country of applicant institution: Any Informatics

SYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION AWARDS International Psychoanalytical Association P

Description: Closing date: 01 Jul 16 The International Psychoanalytical Deadline information: This call is repeated Association invites submissions for its every 2 years. psychoanalytic research exceptional Posted date: 04 Feb 16 contribution awards. These recognise the four Award type: Prizes best research papers or posters reporting the Award amount max: $500 results of systematic investigation relevant to Award amount min: - psychoanalysis. The competition is not Award budget total: $2,000 restricted to empirical studies and papers may Website: address any field where psychoanalysis is http://www.ipa.org.uk/en/Events/IPA_Awar relevant, such as the history of science, law ds_and_Prizes/en/news_and_events/IPA_Aw and art. ards_and_Prizes.aspx?hkey=0a26fc4f-2eef- 41b8-b161-e516c91d0f73 Submissions may be made by IPA members Eligibility profile and candidates, as well as by non-members. ------Papers and posters may be submitted in Country of applicant institution: Any English, French, German or Spanish.

Disciplines Four awards, worth US$500 each, are ------available. Psychoanalytic Philosophy; Analytical

(Jungian) Psychology

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OLYMER PHYSICS PRIZE American Physical Society P

Description: Award amount max: $10,000 The American Physical Society invites Award amount min: - nominations for its polymer physics prize. Award budget total: - This recognises accomplishment and Website: contributions in polymer physics research. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ polymer.cfm Nominations are open to all scientists of all Application form: nations regardless of membership in the http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE society or the geographical location in which =POLYMER the work was carried out. Nominations of qualified women, members of Eligibility profile underrepresented minority groups, and ------scientists from outside the US are especially Country of applicant institution: Any encouraged. The prize is ordinarily awarded to one person but may be shared when all the Contact recipients have contributed to the same ------accomplishments. APS One Physics Ellipse The award is worth US$10,000. College Park, MD 20740-3844 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 06 Jun 16 Molecular Physics Award type: Prizes

LISE M HAYMAN AWARD FOR THE STUDY OF THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE International Psychoanalytical Association E

Description: The winner should deliver the Elise M The International Psychoanalytical Hayman lecture during the week of the Association invites applications for the Elise association’s biennial congress, which is then M Hayman award for the study of the offered for publication to the International Holocaust and genocide. This recognises the Journal of Psychoanalysis. most cogent, relevant and commendable work Submissions may be made by IPA members on the Holocaust and genocide, current or and candidates, as well as by non-members. historical.

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Papers may be submitted in English, French, Eligibility profile German or Spanish. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award is worth US$4,000. Contact ------Closing date: 01 Jul 16 IPA Deadline information: This call is repeated Broomhills every 2 years. Woodside Lane Posted date: 04 Feb 16 London N12 8UD Award type: Prizes Tel: +44 20 8446 8324 Award amount max: $4,000 Fax: +44 20 8445 4729 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.ipa.org.uk/en/Events/IPA_Awar ds_and_Prizes/en/news_and_events/IPA_Aw Disciplines ards_and_Prizes.aspx?hkey=0a26fc4f-2eef------41b8-b161-e516c91d0f73 Crimes Against Humanity; Political History

ECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD American Nuclear Society T

Description: Website: http://www.ans.org/honors/va- The American Nuclear Society invites techachieve nominees for its technical achievement award. Application form: This award recognises past or current http://www.ans.org/honors/sd/techachieve- technical achievement in the art or science of form.pdf thermal hydraulics. Eligibility profile Nominees must be members of ANS. ------Nominations must include a full letter of Country of applicant institution: Any recommendation and at least three letters of support. Contact ------The award is worth US$1,000. American Nuclear Society 555 North Kensington Avenue La Grange Park Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Illinois 60526 Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year. Posted date: 06 Jun 16 Disciplines Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $1,000 Thermodynamics; Hydraulic Engineering & Award budget total: - Harbours; Thermochemistry

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IEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD American Society for Microbiology S

Description: Closing date: 01 Jul 16 (Forecast) The American Society for Microbiology Deadline information: !! Call has not yet invites nominations for the Siemens been announced by funder, but this is the healthcare diagnostics young investigator approximate deadline we expect. This call is award. This award honours outstanding repeated once a year. laboratory research in clinical microbiology or Posted date: 04 Jul 14 antimicrobial agents and is intended to Award type: Prizes, Young investigator further the career development of a young awards clinical scientist and promote awareness of Award budget total: - clinical microbiology as a career. Website: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/10- Nominees who are conducting research in awards-a-grants/awards/20-siemens- clinical microbiology, automation in clinical healthcare-diagnostics-young-investigator- laboratories, development of novel award Application form: antimicrobial agents, mechanisms of action of http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- antimicrobial agents or mechanisms of forms/siemens-nominating resistance to antimicrobial agents are eligible.

Nominees must be no more than five years Eligibility profile beyond completion of postdoctoral research ------training in microbiology, infectious diseases Country of applicant institution: Any or related disciplines at the time of the nomination deadline. Self-nominations and Contact multiple nominations for the same candidate ------will not be accepted. Email: [email protected]

The award includes a cash prize of US$2,500 Disciplines and travel to the ASM general meeting. ------Microbiology

ICHOLSON MEDAL FOR HUMAN OUTREACH American Physical Society N

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Nominations of qualified women, members of Application form: underrepresented minority groups and http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE scientists from outside the US are especially =NICHOLSON encouraged. Nominations are active up to three years. Eligibility profile ------Up to US$1,500 is available for travel expenses Country of applicant institution: Any to the meeting at which the medal is presented. Contact ------APS Closing date: 01 Jul 16 1 Physics Ellipse Deadline information: This call is repeated College Park once a year. MD 20740-3844 Posted date: 10 Jun 16 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Email: [email protected] etc., Prizes Award amount max: $1,500 Disciplines Website: ------http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards Physics; Science & Technology Education /nicholson.cfm

ICHTIG RESARCH AWARD European Society for Artificial Organs W

Description:  improvement of application strategies The European Society for Artificial Organs for therapies including artificial and invites submissions for the Wichtig research bioartificial organs. award. This recognises the best manuscript of a young scientist working in the field of Researchers under the age of 40 may apply. artificial organs. The research may relate to The manuscript has to be published in the experimental research, medical science, International Journal of Artificial Organs after chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, January 1st 2015 or be submitted or accepted material and membrane science or chemical to the journal at the time of application. engineering but it should focus on the following aspects: The award is worth €2,500.

 new developments of artificial organs Closing date: 01 Jul 16 and regenerative medicine Deadline information: This call is repeated technologies; once a year.  implementation of artificial and Posted date: 19 May 16 bioartificial organs in clinical practice; Award type: Young investigator awards, Prizes

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Award amount max: €2,500 Martin Luther University Award amount min: - Halle-Wittenberg Award budget total: - Heinrigh-Damerow-Strasse 4 Website: http://www.artificial- 06120 Halle, Saale organs.com/pub/esao---wichtig-research- Email: [email protected] award Application form: Disciplines http://www.esao2014.org/images/Abstract%2 ------0submission%20-%20form.docx Physical Chemistry; Transplantation Immunology; Tissue Culture; Organ Eligibility profile Transplantation; Biomedical Engineering; ------Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Country of applicant institution: Any Chemistry; Materials Sciences; Molecular Transport & Membranes Contact ------

AX DELBRUCK PRIZE IN BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS American Physical Society M

Description: Deadline information: This call is repeated The American Physical Society invites once a year. nominations for the Max Delbruck prize in Posted date: 10 Jun 16 biological physics. This recognises and Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings encourages achievements in biological physics etc., Prizes research. Award amount max: - Award amount min: - Nominations are open to scientists of all Award budget total: - nationalities, regardless of the geographical Website: site at which the work was done. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ Nominations of qualified women, members of delbruck.cfm underrepresented minority groups, and scientists from outside the US are especially Application form: encouraged. The prize may be awarded to http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =DELBRUCK more than one investigator on a shared basis.

Nominations are active for three years. Eligibility profile

------The prize includes US$10,000 and a travel Country of applicant institution: Any allowance to the APS meeting at which the the prize is awarded. Contact

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APS Honors Program Closing date: 01 Jul 16 One Physics Ellipse College Park MD 20740-3844

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Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Biological Physics

EN KENNEDY AWARD IEEE

K

Description: Website: The IEEE and the Association for Computing http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/view Machinery invite nominations for the Ken Awards.action Kennedy award. This recognises substantial Application form: contributions to programmability or http://awards.computer.org/ana/nomination/ productivity in computing with substantial create.action?award.id=38 community service or mentoring contributions. Eligibility profile ------Each nomination requires at least two Country of applicant institution: Any endorsements. Contact The award is worth US$5,000. ------IEEE Computer Society 2001 L St., NW Suite 700 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Washington DC 20036-4910 Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year. Posted date: 26 Nov 15 Disciplines Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $5,000 Community Services; Computer Science & Award amount min: - Informatics Award budget total: -

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OUNDERS MEDAL IEEE F

Description: Award budget total: - The IEEE invites nominations for the founders Website: medal. This recognises an individual or http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/fo group, up to three in number, for unders.html contributions in the leadership, planning, and Application form: administration of affairs of value to the http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for electrical and electronics engineering ms/medal_nomination.pdf profession. Eligibility profile Nominees should be major industry ------administrators, or managers of a complex Country of applicant institution: Any scientific mission. Any person may be nominated for an IEEE-level Award, Contact regardless of IEEE membership. ------IEEE Awards Activities The award consists of a gold medal, bronze 445 Hoes Lane replica, certificate and an honorarium. PO Box 1331 Piscataway NJ 08855-1331 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Tel: +1 732 562 3844 Deadline information: This call is repeated Fax: +1 732 981 9019 once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 09 Jun 16 Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: ------Award amount min: - Electrical & Electronic Engineering

RAMAKRISHNA RAU AWARD IEEE

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Description: The award is worth US$2,000. The IEEE invites nominations for the B Ramakrishna Rau award. This recognises an innovative contribution to microarchitecture, Closing date: 01 Jul 16 use of novel microarchitectural techniques or Deadline information: This call is repeated compiler and architecture interfacing. The once a year. award nomination requires a minimum of Posted date: 26 Nov 15 three endorsements. Award type: Innovation grants, Prizes

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Award amount max: $2,000 Award amount min: - Contact Award budget total: ------Website: IEEE Computer Society http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/view 2001 L St., NW Suite 700 Awards.action Washington DC 20036-4910 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://awards.computer.org/ana/nomination/ create.action?award.id=39 Disciplines ------Eligibility profile Computer Engineering & Hardware ------Country of applicant institution: Any

NNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY MEDAL IEEE I

Description: Website: The IEEE invites nominations for its http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/he innovations in healthcare technology medal. althcare.html This award recognises contributions or Application form: innovations in engineering within the fields of http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for medicine, biology and healthcare technology. ms/medal_nomination.pdf

Nominations are open to individuals or Eligibility profile groups of not more than three in number. Any ------person may be nominated regardless of IEEE Country of applicant institution: Any membership. Contact The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze ------replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway Closing date: 01 Jul 16 NJ 08854 Deadline information: This call is repeated Tel: +1 732 562 3844 once a year. Fax: +1 732 562 9019 Posted date: 10 Jun 16 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award amount max: - Disciplines Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - Biomedical Engineering; Nanotechnology; Health & Medical Informatics; Biotechnology

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OWER ENGINEERING MEDAL IEEE P

Description: Application form: The IEEE invites nominations for its power http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for engineering medal. This recognises ms/medal_nomination.pdf contributions to the technology associated with the generation, transmission, Eligibility profile distribution, application and utilisation of ------electric power. Country of applicant institution: Any

Nominations are open to individuals. Any Contact person may be nominated regardless of IEEE ------membership. IEEE Awards Activities 445 Hoes Lane The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze Piscataway replica, a certificate, and an honorarium. NJ 08854 Tel: +1 732 562 3844 Fax: +1 732 562 9019 Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 10 Jun 16 ------Award type: Prizes Energy Engineering; Electrical & Electronic Award budget total: - Engineering Website: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/p oweng.html

NVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES MEDAL IEEE E

Description: Nominations are open to individuals or The IEEE invites nominations for its groups of not more than three in number. Any environmental and safety technologies medal. person may be nominated regardless of IEEE This recognises accomplishments in the membership. application of electrical and electronic technology that improves the environment or The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze public safety. replica, a certificate, and an honorarium.

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Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Posted date: 10 Jun 16 ------Award type: Prizes IEEE Awards Activities Award amount max: - 445 Hoes Lane Award budget total: - Piscataway, NJ 08854 Website: Tel: +1 732 562 3844 http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/en Fax: +1 732 562 9019 vsaf.html Email: [email protected] Application form: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/nom_for Disciplines ms/medal_nomination.pdf ------Environmental Technology; Environmental Eligibility profile Manufacturing; Safety Engineering ------

OUNG TECHNICAL GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER AWARD International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Y

Description: Posted date: 02 Dec 15 The International Society for Soil Mechanics Award type: Prizes, Young investigator and Geotechnical Engineering invites awards nominations for its outstanding young Award amount max: £1,000 geotechnical engineer award. This is to Website: http://www.issmge.org/en/awards recognise individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the practice or Eligibility profile research in geotechnical engineering through ------contribution to one or more research or Country of applicant institution: Albania, industrial projects. Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Nominees must be young members of the Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, society who are less than 36 years of age on 31 Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Serbia, December of the year of the quadrennial Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, conference. Ecuador, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, A maximum of three awards will be made Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, Indonesia, every four years. The prize is worth £1,000. Ireland, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Republic of, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Sri Closing date: 01 Jul 16 Lanka, Lithuania, Latvia, Morocco, Deadline information: This call is repeated Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, every 4 years. Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nigeria,

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Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, City University London Peru, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, Northampton Square Romania, Sudan, Sweden, Singapore, London EC1V 0HB Slovenia, Slovakia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tel: +44 20 7040 8154 Thailand, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Email: [email protected] Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, South Africa Disciplines ------Contact Geotechnical Engineering ------

XTENDED DEADLINE: EDCTP FORUM SCHOLARSHIPS European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership E

Description: Scholarships cover registration to the forum, *** The European and Developing Countries economy travel, visas and accommodation Clinical Trials Partnership has extended the costs. closing date for its forum scholarships. The previous deadline of 24 June has been now extended to 4 July 2016. All other call Closing date: 04 Jul 16 information remains unchanged. *** Deadline information: Posted date: 10 Jun 16 These scholarships aim to facilitate Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings participation of those who might not etc., Young investigator awards otherwise be able to attend the eighth EDCTP Award budget total: - forum taking place from 6 to 9 November Website: 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia. http://www.edctpforum.org/2016/index.php/ abstracts/#ffs-tabbed-13 Scholarships are open to a limited number of Application form: early-career investigators and scientists http://cpaper.ctimeetingtech.com/forum2016 actively working in the field of EDCTP. Applications for scholarships must be Eligibility profile submitted in parallel with the abstract ------submission; presenting authors of oral or Country of applicant institution: All African poster presentations may apply. Priority will Nations be given to applicants who have few alternative sources of funding, applicants who Contact have not previously received an EDCTP ------scholarship to attend the forum, as well as Email: [email protected] EDCTP grantees who have new results to Disciplines present. ------

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Poverty in Developing Countries; Infectious Antivirals; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Antibiotics; Diseases; Health Systems in Developing Immunisation Programmes & Vaccination Countries; Drug Design; Diagnostic Sciences;

ESEARCH GRANTS French Muscular Dystrophy Association – Association Française Contre les Myopathies R

Description: Deadline information: The French Muscular Dystrophy Association Posted date: 27 May 16 invites applications for its research grants. Award type: Early-Career fellowships, These aim to increase the understanding of Directed grants for individual investigators, the neuromuscular system including the Directed grants to institutions, research development of therapies for neuromuscular groups etc, Travel for research purposes, diseases and rare genetic diseases and Young investigator awards, Innovation improve quality of life for patients with grants neuromuscular diseases. Grants support Award amount max: - innovative research in the following areas: Award amount min: - Award budget total: -  fundamental research and Website: http://www.afm- physiopathology of diseases of the telethon.com/research/calls-for- proposals/current-calls-for-proposals.html neuromuscular system; Application form: https://sis.afm-  development of therapeutic telethon.fr/eAwards_applicant/faces/jsp/logi approaches for rare diseases; n/login.xhtml?lang=EN  clinical and care management. Eligibility profile Special attention will be given to big data ------analysis on omics for neuromuscular diseases. Country of applicant institution: Any

Three grant types are available: trampoline Contact grants, worth up to €50,000 over one year, for ------early career investigators; research projects, 96, rue Didot worth on average €40,000 per year for up to 75014 Paris three years, for researchers or clinical Tel: +33 1 4052 0766 investigators with a permanent position in an Fax: +33 1 4052 0575 academic, governmental or private institution; postdoctoral fellowships, worth between Disciplines €25,500 and €39,828 over one year, for ------applicants enrolled in a postdoctoral training. Neurology; Muscle Diseases; Diagnostic Sciences; Central Nervous System; Musculoskeletal System Closing date: 05 Jul 16

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ESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Wellcome Trust R

Description: Award amount min: - The Wellcome Trust invites applications for Award budget total: - its research fellowships in society and ethics. Website: These enable humanities and social science http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Human scholars who are not yet established in ities-and-social-science/Funding- academic posts to undertake a period of schemes/Research-fellowships/index.htm postdoctoral research in any area of human Application form: and animal health. Applicants must be have https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? been awarded their PhD but who are not in a ReturnUrl=%2f tenured or otherwise long-term established post. Fellowships must be held at an Eligibility profile institution in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a ------low- or middle-income country. Each Country of applicant institution: Lower- applicant must have a sponsor who is an Middle-Income countries, Low Income established member of the department in countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries which the award is to be held. Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom, Ireland Fellowships provide research expenses, appropriate employers’ contributions and a Contact salary, tenable for up to three years. ------Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building Closing date: 06 Jul 16 215 Euston Road Deadline information: Preliminary London NW1 2BE applications due by 6 July; full applications Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 due by 20 September 2016. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated 2 times a year. Posted date: 06 Apr 16 Disciplines Award type: Early-Career fellowships, ------Postdoctoral training fellowships, Directed Health & Society; Medical & Health Ethics; grants for individual investigators Animal Care Award amount max: -

ESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Alzheimer's Research UK R

Description: Alzheimer’s Research UK invites applications pursuing research on Alzheimer’s disease and for its research fellowships. These support related dementias. PhD qualified non-clinical investigators

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Applicants should either be emerging from Award type: Travel for research purposes, PhD training or within five years of obtaining Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants for a PhD. Prospective fellows and lead individual investigators, Directed grants to supervisors must be based in a UK academic institutions, research groups etc or research institution, however the Award amount max: £60,000 application may include researchers or Award budget total: - institutions outside the UK. Fellows are Website: required to have secured a supervisor who is http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants a senior established investigator in the /research-fellowship/ institution where the fellowship is to be held. Application form: https://a-r.org.uk/ Supervisors are expected to hold tenure or tenure-track appointments. Eligibility profile ------Fellowships are worth up to £20,000 per year Country of applicant institution: United for up to three years and support the costs of Kingdom salary, research and travel. Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 06 Jul 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Deadlines on: 27 ------January 2016, 6 July 2016. Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia Posted date: 26 Aug 15

ENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Alzheimer's Research UK S

Description: Alzheimer's Research UK invites applications for its senior research fellowship. This supports researchers who have the potential to become leading principal investigators within the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, but have not yet attained a tenure or tenure-track position.

Applicants must have obtained their terminal degree within the last three to 10 years. They must be based in a UK academic or research institution, however the application may include researchers or institutions outside the UK.

Prospective fellows are required to have secured the sponsorship of a senior established investigator in the institution where the fellowship is to be held. Sponsors are expected to hold tenure or tenure- track appointments.

The fellowship is worth up to £420,000 to cover salary, support staff and running costs, and is tenable for up to four years with the possibility of a one-year extension.

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Closing date: 06 Jul 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 27 January 2016, 6 July 2016. Posted date: 26 Aug 15 Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, Senior fellowships, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: £420,000 Award budget total: - Website: http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants/senior-research-fellowship/ Application form: https://a-r.org.uk

Eligibility profile ------Country of applicant institution: United Kingdom Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines ------Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia

ESEARCH AWARDS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Wellcome Trust R

Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for has a contract of employment with an its research fellowships for health academic institution or, in the case of an NHS professionals. This scheme is intended for employee, an honorary academic practising health professionals who wish to appointment. The sponsor must also have carry out research in any area within the remit tenure beyond the duration of the fellowship, of human and animal health either full time or and be in a position to guarantee space and part time, while maintaining their work facilities. commitments. This scheme can be used to enrol for a PhD for those who have little or no Fellowships are tenable for up to three years humanities or social science experience. It can and are usually worth up to £250,000. They also be used to undertake postdoctoral provide fellows with a salary plus employer research. contributions, essential research expenses and travel to conferences, seminars and other Research fellowships must be held at a UK, scholarly meetings. If enrolling for a PhD, a Irish, or low- or middle-income country clinical salary will be provided, together with institution. Candidates should have PhD registration fees, research expenses and a completed general professional training and contribution to travel and general training will still be working in their professional costs. capacity at the preliminary application deadline. Candidates should be sponsored by Closing date: 06 Jul 16 someone, typically in a senior position, who

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Deadline information: Preliminary ------applications due by 6 July; full applications Country of applicant institution: Lower- due by 20 September 2016. This call is Middle-Income countries, Low Income repeated 2 times a year. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Posted date: 07 Apr 16 Country of applicant institution: United Award type: Directed grants for individual Kingdom, Ireland investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Disciplines Predoctoral fellowships, Travel for research ------purposes, Travel to conferences, meetings Medicine & Health; Veterinary Medicine; etc. Health & Society Award amount max: £250,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Human Grants Section – Humanities and Social ities-and-social-science/Funding- science schemes/Research-awards-for-health- Wellcome Trust professionals/index.htm Gibbs Building Application form: 215 Euston Road https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? London NW1 2BE ReturnUrl=%2f Tel: +44 20 7611 5757

Eligibility profile Email: [email protected]

NDUSTRY FELLOWSHIPS Science Foundation Ireland

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Description: Science Foundation Ireland invites experience and knowledge of industry applications for its industry fellowships. processes, including operational and business These fund collaborative industry-academia procedures, and a proven record of leadership research projects through the temporary and accomplishments appropriate to movement of Irish academic researchers who international standards of their field, industry wish to spend time in industry worldwide, sector and career stage. and industry researchers anywhere in the world who wish to spend time at an academic Fellowships are worth a maximum of €100,000 institution in Ireland. for a period of up to 12 months full time, or 24 months part time. Academic applicants must be a member of an eligible Irish research body with a contract Closing date: 06 Jul 16 covering the period of the fellowship, hold a Deadline information: Applications due by PhD or equivalent, and must be currently 1pm, Irish time. Deadlines on: 6 July 2016, 2 funded under a competitively awarded, December 2016. internationally peer reviewed research grant. Posted date: 25 Apr 16 Industry applicants must have significant

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Award type: Senior fellowships, Mid-Career ------fellowships, Academic-Industry links, Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Networking/collaboration, Travel for Sustainable Agriculture; Computer Science & research purposes, Directed grants for Informatics; Medicine & Health; Public Safety individual investigators & Security; Materials Sciences; Hydro, Ocean, Award amount max: €100,000 Tidal & Wave Energy; Innovation & Award budget total: - Technology Management; Data Analysis; Website: http://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding- Digital & Interaction Design; Energy calls/open-calls/industry-fellowship- Transmission & Smart Grids; Communication programme-2016.html Studies; Network Infrastructure; Business & Management Studies Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Country of applicant institution: Ireland Email: [email protected]

Disciplines

REF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIPS Medical Research Foundation A

Description: The Medical Research Foundation, under the  molecular biology and omics Africa Research Excellence Fund, invites technologies for health; applications for its research development  other advanced, laboratory-based fellowships. These enable early-career African biomedical sciences; researchers to undertake a placement in a  quantitative and qualitative social leading research organisation in order to sciences for health economics; develop their skills and ideas, grow research  one health with clear potential to relationships through collaboration and work advance human health. towards a major funding proposal. Fellowships support research into infectious Applicants must be a national of a country in diseases and non-communicable diseases that sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, are significant, or identified as neglected, in and have obtained a PhD within the last four sub-Saharan Africa. Applications must years if they are non-clinicians. They should address one of the following priority research be working in an active research role and methodologies and technologies applied to have guaranteed employment with a legally human health research problems: established research organisation or university in sub-Saharan Africa. Clinically-  advanced medical statistics; active applicants must have a relevant  medical bioinformatics; master’s degree and up to three years active  biomedical computational modelling; research experience. Host organisations must be academic institutions, research-oriented

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industries or policy-making organisations based in South Africa, the UK or continental Eligibility profile Europe.E mploying organisations must be a ------sub-Saharan non-profit organisation, Country of applicant institution: Angola, excluding South Africa, and be a legal entity. Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Fellowships are worth up to £43,000 each over Central African Republic, Congo, Côte a period of three to nine months. d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Closing date: 06 Jul 16 Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Deadline information: Applications due by Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, 4pm GMT. Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Posted date: 05 Apr 16 Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Award type: Postdoctoral training Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, fellowships, Directed grants for individual Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, Personal development, Travel for research Uganda, Mayotte, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South purposes Sudan Award amount max: £43,000 Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.medicalresearchfoundation.org. Infectious Diseases; Non-Communicable uk/aref/2016/04/04/aref-research- Diseases development-fellowship-2016/ Application form: Contact Details http://www.medicalresearchfoundation.org. ------uk/aref/wp- Email: [email protected] content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/AREF- Fellowship_Appl_Form_2016.docx

FRICA THESIS AWARD African Studies Centre A

Description: The African Studies Centre invites literature, but with the exception of language nominations for its Africa thesis award. This and semiotic studies, may be submitted. The aims to encourage student research and geographical focus of the research should be writing on Africa and to promote the study of the continent of Africa or its migrant African cultures and societies, by recognising communities elsewhere in the world. The a master’s thesis in the field. Any thesis thesis must be socially relevant. thematically related to socio-geographical, economic, political, juridical or Any final-year student who has completed a anthropological issues or focusing on the master’s thesis with distinction, 80 per cent or humanities such as history, religion and higher or a Dutch rating of at least an 8, at a

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university in Africa or the Netherlands may Website: apply. The thesis must have been written http://www.ascleiden.nl/?q=content/africa- within the twelve months prior to the thesis-award deadline for submitting manuscripts and may be submitted if it is written in English, French Eligibility profile or Dutch. If the thesis is in Dutch, a five-page ------English or French summary must also be Country of applicant institution: Netherlands, attached. All African Nations

The award is worth €500 and the winning Disciplines thesis will be published in the ASCL’s African ------studies collection. Education in Developing Countries; African Literature; Politics & Economics of Africa; Closing date: 10 Jul 16 Middle Eastern Studies; African Studies; Deadline information: Submissions due by African History 12 midnight. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 07 Jun 16 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: €500 Award budget total: €500

ESEARCH GRANTS International Education Association of Australia R

Description: The International Education Association of  research in international education – Australia, under the Tony Adams Fund, available to those undertaking invites applications for its research grants. research projects in These are awarded to academic or internationalisation of education; administrative staff working in international  doctoral studies in international education to pursue professional education – available to those development, research or doctoral studies. undertaking doctoral studies in internationalisation of education. Grants are open to individuals from Australia and overseas in the following categories: Only new proposed activities are considered. Applicants who have commenced or  professional development – available completed professional development or to academic, professional or research are ineligible. administrative staff working in the field of international education who Up to two grants, worth AU$2,000 each, are wish to pursue further professional available for professional development, one development in internationalisation of grant, worth AU$3,000, is available for a one- education; off research project and one grant, worth

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AU$1,500 per year for up to three years, is Eligibility profile available for doctoral studies. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 10 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 17 May 16 Education Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Personal development, Contact Details Financial aid for postgraduate students ------Award amount max: $4,500 IEAA Award amount min: $1,500 PO Box 12917 Award budget total: - A'Beckett Street Website: VIC 8006 Melbourne http://www.ieaa.org.au/tonyadamsfund Tel: +61 3 9925 4579 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.ieaa.org.au/documents/item/12

FRICAN ADVANCED SCHOOL ON NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENOMICS International Brain Research Organization A

Description: The International Brain Organisation, with the Funding covers accommodation and meals. support of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Assistance for travel costs may be provided Research and the Allen Institute for Brain by request. Science, invites applications for the African advanced school on neuropsychiatric Closing date: 10 Jul 16 genomics. This enables students and Deadline information: Applications due by researchers based in Africa to attend a two- 11.59pm CET. week training on neuropsychiatric disorders, Posted date: 15 Jun 16 organised between 1 and 14 December 2016 in Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Cape Town, South Africa. Training includes etc., Personal development, Student awards lectures and practical sessions on the ethics, Award amount max: - projects design, logistical considerations and Award budget total: - statistical analysis of large scale genomic Website: http://ibro.info/events/applications- studies of neuropsychiatric disorders. open-for-ibro-uct-african-advanced-school- on-neuropsychiatric-genomics/ PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, registrars Application form: and junior faculty members engaged in https://form.jotform.com/61593581990972 clinical or basic research on neuropsychiatric Eligibility profile genomics may apply. They must be currently ------residing in Africa. Country of applicant institution: Angola,

Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the,

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Central African Republic, Congo, Côte Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe Algeria, Egypt, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Disciplines Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, ------Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Neurogenetics; Neuropsychology Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Contact Details Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, ------Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and Email: [email protected] Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tunisia,

RAIN PRIZE COURSE STIPENDS Federation of European Neuroscience Societies B

Description: The Federation of European Neuroscience Award type: Directed grants for individual Societies invites applications for its brain prize investigators, Young investigator awards course stipends. These support participation Award amount max: €3,500 in the brain prize course, to be held from 10 to Award budget total: - 31 October 2016 in Bordeaux Neurocampus, Website: France. The course aims to give promising http://www.fens.org/Training/CAJAL- young neuroscientists in-depth exposure to programme/CAJAL- the breadth of research on the hippocampus programme/Hippocampus_2016/ and to provide hands-on training in state-of- Application form: the-art methods used to study hippocampal http://www.fens.org/Training/CAJAL- function. programme/CAJAL- programme/Hippocampus_2016/Application PhD students and junior postdocs with -Form-hippocampus2016/ excellent qualification and a strong Eligibility profile motivation to pursue a career in neuroscience ------may apply. Country of applicant institution: Any

Four stipends, worth up to €3,500 each, are Disciplines available to cover tuition fees, accommodation ------and meals. Neuroscience; Central Nervous System

Closing date: 11 Jul 16 Deadline information: Applications due by Contact Details 12 midnight Brussels time. ------Posted date: 04 May 16 Email: [email protected]

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ILLIAM HARVEY INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ACADEMY FELLOWSHIPS W University of London

Description: The William Harvey Research Institute at to 40 per cent of the annual fellowship costs. Queen Mary, University of London invites They consist of living allowance, mobility proposals for its fellowships under the allowance and contribution to the research William Harvey International Translational costs. Research Academy programme. This is supports international mobility and career Closing date: 12 Jul 16 development of researchers in healthcare and Deadline information: Proposals due by life sciences by funding multidisciplinary 5pm. projects abroad. The research can consider Posted date: 13 Jun 16 one or several of the following research areas: Award type: Postdoctoral training fellowships, Personal development  molecular and structural biology and Award amount max: €37,250 biochemistry; Award amount min: -  physiology and pathophysiology, Award budget total: €6,500,000 including cardiovascular diseases and Website: http://www.whri-academy.eu/ endocrinology; Eligibility profile  genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and ------systems biology; Country of applicant institution: Any  cellular and developmental biology; Country of applicant institution: Japan, Sri  neurosciences and neural disorders; Lanka, Singapore, All African Nations,  immunity and infection; Afghanistan, British Indian Ocean Territory,  diagnostic tools, therapies and public India, Bahrain, Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam, health. Bhutan, Mongolia, Maldives, Jordan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, All South Two types of fellowships are offered this American nations, Iraq, Bangladesh, Hong round, incoming for non-residents of the host Kong, Macao, Timor-Leste, Cyprus, country and reintegration for only EU Kazakhstan, Brunei Darussalam, Cocos member state or associated country nationals (Keeling) Islands, Lao People's Democratic who have carried out research in a third Republic, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Kuwait, country at least three years. Turkmenistan, Indonesia, Qatar, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Yemen, Applicants must have a doctoral degree or a Russian Federation, Lebanon, Armenia, university diploma qualifying them for PhD Syrian Arab Republic, Uzbekistan, studies and at least four years of research Kyrgyzstan, All North American nations, experience in remunerated postgraduate Cambodia, Korea, Republic of, United Arab research activities. They must not have Emirates, China, Saudi Arabia, Christmas resided or carried out their main activity in Island, All Oceanian nations, Georgia, the chosen host country for more than 12 Taiwan, Oman, Iran, Islamic Republic of, months in the three years prior to the Tajikistan, Philippines, Azerbaijan proposal submission. Disciplines Fellowships are worth €37,250 each per ------fellow-year over 12 to 24 months, covering up

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Genetics & Systems Biology; Neuroscience; Physiology; Biochemistry & Molecular Contact Details Biology; Infection Agents & Pathogens; ------Diagnostic Sciences; Cardiovascular Diseases; Tel: +44 20 7882 6233 Endocrine & Neuroendocrine Cancers Email: [email protected]

OSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP GRANTS FOR BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH P Susan G Komen for the Cure

Description: Susan G Komen for the Cure invites pre- coursework and training expenses. Indirect applications for its postdoctoral fellowship costs are not covered. grants for basic and translational research. These support hypothesis-driven research Closing date: 14 Jul 16 projects in the field of breast cancer that are Deadline information: Pre-applications due laboratory-or field-based. The aim is to by 1pm EST. advance the understanding of breast cancer Posted date: 20 May 16 and lead to reductions in breast cancer Award type: Postdoctoral training incidence or mortality. Clinical research is not fellowships, Clinical trials, Equipment and supported, however clinical trial samples may materials, Travel for research purposes, be included, provided the applicant does not Directed grants for individual investigators, have direct patient interaction. Publish, edit, translate, disseminate Award amount max: $180,000 Applicants must be fellows holding a doctoral Award budget total: - degree and be without a faculty appointment. Website: They must be no more than three years post- http://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/Fund ingOpportunities.html completion of their most recent clinical Application form: fellowship, four years post-completion of https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ their most recent medical residency or four years post-completion the their most recent Eligibility profile PhD. A lead mentor who holds a full-time ------faculty appointment with a non-profit Country of applicant institution: Any institution or organisation anywhere in the world must be identified. The research must be conducted at the lead mentor’s institution. Disciplines There are no citizenship requirements. ------

Breast Cancer Each grant is worth up to US$60,000 per year for a duration of two to three years. Funding Contact Details may be used to cover salary, equipment costs, ------travel costs, publication costs, meeting-related Susan G Komen for the Cure poster printing costs, and reasonable Tel: +1 888 921 9678

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RADUATE TRAINING IN DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS Susan G Komen for the Cure G

Description: Susan G Komen for the Cure invites pre- applications for its graduate training in Closing date: 14 Jul 16 disparities research grants. These aim to Deadline information: Letters of intend due establish or sustain a training programme for by 1pm EST. This call is repeated once a graduate students who are seeking careers year. dedicated to understanding and eliminating Posted date: 20 May 16 disparities in breast cancer outcomes across Award type: Studentship allocations, Travel population groups. The programme should to conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants empower the students with the skills and for individual investigators, Equipment and knowledge necessary to effectively explore materials the causes of differential breast cancer Award amount max: $405,000 outcomes and interventions to reduce and Award budget total: - eliminate such disparities. Website: http://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/Fund ingOpportunities.html The principal applicant must have a doctoral degree and a full-time faculty appointment Eligibility profile with an accredited non-profit institution or ------organisation. A minimum of three trainees, Country of applicant institution: Any each of which must be enrolled in a master’s or doctoral degree programme, must be Disciplines identified for the grant. Trainees from ------populations affected by disparities in breast Breast Cancer cancer outcomes are strongly preferred. There are no citizenship requirements. Contact Details

------Each grant is worth up to US$135,000 per year Susan G Komen for the Cure for up to three years. Funding may be used to Tel: +1 866 921 9678 cover direct costs only.

RINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR CONCORD Princess of Asturias Foundation P

Description: The Princess of Asturias Foundation invites freedom, solidarity, the protection of heritage nominations for the Princess of Asturias and to the progress and understanding of award for concord. This recognises humanity in general. outstanding contributions to the defence of human rights, to the promotion of peace, Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

Award budget total: - Nominations are accepted for individuals, Website: http://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of- groups of individuals and institutions. Self- asturias-awards/2016-regulations/ nominations are not permitted. Nominees should be exemplary and their work or Eligibility profile contribution should be of acknowledged ------international standing. Country of applicant institution: Any

The award includes a Joan Miró sculpture and Disciplines a €50,000 cash prize. ------International Aid & Relief; International Closing date: 14 Jul 16 Security; Civil & Human Rights; International Deadline information: This call is repeated Law; Peace & Disarmament once a year. Posted date: 21 Apr 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: €50,000 Email: [email protected]

FRICAN ADVANCED SCHOOL ON NEUROIMAGING – UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN IN TIME AND SPACE A International Brain Research Organization

cognition and neuroimaging may apply. They Description: must be currently residing in Africa. Students The International Brain Organisation, with the from different parts of Africa are encouraged support of the University of Cape Town and to participate. the Neuroelectrics Barcelona, invites applications for the African advanced school Funding covers accommodation and meals. on neuroimaging – understanding the brain in Assistance for travel costs may be provided time and space. This enables senior PhD by request. students and researchers based in Africa to attend training on the use of additional Closing date: 14 Jul 16 neuroimaging techniques, organised between Deadline information: Applications due by 1 and 15 December 2016 in Cape Town, South 11.59pm CET. Africa. The intensive training includes Posted date: 15 Jun 16 lectures, demonstration and practical Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings experiments on techniques such as fMRI, DTI, etc., Student awards, Personal development TMS, TES and EEG in researching fields such Award amount max: - as crown cognition, face perception, substance Award budget total: - abuse, psychiatric disorders, paediatric Website: http://ibro.info/events/applications- neurology and HIV. now-open-for-ibro-uct-african-advanced- school-on-neuroimaging-understanding-the- Senior PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, brain-in-time-and-space/ registrars and junior faculty members Application form: engaged in clinical or basic research on https://form.jotform.com/61602273030946

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Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Eligibility profile Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and ------Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Country of applicant institution: Angola, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte Disciplines d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, ------Algeria, Egypt, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Cognitive Science; Neuroimaging Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Contact Details Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, ------Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Email: [email protected] Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger,

LUGE FELLOWSHIPS Library of Congress K

Description: The Library of Congress invites applications Posted date: 17 Jun 16 for the Kluge fellowships. These enable Award type: Early-Career fellowships, qualified scholars to conduct research in the Travel for research purposes, Mid-Career John W Kluge Center using the Library of fellowships, Directed grants for individual Congress collections and resources. Research investigators in the humanities and social sciences, Award amount max: $46,200 especially interdisciplinary, cross-cultural or Award amount min: $16,800 multilingual is encouraged. Award budget total: - Website: Scholars world wide who have obtained a http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kl PhD or equivalent degree within seven years uge.html of the deadline date are eligible to apply. Application form: Applicants must be fluent in English. https://klugefellowships.fluidreview.com/

Eligibility profile Up to 12 fellowships, worth US$4,200 per ------month over four to 11 months, are available Country of applicant institution: Any each year. Fellows must remain in residence at the Library of Congress for their fellowship Disciplines period, give one public presentation of their ------research, and provide the library with a final Humanities; Social Sciences report on their research.

Contact Details Closing date: 15 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. John W Kluge Center

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HORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS Smithsonian Institution S

Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate invites applications for its short-term students, Travel for research purposes, fellowships. These enable graduate students Directed grants for individual investigators, to carry out short-term research projects in the Predoctoral fellowships, Thesis/Dissertation topic areas of the STRI research under the funding supervision of staff scientists. Smaller projects Award amount max: - that are part of a larger thesis or dissertation Award budget total: - are encouraged and exceptional exploratory Website: projects or pilot studies with well-defined http://www.stri.org/english/education_fello goals and methods may also be considered. wships/fellowships/index.php Application form: Eligible candidates are graduate students. https://solaa.si.edu/solaa/solaahome.html Occasionally awards are made to Eligibility profile undergraduate students. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any Fellowships provide a stipend to cover living expenses, worth US$800 per month, a research Disciplines allowance worth up to US$2,000 and round------trip coach airfare. Projects have a maximum Tropical Zones; Botany; Ecology; Zoology; duration of three months. Forestry Science (Silvology); Atmospheric

Sciences Closing date: 15 Jul 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 July 2016, 15 October 2016, 15 January 2017, 15 Contact Details April 2017, and repeated annually. ------Posted date: 06 Jan 16 Tel: +1 507 212 8031 Email: [email protected]

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ERND TERSTEEGEN AWARD Verband Deutsche Nierenzentren – Association of German Nephrology Centres B

Description: The Association of German Nephrology Award type: Prizes Centres invites nominations for the Bernd Award amount max: €8,000 Tersteegen award. This recognises basic and Award budget total: - clinical research related to chronic renal Website: insufficiency and to advances in treatment of http://www.dnev.de/aktuelles/preisausschrei end-stage renal disease. bungen/

Physicians, researchers and engineers who are Eligibility profile involved in research in the area of renal ------failure and renal replacement therapy may Country of applicant institution: Any apply. Research papers may be unpublished or have been published in 2015 or 2016. They Disciplines should be written in German or English. ------Review articles, dissertations, university Nephrology & Kidneys habilitation works and manuscripts already entered in other competitions may not be Contact Details submitted. ------Verband Deutsche Nierenzentren e.V. The award is worth €8,000. Immermannstrasse 65A 40210 Düsseldorf Closing date: 15 Jul 16 Tel: +49 21 1179 5790 Deadline information: This call is repeated Fax: +49 211 1795 7960 once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 17 Jun 16

OTRAUMA FELLOWSHIPS FOR SURGEONS AO Foundation A

Description: The AO Foundation invites applications for its Applicants must be AOTrauma members AOTrauma fellowships for surgeons. These under 45 years of age, who have completed provide fully trained orthopaedic and general their basic principles and advanced principles surgeons with additional experience in courses before applying. Orthopaedic trauma surgical techniques. The purpose is to should be the main part of their practice. It is familiarise fellows with indications, planning, recommended that they are employed by a techniques and pitfalls of osteosynthesis. teaching hospital.

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Over 250 fellowships, lasting between four education/fellowships/Pages/fellowships.as and 12 weeks, are available and include a px contribution towards expenses between Application form: around CHF250 and CHF764 per week https://fellowships.aofoundation.org/sites/in depending on the host country. dex.php?form=conffellow

Closing date: 15 Jul 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 26 Apr 16 Award type: Postdoctoral training Disciplines fellowships, Personal development, Directed ------grants for individual investigators, Young Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; investigator awards Orthopaedic Surgery Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------https://aotrauma.aofoundation.org/Structure/ Email: [email protected]

ISIT THE EXPERT FELLOWSHIPS AO Foundation V

Description: The AO Foundation invites applications for its Deadline information: This call is repeated visit the expert fellowships. These enable once a year. experienced surgeons to stay with an expert Posted date: 27 Apr 16 for two to four weeks to gain expertise in a Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, specific field of trauma treatment. Directed grants for individual investigators, Personal development, Senior fellowships, Applicants must be AOTrauma members and Networking/collaboration have completed master’s or specialty level Award amount max: - training. Applicants should demonstrate Award budget total: - working knowledge of the local language, or Website: English. It is recommended that they are https://aotrauma.aofoundation.org/Structure/ employed by a teaching hospital. education/fellowships/Pages/visit-the- expert-fellowships.aspx Application form: Support includes a contribution towards https://fellowships.aofoundation.org/sites/in expenses between around CHF250 and dex.php?form=confexpert CHF764 per week depending on the host country. Eligibility profile

------Closing date: 15 Jul 16 Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Contact Details ------General Surgery; Traumatology, Accidents & Email: [email protected] Injury

ERRING INNOVATION GRANTS Ferring Pharmaceuticals F

Description: Ferring Pharmaceuticals invites proposals for proposals due by 6 September 2016. This call its innovation grants. These support is repeated once a year. exploratory, discovery and preclinical Posted date: 18 Apr 16 research into novel extracellular drug targets Award type: Directed grants to institutions, that are addressable with peptides or proteins research groups etc, Innovation grants, in the fields of reproductive health, urology, Financial aid for postgraduate students, gastroenterology and endocrinology. The Directed grants for individual investigators programme funds a number of research Award amount max: $100,000 grants in the following categories: Award amount min: $50,000 Award budget total: -  exploratory grants – which support Website: feasibility studies that will confirm the http://ferringri.wpengine.com/ferring- grants/overview/ target’s role in the proposed

indication; Eligibility profile  discovery grants – which support ------further research on targets with Country of applicant institution: Any existing in vitro data validating its

utility in the proposed indication and Disciplines should provide data to support ------transferring the target to a drug Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover; discovery programme; Urology; Reproductive Medicine; Hormones  competitive postdoctoral and & Endocrinology; Gastroenterology; Protein graduate student fellowships in one of Trafficking; Drug Design the Ferring Research Institute’s areas

of interest. Contact Details ------Grants are worth between US$50,000 and 4245 Sorrento Valley Blvd. US$100,000. San Diego CA 92121 Closing date: 15 Jul 16 Tel: +1 858 657 1400 Deadline information: Pre-applications open Fax: +1 858 657 1500 on 13 June and are due by 15 July; full

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TTO BAYER SCHOLARSHIPS Bayer O

Description: The Bayer Foundations invite proposals for Posted date: 14 Jul 15 the Otto Bayer scholarships. These enable Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, students and young professionals to attend Travel for research purposes, Personal special study courses, summer schools or development, Financial aid for postgraduate research classes. The scholarships might also students, Directed grants for individual cover the costs for individual laboratory investigators assignments, internships and master’s or PhD Award amount max: - theses. Postdoctoral applications will not be Award budget total: - considered. Website: http://www.bayer- foundations.com/en/international- Applicants must have one of the following fellowship.aspx academic backgrounds: Eligibility profile ------ biology and molecular biology; Country of applicant institution: Any  bioengineering and bioinformatics;

 chemistry and biochemistry; Disciplines  pharmaceutics and drug discovery. ------

Biological Sciences; Pharmacy & Students and researchers from German- Pharmacology; Biomedical Engineering; speaking countries may apply to study Chemistry; Bioinformatics abroad, whereas international investigators may apply to study in Germany. Contact Details

------Closing date: 18 Jul 16 Tel: +49 214 304 1111 Deadline information: Applications are invited between 3 June and 18 July 2016. This call is repeated once a year.

ARL DUISBERG SCHOLARSHIPS Bayer C

Description: The Bayer Foundations invite applications for classes. The scholarships might also cover the the Carl Duisberg scholarships. These enable costs for individual laboratory assignments, students and young professionals with up to internships and master’s or PhD theses. two years’ work experience to attend special study courses, summer schools and research

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Applicants must have one of the following Personal development, Financial aid for academic backgrounds: postgraduate students, Travel for research purposes Award amount max: -  human and veterinary medicine; Award budget total: -  medical sciences, medical engineering; Website: http://www.bayer-  public health; foundations.com/en/international-  health economics. fellowship.aspx

Eligibility profile Students and researchers from German------speaking countries may apply to study Country of applicant institution: Any abroad, whereas international investigators may apply to study in Germany. Disciplines

------Closing date: 18 Jul 16 Medicine & Health; Veterinary Medicine Deadline information: Applications are invited between 3 June and 18 July 2016. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 14 Jul 15 ------Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Tel: +49 214 304 1111 Directed grants for individual investigators,

URT HANSEN SCHOLARSHIPS Bayer K

Description: The Bayer Foundations invite applications for Deadline information: Applications are the Kurt Hansen scholarships. These enable invited between 3 June and 18 July 2016. students studying to be educators in the field This call is repeated once a year. of science to cover the costs for study projects, Posted date: 14 Jul 15 internships, summer courses, preparatory and Award type: Travel for research purposes, supplementary study courses and theses. Thesis/Dissertation funding, Directed grants Support is also available for projects aimed at for individual investigators, Financial aid for improving the training of science teachers. postgraduate students, Personal development Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Researchers from German-speaking countries Website: http://www.bayer- may apply to study abroad, whereas foundations.com/en/international- fellowship.aspx international investigators may apply to study in Germany. Eligibility profile

------Closing date: 18 Jul 16

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Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Tel: +49 214 304 1111 Bio/Medical; Social Sciences; Physical Sciences and Engineering

EFF SCHELL SCHOLARSHIP Bayer J

Description: The Bayer Foundations invite applications for Deadline information: Applications are the Jeff Schell scholarship. This enables invited between 3 June and 18 July 2016. students and young professionals with up to This call is repeated once a year. two years’ work experience to attend special Posted date: 02 Feb 16 study courses, summer classes and conduct Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate research projects in the field of agro sciences, students, Directed grants for individual agronomy, crop sciences, green investigators, Personal development, Travel biotechnology, environmental sciences or for research purposes sustainability. Award amount max: - Award budget total: - The scholarships might also cover the costs Website: http://www.bayer- for individual laboratory assignments, foundations.com/en/international- internships and master’s or PhD programmes. fellowship.aspx

Eligibility profile Applicants must have an academic ------background in agro sciences, agronomy, crop Country of applicant institution: Any sciences, green biotechnology, environmental sciences or sustainability. Students and Disciplines researchers from German-speaking countries ------may apply to study abroad, whereas Environmental Science; Agriculture; international investigators may apply to study Biotechnology; Sustainable Development & in Germany. Resource Use

Projects should have a duration between two Contact Details and 12 months. ------

Tel: +49 214 304 1111 Closing date: 18 Jul 16

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OPERNICUS MASTER PRIZE European Space Agency C

Description: The European Space Agency invites The overall winner of the competition – the applications for the Copernicus masters Copernicus master – will be selected from the competition. This supports projects and winners of all challenges will receive an business ideas that make use of Earth additional grant of €10,000. observation data primarily generated under the Copernicus programme. ESA is awarding Closing date: 18 Jul 16 a prize to the best application idea that uses Deadline information: Applications due by Earth observation data on mobile devices. 9am CET. Proposals must address one or more of the Posted date: 25 Apr 16 main thematic areas of the European Earth Award type: Prizes observation programme Copernicus, such as Award amount max: - land monitoring, marine monitoring, Award budget total: - atmospheric monitoring, climate change, and Website: emergency management. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observin g_the_Earth/Copernicus/Copernicus_Master Enterprises, scientific institutions, and s_opens_for_entries individuals of legal adult age from anywhere Application form: https://login.copernicus- masters.com/ in the world may participate in the competition. Eligibility profile

------The winner of this challenge will be awarded Country of applicant institution: Any a support package tailored to the winning app, which can include technical support, Disciplines design support, application marketing, and ------other services valued at €10,000 in total. The Mobile Devices, Apps & Ecosystems; winner will also have the chance to develop Atmospheric Sciences; Climate Change & his idea further at one of the 16 ESA business Global Warming; Satellites; Environmental incubation centres across Europe, these Monitoring incubation packages are worth up to €50,000.

In addition, the winner also will benefit from Contact Details a substantial satellite data quota worth up to ------€10,000 made available with financial support Email: [email protected] by the European Commission.

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RA HEALD FELLOWSHIP Arthritis Australia A

Description: Arthritis Australia and the Australian Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Mid- Rheumatology Association invite applications Career fellowships, Senior fellowships, for the Heald fellowship. This enables Directed grants for individual investigators researchers to undertake a postdoctoral Award amount max: - research programme relevant to arthritis both Award budget total: - overseas and in Australia. Website: http://www.arthritisaustralia.com.au/index.p Clinical, scientific and allied health hp/research-grants6/research-award- professionals who are Australian citizens or application-form.html permanent residents in Australia may apply. Application form: Scholarships may only be held in universities, http://www.arthritisaustralia.com.au/images/ hospitals or recognised research institutes. stories/documents/research_grants/2017/2017 Preference is given to members of the _Fellowships%20%20Scholarships%20applic ation%20form_final_160309.doc Australian Rheumatology Association or applicants working with a member of the Eligibility profile ARA. Preference is also given for research ------overseas, but Australian-based research is Country of applicant institution: Any considered. Fellowships may be held in universities, hospitals or recognised research Disciplines institutes. ------

Rheumatology & Arthritis Fellowships are available for a period of one year with no renewals. Contact Details

------Closing date: 22 Jul 16 Arthritis Australia Deadline information: Applications are PO Box 550 invited between 2 May and 5pm AEST, 22 Broadway NSW 2007 July 2016. This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 05 Apr 16 Email: [email protected]

REGORY R MUNDY FELLOWSHIP ON CANCER-INDUCED BONE DISEASE International Bone and Mineral Society G

Description: The International Bone and Mineral Society This supports basic, translational, clinical or invites applications for the Gregory R Mundy outcomes-based research in cancer-induced fellowship on cancer-induced bone disease. bone disease.

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Membership of IBMS or an IBMS member Eligibility profile society is required. Applicants holding a PhD ------or a MD/PhD must be within five years of Country of applicant institution: Any completing their degree while applicants with a MD/DDS must be within eight years of Disciplines their final postgraduate degree. ------Bone Cancers; Bone Marrow; Oncology One award of US$40,000 is available. Nursing; Nursing; Cancer Cell Biology; Carcinogenesis; Diagnostic Sciences; Closing date: 22 Jul 16 (Forecast) Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Molecularly Targeted Therapy; Cancer been announced by funder, but this is the Studies & Oncology; Cancer Immunology; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Clinical Medicine; Chemotherapy repeated once a year. Posted date: 15 Jul 13 Contact Details Award type: Young investigator awards, ------Predoctoral fellowships, Early-Career IBMS fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships 401 N Michigan Ave Chicago Award amount max: $40,000 Suite 2200 Award budget total: $40,000 Illinois 60611 Website: Tel: +1 312 321 5113 http://www.ibmsonline.org/p/cm/ld/fid=84 Email: [email protected] Application form: http://www.ibmsonline.org/d/do/1091

USH PRIZE Lush L

Description: Lush and the Ethical Consumer Research addressing the use of animals in medical Organisation invite nominations for the Lush testing. prize. This rewards the most effective projects and individuals who have been working The prize is open to projects, organisations towards the goal of replacing animals in and individuals anywhere in the world. product or ingredient safety testing across in the areas of lobbying, public awareness, In most years, several prizes worth £50,000 science, training and young research. each are awarded. However, in any year where this is a major breakthrough in 21st Projects should focus on toxicity testing for century toxicology, a black box prize of consumer products and ingredients, £250,000 will be awarded to the responsible complementing other projects already team or individual.

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Closing date: 24 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by Animal Models; Toxicology; Laboratory 12 midnight. This call is repeated once a Animals year. Posted date: 29 Apr 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Young investigator ------awards Lush Award amount max: £250,000 Unit 22-23 Award budget total: £250,000 Dolphin Quays Website: http://www.lushprize.org/awards/ Poole Quay Poole Eligibility profile Dorset ------BH15 1HU Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +44 1202 668 545 Email: [email protected] Disciplines

IGITAL PRESERVATION AWARDS Digital Preservation Coalition D

Description: The Digital Preservation Coalition invites industry, worth £1,000, recognising nominations for its digital preservation and encouraging the adoption of awards. These recognise significant and digital preservation tools and innovative contributions to maintaining a approaches in a commercial digital legacy. Nominations are invited for the environment; following awards:  award for safeguarding the digital legacy, worth £1,000, recognising the  award for research and innovation, practical application of preservation worth £1,000, recognising excellence tools to protect at-risk digital objects; in practical research and innovation  digital preservation coalition activities; fellowship, recognising a sustained  award for teaching and and impactful contribution to the communications, worth £1,000, digital preservation community and recognising excellence in outreach, includes honorary personal training and advocacy; membership of the DPC.  award for most distinguished student work in digital preservation, Initiatives or projects must have been encouraging and recognising student completed between 1 August 2014 and 31 July work in digital preservation and 2016. There is no restriction on public or includes attendance at an private sector and entries are sought from all international conference; around the world. The awards are open to all  award for the most outstanding and are international in scope. digital preservation initiative in

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Closing date: 26 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: Nominations due by Country of applicant institution: Any 12 noon. This call is repeated every 2 years. Posted date: 25 May 16 Disciplines Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: £1,000 Digitising & Digital Archives; Museums & Award budget total: - Curation; Art & Design: History, Practice & Website: Theory http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards/ 2016-digital-preservation-awards Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.dpconline.org/component/docma Digital Preservation Coalition n/doc_download/1515-dpa16bnomination- 37 Tanner Row form York YO1 6WP Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile

RANTS Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation G

Description: The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation invites Award amount max: $5,000 applications for its grants. The foundation is Award budget total: - seeking to award a grant to one social Website: documentary photographic project produced http://mrofoundation.org/?load=flash in the journalistic tradition of Manuel Rivera- Ortiz. The project should be based on pressing Eligibility profile social issues in the developing world. ------Photographers of all nationalities who are 18 Country of applicant institution: All African years of age or older are eligible to apply. The Nations, Caribbean grant is worth $5,000 to be used for the production or completion of a pre-approved Disciplines project. ------Photography & other Lens-based Art; Closing date: 29 Jul 16 (Forecast) Development Studies; Art & Design: History, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Practice & Theory; Social & Income been announced by funder, but this is the Inequality; Poverty; Social Infrastructure; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Social Work & Social Policy; Social Policy; repeated once a year. Arts; Disadvantaged & Minority Groups Posted date: 28 Apr 11 Award type: Development Contact Details (Africa/Caribbean), Prizes, Publish, edit, ------translate, disseminate Email: [email protected]

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OMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – NEW ZEALAND Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK C

Description: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Zealand; visa administration costs; insurance; in the UK, on behalf of Universities New tuition and compulsory fees; a one-off Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara, invites applications establishment payment; baggage allowance; for its commonwealth scholarships in New thesis binding costs. Zealand. These enable UK citizens to pursue doctoral study in New Zealand starting in Closing date: 29 Jul 16 early 2017. The following universities in are Deadline information: participants in this call: Posted date: 20 May 16 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate  Auckland University of Technology; students, Travel for research purposes,  Lincoln University; Grants - undirected  Massey University; Award amount max: -  University of Auckland; Award budget total: - Website:  University of Canterbury; http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/scholarships-  University of Otago; uk-citizens/new-zealand/  University of Waikato; Application form:  Victoria University of Wellington. http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/eas/

They may specify eligible subjects and Eligibility profile supervisors at their own discretion. ------Country of applicant institution: Any UK citizens with at least an upper second class honours undergraduate degree are Disciplines eligible to apply. They must have researched ------the research programmes of their preferred Any universities, have made contact with a potential doctoral supervisor and obtained Contact Details some degree of support from them. An offer ------of a place is not mandatory. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Woburn House The eight universities will fund one 20-24 Tavistock Square commonwealth scholarship each at varying London WC1H 9HF values, with stipends usually between Email: [email protected] NZD23,000 and NZD27,000. Scholarships may also cover some or all of: return travel to New

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AREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International C

Description: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Deadline information: This call is repeated International invites applications for its career once a year. development awards. These support qualified Posted date: 11 May 15 and promising scientists early in their faculty Award type: Directed grants to institutions, careers to establish themselves in the field of research groups etc, Postdoctoral training type 1 diabetes research. The awards may fellowships, Equipment and materials, emphasise either basic or clinical topics. Travel for research purposes, Networking/collaboration, Directed grants Scientific collaboration with scientific for individual investigators, Mid-Career members of the DDA is required. Awardees fellowships, Early-Career fellowships will be designated as members of the Award amount max: $750,000 academy faculty and participate in academy Award budget total: - projects that provide training in diabetes for Website: http://www.danishdiabetesacademy.dk/node young investigators. /471/jdrf

Application form: http://jdrf.smartsimple.us/ Applications may be submitted by public or private non-profit or for-profit organisations Eligibility profile throughout the world. Applicants must have ------between three and seven years between their Country of applicant institution: Any degree, which may be an MD, PhD, DMD,

DVM or equivalent, and the award Disciplines application; and must hold an academic ------faculty-level position. Diabetes

Awards support periods of up to five years Contact Details and are worth up to US$150,000 per year, ------including indirect costs. Email: [email protected]

Closing date: 30 Jul 16

UPERT FORD AWARD Royal Meteorological Society R

Description: The Royal Meteorological Society invites physical oceanography and air-sea interaction nominations for the Rupert Ford award. This at a centre of excellence outside their own enables young scientists to undertake research countries. or studies in meteorology or associated

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Website: http://www.rmets.org/our- activities/grants-and-bursaries/rupert-ford- Applicants must be early career scientists, award who are no more than 15 years into their Application form: career. They may be from any part of the http://www.rmets.org/sites/rmets.org/files/fo world. Nominations are invited from senior rdapp.docx academic colleagues, and nominees are expected to be in the later stages of a PhD Eligibility profile studentship or in early stages of postdoctoral ------work. Country of applicant institution: Any

Two awards, worth £1,500 each, are available. Disciplines ------Closing date: 30 Jul 16 (Forecast) Meteorology; Physical Oceanography Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. RMS Posted date: 26 Feb 15 104 Oxford Road Award type: Travel for research purposes, Reading RG1 7LL Financial aid for postgraduate students, Tel: +44 118 956 8500 Young investigator awards, Directed grants Fax: +44 118 956 8571 for individual investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £1,500 Award budget total: £3,000

LAXOSMITHKLINE PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY British Pharmacological Society G

Description: The British Pharmacological Society invites The prize is worth £500, and the winner will nominations for the Grahame-Smith Prize, be invited to give a lecture at a BPS meeting. formerly known as the GlaxoSmithKline prize for research in clinical pharmacology. This Closing date: 31 Jul 16 recognises the best research in clinical Deadline information: This call is repeated pharmacology. every 2 years. Posted date: 24 May 16 Nominees must have been members of the Award type: Prizes society for at least two years, and must be at Award amount max: £500 mid-career level or be new professors. Self- Award budget total: - nominations are accepted. Website: https://www.bps.ac.uk/membership- awards/prizes/grahame-smith-prize

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Application form: Disciplines https://www.bps.ac.uk/BPSMemberPortal/m ------edia/BPSWebsite/Library/Grahame-Smith- Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology Prize.docx Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any

XTENDED DEADLINE: MARJORY STEPHENSON PRIZE LECTURE Society for General Microbiology E

Description: The Society for General Microbiology has Award budget total: - extended the closing date for nominations for Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/en/grants- the Marjory Stephenson prize lecture. The prizes/all-grants.cfm/marjory-stephenson- previous deadline of 15 April has been prize-lecture extended to 31 July 2016. All other call Application form: information remains unchanged. *** http://www.microbiologysociety.org/downlo ad.cfm/docid/88FE6042-4C40-42B1- This award recognises an individual who has 96E0E6B2910EFBA2 made an exceptional contribution to the discipline of microbiology. Eligibility profile ------The prize is worth £1,000, and the recipient is Country of applicant institution: Any expected to give a lecture to a meeting of the society based on the work for which the Disciplines award was made. ------Microbiology Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 08 Jun 16 Email: Award type: Prizes [email protected] Award amount max: £1,000

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NDREW W MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Rhodes University A

Description: Rhodes University invites applications for the Award type: Directed grants for individual Andrew W Mellon postdoctoral fellowships investigators, Early-Career fellowships in the humanities and social sciences. The Award amount max: R380,000 fellowships are intended to foster existing Award budget total: - academic research and scholarly or creative Website: activities within departments and institutes at http://www.ru.ac.za/research/funding/fellow Rhodes University. ships/andrewwmellonpost-doctoral/ Application form: Applicants must hold a recently awarded http://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/ doctoral degree, within the last five years, content/research/documents/Andrew%20Mel preferably from an institution other than lon%20PostDoc%20Application%20Form.do Rhodes University, and must have a strong c publication record or other recognised forms Eligibility profile of achievement relevant to the fellow’s ------discipline. Country of applicant institution: Any

Funding is worth ZAR180,000 per year for a Disciplines minimum of one year with the possibility of ------renewal for a further year. An additional Humanities; Social Sciences allocation of ZAR20,000 will be made for research project costs. Fellows may also apply Contact Details for university accommodation at lower than ------market rental rates. Rhodes University

PO Box 94 Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Grahamstown 6140 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +27 46 603 8111 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +27 46 603 7350 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 15 Jul 15

E AND SCIENCE PRIZE FOR YOUNG LIFE SCIENTISTS GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham Biosciences) G

Description: GE Healthcare and Science/the American prize is to recognize outstanding PhD Association for the Advancement of Science graduate students from around the world and invite applications for their GE and science reward their research in the field of molecular prize for young life scientists. The aim of the biology. The prize provides support to

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scientists at the beginning of their careers. Posted date: 21 Dec 10 This international prize will be awarded for Award type: Young investigator awards, the outstanding thesis in the general area of Prizes molecular biology. Entrants must have been Award amount max: $25,000 awarded their PhD between 1 January and 31 Award budget total: - December 2010. Website: http://www.gescienceprize.org/index.php The prizes include an award of $25,000 and a publication of an article in Science magazine Eligibility profile or on the Science website. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applications may be submitted in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese or Chinese Disciplines (Mandarin). ------Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Biological Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Sciences Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

ESEARCH TRAINING GRANT Society for Academic Emergency Medicine R

Description: The Society for Academic Emergency involvement of emergency medicine Medicine invites applications for its research academicians. training grants. The award aims to: The applicant must have an advanced degree  provide support to emergency and must be a member of SAEM. physicians for two years of concentrated training in research The grant provides support of $75,000 per methods and concepts; year for two years.  enhance the likelihood of the selection of an academic and research career by Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) recipients; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet  establish a departmental culture that been announced by funder, but this is the will continue to support research approximate deadline we expect. training independent of the SAEM Posted date: 01 Apr 11 award; Award type: Postdoctoral training  encourage further academic fellowships, Directed grants for individual development and research investigators Award amount max: $150,000

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Award budget total: ------Website: Clinical Medicine; Emergency Medicine http://www.saem.org/SAEMDNN/GrantsAw ards/Grants/ResearchTrainingGrant/tabid/95 Contact Details /Default.aspx ------SAEM Eligibility profile 2340 S River Road, Suite 200 ------Des Plaines, IL 60018 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 916 734 1533 Email: [email protected] Disciplines

OREAN LANGUAGE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS Korea Foundation K

Description: The Korea Foundation invites applications for master’s candidates and lower and ₩1.2m for its Korean language training fellowship. The doctoral candidates and above, a settling-in programme supports Korean studies allowance of ₩300,000, tuition fees and travel researchers, academics, professionals and insurance. graduate students who wish to undertake a language immersion programme and learn Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Korean in a systematic manner. Eligible Deadline information: !! Call has not yet candidates are: been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is  graduate students studying Korea- repeated once a year. related subjects for master's or Posted date: 01 Aug 13 doctoral degrees; Award type: Personal development, Directed  faculty members and researchers grants for individual investigators, Travel engaged in teaching or research for research purposes, Financial aid for activities related to Korea or Korean postgraduate students language; Award amount max: - Award budget total: -  professionals in a cultural or artistic Website: profession related to Korea or Korean https://apply.kf.or.kr/main.nkf?lang=en_US studies. Application form:

http://www.kf.or.kr/file/eng_1/12.%20KF%20 Applicants must have a basic understanding Application%20Form_Korean%20Language of the Korean language. Persons already %20Fello wship.doc resident in Korea or planning to enrol in a degree programme at a Korean institution are Eligibility profile not eligible to apply. The fellowships have a ------tenure of six months. The award includes a Country of applicant institution: Any monthly stipend, which is ₩1 million for

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Disciplines Korean Language Department ------10th Floor, Diplomatic Center Building South-East Asian Literature; Korean 2558 Nambusunhwanno Literature; South-East Asian Languages; Seocho-gu Korean Language; Asian Studies; Languages Seoul 137-863 of the Indian Subcontinent Tel: +82 2 2046 8641 Fax: +82 2 3463 6075 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------

OFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation S

Description: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The award is worth up to €1.65 million for a invites applications for the Sofja Kovalevskaja period of five years and may be used to cover award. This enables young researchers from all expenses relevant to their projects abroad to establish their own research groups including living costs of the applicant. Up to at research institutions in Germany. six awards are available.

Researchers from all countries and disciplines Closing date: 31 Jul 16 who have completed their doctorates with Deadline information: distinction no more than six years ago may Posted date: 26 Apr 16 apply. Applicants must not have been living Award type: Young investigator awards, in Germany for more than 12 months in total Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Travel in the 18-month period prior to the closing for research purposes, Equipment and date for applications. German citizens may materials, Grants - undirected only apply, if they have been resident outside Award amount max: €1,650,000 of Germany for more than 10 years, or for Award budget total: €9,900,000 more than five years, but their strong Website: http://www.humboldt- connections to their current country of foundation.de/web/7360.html residence is proven by being either tenured or Application form: https://www.humboldt- being in possession of a permanent residence foundation.de/pls/web/pub_register.main?p _lang=en&p_package=skp or they or their partner are a national of this country. Eligibility profile

------Scholars in the humanities or social sciences Country of applicant institution: Any and physicians must have a good knowledge of German if it is necessary to carry out the Disciplines project successfully; scientists and engineers ------must have a good knowledge of German or Any English.

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Contact Details 53173 Bonn ------Email: [email protected] Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Jean-Paul-St 12

OUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD National Ataxia Foundation Y

Description: The National Ataxia Foundation invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its young investigator award. investigators, Young investigator awards, The purpose of this grant is to encourage Early-Career fellowships young clinical and scientific investigators to Award amount max: $50,000 pursue a career in the field of ataxia research. Award amount min: $35,000 Each recipient will receive a one-year award Award budget total: - of between US$35,000 and US$50,000. The Website: award will be made to the sponsoring http://www.ataxia.org/research/ataxia- institution and will be used as salary support research-grants.aspx or for direct research expenses. Clinical Application form: investigators must be free to allocate a http://www.ataxia.org/pdf/Ynginvtg2011.pdf minimum of 50 per cent of their time on the project. Non-clinician investigators must Eligibility profile allocate a minimum of 75 per cent of their ------time. Country of applicant institution: Any

Candidates must have attained an MD or PhD Disciplines degree, and have an appointment as a junior ------faculty member. Individuals at the associated General Practice & Family Health; Movement professor level are not eligible. Clinicians Disorders; Diagnostic Sciences; Neurology; must have finished their residency no more Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Pathogenesis; than five years prior to applying. Clinical Medicine

Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Deadline: National Ataxia Foundation letters of intent August 1; full application 2600 Fernbrook Lane Suite 119 September 1, annually. This call is repeated Minneapolis, MN 55447-4752 once a year. Tel: +1 763 553 0020 Posted date: 11 May 11 Fax: +1 763 553 0167 Email: [email protected]

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RTICULUM FELLOWSHIP IN ARTHRITIS AND PAIN Pfizer UK

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Description: ARTICULUM, via Pfizer UK, invites Award amount max: €30,000 applications for its fellowship in arthritis and Award budget total: - pain. This enables young scientists from any Website: country to conduct research on arthritis and http://www.articulumfellowship.com/index. pain. The project will be undertaken at the html facility of an ARTICULUM member. Application form: http://www.articulumfellowship.com/Fellow The award is open to scientists working in shipApplicationForm2016.doc rheumatology and orthopaedic centres worldwide. Applicants must have a degree in Eligibility profile medicine and have some specialty training in ------rheumatology, musculoskeletal medicine, Country of applicant institution: Any orthopaedic surgery or acute or chronic pain management. Applicants must be no more Disciplines than 40 years of age. ------Pain Management; Rheumatology & Arthritis; Fellowships provide up to €30,000 per fellow, Chronic Pain which is primarily intended for salary support, but will also cover travel costs. Contact Details ------Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Vienna Medical Academy Deadline information: This call is repeated Articulum Fellowship once a year. Alser Strasse 4 Posted date: 15 Feb 16 1090 Vienna Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Tel: +43 1 407 8274 Young investigator awards, Directed grants Email: [email protected] for individual investigators

RNOLD W SIEGEL INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AWARD Society of Automotive Engineers A

Description: The Society of Automotive Engineers invites contributions to crash injury protection, crash nominations for the Arnold W Siegel injury biomechanics and crash injury design international transportation safety award. The for all mobility vehicles: land, air, sea and award recognizes individuals whose space. Nominees should be in leadership accomplishments include outstanding positions. international research, innovation and

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The award consists of a medallion and an Country of applicant institution: Any honorarium, valued at $7,500, and is presented at the SAE world congress. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Transportation Engineering; Automotive Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Safety; Automotive Engineering; been announced by funder, but this is the Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Mechanical Engineering; Transport repeated once a year. Infrastructure Management; Aerospace Posted date: 16 Feb 11 Engineering & Avionics; Civil Engineering Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $7,500 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: SAE World Headquarters http://www.sae.org/news/awards/list/siegel/ 400 Commonwealth Drive Application form: Warrendale, PA 15096-0001 https://shop.sae.org/news/awards/list/siegel/ Tel: +1 724 776 4841 app-siegel.shtml Fax: +1 724 776 0790 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------

ARL DEUTSCH AWARD International Studies Association K

Description: The International Studies Association invites Website: nominations for the Karl Deutsch award. This http://www.isanet.org/ProgramsResources/A is awarded for a significant contribution to the wards/KarlDeutsch.aspx study of international relations and peace research undertaken by a scholar under the Eligibility profile age of 40 or within 10 years of defending their ------dissertation. The prize is worth $500. Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Political Science; Cultural Studies; Politics & approximate deadline we expect. This call is International Studies; Peace & Disarmament; repeated once a year. International Relations & Diplomacy Posted date: 13 Apr 11 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Prizes ------Award amount max: $500 ISA Award budget total: - University of Arizona

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ARBARA S BROWN OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD North American Society for the Sociology of Sport B

Description: The North American Society for the Sociology approximate deadline we expect. This call is of Sport invites applications for the Barbara S repeated once a year. Brown outstanding student paper award. Posted date: 14 Apr 11 Students are encouraged to submit a paper on Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings any topic relevant to the sociological study of etc., Prizes sport including physical activity, physical Award amount max: $1,000 education and health and the active body. The Award budget total: - award will be presented at the annual NASSS Website: http://www.nasss.org/ conference. Eligibility profile Authors must be members of NASSS and ------enrolled in a graduate program at the time of Country of applicant institution: Any submission. Papers that have undergone formal, peer review for publication are not Disciplines eligible for the contest. ------Sports & Exercise Studies; Education; Sports The award is worth up to $1,000 to cover Medicine; Exercise Physiology; Psychology; travel expenses to the NASSS conference. Sports Psychology; Physical & Sports Education Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------Email: [email protected]

ÉOPOLD GRIFFUEL PRIZE ARC Foundation for Cancer Research – Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer L

Description: The ARC Foundation for Cancer Research has led to a major breakthrough in invites nominations for the Léopold Griffuel fundamental or applied research in oncology. prize. This recognises researchers whose work

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The award is divided into two categories of Award amount max: €150,000 basic research and translational and clinical. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.recherche- Up to six researchers may be put forward in cancer.net/espace-recherche/arc-foundation- one nomination. Each candidate must be leopold-griffuel.html under the age of 65 in the nomination year and they must still be involved in research. Eligibility profile All candidates must be sponsored by at least ------two internationally renowned scientists. Country of applicant institution: Any

Each prize is worth a total of €150,000 to be Disciplines dedicated to further scientific research, ------including €25,000 remitted to the recipients Cancer Studies & Oncology during the award ceremony. Contact Details Closing date: 31 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: ARC Posted date: 06 Jun 16 Prix Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for 9 Rue Guy Moquet individual investigators, Young investigator 94803 Villejuif Cedex awards, Directed grants to institutions, Email: prixarcleopoldgriffuel@fondation- research groups etc arc.org

ELIGMAN APV FELLOWSHIP Society of Chemical Industry S

Description: The Society of Chemical Industry invites fellow’s home country to the UK, industrial applications for the Seligman APV fellowship. and academic visits, attachment fees, and This enables recent food engineering accommodation and living expenses. graduates and postgraduates aged 25 to 35 to conduct project-based studies and develop Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) their skills at a leading UK centre of food Deadline information: !! Call has not yet technology teaching or industrial research. been announced by funder, but this is the The fellowships may include visits to one or approximate deadline we expect. This call is more UK companies and research centres. repeated once a year. Posted date: 11 May 15 The scheme is open to non-UK residents Award type: Travel for research purposes, working in industry or academia. Directed grants for individual investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Young investigator The fellowship is worth up to £11,000 for a awards period of up to six months. Funds may be Award amount max: £11,000 used to cover one return ticket from the Award budget total: -

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Website: Ukraine, Holy See (Vatican City State), All http://www.soci.org/Awards/Scholarships African Nations, All Asian nations, All South Application form: American nations, All Oceanian nations, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Seligman European Institution (ESA, ESF, European _Fellowship_2015 Commission & others affiliated to the EU or the idea of Europe), All North American Eligibility profile nations, Montenegro ------Country of applicant institution: Andorra, Disciplines Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia ------and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Food Engineering & Technology Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Contact Details France, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, ------Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, SCI Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, 14/15 Belgrave Square Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, London SW1X 8PS the former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, Tel: +44 207 598 1500 Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Fax: +44 20 7598 1545 Romania, Russian Federation, Sweden, Email: [email protected] Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Turkey,

RADUATE AWARDS Klassik Stiftung Weimar G

Description: The Klassik Stiftung Weimar invites Award type: Access to libraries, Publish, applications for its graduate awards. These edit, translate, disseminate, Directed grants support scientists who have obtained above- for individual investigators, Financial aid for average results in their degree studies and postgraduate students wish to carry out a research project in Weimar Award amount max: €6,000 that may culminate in a dissertation or Award budget total: - equivalent scientific work. An assessment Website: http://www.klassik- approving the research project must be stiftung.de/index.php?id=451 enclosed with the application. Application form: http://www.klassik- stiftung.de/uploads/tx_lombkswmargcontent Funding is worth €1,000 per month for a /Antragsformular_Weimar-Stipendium.pdf maximum of six months. Eligibility profile Closing date: 31 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 July Country of applicant institution: Any 2016, 31 January 2017, and repeated annually. Posted date: 23 Sep 14 Disciplines ------

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European Studies; Earth Sciences; Theology & Religious Studies; Arts and Humanities; Contact Details History; History of Philosophy; Chemistry; ------Area Studies; Music; Humanism; Classics; Klassik Stiftung Weimar Communication & Media Studies; Linguistics; Stabsreferat Forschung und Bildung Humanities; Art & Design: History, Practice & Platz der Demokratie 4 Theory; Physics; Environmental Science; 99423 Weimar Studies in Religious Traditions; Biological Tel: +49 36 4354 5563 Sciences; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Fax: +49 36 4354 5569 Archaeology; Libraries & Information Science; Email: [email protected] Physical Sciences; History of Human Society

OSTDOCTORAL AWARDS Klassik Stiftung Weimar P

Description: The Klassik Stiftung Weimar invites Country of applicant institution: Any applications for its postdoctoral awards. Applicants may be young science and Disciplines humanities graduates who have already ------completed their doctoral thesis and published Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; in relevant journals. Biological Sciences; Performing Arts; Area Studies; Environmental Science; Humanities; Funding is worth €1,500 per month for a Classics; Chemistry; Linguistics; Studies in maximum of six months. Religious Traditions; Archaeology; Physics; Humanism; History; Theology & Religious Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Studies; Arts and Humanities; History of Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 July Human Society; Philosophy; History of 2016, 31 January 2017, and repeated annually. Philosophy; Libraries & Information Science; Posted date: 23 Sep 14 European Studies; Music; Communication & Award type: Access to libraries, Directed Media Studies; Physical Sciences; Earth grants for individual investigators, Young Sciences investigator awards Award amount max: €9,000 Contact Details Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - Klassik Stiftung Weimar Website: http://www.klassik- Stabsreferat Forschung und Bildung stiftung.de/index.php?id=451 Platz der Demokratie 4 Application form: http://www.klassik- 99423 Weimar stiftung.de/uploads/tx_lombkswmargcontent Tel: +49 36 4354 5563 /Antragsformular_Weimar-Stipendium.pdf Fax: +49 36 4354 5569

Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------

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ESIDENTIAL AWARDS Klassik Stiftung Weimar R

Description: The Klassik Stiftung Weimar invites applications for its residential awards. These Eligibility profile offer graduates, scientists who have ------completed their doctoral thesis and Country of applicant institution: Any habilitated scientists whose monthly net income exceeds €1,500 the opportunity to Disciplines conduct research in Weimar. ------Theology & Religious Studies; Arts and Applicants must have a monthly net income Humanities; Classics; History of Philosophy; of €1,500 or more. Chemistry; Performing Arts; Linguistics; Physical Sciences; Biological Sciences; Funding is worth €500 per month for a Philosophy; Studies in Religious Traditions; maximum of six months. The award winners Physics; Humanities; History of Human also benefit from a generous book allowance Society; Libraries & Information Science; and a variety of concessions. History; European Studies; Area Studies; Humanism; Earth Sciences; Art & Design: Closing date: 31 Jul 16 History, Practice & Theory; Archaeology; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 July Music; Environmental Science; 2016, 31 January 2017, and repeated annually. Communication & Media Studies Posted date: 23 Sep 14 Award type: Access to libraries, Directed Contact Details grants for individual investigators, Financial ------aid for postgraduate students Klassik Stiftung Weimar Award amount max: - Stabsreferat Forschung und Bildung Award budget total: - Platz der Demokratie 4 Website: http://www.klassik- 99423 Weimar stiftung.de/index.php?id=451 Tel: +49 36 4354 5563 Application form: http://www.klassik- Fax: +49 36 4354 5569 stiftung.de/uploads/tx_lombkswmargcontent Email: [email protected] /Antragsformular_Weimar-Stipendium.pdf

P DEN HARTOG AWARD American Society of Mechanical Engineers J

Description: The American Society of Mechanical vibration engineering and includes a cash Engineers invites applications for the JP Den prize of US$3,000. Hartog award. The award recognises lifetime contributions to the teaching and practice of

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Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated every 2 years. ------Posted date: 13 Mar 13 Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Award type: Prizes Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Vibration Award amount max: $3,000 & Vibration Control; Mechanical Engineering Award budget total: - Website: http://www.asme.org/about- Contact Details asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/j------p--den-hartog-award Tel: +1 206 543 5718 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile

TUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS International Society for Equitation Science S

Description: The International Society for Equitation Award amount max: £750 Science invites applications for its student Award budget total: £3,000 research grants. These enable students to Website: undertake supervised research projects in the http://www.equitationscience.com/student- field of equitation science. research-grant Application form: Applicants must be student members of the http://www.equitationscience.com/_literatur society. Projects must be agreed and e_129963/Student_Research_Grant_Applicati recommended by the proposed supervisor on_Form who must also be a member of the society, and projects should be run within a Eligibility profile department or research group. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Up to four grants, worth £750 each, are available. Projects must be completed within nine months. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Companion Animals; Animal Development; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 July Livestock & Animal Science 2016, 31 January 2017, and repeated annually. Posted date: 02 Mar 16 Contact Details Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate ------students, Student awards, Directed grants Email: [email protected] for individual investigators

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OSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE Association for the Study of Modern Italy P

Description: The Association for the Study of Modern Italy Posted date: 27 Nov 15 invites submissions for its postgraduate essay Award type: Prizes prize. This recognises an unpublished work Award amount max: £300 by a postgraduate student related to modern Award budget total: - Italian history, society or politics in the period Website: between circa 1780 and the present. http://www.asmi.org.uk/postgraduates/asmi- postgraduate-essay-prize/ Applicants should be currently registered for a postgraduate degree, or have completed a Eligibility profile postgraduate degree not more than one year ------before the closing date for this competition. Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must be members of ASMI. Submissions may be written in English or Disciplines Italian, and must not currently be under ------consideration for publication. Italian Literature; Italian Language; Italian History The prize is worth £300. Contact Details Closing date: 31 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year.

ENTOR AWARDS American Association for the Advancement of Science M

Description: The American Association for the individual who has served in the role of a Advancement of Science invites applications mentor for 25 years or longer; and the mentor for its mentor awards. These honour award, for an individual who has served as a individuals who during their careers mentor for less than 25 years. Both awards demonstrate leadership to increase the recognise an individual who has mentored participation of underrepresented groups in and guided significant numbers of students science and engineering fields and careers. from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies, or who has The awards are open to all regardless of impacted the climate of a department, college, nationality or citizenship. Two awards are or institution to significantly increase the available: the lifetime mentor award, for an

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diversity of students pursuing and Website: completing doctoral studies. http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/ment or/ Application form: http://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/migra Both awards include a monetary prize of te/uploads/mentor_awards_app_2011.pdf US$5,000, and complimentary registration, reimbursement of hotel and travel expenses to Eligibility profile attend the AAAS annual meeting. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and repeated once a year. Engineering Posted date: 20 Apr 15 Contact Details Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Prizes AAAS Award amount max: - 1200 New York Avenue NW Award amount min: $5,000 Washington, DC 20005 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

OCTORAL GRANTS CALMETTE AND YERSIN Institut Pasteur D

Description: The Institut Pasteur International Division Funding covers living expenses, insurance invites applications for its doctoral grants and one return ticket per year for three years. Calmette and Yersin. These allow researchers to conduct their PhD in an institute within the Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) Deadline information: outside of France. Research areas may include Posted date: 31 Mar 16 all themes developed in the laboratories of the Award type: Predoctoral training RIIP. The PhD traineeship will be conducted fellowships, Travel for research purposes in an institution where the candidates outside Award amount max: - their home country and outside the country in Award budget total: - which their studies were conducted. Website: http://www.pasteur.fr/en/education/doctoral- Researchers from all nationalities may apply. programs/doctoral-grants-calmette-yersin Applicants must hold a master’s degree or a Application form: http://bourses.pasteur- doctorate in medicine, sciences or pharmacy. international.org/public.aspx Candidates who have already started their Eligibility profile PhD cannot apply. ------

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Country of applicant institution: Any Diseases; Clinical Surveillance; Pharmacy & Pharmacology Disciplines ------Contact Details Diagnostic Sciences; Immunology; ------Microbiology; Primary Care; Infectious Email: [email protected]

ESEARCH GRANTS Univers Foundation R

Description: The Univers Foundation invites proposals for Posted date: 24 Jun 14 its research grants. These support research Award type: Directed grants for individual that contributes to the enhancement of social investigators, Travel to conferences, welfare in an ageing society with falling meetings etc., Equipment and materials, birthrates and depopulating society. Young investigator awards, Publish, edit, Proposals may address the following topics: translate, disseminate Award amount max: ￥1,000,000  develop social security system and Award budget total: - policy; Website:  mind and health; http://www.univers.or.jp/eng/index.php?Fro  community roles. ntPage Application form: http://univers.or.jp/eng/swfu/d/research_app Applicants must be engaged in research licationform2015eng.docx activities at a university, research laboratory, research institution or an educational Eligibility profile organisation. Applicants who are enrolled in a ------master’s course or the first half of a doctoral Country of applicant institution: Any course must have an advisor to be eligible.

Disciplines Grants will cover personal costs, travel ------expenses, equipment, commissioned research, Home & Household Studies; Youth & rental fees, meeting expenses, research Adolescents; Health Insurance; Social Services materials, printing expenses, correspondence Delivery; Savings & Investments; Sociology; expenses and supplies. Grants are worth up to Social Work & Social Policy; Interpersonal ¥1 million over one year. Relationships; Emotion; Psychology; Patient

Care & Education; Social Psychology; Closing date: 31 Jul 16 (Forecast) Violence & Violent Crime; Child Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Development; Domestic Violence & Familial been announced by funder, but this is the Abuse; Social Aspects of Mental Health; approximate deadline we expect. Proposals due by 5pm Japan time. This call is repeated Psychology of Ageing; Social Programmes; once a year. Alzheimer's Disease & Senile Dementia; Child

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Protection & Welfare; Depression & Other Univers Foundation Mood Disorders; Social Infrastructure; YPC Building 5F Business & Management Studies; Geriatrics & 2-14-8 Yotsuya Gerontology; General Practice & Family Shinjuku-ku Health Tokyo 160-0004 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------

HIN FILMS AND SURFACES GROUP WOODRUFF THESIS PRIZE Institute of Physics T

Description: The Institute of Physics’ Thin Films and Award amount min: - Surfaces Group invites proposals for the Award budget total: - Woodruff thesis prize. This is awarded for the Website: best PhD thesis in the field of thin films and http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/tf surfaces in 2015. sg/prize/page_50366.html Application form: Members of IOP may nominate candidates for http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/tf the prize. Both members and non-members sg/prize/file_67386.doc are eligible for the nomination. The thesis must have been successfully examined and Eligibility profile the final version submitted during the ------calendar year 2015. Country of applicant institution: Any

The prize is worth £200. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Condensed Matter, Surfaces & Structure; Thin Deadline information: This call is repeated Film Technology once a year. Posted date: 20 May 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: £200 Email: [email protected]

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EMBERSHIP IN ORTHODONTICS CASES PRIZE AND MEDAL British Orthodontic Society M

Description: The British Orthodontic Society invites Members/Awards-Prizes/Awards-and- applications for its membership in Prizes/MOrth-Cases-Prize-and-BOS-Medal orthodontics cases prize and medal. This Application form: recognises the two best sets of clinical records http://www.bos.org.uk/Portals/0/Public/docs/ for treated cases displayed at the British Awards%20and%20Prizes/morth-app-form- Orthodontic Society related to orthodontia. 2014.pdf

Applicants must be members of the society in Eligibility profile good standing. They should have taken the ------membership in orthodontics examinations in Country of applicant institution: Any the year preceding the conference. Disciplines A total of three prizes, worth £800, £400 and ------£300, are available. Orthodontics

Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Contact details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. BOS Posted date: 13 Feb 15 12 Bridewell Place Award type: Prizes London EC4V 6AP Award amount max: £800 Tel: +44 20 7353 8680 Award amount min: £300 Fax:+44 20 7353 8682 Award budget total: £1,500 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.bos.org.uk/Professionals-

AURICE BERMAN PRIZE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE British Orthodontic Society M

Description: The British Orthodontic Society invites intents Applicants must be members of the society in to submit for the Maurice Berman prize for good standing with at least 10 years clinical clinical excellence. This recognises case experience since gaining their orthodontic reports that include full diagnostic, treatment qualification. Case studies should not have progress, finish and post-treatment records been previously published, and should be related to orthodontia. made available for publication in the Journal

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of Orthodontics or other BOS publication Awards%20and%20Prizes/berman- upon its success. templateandentryform2014-2.docx

Eligibility profile Closing date: 31 Jul 16 ------Deadline information: Intent to submit due Country of applicant institution: Any by 31 July; case reports due by 18 September 2016. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 24 May 16 ------Award type: Prizes Orthodontics Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.bos.org.uk/Professionals- BOS Members/Awards-Prizes/Awards-and- 12 Bridewell Place Prizes/Maurice-Berman-Prize-for-Clinical- London EC4V 6AP Excellence Tel: +44 20 7353 8680 Application form: Fax: +44 20 7353 8682 http://www.bos.org.uk/Portals/0/Public/docs/ Email: [email protected]

ELMUT-SCHMIDT-PROGRAMME – MASTER’S SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE H Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service

Description: The German Academic Exchange Service  public economics, law and politics at (DAAD) invites applications for the Helmut- Leuphania University Lüneburg; Schmidt-programme – master’s scholarships  management in non-profit for public policy and good governance. These organisations at Hochschule enable graduates from selected countries in Osnabrück; Africa, Latin America, South Asia, South-east  master of democratic governance and Asia and the Middle East to obtain a master’s civil society at the University of degree in a good governance-related subject Osnabrück; in Germany. The following master’s courses  master of governance and public can be undertaken at selected universities: policy at University Passau;  master of public management at  master of public policy at Hertie University Potsdam. School of Governance, Berlin;  master of development and Additionally scholarship holders will be governance at University Duisburg- placed on German courses for normally six Essen; months at selected institutes in Germany  master of public policy at Willy before taking up their master’s studies. Brandt School of Public Policy at University Erfurt;

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Argentina, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Each applicant must hold a good first degree Burundi, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, obtained no more than six years prior to Botswana, Belize, Congo, the Democratic applying. The proposed master’s degree must Republic of the, Central African Republic, have special relevance for the social, political Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Chile, Cameroon, and economic development of their home Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cape Verde, country. Applicants may not have lived in Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Germany for more than 15 months. Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Grenada, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, The scholarship is worth €750 per month. It Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea- also includes contributions to health Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, insurance, travel allowance, study and Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, research costs, rent subsidies and family Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Cambodia, Comoros, allowances where applicable. Scholarship Saint Kitts and Nevis, Korea, Democratic holders are exempt from tuition fees. People's Republic of, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Deadline information: Applications are Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, invited between 1 June and 31 July 2016. Mauritania, Montserrat, Mauritius, Maldives, This call is repeated once a year. Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Award type: Travel for research purposes, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Directed grants for individual investigators, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Paraguay, Young investigator awards, Financial aid for Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Saint Helena, postgraduate students Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, Sao Award amount max: - Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Arab Award budget total: - Republic, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Website: Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Tanzania, United https://www.daad.de/miniwebs/icostjerusale Republic of, Uganda, Uruguay, Saint Vincent m/en/24639/index.html and the Grenadines, Venezuela, Vietnam, Application form: Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, https://www.daad.de/imperia/md/content/inf South Sudan ormationszentren/icostjerusalem/ausschreib ungen/ppgg-antragsformular.pdf Disciplines

------Eligibility profile Government & Governance Studies; Public ------Policy Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Angola,

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ID CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR SURGEONS – CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL TRAUMA C AO Foundation

Description: The AO Foundation invites applications for Senior fellowships, Personal development, the CID clinical research fellowship Travel for research purposes programme for surgeons – craniomaxillofacial Award amount max: - trauma. This enables surgeons to gain training Award budget total: - and experience in all phases of clinical Website: research, including study planning, https://www.aofoundation.org/Structure/rese monitoring, data analysis and publication, by arch/clinical-research/activity- spending three months at the foundation’s service/clinical-research- Clinical Investigation and Documentation fellowship/Pages/AOCID-Clinical-Research- branch office in Switzerland. Fellowship-Program-Surgeons.aspx Application form: Applicants must meet the following criteria: https://www.aofoundation.org/Structure/rese arch/clinical-research/activity- service/clinical-research-  hold a medical doctorate with fellowship/Documents/FellowshipApplicati minimum orthopaedic training; onForm.pdf  have published at least one clinical

investigation; Eligibility profile

 be willing to dedicate at least 10 per ------cent of their time to clinical research; Country of applicant institution: Any  be supported by an AOTrauma or AOCMF member at their home clinic. Disciplines ------Up to two fellowships are available. They Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Traumatology, cover accommodation and travel expenses to Accidents & Injury; Clinical Medicine and from Switzerland, and travel costs for public transport within Zurich. Contact Details ------Closing date: 31 Jul 16 Stettbachstrasse 6 Deadline information: 8600 Dübendorf Posted date: 11 Apr 16 Tel: +41 44 200 2463 Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Mid- Fax: +41 44 200 2460 Career fellowships, Postdoctoral training Email: [email protected] fellowships, Networking/collaboration,

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IVES BEST PAPER AWARD FOR EARLY SCHOLARS Swiss National Science Foundation L

Description: The Swiss National Science Foundation, Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for through the Swiss National Centre of individual investigators, Travel to Competence in Research LIVES, invites conferences, meetings etc. applications for its best paper award for early Award amount max: - scholars. This recognises the best paper in the Award budget total: - areas of vulnerability and life course studies Website: https://www.lives- written by scholars at the beginning of their nccr.ch/en/actualite/lives-best-paper-award- career. The award will be delivered during the 2016-early-scholars-2000-euros-n1790 Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Application form: https://www.lives- Studies conference from 5 to 8 October 2016 in nccr.ch/en/node/1791 Bamberg, Germany. Eligibility profile Applicants have to be the main contributor of ------the paper and have received their PhD after 1 Country of applicant institution: Any January 2009. The paper must have been published in English in a peer-reviewed Disciplines journal in the year 2015, be empirical, and ------make an important contribution to the field Community Studies; Urban Sociology; Legal and preferably be longitudinal and & Social Change; Political Sociology; Social interdisciplinary. Problems; Population Studies; Social Identity; Social Infrastructure The award includes €2,000, travel expenses, as well as conference and hotel fees for up to Contact Details three nights to attend the conference. ------NCCR LIVES Closing date: 31 Jul 16 University of Lausanne Deadline information: Géopolis Building Posted date: 24 May 16 1015 Lausanne Tel: +41 21 692 3871 Email: [email protected]

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AUGUST 2016

RANCIS M PIPKIN AWARD American Physical Society F

Description: The American Physical Society invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for the Francis M Pipkin award. repeated every 2 years. The purpose of this award is to honour Posted date: 13 Jan 12 exceptional research accomplishments by a Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings young scientist in the interdisciplinary area of etc., Young investigator awards, Prizes precision measurement and fundamental Award amount max: - constants and to encourage the wide Award budget total: - dissemination of the results of that research. Website: The award is given biennially every odd- http://www.aps.org/units/gpmfc/awards/pip number year and consists of US$2,000 plus kin.cfm support of travel expenses to the APS meeting Application form: at which the award is conferred. http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE =PIPKIN

Scientists who have held the PhD degree for Eligibility profile not more than 15 years prior to the ------nomination deadline are eligible for the Country of applicant institution: Any award. The award recipient will be selected on the basis of outstanding work in the area of Disciplines precision measurement and fundamental ------constants, as represented by his or her Physics publications and three nominating letters.

Any APS member, not a member of the award Contact Details selection committee, may submit a ------nomination. APS

One Physics Ellipse Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) College Park, MD 2070-3844 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +1 301 209 3200 been announced by funder, but this is the Fax: +1 301 209 0865 Email: [email protected]

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EACTOR TECHNOLOGY AWARD American Nuclear Society R

Description: The American Nuclear Society invites Application form: nominations for its reactor technology award. http://www.ans.org/honors/sd/reactech- This recognises original contributions in the form.pdf areas of design and safety in reactor technology. Eligibility profile ------The candidate should be the author of one or Country of applicant institution: Any more peer-reviewed original technical papers or patents contributing to the advancement of Disciplines reactor technologies. Any member of the ANS ------can nominate a candidate, who does not have Nuclear Fuels, Enrichment & Waste to be an ANS member. Processing; Nuclear Power, Technology & Engineering The award is worth US$2,000. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Aug 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Honors and Awards once a year. American Nuclear Society Posted date: 09 Jun 16 555 North Kensington Avenue Award type: Prizes La Grange Park, Illinois 60526-5535 Award amount max: $2,000 Tel: +1 708 352 6611 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ans.org/honors/va- reactech

LECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS DIVISION AWARD Electrochemical Society E

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites nominations for the electronics and photonics Nominees must be currently active members division award. The purpose of the award is of the society. to encourage excellence in electronics research and outstanding technical contribution to the The award is worth US$1,500. In addition, a field of electronics science. For the purpose of maximum of US$1,000 may be granted for this award, electronics science is defined as expenses incurred to receive the award or the that area of knowledge which encompasses payment of life membership in the society. the physics, chemistry and metallurgy of electronic materials and devices. Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast)

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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Chemistry; Electro-Optical Engineering; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Electrochemistry; Materials Sciences; repeated once a year. Metallurgy; Electrical & Electronic Posted date: 19 Jun 14 Engineering; Physics; Electronic Properties of Award type: Prizes Materials Award amount max: $2,500 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division Electrochemical Society /rules/epd_rules.htm Society Headquarters Office 65 South Main Street Eligibility profile Building D ------Pennington, NJ 08534 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Email: [email protected] Disciplines

ULBRIGHT NEW ZEALAND GENERAL GRADUATE AWARDS Fulbright New Zealand F

Description: Fulbright New Zealand invites applications Awards include participation in a pre- for the Fulbright general graduate awards. departure programme, return airfare, health These support New Zealand graduate and accident insurance, and a one-off students to undertake one-year study or payment worth US$31,000, reduced to research in the US. Applications are US$21,000 for visits of less than nine months’ welcomed from graduate students in any field duration. Approximately eight awards, worth of study not covered by other Fulbright up to US$33,000 each for visits between six graduate awards. Candidates may not pursue and 12 months, are available. study or research activities that involve direct clinical patient contact. Medical students may Closing date: 01 Aug 16 receive awards for advanced academic study, Deadline information: If the application but not for internships or residencies. deadline falls on a weekend or public holiday, the deadline is extended to 5pm on Applicants must be New Zealand citizens and the next business day. This call is repeated must not be citizens of or currently living in once a year. the US. They must have at least a four-year Posted date: 26 Apr 16 degree at tertiary level, but not yet hold a Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate doctoral degree, and they must plan to students, Travel for research purposes, undertake full-time postgraduate study or Personal development research for at least six months. Award amount max: $33,000 Award budget total: -

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Website: American nations, All Oceanian nations, http://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzgradu Caribbean ate/general/ Application form: Disciplines https://apply.embark.com/student/fulbright/i ------nternational/20/ Any

Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Canada, Tel: +64 4 494 1500 Mexico, All African Nations, All European Email: [email protected] Nations, All Asian nations, All South

ESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS: FAA/CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INSTITUTE R National Research Council

Description: The National Research Council invites Closing date: 01 Aug 16 applications for its research associateship Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 programs at the FAA/Civil Aerospace August 2016, 1 November 2016, 1 February Medical Institute. The objectives of the 2017, 1 May 2017, and repeated annually. programs are to provide postdoctoral Posted date: 20 Aug 10 scientists and engineers of unusual promise Award type: Early-Career fellowships and ability with opportunities for research on Award amount max: $44,000 problems, largely of their own choice, that are Award budget total: - compatible with the interests of the Website: sponsoring laboratories. http://nrc58.nas.edu/RAPLab10/Opportunity/ Program.aspx?LabCode=31&ReturnURL=%2 Awardees must hold a PhD, ScD, or other fRAPLab10%2fOpportunity%2fPrograms.as earned research doctoral degree recognized in px%3fLabCode%3d31 Application form: US academic circles as equivalent to a PhD. http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/RAP/ Postdoctoral associates must have held the PGA_046398 doctorate for under five years. Senior associates must have held the doctorate for Eligibility profile five years or more or have equivalent research ------experience. Tenure ranges from three months Country of applicant institution: Any to one year.

Opportunities are open to all US citizens and Disciplines to citizens of other countries who have full ------command of the English language. The Aeronautical Safety; Physiology; Medical current annual stipend for a postdoctoral Devices; Psychobiology; Manufacturing & research associate is $42,000 plus a travel Industrial Engineering; Public Health, Health allotment of $2,000. Services & Primary Care; Psychology;

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Aerospace Medicine; Human Physiology; ------Environmental & Occupational Health & FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute Safety; Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; MMAC, CAMI, AAM-3 Safety Engineering; Aerospace Engineering & PO Box 25082 Avionics; Civil Engineering; Mechanical Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73125 Engineering Tel: +1 405 954 1000 Fax: +1 405 954 1010 Contact Details Email:: [email protected]

HOMAS MARSHALL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS American Society for Theatre Research T

Description: Award budget total: - The American Society for Theatre Research Website: invites applications for the Thomas Marshall http://www.astr.org/?page=Marshall_Award graduate student awards. These encourage students to become active members of the Eligibility profile society by helping them to meet the expenses ------of attending the ASTR annual meeting. Country of applicant institution: Any

Students majoring in theatre or performance Disciplines studies in any academic department at any ------level of higher education are eligible to apply. Literature, Drama; Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; Theatre Studies; Three awards worth US$800 each are Performing Arts Management & available. Administration; History of Art; History of Architecture; Performing Arts Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is ASTR repeated once a year. PO Box 1798 Posted date: 21 May 14 Boulder, CO 80306-1798 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Email: [email protected] etc., Student awards Award amount max: $800

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IELECTRIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION THOMAS D CALLINAN AWARD D Electrochemical Society

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for the Thomas D Callinan repeated every 2 years. award of the dielectric science and technology Posted date: 04 Nov 11 division. The purpose of this award is to Award type: Prizes promote interest and activity in the field of Award amount max: $1,500 dielectric science and technology among Award budget total: - scientists in their early careers. The granting Website: of the award is based upon some outstanding http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division achievement in dielectric science and /rules/dst_callinan_rules.htm technology. The award will be given to the author of a paper, or patent, reporting this Eligibility profile new advance in dielectrics. For the purpose of ------the award, dielectric science and technology is Country of applicant institution: Any defined as that area of knowledge which deals with the physics and chemistry of dielectric Disciplines materials, as well as the mechanisms and ------operation of devices in which electrical energy Electrochemistry; Chemistry; Magnetism & can be stored or insulated in electrical or Electromagnetism; Physics electronic equipment. The award consists of a scroll and a prize of US$1,500. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) Electrochemical Society Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 65 South Main Street been announced by funder, but this is the Pennington, NJ 08534 2839 Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Email: [email protected]

PILEPSY RESEARCH RECOGNITION AWARDS International League Against Epilepsy E

Description: The American Epilepsy Society invites importantly to understanding and conquering nominations for its epilepsy research epilepsy. These awards will be made to active recognition awards. The aim is to encourage scientists and clinicians. The programme is and reward clinical and basic science open to investigators working in all aspects of investigators whose research contributes epilepsy.

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Website: Any individual holding a professional degree https://www.aesnet.org/research/research_aw and whose research impacts on any aspect of ards/epilepsy_research_recog_awards epilepsy is eligible. There is no geographic Application form: restriction. Nominations of women and http://www.aesnet.org/research/research- members of minority groups are especially awards/epilepsy-research-recognition- encouraged. Preference is given to AES awards-program/face-page members. Two awards, worth US$10,000 each, are available. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Epilepsy & Seizures; Neurology; Clinical Posted date: 21 Feb 13 Medicine; Diagnostic Sciences Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $10,000 Contact Details Award budget total: $20,000 ------Email: [email protected]

ESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY JOINT R POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM National Research Council

Description: The National Research Council invites applications for the joint postdoctoral The award offers an annual stipend of $55,000 program for the National Institutes of Health for a period of two years and includes and the National Institute of Standards and relocation expenses, health insurance Technology. The goal is to cultivate a coverage, and limited professional travel. scientific work force competent in both the biological and the physical sciences. The Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) research opportunities will emphasize Deadline information: !! Call has not yet interdisciplinary research at the interface of been announced by funder, but this is the the biological and physical sciences including: approximate deadline we expect. This call is structural and computational biology, medical repeated once a year. and bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics, Posted date: 12 Feb 09 tissue engineering, single molecule detection, Award type: Early-Career fellowships nanotechnology, and imaging techniques. Award amount max: $110,000 Award budget total: - PhD recipients within five years of the Website: doctorate at the time of application are http://nrc58.nas.edu/RAPLab10/Opportunity/ eligible to apply. The program is open to all Program.aspx?LabCode=AE&ReturnURL=% nationalities.

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2fRAPLab10%2fOpportunity%2fPrograms.a Telemedicine; Physics; Bioinformatics; spx%3fLabCode%3dAE Human Biological Sciences; Regenerative Medicine; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Eligibility profile Genomics; Physiology ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Disciplines Office of Intramural Training and Education ------NIH Health & Medical Informatics; Building 2, Room 2W23, MSC 0240 Nanotechnology; Computer Science & Bethesda, MD 20892-0240 Informatics; Radiology & Medical Imaging; Tel: +1 301 402 3889 Proteomics & Molecular Interactions; Email; [email protected] Biological Sciences; Diagnostic Sciences;

ARY JANE OESTMANN PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S ACHIEVEMENT AWARD American Nuclear Society M

Description: The American Nuclear Society invites Website: http://www.ans.org/honors/va- nominations for the Mary Jane Oestmann oestmann professional women’s achievement award. Application form: This recognises personal dedication and http://www.ans.org/honors/sd/oestmann- technical achievement by a woman in the form.pdf fields of nuclear science, engineering, research or education. Eligibility profile ------Nominees should be affiliated with the Country of applicant institution: Any nuclear community and their work should show technical leadership. The award may be Disciplines given for lifetime achievement or for a ------singular contribution to the technical Nuclear Physics; Nuclear Power, Technology community. & Engineering; Nuclear Chemistry

The award is worth US$1,000. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 Aug 16 Honors and Awards Deadline information: This call is repeated American Nuclear Society once a year. 555 North Kensington Avenue Posted date: 06 Jun 16 La Grange Park Award type: Prizes Illinois 60526 Award amount max: $1,000 Email; [email protected] Award budget total: -

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RAINING FELLOWSHIPS European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases T

Description: The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Closing date: 01 Aug 16 Diseases invites applications for its training Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 fellowships. These fund visits by ESPID August 2016, 1 November 2016, 1 February members to other centres to obtain experience 2017, 1 May 2017, and repeated annually. or training in techniques or areas not Posted date: 05 Dec 14 otherwise available to them. Clear and Award type: Young investigator awards, specific training objectives, which could Travel for research purposes, Personal involve clinical, laboratory, public health or development, Access to laboratories, other academic areas, are essential. telescopes etc., Hosting visits, Hosting access to facilities The applicant must be a trainee paediatrician Award amount max: - or in medical, allied health professional or Award budget total: - scientific training in a clinical or academic Website: http://www.espid.org/award- content.aspx?Group=Awards&Page=TrainFe centre involved in paediatrics or child health llow under the age of 40. Applications from those in career posts may also be funded if there is a Eligibility profile clear case that the relevant experience to be ------gained is of strategic importance and not Country of applicant institution: Any available locally. The host must be in a different country from the applicant’s home Disciplines country, and provide written confirmation in ------advance that they can provide the type of Infectious Diseases; Paediatrics training being specifically requested. Both applicants and host staff must be ESPID Contact Details members. ------

ESPID The awards will cover round-trip travel costs c/o Kenes International Organizers of and a maximum of €412 per week towards Congresses SA subsistence while away. The host centre is Rue François-Versonnex 7 offered fixed funding towards its costs; €82 1207 Geneva for administration expenses, plus a maximum Tel: +31 20 763 0104 of €185 per week to cover infrastructure costs. Fax: +31 20 763 0511 Visits are usually for around one to two Email: [email protected] months, and the maximum is ten weeks.

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KIFFIN PENRY EXCELLENCE IN EPILEPSY CARE AWARD International League Against Epilepsy J

Description: The American Epilepsy Society invites Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings nominations for the J Kiffin Penry excellence etc., Prizes in epilepsy care award. This award recognises Award amount max: - individuals whose work has had a major Award budget total: - impact on patient care and improved the Website: quality of life for persons with epilepsy, as http://www.aesnet.org/go/research/research- well as rewarding excellence in the care of awards/distinguished-achievement-awards persons with epilepsy. Eligibility profile The award consists of a US$3,000 honorarium, ------round trip economy airfare, one night’s Country of applicant institution: Any lodging at the society's annual conference, reimbursement of per diem expenses and Disciplines scientific programme registration. ------Clinical Medicine; Life Expectancy & Quality Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) of Life; Epilepsy & Seizures; Diagnostic Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sciences; Primary Care; Public Health, Health been announced by funder, but this is the Services & Primary Care; Patient Care & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Education; Neurology repeated once a year. Posted date: 21 Feb 13 Contact Details ------Email: [email protected]

ANE DEMPSEY DOUGLASS PRIZE American Society of Church History J

Description: The American Society Of Church History Deadline information: !! Call has not yet invites nominations for the Jane Dempsey been announced by funder, but this is the Douglass prize. The prize is an annual award approximate deadline we expect. This call is in the amount of $250 for the author of the repeated once a year. best essay published during the previous Posted date: 09 Mar 11 calendar year on any aspect of the role of Award type: Prizes women in the history of Christianity. Award amount max: $250 Award budget total: - Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) Website: http://www.churchhistory.org/grants-prizes/

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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any American Society of Church History PO Box 2216 Disciplines Hewitt, TX 76643-2216 ------Tel: +1 254 666 2457 History; Christianity & Christian Fax: +1 254 666 8010 Denominations; Theology & Religious Email: [email protected] Studies; Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies; Studies in Religious Traditions; Sociology

OCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte – Leibniz Institute of European History D

Description: The Leibniz Institute of European History Each scholarship is worth €1,200 per month invites applications for its doctoral for a period of six to 12 months. Additional scholarships. These enable doctoral family allowance may be available. researchers to conduct research into the religious, political, social or cultural history of Closing date: 01 Aug 16 Europe between about 1450 and about 1970 at Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 the Leibniz Institute in Mainz, Germany. times a year. Comparative, transnational and transfer- Posted date: 23 Feb 16 historical research projects as well as projects Award type: Access to libraries, Predoctoral that deal with topics of intellectual, church or fellowships, Travel for research purposes, theological history are particularly welcome. Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: - Applicants must have a master’s level degree Award budget total: - in history, theology or any other historical Website: http://www.ieg- subject and they should not have pursued mainz.de/en/studentships/promotion/doctor their PhD work for more than three years al-scholarships when taking up the scholarship. Fellows may Eligibility profile be of any nationality, but they must have a ------sufficient command of German to follow Country of applicant institution: Any discussions at the institute. Political History; Dutch History; Eastern European History; Scandinavian History; Disciplines Cultural History; Finnish History; History of ------Religions; Colonial History; Early Modern Spanish History; Renaissance History; French History; Portuguese History; Modern History; History; German History; British & Irish History of Ideas; Modern Greek History; History; Studies in Religious Traditions;

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Central European History; Russian History ------Email: [email protected] Contact Details

ROJECT SUPPORT GRANT British Society for Neuroendocrinology P

Description: The British Society for Neuroendocrinology Posted date: 05 Feb 15 invites applications for its project support Award type: Directed grants for individual grants. These provide support for investigators, Equipment and materials, consumables and other research costs to Studentship allocations enable postdoctoral scientists or students to Award amount max: £5,000 carry out neuroendocrine research projects. Award budget total: - Website: The scheme is primarily intended to support http://www.neuroendo.org.uk/Members/Gra PhD studentships, although it will also nts.aspx provide resources for MRes. Applicants must Application form: be postdoctoral researchers within 10 years of http://www.neuroendo.org.uk/LinkClick.asp their doctoral award, or academic or faculty x?fileticket=gonp3L1_uwE%3d&tabid=86&p staff applying on behalf of a student. ortalid=0&mid=603

Eligibility profile Each applicant must have been a full member ------of the society for at least six months. Previous Country of applicant institution: Any recipients of funding are eligible to apply.

Non-UK based members are also eligible to Disciplines apply. Students must also be members of the ------society. A total of 12 awards, worth a Neuroendocrinology maximum of £5,000 each, are available every year. Contact Details

------Closing date: 01 Aug 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 August 2016, 1 November 2016, 1 February 2017, 1 May 2017, and repeated annually.

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OHN MADDOX PRIZE Sense About Science J

Description: Sense About Science, in collaboration with have yet to receive recognition for their Nature and the Kohn Foundation, invites public-interest work. nominations for the John Maddox prize. This recognises an individual who has promoted The prize is worth £2,000. sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest. Closing date: 01 Aug 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Nominations may be any kind of public once a year. activity, including writing, speaking and Posted date: 11 May 16 public engagement. The nominees should: Award type: Prizes Award amount max: £2,000  communicate good science clearly, Award budget total: - despite challenge, difficulties or Website: adversity; http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/joh  take responsibility in a public debate, n-maddox-prize.html going above and beyond their job Application form: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/201 requirements; 6-nomination-form.html  place the evidence in the wider debate

and engage others effectively. Eligibility profile

------Researchers in any area of science or Country of applicant institution: Any engineering, or those working to address misleading information and bring evidence to Disciplines light, may be nominated. Nominees may be ------based anywhere in the world. Nominators Physical Sciences and Engineering; should normally be individuals who are Bio/Medical familiar with the candidate’s work and they must seek permission from the candidate for Contact Details the nomination. Self-nominations may be ------considered in exceptional circumstances. Tel; +44 20 7490 9590 Priority is given to active researchers who Email: [email protected]

ORDIC PRIZE IN BASIC AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Journal N

Description: The Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and pharmacology and toxicology. This is Toxicology Journal invites nominations for its awarded to a scientist in honour of a lifelong Nordic prize in basic and clinical effort to develop and promote clinical

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pharmacology or toxicology in a Nordic The prize is worth €10,000. country as well as internationally. The prize can also be awarded for a single major Closing date: 01 Aug 16 discovery. Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Active researchers who have carried out basic Posted date: 19 Feb 16 or clinical research at a high international Award type: Prizes level at a public or private research institution Award amount max: €10,000 in a Nordic country are eligible. The candidate Award budget total: - may have been born or have received their Website: http://rsrch.co/18W0Y7z undergraduate training outside the Nordic countries. Nominations may be submitted by Eligibility profile members of the Danish Society for ------Pharmacology; the Norwegian Society of Country of applicant institution: Any Pharmacology and Toxicology; the Norwegian Society of Clinical Pharmacology; Disciplines the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, ------Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; the Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Swedish Society for Toxicology; the Finnish Toxicology Pharmacological Society; the Finnish Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Contact Details the Finnish Toxicological Society and the ------Icelandic Pharmacological Society. Email: [email protected]

ES SERVICE AWARD International League Against Epilepsy A

Description: The American Society invites applications for Deadline information: !! Call has not yet its service award. This is presented annually been announced by funder, but this is the to a member of the AES and recognises approximate deadline we expect. This call is outstanding service in the field of epilepsy, repeated once a year. including non-educational and non-scientific, Posted date: 22 Feb 13 and exemplary contributions to the welfare of Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, the society and its members. meetings etc. Award amount max: - The awardee receives a US$1,000 honorarium Award budget total: - plus round trip economy airfare, one night Website: lodging for annual conference, reimbursement http://www.aesnet.org/go/research/research- of per day expenses and scientific programme awards/distinguished-achievement-awards registration. Eligibility profile

Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) ------Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Contact Details ------Neurology; Clinical Medicine; Diagnostic Email: [email protected] Sciences; Epilepsy & Seizures

CIENCE/SCILIFELAB PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS American Association for the Advancement of Science S

Description: The American Association for the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Advancement of Science and SciLifeLab invite repeated once a year. applications for the Science/SciLifeLab prize Posted date: 26 Feb 15 for young scientists. This recognises a young Award type: Prizes, Young investigator scientist for life science research. awards Award amount max: $30,000 Eligible entrants must have been awarded Award amount min: $10,000 their PhD between 1 January two years Award budget total: - previously and 31 December in the year prior Website: to the deadline. The topic of their thesis http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/data/ research must be in one of the following prizes/scilifelab/ categories: Application form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DML7FFG

 cell and molecular biology; Eligibility profile  genomics and proteomics; ------ ecology and environment; Country of applicant institution: Any  translational medicine.

Disciplines The prize only recognises work that was ------performed while the applicant was a graduate Genomics; Translational Medicine; student. Environmental Science; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Cell & Developmental The grand prize winner receives US$30,000 Biology and their winning essay is published in Science magazine. Each of the category Contact Details winners receives US$10,000 and their essays ------are published online. AAAS 1200 New York Avenue NW Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) Washington DC 20005 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the

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CIENCE AND SCILIFELAB PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS Science for Life Laboratory S

Description: The Science for Life Laboratory, the Science magazine and the American Association for Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) the Advancement of Science invite entries for Deadline information: !! Call has not yet their prize for young scientists. This been announced by funder, but this is the recognises the best research thesis related to approximate deadline we expect. This call is life science for which the candidate was repeated once a year. awarded a doctoral degree. Research must Posted date: 18 Mar 15 relate to one of the following subjects: Award type: Young investigator awards, Prizes  cell and development biology, Award amount max: $30,000 including cellular and molecular Award budget total: $70,000 processes at levels ranging from single Website: molecule to single cell tissue and http://www.scilifelab.se/collaboration/scilife labprize/ organ systems; Application form:  genomics and proteomics, with a http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DML7FFG focus on analyses of gene- and

protein-related events, at the scale of Eligibility profile gene or protein networks to the ------complete set of genes or proteins in an Country of applicant institution: Any organism;

 ecology and environment, including Disciplines interactions between organisms and ------their environment, and how these Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover; processes are influenced by human Plant Cell & Molecular Biology; Genomic activity; Imprinting; Molecularly Targeted Therapy;  translational medicine, including in Community Ecology; Ecosystem Function; vitro or animal model studies of Protein Trafficking; Genomics; Translational biological processes to develop Medicine; Behavioural Ecology; Population & potential therapies or medical Ecological Genetics; Molecular & Protein procedures. Engineering; Cell Cycle & Division;  Intergenerational & Environmental Ethics; Eligible entrants are young scientists who Environmental Impact Assessment; Cell received a PhD between 1 January 2013 and Lines; Cell Physiology & Metabolism; 31 December 2014. The work must have been Population Ecology; Proteomics & Molecular conducted while the applicant was a graduate Interactions; Cellular Interactions; In Vitro student. Biology; Gene Therapy

A total of five prizes are available. Category Contact Details prizes are worth up to US$10,000 each, and ------the grand prize is worth US$30,000. Winning Email: [email protected] essays may be published in the Science magazine and online.

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ESEARCH GRANTS European Hematology Association R

Description: The European Hematology Association research project such as consumables, travel, invites applications for its research grants. and equipment. These support any aspect of the study of haematology in its broadest sense, including Closing date: 01 Aug 16 molecular biology and biochemistry, virology, Deadline information: This call is repeated immunology, cell biology, epidemiology and once a year. diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The Posted date: 14 Apr 16 following awards are available: Award type: Travel for research purposes, Postdoctoral training fellowships, Early-  clinical fellowships – applicants must Career fellowships, Directed grants for be medical doctors who have research individual investigators, Clinical trials, experience and a medial PhD, or Equipment and materials medical doctors who have obtained Award amount max: €160,000 their medical degree less than 12 Award amount min: €50,000 months prior to the application; Award budget total: - Website:  non-clinical advanced fellowships – http://www.ehaweb.org/career/career- applicants must be non-medical development-grants/research-grants/ scientists within eight years of Application form: receiving their PhD, or medical https://www5.shocklogic.com/scripts/jmeven doctors who have obtained their t/profile- medical degree less than 12 months login.php?Client_Id=EHA&Project_Id=3260 prior to the application; &System_Id=1&Form_Id=&Language_Code  non-clinical junior fellowships – = applicants must be non-medical scientists within four years of Eligibility profile receiving their PhD. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must be members or guests of the society at the time of application. They must Disciplines be based in an academic institution, either ------their home or host institute must be located in Epidemiology; Cell & Developmental Biology; Europe and they may be of any nationality. Diagnostic Sciences; Immunology; Virology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Each grant is for a two year period, and is Haematology worth €80,000 per year for clinical fellowships and non-clinical advanced fellowships or Contact Details €50,000 per year for non-clinical junior ------fellowships. Grants cover salary and other Email: [email protected] expenses directly necessary for pursuit of the

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EORGE WATT PRIZE Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives G

Description: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites applications for the George Watt prize. repeated once a year. This recognises an essay or thesis chapter on Posted date: 06 Jun 14 any aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the Award type: Prizes, Student awards global political or cultural struggles against Award amount max: $250 fascism in 1920s and 1930s, or the lifetime Award budget total: $500 histories and contributions of the Americans Website: http://www.alba- who fought in support of the Spanish valb.org/participate/essay-contest Republic from 1936 to 1938. Eligibility profile Applications are open to undergraduate or ------graduate students from any country. Country of applicant institution: Any Submissions must be between 3,500 and 7,500 words, produced to fulfil an undergraduate or Disciplines graduate course or degree requirement, and ------may be written in Spanish or English. Spanish History; Political Science; Civil & Human Rights; American History; Politics & Two prizes, worth US$250 each, will be International Studies; History; Military awarded. History; Social Reform & Social Movements

Closing date: 01 Aug 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected]

UNIOR SHORT TERM COLLABORATION AWARD European Hematology Association J

Description: The European Hematology Association are unavailable in the applicant's home invites applications for its junior short term institute. collaboration award as a part of EHA’s career development programme. This supports the Fellowships are open to EHA members of any career development of young scientists who nationality. Applicants should hold an MD or are involved in basic or clinical haematology PhD degree or be PhD students with at least research. The aim of the programme is to one year of research experience. MD facilitate the collaboration between research graduation may not be more than 12 years groups that have techniques or facilities that ago or the applicant should not have more

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than 8 years of post-doc experience after PhD development-grants/short-term- graduation. Applicants holding both an MD collaboration-awards/ and a PhD must be within 12 years of MD Application form: graduation. Home and host institutes must be https://www5.shocklogic.com/scripts/jmeven academic research or clinical haematology t/profile- centres in different countries, of which at least login.php?Client_Id=EHA&Project_Id=3260 one is located in Europe. &System_Id=1&Form_Id=&Language_Code = Awards of up to €7,500 are granted if home and host institutes are both within Europe, Eligibility profile €10,000 in case of intercontinental visits. Visits ------may last up to three months. Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 01 Aug 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Haematology Posted date: 13 Apr 16 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Travel for research purposes, ------Networking/collaboration, Directed grants EHA Executive Office for individual investigators, Equipment and Koninginnegracht 12b materials 2514 AA Award amount max: €10,000 The Hague Award budget total: - Tel: +31 703 020 099 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.ehaweb.org/career/career-

MICORE MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY PHD AWARD National Fund for Scientific Research – Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique U

Description: The Belgian National Fund for Scientific The prize is worth €10,000. Research invites applications for the Umicore materials technology PhD award. This Closing date: 01 Aug 16 recognises an original contribution in the fields of recycling, materials Posted date: 12 May 16 Deadline information: for catalysis or Award type: Prizes materials for batteries. Award amount max: €10,000 Award budget total: - Researchers having obtained their PhD Website: http://www1.frs- between 1 January 2014 and 31 December fnrs.be/en/index.php/sponsorship- 2015 may apply. prizes/prix/technological-sciences

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Application form: http://www1.frs- Disciplines fnrs.be/en/docs/Prix/FRS------FNRS_Application_form_Umicore_Material Waste Recycling, Reduction & Recovery; s_Technology_PhD_Award.doc Materials Sciences

Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]

RIAN D NOVIS JUNIOR GRANT International Myeloma Foundation B

Description: The International Myeloma Foundation ource_link_id=168&type=article&tab_id=4& invites applications for the Brian D Novis menu_id=8&id=69 junior grant. This supports doctors and Application form: researchers conducting research in the field of http://myeloma.org/pdfs/grants/2015JuniorG multiple myeloma and related disorders. rantApp.pdf

Candidates must have completed their Eligibility profile postdoctoral studies or clinical fellowships no ------later than 1 August of the application year, Country of applicant institution: Any and must be able to devote a minimum of 50 per cent of their time to the research project Disciplines during the award year. ------Preventive Medicine; Medical & Diagnostic The award is worth US$50,000. Institutional Tests; General Practice & Family Health; overheads must not exceed 10 per cent of the Public Health, Health Services & Primary total grant amount. Care; Clinical Medicine; Haematology; Primary Care; Leukaemia & Other Blood Closing date: 03 Aug 16 (Forecast) Cancers; Carcinogenesis; Cancer Cell Biology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Cancer Studies & Oncology; Diagnostic been announced by funder, but this is the Sciences approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact details Posted date: 16 Jun 14 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual IMF International Headquarters investigators, Young investigator awards 12650 Riverside Drive, Suite 206 Award amount max: $50,000 North Hollywood, CA 91607 Award amount min: - Tel: +1 818 487 7455 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://myeloma.org/main.jsp?source=link&s

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ENTOR-BASED POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME IN REHABILITATION RESEARCH M National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Description: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is applications for its mentor-based postdoctoral repeated once a year. fellowship programme in rehabilitation Posted date: 25 Sep 15 research. This supports mentor-institution Award type: Travel for research purposes, combinations responsible for the recruitment, Directed grants to institutions, research selection and training of postdoctoral fellows groups etc, Travel to conferences, meetings who are pursuing a career in rehabilitation etc., Postdoctoral training fellowships, research applied to multiple sclerosis and Directed grants for individual investigators, similar disorders. Networking/collaboration, Early-Career fellowships Mentors and fellows may be of any Award amount max: - nationality. Mentors and institutions from Award budget total: - outside the US are requested to submit dual Website: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/For- applications to governmental granting Professionals/Researchers/Society- agencies or non-profit funding agencies in Funding/Training-Grants-and- their own country. Fellowships/Mentor-Based-Postdoctoral-

Fellowship-In-Rehabilita Mentors must hold a faculty appointment at Application form: https://nmss.fluxx.io/ an accredited institution. Fellows may have up to three years’ previous postdoctoral Eligibility profile training and must hold, or be candidates for, a ------PhD, MD or equivalent degree. Country of applicant institution: Any

The fellowship is tenable for five years and Disciplines may be used to support a given postdoctoral ------fellow for up to three years, with a second Multiple Sclerosis; Health Counselling; fellow possible for the remaining two years, Physiotherapy & Physiatry; Rehabilitation and to cover salary, relocation and travel Engineering expenses, training and supervision costs. Contact details Closing date: 03 Aug 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the

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HA/ISTH JOINT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME European Hematology Association E

Description: The European Hematology Association, in Networking/collaboration, Postdoctoral association with the International Society of training fellowships Thrombosis and Haemostasis, invites Award amount max: €100,000 applications for its joint fellowship Award budget total: - programme. This supports the study of Website: physiology of coagulation, bleeding or http://www.ehaweb.org/career/career- thrombosis. development-grants/eha-isth-joint- fellowship-2/ Candidates have to be holders of either a MD Application form: or PhD where applicants holding both an MD https://www5.shocklogic.com/scripts/jmeven and a PhD must be within 12 years of post- t/Abstract.asp?Client_Id=%27EHA%27&Proj graduation and PhDs must have less than ect_Id=%27ISTH2015%27&Form_Id=&Lang eight years of post-doc experience after uage_Code= graduation. EHA or ISTH membership is Eligibility profile required and all fellows must have a mentor ------working in the candidate’s proposed research Country of applicant institution: Any field.

Disciplines Funding is worth €50,000 per year for up to ------two years. Haematology

Closing date: 03 Aug 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is EHA Executive Office repeated once a year. Koninginnegracht 12b Posted date: 23 Mar 15 2514 AA The Hague Award type: Directed grants for individual Tel: +31 70 302 0099 investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Email: [email protected] Travel for research purposes,

DVOCACY FELLOWSHIPS Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition A

Description: The Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition invites advocacy projects focused on biomedical HIV applications for its advocacy fellowships. prevention research activities. Advocacy These enable individual emerging and mid- fellows carry out their projects while based at career advocates to design and implement

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host organisations that are active partners in Application form: the fellowship process. http://www.avac.org/sites/default/files/u3/20 15AdvocacyFellowshipApplicationInstructio Applicants may be community leaders or nsandForm.doc advocates with an interest in this field, or individuals with experience or education in Eligibility profile the areas of HIV and Aids, public health, ------medicine, international development, Country of applicant institution: Lower- women’s rights, communications or advocacy. Middle-Income countries, Low Income Applicants must be based in low- and middle- countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries income countries and they must be able to communicate in English. Disciplines ------Fellowships include training, full-time Venereology & Sexually Transmitted financial support and technical assistance to Diseases; Infectious Diseases; Primary Care; plan and implement a targeted one-year Diagnostic Sciences; Preventive Medicine; project. Blood Tests; HIV/Aids; Social Work & Social Policy; Clinical Medicine; Public Health, Closing date: 04 Aug 16 (Forecast) Health Services & Primary Care; Infection Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Agents & Pathogens; Disease Control; Health been announced by funder, but this is the Counselling approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 10 Jun 14 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual AVAC investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Mid- 423 West 127th Street, 4th Floor Career fellowships, Directed grants to >New York, NY 10027 institutions, research groups etc, Tel: +1 212 796 6423 Networking/collaboration Fax: +1 646 365 3452 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.avac.org/blog/announcing-call- 2015-advocacy-fellowship-applications

UTSTANDING ABSTRACT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS American Society of Hematology O

Description: The American Society of Hematology invites author in each of the following categories: applications for the outstanding abstract medical student, graduate student, resident achievement awards. These are intended for physician and postdoctoral fellows who hold the abstract presenters with the highest either a medical degree or a PhD. scoring abstracts of which they are the first

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Eligibility profile Each award is worth US$500, and awardees ------also receive travel reimbursement for coach Country of applicant institution: Any airfare to the annual meeting and two nights’ hotel accommodation. Disciplines ------Closing date: 05 Aug 16 (Forecast) Blood, Blood Products & Transfusions; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet General Practice & Family Health; Bone been announced by funder, but this is the Marrow; Diagnostic Sciences; Blood Diseases; approximate deadline we expect. Haematology; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Applications are due by 11.59 pm (PDT). Immunology This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 28 Jul 14 Contact Details Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Prizes American Society of Hematology Award amount max: $500 2021 L Street, NW Award budget total: - Suite 900 Website: Washington, DC 20036 http://www.hematology.org/Awards/Abstrac Tel: +1 202 776 0544 t-Achievement/ Fax: +1 202 776 0545 Application form: Email: [email protected]. https://ash.confex.com/ash/2014/cfp.cgi

EADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: PHARMACOLOGY PRIZES British Pharmacological Society D

Description: The British Pharmacological Society has university pharmacology department may brought forward the deadline for nominations nominate one student. for its pharmacology prizes. The previous deadline of 30 August has been brought Prizes are worth £500 each. forward to 7 August 2016. All other information remains unchanged. *** Closing date: 07 Aug 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated These prizes recognise MSci students who once a year. have completed a final year experimental Posted date: 14 Jun 16 project in pharmacology. Award type: Prizes, Student awards Award amount max: £500 Applicants’ final year modules must be at Award budget total: - least 50 per cent in pharmacology. Website: Intercalated medical students are not eligible. https://www.bps.ac.uk/membership- Nominations are only accepted from the awards/support-for-student-members/prizes- department and not individuals; each for-students

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Eligibility profile Pharmacy & Pharmacology ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------

ONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS European Molecular Biology Organisation L

Description: The European Molecular Biology Closing date: 08 Aug 16 Organisation invites applications for its long- Deadline information: Applications must be term fellowships. These enable postdoctoral started before 2pm CEST, 8 August; researchers to visit laboratories throughout complete applications due by 2pm CEST, 12 Europe and the world. International exchange August 2016. This call is repeated 2 times a is a key feature in the application process and year. all fellowships must involve movement Posted date: 06 Jun 16 between countries. Award type: Travel for research purposes, Early-Career fellowships, Access to Applicants must have gained a doctoral laboratories, telescopes etc. degree or equivalent within the two years Award amount max: - prior to applying, and must have at least one Award budget total: - first-author publication accepted in press or Website: http://www.embo.org/programmes/fellowshi published in an international peer-reviewed ps/long-term.html journal. Candidates may only submit one application for one project at one host Eligibility profile laboratory in each round. Various mobility ------schemes are offered with specific eligibilities, Country of applicant institution: Any depending on whether the research stay is in an EMBC member state, an associate member Disciplines state or a non-member state. ------

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Each fellowship lasts between one and two years. Funding includes a subsistence stipend Contact Details with a value dependent on the host country, ------as well as travel up to €5,000 plus half a EMBO Fellowship Office month’s stipend for relocation costs and child Meyerhofstrasse 1 care allowances of up to €2,500 per year and 69117 Heidelberg child. Email: [email protected]

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UGUENOT SCHOLARSHIP Institute of Historical Research H

Description: The Institute of Historical Research invites Award amount max: £2,500 applications for the Huguenot scholarship. Award budget total: - This is awarded to a student working towards Website: a higher degree on a Huguenot subject, for http://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/hugue example, any activity of the French, the not-scholarship Dutch, the Flemish or the Walloon Protestants Applicationform: from the 16th century to the present day, in http://www.history.ac.uk/online- any geographical area. applications/

Applicants may be of any nationality or Eligibility profile academic affiliation, but they must be ------registered for a postgraduate degree in history Country of applicant institution: Any or a closely related subject. Disciplines The scholarship is worth £2,500. ------Modern History; Dutch History; Christianity Closing date: 08 Aug 16 & Christian Denominations; French History; Deadline information: This call is repeated Early Modern History once a year. Posted date: 13 Jun 16 Contact Details Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate ------students, Directed grants for individual Email: [email protected] investigators, Student awards

ELLOWSHIPS African Women in Agricultural Research and Development F

Description: The African Women in Agricultural Research Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Development invites applications for its Uganda or Zambia, and who have completed fellowships. These equip top women a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan one of the following disciplines: Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their research and leadership  agricultural economics; skills.  agricultural engineering;  agronomy; Applications are welcome from women  animal and livestock sciences; agricultural scientists who are citizens of  aquatic resources and fisheries; Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi,  biodiversity conservation;

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 crop sciences; Website:  ecology; http://www.awardfellowships.org/the-  entomology; award-fellowship/overview  extension education; Application form:  food sciences and nutrition https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=tABLN9dF  forestry and agroforestry; hBu044bs3ktW6w

 horticulture; Eligibility profile  molecular biology - plant or animal ------breeding; Country of applicant institution: All African  natural resources management; Nations  plant or animal virology;  soil sciences; Disciplines  veterinary sciences; ------ water and irrigation management. Tree Selection & Breeding; Veterinary Medicine; Agronomy; Environmental Science; Applicants must be resident in Africa Virology; Horticultural & Crop Production; throughout the fellowship period. Soil Sciences; Agroforestry; Plant Development & Reproduction; Nutrition & Fellowships last for two years and provide Dietetics; Civil Engineering; Plant Selection & mentoring partnerships and some costs Breeding; Veterinary Toxicology; Food towards attending training courses across Science; Water Resources Engineering & Africa. Successful candidates must be Management; Sustainable Agriculture; available to attend one of the three five-day Livestock & Animal Science; Agriculture; AWARD mentoring orientation workshops to Biological Sciences; Entomology; Fisheries be held in February or March 2015 in Kenya. Science; Agriculture, Drainage & Irrigation; Up to 70 awards are available. Use & Management of Natural Resources; Animal Breeding; Agricultural Ecology; Closing date: 08 Aug 16 (Forecast) Agricultural Engineering; Forestry Science Deadline information: !! Call has not yet (Silvology) been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 07 Jul 14 AWARD Award type: Personal development, P.O Box 30677-00100 Nairobi Development (Africa/Caribbean), Tel; +254 20 722 4242 Postdoctoral training fellowships Email: [email protected] Award amount max: - Award budget total: -

ESEARCH DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP FOR AUD AUDIOLOGISTS (F32) NIH: National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders R

Description: The National Institute on Deafness and Other fellowship for AuD audiologists (F32). This Communication Disorders invites enables scientists to undertake comprehensive applications for its research dissertation and rigourous biomedical research training

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and dissertation research leading to a research Deadline information: Applications open 8 doctorate in the biomedical, behavioural, or July 2016 and are due by 5pm local time of clinical sciences. The overall goal of the NIH applicant organisation, every 8 December, 8 Ruth L. Kirschstein national research service April and 8 August until 8 May 2019. award programme is to help ensure that a Posted date: 22 Apr 16 diverse pool of highly trained scientists is Award type: Equipment and materials, available in appropriate scientific disciplines Directed grants to institutions, research to address the Nation's biomedical, groups etc, Personal development, Directed behavioural, and clinical research needs. grants for individual investigators, Travel to NRSA fellowships support the training of pre- conferences, meetings etc., Postdoctoral and postdoctoral scientists, dual-degree training fellowships investigators, and senior researchers. The Award amount max: - training plan should facilitate the fellow’s Award budget total: - Website: transition to the next stage of his or her career. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-

files/PAR-16-210.html Eligible applicants include US and foreign for- profit or non-profit organisations and public Eligibility profile or private institutions. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants may receive up to five years of support at the pre-doctoral level and up to six Disciplines years for dual degree training; three years of ------support at the postdoctoral level including Bio/Medical any combination of support from institutional training grants and an individual fellowship Contact Details award. ------Tel: +1 301 496 1804 Ref: PAR-16-210. Email: [email protected]

Closing date: 08 Aug 16

OHN TYNDALL AWARD IEEE J

Description: The IEEE and the Optical Society of America experimental or theoretical. Nominees need invite applications for the John Tyndall not be members of the sponsoring societies. award. This award recognises an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in The award consists of an honorarium, a any area of optical-fibre technology, including Steuben crystal sculpture and a scroll. optical fibres, the optical components employed in fibre systems, as well as the Closing date: 10 Aug 16 (Forecast) transmission systems employing fibres. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contributions must have proven benefit to approximate deadline we expect. This call is science, technology, or society and may be repeated once a year. Posted date: 06 Feb 13

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Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: ------Award budget total: - Fibre Optic Networks; Electrical & Electronic Website: http://photonicssociety.org/award- Engineering info Application form: Contact Details http://photonicssociety.org/sites/default/files ------/Nom%20Form%20-%20JT%201.12.pdf IEEE Photonics Society 445 Hoes Lane Eligibility profile Piscataway, NJ 08854 ------Tel: +1 732 562 8434 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]

EZCOLLER FOUNDATION/AACR INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR CANCER RESEARCH P Pezcoller Foundation

Description: The American Association for Cancer Closing date: 10 Aug 16 Research and the Pezcoller Foundation invite Deadline information: Nominations due by nominations for their international award for 4pm US ET. This call is repeated once a year. cancer research. This recognises a scientist Posted date: 09 Jun 16 who has made a major scientific discovery in Award type: Travel for research purposes, basic cancer research or has made significant Prizes contributions to translational cancer research, Award amount max: - whose ongoing work hold promise for Award budget total: - continued substantive contributions to Website: progress in the field of cancer. http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/ Awards- Nominees should be cancer researchers Detail.aspx?ItemId=16#.VPBpdnbahBI affiliated with institutions in academia, Eligibility profile industry or government that are involved in ------cancer research, cancer medicine or cancer- Country of applicant institution: Any related biomedical science anywhere in the world. Nominees must be active in cancer Disciplines research and have a record of recent ------publications. Any scientist who has been Cancer Studies & Oncology affiliated with an institution involved in cancer research may make a nomination. Contact Details

------The award includes an unrestricted grant of Tel: +1 215 446 7128 €75,000 and full support for the recipient and Email: [email protected] a guest to attend the AACR annual meeting in

Washington DC from 1 to 5 April 2017.

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CIENCE AWARD FOR ELECTROCHEMISTRY Volkswagen Aktiengesellshaft S

Description: Volkswagen AG and BASF SE invite applications for their science award in Closing date: 12 Aug 16 electrochemistry. This funds scientific Deadline information: Applications due by research in electrochemistry in the areas of 12 midnight CET. This call is repeated once a chemistry, physics and engineering. The focus year. of this contest round is on battery materials, Posted date: 17 May 16 cells, battery systems, production and Award type: Prizes, Young investigator operations as well as recycling. The goal is to awards, Directed grants for individual give the impetus for a new generation of investigators, Innovation grants researchers and support activities such as Award amount max: €50,000 postdoctoral fellows establishing new Award budget total: €85,000 institutes or chairs. Website: http://www.science- award.com/en/sae/conditions_science- Individual researchers under 40 years of age award.htm Application form: http://www.science- all around the world may apply. They must award.com/en/sae/register.htm hold a PhD degree or show excellent research contribution from the field of chemistry, Eligibility profile physics or engineering and be based at a ------university, scientific institution or corporate Country of applicant institution: Any research laboratory. Groups are excluded from the call. Applications must be submitted Disciplines in English. ------

Electrochemistry; Physics; Engineering; The total budget for the award is worth Chemistry €85,000, of which €50,000 is allocated to the winner and the rest is shared between the Contact Details finalists. The winner and the finalists may use ------the prize money freely. Applicants may Email: [email protected] submit only one application.

PECIAL AWARD FOR APPLIED RESEARCH Volkswagen Aktiengesellshaft S

Description: Volkswagen AG and BASF SE invite in the areas of chemistry, physics and applications for their special award for engineering. This aims to give the impetus for applied research. This funds excellent a new generation of research resources, research and its application in battery- including corporate researchers, postdoctoral materials, systems, production and recycling fellows intending to habilitate and for Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

assistant or junior professors to establish a Award budget total: €15,000 new institute or chair. Website: http://www.science- award.com/en/sae/conditions_special- Individual researchers under 50 years of age award.htm may apply. They must hold a PhD degree or Application form: http://www.science- show excellent research contribution from the award.com/en/sae/register.htm field of chemistry, physics or engineering. Groups are excluded from the call. Eligibility profile Applications must be submitted in English. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award is worth €15,000 and it may be used freely. Disciplines ------Closing date: 12 Aug 16 Electrochemistry; Industrial Electronics; Deadline information: Applications due by Energy Storage - Batteries & Grid; Energy 12 midnight CET. Engineering; Electronic Properties of Posted date: 17 May 16 Materials Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Prizes, Innovation grants, Contact Details Young investigator awards ------Award amount max: €15,000 Email: [email protected]

CHOLARSHIPS Ministry of Foreign Affairs S

Description: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico at the time of application. All documents and invites applications for its international forms must be in Spanish or with Spanish scholarships. The following opportunities are translations. included in this call: Closing date: 14 Aug 16 (Forecast)  visiting professors; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet  high-level conferences; been announced by funder, but this is the  Genaro Estrada scholarship for approximate deadline we expect. The specialists in Mexican studies; complete application and accompanying  artist residencies; documentation, as indicated by each programme, must be received by the  media residencies; Academic Exchange Office at least one  improving the quality of Mexican month before the start date of the activity. secondary and higher education This call is repeated once a year. institutions. Posted date: 03 Aug 15 Award type: Travel for research purposes, International academics from countries Grants - undirected, Predoctoral fellowships included in the scholarship programme are Award amount max: - eligible. Applicants cannot be living in Mexico

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Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://amexcid.gob.mx/index.php/es/oferta- Any de-becas-para-extranjeros/1737 Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Minstry of Foreign Affairs Country of applicant institution: Bermuda, Ave. Juárez N°20 Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Colonia Centro Miquelon, United States, All African Nations, Distrito Federal All European Nations, All Asian nations, All 06010 Cuauhtémoc South American nations, All Oceanian Tel: +55 3686 5100 nations, Caribbean, Central America, All Fax: +55 3686 5359 North American nations, Curaçao, Sint Email: [email protected] Maarten

VIDENCE AWARDS Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust E

Description: The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons veterinary-based undergraduate Trust invite submissions for its evidence degree – the prize consists of a one awards. These recognise outstanding day ticket to veterinary evidence contributions in the theory and practice of today 2016 on 2 November, including evidence-based veterinary medicine. The tickets to the evidence awards following awards are available: including £200 towards travel and subsistence.  the dame Olga Uvarov award for best article published in veterinary Closing date: 14 Aug 16 evidence – the price consists of a full Deadline information: This call is repeated access-all-areas ticket to veterinary once a year. evidence today plus £200 towards Posted date: 05 May 16 travel and subsistence; Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings  the Graham-White award for the best etc., Prizes knowledge summary produced by Award amount max: - primary care practitioner published in Award budget total: - veterinary evidence – the price Website: consists of a full access-all-areas ticket http://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/grants/availabl to veterinary evidence today plus £200 e-grants/the-evidence-awards/

towards travel and subsistence; Eligibility profile  the Reginald Snelling student essay ------competition aimed at international Country of applicant institution: Any students currently studying a

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ESEARCH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD National Ataxia Foundation R

Description: The National Ataxia Foundation invites Application form: applications for its research postdoctoral http://www.ataxia.org/pdf/research_applicati fellowship award. This award will support ons/Fellowship%20Grant%20Application%2 research in the field of ataxia. Applicants 0for%20FY2013.pdf should have completed at least one year of postdoctoral training, but not more than two. Eligibility profile Awards are for one year only. Grants are ------worth up to US$35,000. Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 15 Aug 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Public Health, Health Services & Primary approximate deadline we expect. Letters of Care; General Practice & Family Health; intent 15 August; full applications 15 Movement Disorders; Diagnostic Sciences; September, annually. This call is repeated Neurology; Pathogenesis; Medical & once a year. Diagnostic Tests; Primary Care Posted date: 09 Jul 12 Award type: Postdoctoral training Contact Details fellowships ------Award amount max: $35,000 National Ataxia Foundation Award budget total: - 2600 Fernbrook Lane, Suite 119 Website: Minneapolis, MN 55447-4752 http://www.ataxia.org/research/ataxia- Tel: +1 763 553 0020 research-grants.aspx Fax: +1 763 553 0167 Email: [email protected]

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FK LIBRARY FOUNDATION KENNEDY RESEARCH GRANTS National Archives and Records Administration J

Description: The National Archives and Records Application form: Administration's John F Kennedy Library http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/How-to- Foundation provides funds for a number of do-Research-at-the-Kennedy- grants for research on any topic relating to the Library/Research-Grants-and- Kennedy period. The purpose of these grants Fellowships/~/media/assets/Foundation/Abo is to help defray living, travel, and related ut%20Us%20Manual%20Upload/About%20 costs incurred while doing research in the Us%20PDFs/Research%20Grants%20and%20 textual and non-textual holdings of the Fellowships/PDFResearchGrantApplication library. Scholars and students are eligible to Form.pdf apply. Preference is given to PhD dissertation research, research in recently opened or Eligibility profile relatively unused collections, and the ------preparation of recent dissertations for Country of applicant institution: Any publication. Grants range from $500 to $2,500 each. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 Aug 16 (Forecast) Early Modern History; History; North Deadline information: !! Call has not yet American Studies; Political Science; American been announced by funder, but this is the History; Democracy & Participation; approximate deadline we expect. This call is American Literature; Political History; repeated once a year. Modern History; Politics & International Posted date: 11 May 11 Studies; Cultural History; Government & Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Governance Studies Travel for research purposes, Access to libraries Contact Details Award amount max: $2,500 ------Award amount min: $500 John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Award budget total: - Museum Website: Columbia Point http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK+Library+and Boston, MA 02125 +Museum/Kennedy+Library+Foundation/Pr Tel: +1 617 514 1629 ograms+and+Library+Support/Research+Gr Fax: +1 617 514 1625 ants+and+Fellowships/Kennedy+Research+ Email: [email protected] Grants.htm

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WEDISH STEEL PRIZE SSAB S

Description: SSAB invites nominations for the Swedish Deadline information: !! Call has not yet steel prize. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is This is an annual international prize, worth repeated once a year. SEK100,000, which can be awarded to any Posted date: 28 Mar 13 company, institution, organisation or Award type: Prizes individual for a product in which high- Award amount max: kr100,000 strength structural steel, wear plate or tool Award budget total: - steel has contributed to an innovative design Website: with clear benefits. http://www.steelprize.com/en/Apply/#.U_cm 101meaY This may relate, for example, to new design Application form: features, lighter products, simplified http://www.ssab.com/sv/SteelPrize/Apply- for-Swedish-Steel-Prize/ production, longer life time, improved performance and beneficial environmental Eligibility profile effects. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any The materials used must be within the range of materials made by SSAB but need not Disciplines necessarily be produced by SSAB. The prize ------also covers methods and tools, which Metallurgy; Materials Properties & Analysis; simplifies the use of such steels or could Materials Sciences; Civil Engineering; contribute towards expanded use of these Construction Materials; Manufacturing & steels. Industrial Engineering; Mechanical

Engineering; Aerospace Engineering & There are no time limits within which the Avionics; Structural Engineering product or method must be evolved or developed. Contact Details

------Closing date: 15 Aug 16 (Forecast) Tel: +46 243 71003 Email: [email protected]

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XPOSITORY WRITING AWARD Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences E

Description: The Institute for Operations Research and the Awards/INFORMS-Expository-Writing- Management Sciences invites nominations for Award/Expository-Writing-Award- its expository writing award. The award Application-Process recognises an author whose publications in operations research and management science Eligibility profile have set an exemplary standard of exposition. ------The awardee's written work, published over a Country of applicant institution: Any period of at least 10 years, should indicate an influence and accessibility enhanced by Disciplines expository excellence. The publications ------nominated for the award can be books or Statistics; Management Information Systems; papers in any combination. Teams of authors Calculus of Variations, Systems & Control are also eligible for nomination. The award Theories; Business & Management Studies; consists of US$2,000 and a framed certificate. Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Management Theory; Operations Research; Closing date: 15 Aug 16 (Forecast) Pure Mathematics Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. London School of Economics Posted date: 09 Jul 12 Department of Management, NAB 3.08 Award type: Prizes Houghton Street Award amount max: $2,000 London Award budget total: - WC2A 2AE Website: http://www.informs.org/Recognize- Email: [email protected] Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-

CTP-IAEA SANDWICH TRAINING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

I Description: The Abdus Salam International Centre for the fields of physics and mathematics. The Theoretical Physics, in partnership with the programme supports research in the International Atomic Energy Agency, invites following fields: applications for its sandwich training educational programme. This programme  atomic and nuclear physics; offers fellowship opportunities to PhD  nuclear, isotope and laser techniques students from developing IAEA countries in applied to human health, agriculture,

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biotechnology and biophotonics, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, water resources and environmental Belize, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, studies; Central African Republic, Congo, Côte  synchrotron radiation and d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa applications; Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti,  medical radiation physics; Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria,  condensed matter and statistical Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, physics; Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana,  high energy physics; Honduras, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, India,  mathematics; Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica,  earth system physics; Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia,  applied physics, including micro- and Comoros, Kazakhstan, Lao People's nanoelectronics, fluid dynamics and Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, dense plasma source physics. Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Students from developing countries who are Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, enrolled in a PhD programme at their home Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritania, university may apply. Women scientists are Mauritius, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, particularly encouraged to apply. Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Papua New Fellows will spend at least three months at the Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palau, host institute during the first year. Paraguay, Romania, Rwanda, Seychelles, Fellowships are renewable for up to two Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, El Salvador, additional successive years. Fellowships Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, include a monthly stipend of €1,400 during Thailand, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, each stay at the host institute, as well as travel Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine, expenses and medical insurance. Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Closing date: 15 Aug 16 Zimbabwe, Montenegro Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 August 2016, 15 February 2017, and repeated Disciplines annually. ------Posted date: 23 Oct 14 Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Award type: Predoctoral training Computational Fluid Dynamics; Plasma fellowships, Predoctoral fellowships, Physics & Fusion; Public Health; Public Personal development, Directed grants for Health, Health Services & Primary Care; individual investigators Biological Sciences; Particle Physics; Award amount max: - Metallurgy; Electrical & Electronic Award budget total: - Engineering; Radiation Sources & Isotopes; Website: http://portal.ictp.it/step/ Chemistry; Materials Sciences; Mechanical Application form: Engineering; Statistics; Input & Output http://portal.ictp.it/step/Application_form.pd Devices; Atomic Physics; Nanoelectronics; f Physics; Lasers & Quantum Optics; Pure Mathematics; Biotechnology; Nuclear Physics; Eligibility profile Microelectronics; Applied Mathematics; ------Synchrotrons & Accelerators; Radiation & Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Matter; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Albania, Armenia, Angola, Argentina, Civil Engineering; Manufacturing & Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Industrial Engineering; Agriculture; Earth Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Burundi, Sciences; Environmental Science; Water

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Resources Engineering & Management; c/o Office of External Activities Condensed Matter Physics; Computer Science Fermi Building, Via Beirut, 6 & Informatics 34151 Trieste Tel: +39 040 2240 322 Contact Details Fax: +39 040 2240 443 ------Email: [email protected] ICTP-IAEA Sandwich Training Educational Programme

HOMAS HAMPSON FUND American Musicological Society T

Description: The American Musicological Society invites Website: http://www.ams- applications for the Thomas Hampson fund. net.org/grants/hampson.php These foster editions and scholarship on Application form: http://www.ams- classic song in all contexts, as well as new and net.org/grants/Hampson-cover-sheet- innovative technologies for promoting and 2016.pdf understanding classic song via interactive media and the internet. Eligibility profile ------Applicants may submit proposals at any stage Country of applicant institution: Any of their research. Graduate students, independent scholars and faculty are all Disciplines eligible. ------Opera & Musical Theatre; Music Performance; Funding is worth up to US$1,100. Computer Music; Musicology; Music Composition; History of Music; Music Closing date: 15 Aug 16 Criticism; Manuscripts & Books; Music Deadline information: This call is repeated Theory; Music; Performing Arts; History; Arts once a year. & Media Education; Conducting Posted date: 15 Jun 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Thesis/Dissertation funding ------Award amount max: $1,100 Tel: +1 207 798 4254 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

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CTP/OPEC FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP I Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Description: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Application form: Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with the http://www.ictp.it/media/1024600/step_applic OPEC Fund for International Development, ation_form.pdf invites applications for the ICTP/OPEC Fund for International Development postgraduate Eligibility profile fellowship. This enables doctoral students ------from developing countries to access ICTP and Country of applicant institution: Albania, partner research and training facilities Armenia, Argentina, American Samoa, relevant to any field of ICTP research. These Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, include high energy, cosmology and Bulgaria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Botswana, astroparticle physics, condensed matter and Belarus, Belize, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, statistical physics, mathematics, Earth system Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, physics, applied physics, quantitative life Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, sciences and new research areas. Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Fellows will carry out research and training Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, towards their PhD within the sandwich India, Jamaica, Jordan, Kiribati, Kazakhstan, training educational programme scheme at Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, ICTP, mentored by co-supervisors at the host Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, institutes in coordination with their Moldova, Republic of, Marshall Islands, supervisors at their home institutes. Each Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, applicant must be a student enrolled in a PhD Mongolia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, course at their home university in a Mexico, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, developing country, with the exception of Panama, Peru, Papua New Guinea, OPEC and OFID member countries. Priority is Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, given to young researchers from least Occupied, Palau, Paraguay, Romania, developed countries. Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Senegal, Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Each award includes €1,400 per month for up Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, to six months per year over three consecutive Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, years, as well as travel and medical insurance. Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Saint Vincent and the Closing date: 15 Aug 16 Grenadines, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Yemen, Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Low August 2016, 15 February 2017, and repeated Income countries, Kosovo, Montenegro annually. Posted date: 07 Jul 15 Disciplines Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, ------Directed grants for individual investigators, Mathematical Sciences; Condensed Matter Travel for research purposes, Predoctoral Physics; Biological Physics; Medical Physics; training fellowships Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences; Award amount max: - Cosmology & Extragalactic Astronomy; High Award budget total: - Energy Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays; Website: http://ofid.ictp.it/ Molecular Physics

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34151 Trieste Contact Details Tel: +39 40 2240 111 ------Email: [email protected] ICTP Strada Costiera 11

OMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – SINGAPORE Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK C

Description: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK, in partnership with the National Eligibility profile University of Singapore, invites applications ------for its commonwealth scholarships – Country of applicant institution: Antigua and Singapore. These support PhD study at the Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bangladesh, National University of Singapore’s Graduate Brunei Darussalam, Bahamas, Botswana, School of Integrative Sciences and Belize, Canada, Cameroon, Cyprus, Dominica, Engineering. Fiji, United Kingdom, Grenada, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Saint Citizens of any Commonwealth country other Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, than Singapore who have at least an upper Lesotho, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, second class honours degree or equivalent are Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, eligible to apply. Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sierra Each award covers full tuition fees, a monthly Leone, Swaziland, Tonga, Trinidad and stipend and a computer, book or conference Tobago, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic allowance. of, Uganda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu, Samoa, South Africa, Zambia, Closing date: 15 Aug 16 Developing Commonwealth countries Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 May 2016, 15 August 2016. Disciplines Posted date: 23 Feb 16 ------Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Universe Sciences; Physical Sciences and students, Travel to conferences, meetings Engineering; Biological Sciences etc., Directed grants for individual investigators Contact Details Award amount max: ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/scholarships- uk-citizens/singapore/

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ECHNO-COLLEGE INNOVATION AWARD European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery T

Description: The European Association for Cardio- Award budget total: - Thoracic Surgery invites applications for its Website: techno-college innovation award. This http://www.eacts.org/awards/techno-college- recognises technological breakthroughs in all innovation-award/ areas related to thoracic and cardiovascular Application form: research, particularly for new surgical http://eacts2016.technocollege.event.y- methods or devices. Innovations can be in the congress.com/scientificProcess/submission/i form of patents, inventions, new products, ndex.html?setLng=en ideas or services. Eligibility profile Surgeons, engineers, innovators, researchers ------and scientists in the field of thoracic and Country of applicant institution: Any cardiovascular surgery may apply. Disciplines The award is worth €5,000. ------Cardiovascular Diseases; Medical Devices; Closing date: 16 Aug 16 Medical Implants; Cardiology; Respiratory Deadline information: Applications due by Medicine; General Surgery 11.59pm GMT. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 26 Feb 16 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: €5,000

HILIP BRETT AWARD American Musicological Society P

Description: The American Musicological Society’s LGBTQ article, book, edition, annotated translation, a study group invites nominations for the Philip paper read at a conference, teaching materials Brett award. This honours exceptional and other scholarly work. The award consists musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, of US$500 and a certificate. bisexual, transgender or transsexual studies. Closing date: 17 Aug 16 The work must be completed during the Deadline information: This call is repeated previous two academic years in any country once a year. and in any language. Works that will be Posted date: 16 Jul 15 considered for the award include a published Award type: Prizes

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Award amount max: $500 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Award budget total: - Studies; Musicology Website: http://www.ams- net.org/awards/brett.php Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Brett Award Committee, ------Tufts University Department of Music Country of applicant institution: Any 20 Talbot Avenue Medford, MA 02155 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------

IR HENRY DALE FELLOWSHIPS Wellcome Trust S

Description: The Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society advantageous to both the applicant invite applications for the Sir Henry Dale and the organisation. fellowships. These enable postdoctoral scientists who wish to build their own UK- Applicants must also have an eligible based independent research career to address sponsoring host organisation in the UK that an important biomedical question. Research can guarantee support and adequate space may range from the molecules and cells vital and resources for the duration of the award. to life and their role in the global spread of disease, to clinical and public-health research Fellowships are tenable for five years in the seeking to improve the quality of healthcare. first instance, with the potential to apply for It can be based in the laboratory, clinic or competitive renewal for an additional three field, and may involve experimental or years. Funding covers a basic salary plus an theoretical approaches. enhancement of £7,500 per year, research expenses, travel and subsistence, and overseas Applicants are expected to have relevant allowances. In addition, the funders provide scientific or mathematical qualifications and an inflation and flexible funding allowance, as be no more than seven years from the date of well as a contribution towards indirect and receiving their PhD. They must be: estate costs of £11,000 per year.

 a UK or EEA national; Closing date: 17 Aug 16  a non-EEA national who either has a Deadline information: First round relevant degree from a UK university, preliminary applications due by 5pm, 12 or has worked in the UK for at least a April; invited full applications due by 5pm, continuous three-year period; 21 June; second round preliminary  an exceptional biomedical scientist applications due by 5pm, 17 August; invited who does not fall within the categories full applications due by 5pm, 24 October above and whose recruitment to the 2016. Deadlines on: 12 April 2016, 17 August host organisation would be 2016.

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Posted date: 22 Jan 16 Award type: Networking/collaboration, Eligibility profile Travel for research purposes, Early-Career ------fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, Country of applicant institution: Any Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: - Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Medicine & Health; Biological Sciences http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed ical-science/Funding- Contact Details schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical------fellowships/WTDV031823.htm Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Application form: Email: [email protected] https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? ReturnUrl=%2f

2020-HOA-01-2015 HORIZON PRIZE FOR BETTER USE OF ANTIBIOTICS Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges H

Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: it cannot be limited to such clinical Societal Challenges invites applications for the parameters or algorithms. Solutions that Horizon prize for better use of antibiotics. apply only on limited target populations are also eligible. Any legal entity or group of legal This will be awarded for a rapid test to entities established in a EU member state or in identify, at the point of care, patients with a Horizon 2020 associated country may apply. upper respiratory tract infections that can be treated safely without antibiotics. The test The prize is worth €1 million. should fulfil the following criteria: Closing date: 17 Aug 16  potential to reduce the use of Deadline information: Applications due by antibiotics and magnitude of antibiotic 5pm Brussels local time. reduction; Posted date: 26 Feb 15  provide high accuracy and safety; Award type: Prizes  minimal or non-invasive sampling Award amount max: €1,000,000 requirements; Award budget total: -  low cost and affordable; Website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port  rapid – ideally the total turn-around al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 time of the test should be less than 30 0-hoa-01-2015.html minutes; Application form:  easy to use. http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/140 The test may be part of an approach that 60-hoa-01-2015.html#tab3 includes clinical parameters or algorithms but

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Eligibility profile ------Disciplines Country of applicant institution: EU ------(European Union), EU Associated Countries, Respiratory Medicine; Antibiotics; Infection EU All International Cooperation Partner Agents & Pathogens; Bacterial Diseases; countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and Bacteriology Territories

ELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME International Tropical Timber Organization F

Description: The International Tropical Timber and increase trade in forest goods and Organization invites applications for its services from sustainably managed fellowship programme. This seeks to promote forests. human resource development and to strengthen professional expertise in member The fellowship programme is open to countries in tropical forestry, tropical timber individuals who are nationals of ITTO industries and related disciplines. member countries. Eligible activities include participation in conferences, short-term Priority areas include: training courses, training internships at industries, study tours, small grants for  promoting good governance and postgraduate studies, lecture or enabling policy frameworks for demonstration tours, help with manuals and strengthening sustainable forest monographs and small grants for post management and related trade, and graduate studies. Preference will be given to enhancing SFM financing and short-term activities. investment;  increasing the contribution of tropical Fellowship awards are worth up to forests to national and local US$10,000. economies, including through international trade; Closing date: 22 Aug 16 (Forecast)  enhancing the conservation and Deadline information: !! Call has not yet sustainable use of biodiversity in been announced by funder, but this is the tropical timber producing forests; approximate deadline we expect. This call is  reducing tropical deforestation and repeated 2 times a year. forest degradation and enhancing the Posted date: 26 Jan 16 provision of environmental services; Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate students, Travel to conferences, meetings  improving the quality and availability etc., Travel for research purposes, Directed of information on tropical forests, grants for individual investigators, forest product markets and trade; Equipment and materials  building and developing human Award amount max: $10,000 resource capacity to implement SFM

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Award budget total: - Norway, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Papua Website: http://www.itto.int/feature20/ New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Application form: Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, http://www.itto.int/itto_fellowship_member Suriname, Togo, Thailand, Trinidad and _regist/ Tobago, United States, Vietnam, EU (European Union) Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: Albania, Forestry Science (Silvology); Forest Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Benin, Economics; Tropical Zones Brazil, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Switzerland, Contact Details Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Colombia, ------Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, ITTO Germany, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Spain, Pacifico-Yokohama 5F Finland, Fiji, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, 1-1-1, Minato-Mirai Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Nishi-ku Honduras, Croatia, Hungary, Indonesia, Yokohama 220-0012 Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Cambodia, Korea, Tel: +81 45 223 1110 Republic of, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Tel: +81 45 223 1111 Latvia, Mali, Myanmar, Malta, Mexico, Email: [email protected] Malaysia, Mozambique, Netherlands,

ARGARET FOTI AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CANCER RESEARCH M American Association for Cancer Research

Description: The American Association for Cancer involved in cancer research, cancer medicine Research invites nominations for the Margaret or cancer-related biomedical science Foti award for leadership and extraordinary anywhere in the world. Self-nominations are achievements in cancer research. This not accepted. recognises an individual whose leadership and achievements in cancer research or in The award includes an honorarium worth support of cancer research have made a major US$10,000, and full support for the winner impact on the field. Such achievements and a guest to attend the AACR annual include contributions to the acceleration of meeting. progress in cancer research, raising national or international awareness of cancer research, Closing date: 24 Aug 16 or other demonstrations of a sustained Deadline information: Nominations due by commitment to the conquest of cancer. 4pm EST. This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 10 Jun 16 Candidacy is open to all cancer researchers Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, who are affiliated with any organisation meetings etc.

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Award amount max: - Award amount min: - Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Cancer Studies & Oncology; Oncology http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/ Nursing Awards- Detail.aspx?ItemId=11#.VS0cABeJKi4 Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Tel: +1 215 446 7128 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any

EALTHCARE INNOVATION AWARD GlaxoSmithKline H

Description: GlaxoSmithKline, in partnership with Save Website: http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/about- the Children, invites applications for its us/corporate-partnerships/save-the-children- healthcare innovation awards. These are partnership/#healthcare-innovation-award awarded to organisations practising innovative approaches to reduction of under- Eligibility profile five child mortality. These approaches must ------have resulted in tangible improvements to Country of applicant institution: Albania, under-five child survival rates, be sustainable Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, and have the potential to be scaled-up and Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, replicated. Botswana, Belarus, Belize, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Dominica, Organisations from across the developing Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Fiji, world are welcome to apply. Countries in the Gabon, Grenada, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic EU are not eligible to apply. of, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, Marshall Islands, The total budget for this call is US$1 million. Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, Mexico, Malaysia, Closing date: 25 Aug 16 (Forecast) Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, Seychelles, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Suriname, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, been announced by funder, but this is the Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the approximate deadline we expect. Grenadines, Venezuela, Mayotte, South Applications due by 11.59pm, GMT. This Africa, Lower-Middle-Income countries, Low call is repeated once a year. Income countries, Montenegro Posted date: 07 Jul 14 Award type: Development Disciplines (Africa/Caribbean), Prizes ------Award amount max: - Social Work & Social Policy; Infant Award budget total: $1,000,000 Paediatrics; Primary Care; Paediatrics;

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Clinical Medicine; Child Protection & Welfare; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Poverty; Development Studies; Death & Care; Access to Health Care; Immunisation Mortality; Maternal Health; Health Systems; Programmes & Vaccination.

ELLOWSHIP GRANTS European CanCer Organisation (formerly the Federation of European Cancer Societies)

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Description: The European CanCer Organisation invites 30th August 2016. This call is repeated every applications for its fellowships grants. These 2 years. enable young oncology professionals from Posted date: 12 May 16 eastern European and lower-middle income Award type: Young investigator awards, countries to participate in ECCO2017 Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Early- European cancer congress to be held from 27 Career fellowships to 30 January 2017 in Amsterdam, the Award amount max: - Netherlands. The congress aims to define Award budget total: - indicators of optimal multidisciplinary cancer Website: care and develop policy initiatives to http://www.eccocongress.org/Scientific- encourage their adoption across Europe. The Programme/Fellowship-and- programme will focus on: Grants/Fellowship-Grants Application form: http://www.eccocongress.org/ECCO/LoginPa  ways to integrate today’s innovations ge.aspx?item=/scientific-programme/call-for- into patient care, prioritise and pay for abstracts/abstract-submission/abstract- the most effective approaches and submission&user=extranet\Anonymous&sit organise cancer care delivery amid e=amsterdam2017 increasing complexity;

 how previous innovations have Eligibility profile worked in real life. ------Country of applicant institution: Albania, Oncology professionals from eastern Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and European and lower-middle income countries Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Serbia, Czech who are under the age of 40 may apply. Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Republic of, Each fellowship include registration to the Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, congress, accommodation and a travel grant Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia, worth €500 for eastern European candidates Slovakia, Turkey, Kosovo, Montenegro and up to €1,200 for candidates from lower- Country of applicant institution: Lower- middle income economies. 40 grants are Middle-Income countries offered. Disciplines Closing date: 25 Aug 16 ------Deadline information: Abstracts due by 9pm Cancer Studies & Oncology; Oncology CET, 25 August; full applications due by Nursing

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Avenue E. Mounier 83 Contact Details 1200 Brussels ------ECCO

PA EARLY CAREER AND SENIOR SCHOLAR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AWARDS A American Psychiatric Association

Description: The American Psychiatric Association invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for its early career and senior repeated once a year. scholar health services research awards. These Posted date: 09 Jul 10 awards promote health services research, Award type: Prizes support young investigators in their research Award amount max: $1,000 efforts, and recognize significant Award amount min: $500 contributions to the field. Award budget total: - Website: The early career award recognizes the best http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Research/ nominated paper published during the past ResearchTrainingandFunding/APAResearch year by an early career psychiatrist, less than Awards/EarlyCareerandSeniorScholarHealth 40 years of age or within five years of training. ServicesResearchAwards.aspx This award is worth $500. Eligibility profile

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The senior scholar award recognizes singular Disciplines or sustained research accomplishments by a ------researcher beyond early career status which Public Health, Health Services & Primary have made an important contribution to the Care; Mental Health; Psychiatry field of mental health services research. This award is worth $1000. Contact Details

------Nominations for both awards can be either Early Career and Senior Scholar Health from the individual or a colleague in the field. Services Research Program The proposed applicant must be an APA APIRE member. 1000 Wilson Blvd

Suite 1825 Closing date: 26 Aug 16 (Forecast) Arlington, VA 22209-3901 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 703 907 8623 Email: [email protected]

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UEEN ELIZABETH PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING Royal Academy of Engineering Q

Description: The Royal Academy of Engineering invites Award amount max: £1,000,000 nominations for the Queen Elizabeth prize for Award budget total: - engineering. This recognises groundbreaking Website: http://qeprize.org/ innovations in engineering that have been of Application form: global benefit to humanity. The prize http://qeprize.org/nominate/ celebrates engineering as a discipline and a career choice. Eligibility profile ------Nominees may individuals or teams of no Country of applicant institution: Any more than three individuals of any nationality. Self-nominations and posthumous Disciplines nominations are not accepted. ------Engineering The prize is worth £1 million in addition to appropriate memorabilia to be decided by the Contact Details trustees. ------Prince Philip House Closing date: 26 Aug 16 3 Carlton House Terrace Deadline information: Nominations due by London SW1Y 5DG 5pm BST. This call is repeated every 2 years. Tel: + 44 20 7766 0600 Posted date: 20 Apr 16 Fax: +44 20 7930 1549 Award type: Prizes

ISCOVERY AWARDS Nesta D

Description: Nesta invites applications for its discovery are from countries where access to seed awards. These aim to maximise the number funding is limited or unavailable, or are and diversity of entrants to the Longitude working on a novel idea and have reached a prize, which aims to find innovative solutions barrier in progressing the development of to global antibiotic resistance. their idea.

Applicants must be registered as individual or The awards are small seed grants to help team entrants on the Longitude prize website. teams and individuals develop ideas for the Applications are encouraged from those who longitudinal prize. are unable to access other sources of funding,

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Closing date: 26 Aug 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Applications due by ------12 midnight. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 18 May 16 Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for Disciplines individual investigators ------Award amount max: - Drug Resistance; Antibiotics Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details https://longitudeprize.org/discoveryawards ------Application form: Tel: +44 20 7438 2500 https://longitudeprize.submittable.com/sub Email: [email protected] mit

NTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP American Museum of Natural History A

Description: The American Museum of Natural History Deadline information: Deadlines on: 27 invites applications under its anthropology August 2016, 1 December 2016, 1 April 2017, internship programme. This programme and repeated annually. offers internships for undergraduate and Posted date: 12 Oct 11 graduate students interested in careers in Award type: Predoctoral fellowships anthropology, museums or related fields. Award amount max: - Anthropology interns work on projects Award budget total: - relating to the collections or to the ongoing Website: http://www.amnh.org/our- research interests of the curatorial staff in the research/anthropology/policies- museum or in the field. The department's links/internship-program collections and research are focused on North Application form: American, Mexican/Central American, and http://research.amnh.org/anthropology/f/Inte South American archaeology and ethnology; rnshipForm.pdf

Asian, African, and Pacific ethnology; and Eligibility profile biological anthropology. Applicants should be ------enrolled in or have recently graduated from Country of applicant institution: Any an academic institution.

Disciplines Applicants must specify whether they are ------applying for a paid, academic credit or Politics & Economics of Latin America & the unpaid internship. For paid internships, Caribbean; Biological & Medical monthly stipends will be awarded for up to Anthropology; Archaeology; Biological two session’s worth of work. Sciences; Anthropology; Evolutionary

Biology; Ethnography & Ethnology; Politics & Closing date: 27 Aug 16 Economics of North America; North American Studies

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ARRINGTON PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN MEDICINE University Hospitals H

Description: The Harrington Discovery Institute at Award amount max: $20,000 University Hospitals Case Medical Center Award budget total: - invites nominations for the Harrington prize Website: for innovation in medicine. The prize honours http://www.uhhospitals.org/services/harringt a physician-scientist for notable achievements on-discovery-institute/programs-and- for innovation, creativity and potential for initiatives/harrington-prize-for-innovation- clinical application. in-medicine

Each nominee must hold an MD or equivalent Eligibility profile degree. There are no age, citizenship or ------membership requirements. Self-nominations Country of applicant institution: Any are not permitted. Disciplines The prize includes an unrestricted ------honorarium of US$20,000. Bio/Medical

Closing date: 28 Aug 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Harrington Discovery Institute approximate deadline we expect. This call is 10900 Euclid Avenue, Mail Stop 7294 repeated once a year. Cleveland, OH 44106 Posted date: 09 Jul 15 Email: Award type: Prizes [email protected]

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EMBER-IN-TRAINING AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ASTRO PRESENTATION IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY M American Association for Women Radiologists

Description: The American Association for Women Website: Radiologists invites applications for its http://www.aawr.org/about/re_foundation.ht member-in-training award for an outstanding m presentation in radiation oncology. This certificate of recognition is awarded to an Eligibility profile individual for their professional development ------for an outstanding scientific presentation in Country of applicant institution: Any radiation oncology at the ASTRO annual meeting. Applicants must have been accepted Disciplines to present at the ASTRO meeting and must be ------members of the AAWR on 1 January of the Nuclear Medicine; Cancer Studies & year of application. Oncology; Radiotherapy; Radiology & Medical Imaging; Clinical Medicine Closing date: 30 Aug 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is AAWR repeated once a year. 4550 Post Oak Place, Suite 342 Posted date: 17 May 11 Houston, TX 77027 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 713 965 0566 Award amount max: - Fax: +1 713 960 0488 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

ASTER’S FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE Wellcome Trust M

Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for or clinical samples, but projects focused solely its master’s fellowships in public health and on studies in vitro or using animal models tropical medicine. These strengthen scientific will not normally be considered. Social research capacity in low and middle-income sciences, demography, health economics, countries by enabling junior researchers to medical statistics and vector biology are of a gain research experience and training at particular interest. master’s degree level. Research should be aimed at understanding and improving public Applicants should be nationals or legal health and tropical medicine of local, national residents of a low or middle-income country and global relevance. This may include and hold a first degree in a relevant subject. laboratory-based molecular analysis of field

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They should be at an early stage of their materials, Travel to conferences, meetings career with limited research experience. etc. Award amount max: - Fellowships normally provide up to 30 Award budget total: - months’ support and have two stages: Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed  master’s training at a recognised ical-science/Funding- centre of excellence in any location, schemes/Fellowships/Public-health-and- generally for a period of 12 months, tropical-medicine/WTD025881.htm with support provided for a yearly Application form: stipend, travel costs and tuition fees; http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/wtp058 668.htm  undertaking a research project at a

non-profit institution in a low or Eligibility profile middle-income country for up to 18 ------months, with funding available for Country of applicant institution: Lower- salary, research expenses, overseas Middle-Income countries, Low Income allowances and overseas costs. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries

Fellowships include a stipend worth £17,000 Disciplines for master’s courses undertaken in London ------and £15,000 for master’s undertaken outside Infection Agents & Pathogens; Public Health; of London but in the UK. For master’s courses Virology; Malaria; Tropical & Neglected undertaken outside UK, the application must Diseases; Bacterial Diseases be discussed with the relevant institute.

Contact Details Closing date: 30 Aug 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 7 Wellcome Trust December 2015, 22 March 2016, 30 August Gibbs Building 2016. 215 Euston Road Posted date: 11 Mar 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual London NW1 2BE investigators, Predoctoral fellowships, Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Financial aid for postgraduate students, Email: [email protected] Travel for research purposes, Equipment and

EMBER-IN-TRAINING AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING RSNA PRESENTATIONS IN DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY AND RADIATION ONCOLOGY M American Association for Women Radiologists

Description: The American Association for Women and radiation oncology. Two certificates of Radiologists invites applications for its recognition will be given for professional member-in-training awards for outstanding development to fellows or residents who are RSNA presentations in diagnostic radiology both first authors and presenters of abstracts

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accepted for scientific presentation at the Country of applicant institution: Any RSNA annual meeting, one for diagnostic radiology and the other for radiation Disciplines oncology. The applicant must have been an ------international member of the AAWR on Cancer Studies & Oncology; Nuclear January 1 of the year of application. Medicine; Carcinogenesis; Clinical Medicine; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Nursing; Closing date: 30 Aug 16 (Forecast) Radiology & Medical Imaging; Oncology Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Nursing; Breast Cancer; Radiotherapy; been announced by funder, but this is the Diagnostic Sciences; Prostate & Testicular approximate deadline we expect. This call is Cancers repeated once a year. Posted date: 02 Jun 11 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: - AAWR Award budget total: - 4550 Post Oak Place, Suite 342 Website: Houston, TX 77027 http://aawr.affiniscape.com/displaycommon. Tel: +1 713 965 0566 cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=71 Fax: +1 713 960 0488 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------

LUIDS ENGINEERING AWARD American Society of Mechanical Engineers F

Description: The American Society of Mechanical Award type: Prizes Engineers invites nominations for the fluids Award amount max: $1,000 engineering award. This recognises Award budget total: - contributions, over a period of years, to the Website: http://www.asme.org/about- engineering profession and especially to the asme/honors-awards/achievement- field of fluids engineering through research, awards/fluids-engineering-award practice or teaching. Application form: https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ The award includes US$1,000. ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Honors%20Awa rds/Achievement%20Awards/Achievement- Closing date: 30 Aug 16 (Forecast) Nomination-Form.doc Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Eligibility profile approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 28 Jul 15 Disciplines

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------Fluidisation & Fluid Mechanics; Tel: +1 860 832 2568 Computational Fluid Dynamics; Superfluidity Email; [email protected]

Contact Details

ESEARCH PRIZE Anna-Monika Foundation R

Description: The Anna-Monika Foundation for the Deadline information: Investigation of the Biological Substrate and Posted date: 04 Jan 16 Functional Disturbances of Depression invites Award type: Prizes applications for its research prize. Award amount max: €25,000 Award budget total: - This recognises papers that have contributed Website: http://anna-monika- to significant advances in knowledge that are stiftung.de/?page_id=5 helpful in promoting treatment and may open new paths of progress within the field of Eligibility profile psychiatry. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The research should be carried out in cooperation with a department of psychiatry Disciplines at a university or an equivalent scientific ------institution. Nominated papers should be Psychiatry; Depression & Other Mood written in English. Disorders

The award is worth €25,000. Contact Details ------Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Email: [email protected]

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ELLOWSHIPS Matsumae International Foundation F

Description: The Matsumae International Foundation ------invites applications for its fellowships. These Country of applicant institution: United Arab support research projects conducted in Japan, Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, with preference of studies in the fields of Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, natural science, engineering and medicine. Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, China, Christmas Island, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Applicants must be of non-Japanese Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, British Indian nationality, hold a doctorate degree or Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic equivalent qualifications, be under 49 years of of, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Korea, age and have sufficient conversational ability Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, in English or Japanese. They should not have Republic of, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lao been in Japan previously and are expected to People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Sri return to their home country at the end of the Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Macao, fellowship. Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Fellowships are intended to cover necessary Occupied, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi living expenses and research activities in Arabia, Singapore, Syrian Arab Republic, Japan. A monthly stipend of ¥220,000 will be Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, granted, as well as travel and health Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, insurance, a round-trip air ticket and a lump Vietnam, Yemen, All African Nations, All sum of ¥120,000 on arrival. Approximately 20 European Nations, All South American fellowships are available for three to six nations, All Oceanian nations, All North months. American nations

Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Chemistry; Medicine & Health; Biological Posted date: 27 Nov 15 Sciences; Materials Sciences; Engineering; Award type: Directed grants for individual Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences; investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Physics Senior fellowships, Young investigator awards, Mid-Career fellowships, Equipment Contact Details and materials, Travel for research purposes ------Award amount max: - Matsumae International Foundation Award budget total: - 4-14-46 Kamiogi Website: http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~mif/ Suginami-ku Application form: http://www.mif- Tokyo 167-0043 japan.org/wp- Tel: +81 333 017 600 content/uploads/2015/11/form2017.pdf Fax: +81 333 017 601

Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile

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OLF PRIZES Wolf Foundation W

Description: The Wolf Foundation invites nominations for Application form: the Wolf prizes. These recognise outstanding http://212.199.115.173/~wolf/files/2016/scienc achievements in the fields of agriculture, e_2016_forms.doc mathematics, medicine or physics. Prizes may only be awarded to individuals and self- Eligibility profile nominations are not accepted. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Each prize is worth US$100,000. Disciplines Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Physics; Chemistry; Agriculture; Medicine & been announced by funder, but this is the Health approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 22 Jul 15 ------Award type: Prizes Wolf Foundation Award amount max: $100,000 P.O Box 398 Award budget total: - Herzliya 46103 Website: Tel: +972 9 954 1253 http://212.199.115.173/~wolf/index.php?dir=s Email: [email protected] ite&page=content&cs=3052&language=eng

RVING SIGAL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD Protein Society I

Description: The Protein Society invites applications for symposium of the Protein Society by the Irving Sigal young investigator award. presenting a plenary lecture on the structure The award recognizes an important and function of protein science as it relates to contribution to the study of proteins by a his or her field of study. scientist who is in the early stages of an independent career. Candidates are generally Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) not more than 40 years of age. The recipient Deadline information: !! Call has not yet will be recognized at the 26th annual been announced by funder, but this is the

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approximate deadline we expect. Deadline Cell Physiology & Metabolism; Biological time: 12am. This call is repeated once a year. Macromolecules, Physical Characteristics; Posted date: 19 May 11 Chemistry; Protein Trafficking; Biological Award type: Prizes Sciences; Structural Biology; Proteomics & Award amount max: - Molecular Interactions; Protein Synthesis, Award budget total: - Modification & Turnover Website: http://www.proteinsociety.org/pages/page03c Contact Details .htm ------Protein Society Eligibility profile 9560 Rockville Pike ------Bethesda, MD 20814 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 301 634 7277 Fax: +1 301 634 7271 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------

ANS NEURATH AWARD Protein Society H

Description: The Protein Society invites nominations for Website: the Hans Neurath Award. The award http://www.proteinsociety.org/protein- recognizes an individual who has made a society-awards/the-hans-neurath-award/ recent contribution of unusual merit to basic research in the field of protein science, Eligibility profile including the chemistry, design, folding, ------structure or biological function of proteins. Country of applicant institution: Any The recipient will be recognized at the 26th annual symposium of the Protein Society by Disciplines presenting a plenary lecture on the structure ------and function of protein science as it relates to Protein Trafficking; Chemistry; Structural his or her field of study. Biology; Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover; Cell Physiology & Metabolism; Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) Biological Macromolecules, Physical Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Characteristics; Proteomics & Molecular been announced by funder, but this is the Interactions; Biological Sciences approximate deadline we expect. Deadline time: 12am. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 19 May 11 ------Award type: Prizes Protein Society Award amount max: - 9650 Rockville Pike Award budget total: - Bethesda, MD 20814

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IELD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Korea Foundation F

Description: The Korea Foundation invites applications for Deadline information: !! Call has not yet its field research fellowships. These provide been announced by funder, but this is the overseas Korean studies scholars and experts approximate deadline we expect. This call is with the opportunity to conduct onsite field repeated once a year. research in Korea and access resource Posted date: 11 Jul 14 materials. The aim is to promote overseas Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Early- research in Korean studies. Career fellowships, Travel for research purposes The foundation invites applications from: Award amount max: - Award budget total: -  doctoral candidates who have Website: https://apply.kf.or.kr/main.nkf completed all academic requirements Application form: https://apply.kf.or.kr/main.nkf except their dissertation, receiving a

monthly stipend of ₩2 million; Eligibility profile  lecturers or researchers with over five ------years of career experience, receiving a Country of applicant institution: United Arab monthly stipend of ₩2.3m; Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Angola,  assistant professors or an individual Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, with doctoral degrees currently in Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Brunei Darussalam, research with 10 to 20 years of carer Bhutan, Botswana, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, experience, receiving ₩2.6m per Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, month; Central African Republic, Congo, Côte  full and associate professors or d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Cape Verde, individuals with more than 20 years of Christmas Island, Cyprus, Djibouti, Algeria, ₩ experience, receiving 3m per month. Egypt, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, In addition, each successful applicant is Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hong entitled to a return airfare and travel Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, British Indian insurance. Candidates may not currently Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic reside in Korea. of, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan,

Cambodia, Comoros, Korea, Democratic Fellowships may have a duration between People's Republic of, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, one month and 12 months. Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia,

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Macao, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, Portuguese Language; Music; Arts and Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Humanities; Business & Management Studies; Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Politics & International Studies; Italian Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Language; Libraries & Information Science; Qatar, Réunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Scandinavian Languages; Built Environment Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sudan, Singapore, & Spatial Planning; British & Irish Studies; Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Chinese History; Eastern European Sao Tome and Principe, Syrian Arab Republic, Languages; French Language; Sociology; Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Theology & Religious Studies; Classics; Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Central European Languages; History of the Taiwan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Indian Subcontinent; Russian Language; Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, English Language & Literature; Psychology; Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Accounting & Finance; European Studies; All European Nations, All South American Social Sciences; Philosophy; History; Japanese nations, All Oceanian nations, All North History; Law; Spanish Language; Geography; American nations, South Sudan Creole Languages; Archaeology; Asian Studies; Middle Eastern Studies Disciplines ------Contact Details Sports & Exercise Studies; Humanities; ------Economics & Econometrics; South-East Asian Korea Foundation History; Anthropology; Korean Language; 10F Diplomatic Building African Studies; Art & Design: History, 2558 Nambusunhwanno Practice & Theory; Korean History; Education; Seocho-gu Linguistics; Communication & Media Studies; Seoul, 137-863 German Language; Dutch Language; Korean Tel: +82 2 2046 8537 Literature; Performing Arts; Social Work & Fax: +82 2 3463 6075 Social Policy; North American Studies; Email: [email protected]

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Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the  full-time fellowships for candidates Department of Biotechnology of the Ministry willing to register at a university in of Science and Technology in India will India; shortly be inviting applications for their  SANDWICH fellowships for PhD postgraduate fellowship programme. This students registered at a university in enables scholars from developing countries their home country. other than India to pursue research towards a PhD in biotechnology. There are two types of Nationals of a developing country other than fellowships: India who are no more than 35 years of age on 31 December of the application year, may apply. Applicants should have a letter of

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acceptance from the host university and must Country of applicant institution: Armenia, not hold a visa for temporary or permanent Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, residency in India or any developed country. Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Applicants must hold a master’s or equivalent Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, degree and be proficient in English. They also Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, need to provide evidence of returning home Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic after the fellowship. Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania, Fellowships include a monthly stipend to Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, cover living costs, subsistence and health Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, insurance, and are tenable at key Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, biotechnology research institutions in India Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, for a period of up to five years. Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low Deadline information: This call is repeated Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income once a year. countries, Kosovo Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Disciplines students, Young investigator awards, ------Directed grants for individual investigators, Biotechnology Predoctoral fellowships Award amount max: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: TWAS http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-dbt- ICTP Campus postgraduate-fellowship-programme Strada Costiera 11 Application form: 34151 Trieste http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Tel: +39 40 224 0314 2016-pg_guidelines_finalmarch2016_0.doc Fax: +39 40 224 559

Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------

WAS-SN BOSE POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the SN sciences at the SN Bose National Centre for Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Basic Sciences. Kolkata, India invite applications for their postgraduate fellowship programme. This Nationals of a developing country other than enables young scientists to pursue research India who are no more than 35 years of age on leading towards a PhD in the physical 31 December of the application year, may

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apply. Applicants must not hold a visa for ------temporary or permanent residency in India or Country of applicant institution: Armenia, any developed country. They must hold a Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, master’s degree in physics, mathematics or Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, physical chemistry, and may be registered for Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, a PhD in their home country or may enrol in a Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, PhD programme at the SN Bose National Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Centre. They must also provide an official Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, acceptance letter from SN Bose. Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Fellowships are tenable for up to four years, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, with the possibility of a one-year extension, Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, and include a monthly stipend to cover living Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, costs and food, and are tenable Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low Deadline information: This call is repeated Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income once a year. countries, Kosovo Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Disciplines students, Young investigator awards, ------Predoctoral fellowships, Directed grants for Physical Sciences individual investigators Award amount max: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: TWAS Fellowships Office http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-sn- ICTP Campus bose-postgraduate-fellowship-programme Strada Costiera 11 Application form: 34151 Trieste http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Tel: +39 040 224 0314 2016-pg-application- Fax: +39 040 224 0689 form_finalmarch2016_0.doc Email: [email protected]

Eligibility profile

WAS-DBT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the pursue postdoctoral research in biotechnology Department of Biotechnology of the Ministry at key biotechnology research institutions in of Science and Technology in India invite India. applications for their postdoctoral fellowship programme. This enables foreign scientists to

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Nationals of developing countries other than Eligibility profile India who are no more than 45 years old on 31 ------December of the application year may apply. Country of applicant institution: Armenia, Applicants must not hold a visa for temporary Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, or permanent residency in India or any Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, developed country. They must hold a PhD in Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, bioscience or biotechnology, be proficient in Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, English, be regularly employed and hold a Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic research assignment in a developing country. Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, Applicants must also have been accepted at a Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania, biotechnology institution in India and provide Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, evidence of this acceptance. Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Funding includes a house rent allowance and Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, a monthly stipend to cover living costs, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- subsistence and health insurance. Fellowships Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, are tenable for at least 12 months and up to 18 Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low months. Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries, Kosovo Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 05 Apr 16 Biotechnology; Biochemistry & Molecular Award type: Directed grants for individual Biology; Genetics & Systems Biology; investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; Young investigator awards, Postdoctoral Medicine & Health; Physics; Chemistry training fellowships, Networking/collaboration Contact Details Award amount max: ------Award budget total: - TWAS Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- ICTP Campus dbt-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Strada Costiera 11 Application form: 34151 Trieste http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Tel: +39 040 224 0314 2016-pdoc-application- Fax: +39 040 224 559 form_march2016_0.doc Email: [email protected]

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Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the postgraduate fellowship programme. This Council of Scientific and Industrial Research enables foreign scholars to pursue research in India invite applications for their leading towards a PhD in newly emerging

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areas in science and technology at CSIR Application form: research laboratories. There are two categories http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ of fellowships: 2016-pg-application- form_finalmarch2016.doc  sandwich fellowships – for applicants who are registered for a PhD in their Eligibility profile home country, which are granted for ------six months to three years; Country of applicant institution: Armenia,  full-time fellowships – for applicants Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, who are not registered for a PhD in Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, their home country, which are granted Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, for up to four years. Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Nationals of a developing country other than Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, India who are less than 35 years old on 31 Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania, December of the application year, may apply. Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Applicants must not hold a visa for temporary Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, or permanent residency in India or any Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, developed country. They must hold a master’s Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, degree in science and technology, be regularly Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- employed in their home country and hold a Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, research assignment there. Applicants must Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low also provide an official acceptance letter from Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income the host institution. countries, Kosovo

Fellowships provide accommodation and a Disciplines monthly stipend to cover living costs, food ------and health insurance. Fellows may also Biological Sciences; Medicine & Health; receive subsidised accommodation. Agriculture; Physical Sciences; Engineering

Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. TWAS Fellowships Office Posted date: 19 Apr 16 ICTP Campus Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Strada Costiera 11 students, Predoctoral fellowships, Young 34151 Trieste investigator awards Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Award amount max: - Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-csir- postgraduate-fellowship-programme

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Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research csir-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme in India invites applications for their Application form: postdoctoral fellowship programme. http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ 2016-pdoc-application-form_march2016.doc This enables young scientists to pursue postdoctoral research in emerging areas in Eligibility profile science and technology at the CSIR research ------laboratories. Country of applicant institution: Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Nationals of a developing country other than Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, India who are less than 45 years old on 31 Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, December of the application year, may apply. Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Applicants must hold a PhD in the field of Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic science or technology, be regularly employed Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, in a developing country other than India and Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania, hold a research assignment there. They must Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, also be nationals of a developing country Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, other than India and not hold any visa for Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, temporary or permanent residency in India or Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, any developed country. Proficiency in English Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- is a requirement. The applicants must be Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, accepted at a CSIR laboratory or institution Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low and provide an official acceptance letter from Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income their host institution. countries, Kosovo

Fellowships provide a monthly stipend to Disciplines cover living costs, food and health insurance, ------and are tenable for at least six months and up Engineering; Physical Sciences; Medicine & to one year. In addition, awardees are entitled Health; Agriculture; Biological Sciences; to subsidised accommodation. Mathematical Sciences

Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. TWAS Posted date: 19 Apr 16 ICTP Campus Award type: Young investigator awards, Strada Costiera 11 Postdoctoral training fellowships, Early- 34151 Trieste Career fellowships, Directed grants for Tel: +39 040 2240 314 individual investigators, Mid-Career Fax; +39 040 2240 689 fellowships Email: [email protected] Award amount max: - Award budget total: -

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Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Application form: International Centre for Chemical and http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Biological Sciences invite applications for their 2016-pdoc-application- postdoctoral fellowship programme. This form_march2016_8.doc enables scientists from developing countries other than Pakistan to pursue postdoctoral Eligibility profile research in organic chemistry, biochemistry, ------biotechnology, molecular medicine, Country of applicant institution: Armenia, pharmacology, physical chemistry or Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, analytical chemistry. Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, Nationals of a developing country other than Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Pakistan, who are 45 years of age or younger Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's on 31 December of the application year, may Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, apply. Applicants must hold a PhD in natural Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, sciences and must also provide proof of Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New proficiency in English. Applicants must be Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, regularly employed in a developing country Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, other than Pakistan and hold a research Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, assignment there and provide an official Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- acceptance letter from ICCBS. Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income and include a monthly stipend to cover living countries, Kosovo costs such as food, accommodation, local transportation and incidental illness. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Deadline information: This call is repeated Biotechnology; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; once a year. Organic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants for ------individual investigators TWAS Fellowships Office Award amount max: - ICTP Campus Award budget total: - Strada Costiera 11 Website: 34151 Trieste http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-iccbs- Tel: +39 040 224 0314 postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Fax: +39 040 224 0689 Email: [email protected]

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WAS-ICCBS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Award budget total: - International Centre for Chemical and Website: Biological Sciences invite applications for the http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-iccbs- TWAS-ICCBS postgraduate fellowship postgraduate-fellowship-programme programme. This enables young scientists Application form: from developing countries other than http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Pakistan to pursue research leading to a PhD 2016-pg-application- in the chemical and biological sciences. form_finalmarch2016_3.doc Fellowships are tenable at the ICCBS. Sandwich fellowships, for those registered for Eligibility profile a PhD in their home country, are tenable for a ------minimum of six months. Full-time Country of applicant institution: Armenia, fellowships, for those willing to register for a Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, PhD in Pakistan, are tenable for a maximum Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, of four years. Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nationals of developing countries other than Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's Pakistan, who are no more than 35 years of Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, age on 31 December of the year of application, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, may apply. Applicants must not hold a visa Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New for temporary or permanent residency in Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, Pakistan or any developed country. Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Applicants should hold a master’s degree in a Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, field of the natural sciences and provide Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- evidence of proficiency in English. Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low Fellowships include one return journey to Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income Pakistan and a monthly stipend to cover countries, Kosovo living costs, such as food, accommodation, local transportation and incidental illness. If Disciplines awarded, applicants must sit a compulsory ------entrance examination in the first quarter of Biological Sciences; Chemistry the year prior to starting their fellowship. Contact Details Closing date: 31 Aug 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated TWAS Fellowships Office once a year. ICTP Campus Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Strada Costiera 11 Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Travel 34151 Trieste for research purposes, Young investigator Tel: +39 040 2240 314 awards Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected]

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WAS-CEMB POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Application form: National Centre of Excellence in Molecular http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Biology in Lahore, Pakistan, invite 2016-pdoc-application- applications for their postdoctoral fellowship form_march2016_7.doc programme. This enables scientists from developing countries other than Pakistan to Eligibility profile pursue postdoctoral research in molecular ------biology and molecular genetics. Country of applicant institution: Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Nationals of a developing country other than Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Pakistan, who are 45 years of age or younger Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, on 31 December of the application year, may Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, apply. Applicants must hold a PhD in natural Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's sciences and must provide proof of Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, proficiency in English. They must be regularly Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, employed in a developing country other than Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Pakistan and hold a research assignment there Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, and provide an official acceptance letter from Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, NCP. Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and include a monthly stipend which covers Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low living costs such as accommodation, food and Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income health insurance. countries, Kosovo

Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants for ------individual investigators TWAS Fellowships Office Award amount max: - ICTP Campus Award budget total: - Strada Costiera 11 Website: 34151 Trieste http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas- Tel: +39 040 2240 314 cemb-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Email: [email protected]

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WAS-CEMB POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Application form: National Centre of Excellence in Molecular http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Biology in Pakistan invites applications for 2016-pg_guidelines_finalmarch2016_5.doc their postgraduate fellowship programme. This enables young scientists from developing Eligibility profile countries other than Pakistan to pursue ------studies leading towards a PhD degree in Country of applicant institution: Armenia, molecular biology and molecular genetics. Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sandwich fellowships are for applicants Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, registered for a PhD degree in their home Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, country and full-time fellowships are for Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, those willing to register for a PhD at CEMB. Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Applicants must be 35 years of age or under Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, on 31 December of the application year, hold a Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New master’s degree in the natural sciences, be Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, nationals of a developing country other than Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Pakistan and be able to provide evidence of Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, proficiency in English. Applicants must be Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- able to provide an acceptance letter from Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, CEMB. Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income Fellowships are tenable for up to four years countries, Kosovo and provide a monthly stipend to cover living costs, health insurance, and one return Disciplines journey. If awarded, applicants must sit a ------compulsory entrance examination. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Genetics Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 19 Apr 16 TWAS Fellowships Office Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate ICTP Campus students, Young investigator awards, Strada Costiera 11 Directed grants for individual investigators, 34151 Trieste Predoctoral fellowships, Travel for research Tel: +39 040 2240 314 purposes Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Award amount max: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas- cemb-postgraduate-fellowship-programme

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WAS-IACS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- Indian Association for the Cultivation of iacs-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Science invite applications for their Application form: postdoctoral fellowship programme. This http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ enables young scientists to pursue full-time 2016-pdoc-application- postdoctoral research in the natural sciences form_march2016_2.doc at the IACS in Kolkata, India. Research should address the following fields: Eligibility profile ------ biological chemistry; Country of applicant institution: Armenia,  condensed matter physics; Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire,  inorganic chemistry; Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt,  materials science; Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras,  non-conventional energy; Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic  organic chemistry; Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco,  physical chemistry; Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania,  polymer science; Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea,  spectroscopy; Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory,  theoretical physics. Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Nationals of a developing country other than Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- India may apply. Applicants must be less than Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, 40 years old on 31 December of the Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low application year and hold a PhD degree in Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income physics, chemistry or biology. They must be countries, Kosovo regularly employed in a developing country other than India and hold a research Disciplines assignment there and provide an official ------acceptance letter from IACS. Theoretical Physics; Spectrometry; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Physical Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Organic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; and provide a monthly stipend to cover living Materials Sciences; Condensed Matter costs, food and health insurance. Physics; Inorganic Chemistry

Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. TWAS Fellowships Office Posted date: 19 Apr 16 ICT Campus Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Strada Costiera 11 Young investigator awards, Directed grants 34151 Trieste for individual investigators Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Email: [email protected]

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WAS-SN BOSE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the SN 2016-pdoc-application- Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in form_march2016_1.doc Kolkata, India, will shortly be inviting applications to their postdoctoral fellowship Eligibility profile programme. This enables foreign scientists to ------pursue postdoctoral research in the physical Country of applicant institution: Armenia, sciences at the SN Bose National Centre for Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Basic Sciences. Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, Nationals of a developing country other than Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India who are no more than 45 old on 31 Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic December of the application year, may apply. Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, Applicants must hold a PhD in physics, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Mauritania, mathematics or physical chemistry and must Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, demonstrate proficiency in English. Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Applicants must be regularly employed and Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, hold a research assignment in a developing Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, country and provide an official acceptance Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- letter from SN-Bose. Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income and include a monthly stipend which covers countries, Kosovo living costs such as food and health insurance. Free on-campus accommodation is provided. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Physical Sciences Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 19 Apr 16 ------Award type: Early-Career fellowships, TWAS Fellowships Office Young investigator awards, Directed grants ICTP Campus for individual investigators Strada Costiera 11 Award amount max: - 34151 Trieste Award budget total: - Tel: +39 040 224 0314 Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- Fax: +39 040 224 0689 sn-bose-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Email: [email protected] Application form: http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/

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SSAY PRIZE Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland E

Description: The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Posted date: 26 Oct 15 Ireland invites submissions for its essay prize. Award type: Prizes, Student awards This recognises the best essay on any topic Award amount max: £100 relating to the place names or personal names Award budget total: - of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle Website: of Man or the Channel Islands. http://www.snsbi.org.uk/essay_prize.html

Applications are welcome from all students Eligibility profile and researchers, and the prize is normally ------awarded to those who have not had work in Country of applicant institution: Any onomastics published. Essays should make an original contribution to the subject. Disciplines ------The prize is worth £100. British & Irish Studies; British & Irish History

Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Email: [email protected]

OSTGRADUATE BURSARY PROGRAMME – PHD, MSC AND MENG BURSARIES South African National Research Foundation P

Description: The South African National Research  citizens of Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Foundation invites applications for its PhD, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, MSc and MEng bursaries through the square Namibia or Zambia who wish to kilometre array postgraduate bursary complete an MSc, MEng or PhD at a programme. This supports students who wish South African university; to pursue postgraduate research relevant to  South African citizens and citizens of the scientific and technical goals of the SKA Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, and MeerKAT radio telescopes. Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia or Zambia who wish to Applicants must be in one of the following complete an MSc or PhD at a categories: university in a SKA partner countries.

 South African citizens and permanent Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) residents;

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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: South Africa approximate deadline we expect. This call is Country of applicant institution: Mauritius, repeated once a year. Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Posted date: 03 Jul 15 Mozambique, Namibia, Madagascar Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Disciplines students, Travel for research purposes ------Award amount max: - Telescopes & Space Instrumentation Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.ska.ac.za/students/mpbp.php ------Application form: https://skagrants.nrf.ac.za/ Email: [email protected]

Eligibility profile

RTHRITIS AUSTRALIA/ZIMMER ORTHOPAEDIC FELLOWSHIPS Arthritis Australia A

Description: Arthritis Australia invites applications for the Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Arthritis Australia/Zimmer orthopaedic Deadline information: Applications due by fellowships. These promote best practice 5pm AEST. This call is repeated 2 times a treatment for arthritis patients by enabling year. supervisors to improve their instructional Posted date: 16 Mar 16 skills and enhance the international exchange Award type: Senior fellowships, Early- of orthopaedic knowledge and skills, as well Career fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, as helping institutions to achieve their own Directed grants for individual investigators, educational goals and objectives. Postdoctoral training fellowships, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, The fellowship programme must contain at Networking/collaboration, Personal least 50 per cent arthroplasty in the specified development, Equipment and materials activity to be eligible. Preference is given to Award amount max: $55,000 Award amount min: $27,500 Australian and New Zealand institutions and Award budget total: - fellows. The programme is only open to Website: overseas institutions if supporting an http://www.arthritisaustralia.com.au/index.p Australian or New Zealand fellow. Only one hp/research-grants.html fellowship application can be submitted per institution per funding year. Eligibility profile ------Fellowships are worth AU$27,500 for a six- Country of applicant institution: Australia, month period or AU$55,000 for one year. New Zealand Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Contact Details ------Rheumatology & Arthritis; Orthopaedic Email: [email protected] Surgery

WAS-ICIPE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The Academy of Sciences for the Developing Deadline information: This call is repeated World and the International Centre of Insect once a year. Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya Posted date: 19 Apr 16 invite applications for the TWAS-icipe Award type: Early-Career fellowships, postdoctoral fellowship programme. This Directed grants for individual investigators, enables young scientists from developing Young investigator awards countries other than Kenya to undertake Award amount max: - postdoctoral studies in Kenya. The fellowship Award budget total: - supports research in natural sciences in one of Website: http://twas.ictp.it/opportunity/twas- the following areas: icipe-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Application form:  agricultural sciences; http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ 2016-pdoc-application-  structural, cell and molecular biology; form_march2016_3.doc  biological systems and organisms;

 medical and health sciences including Eligibility profile neuroscience; ------ chemical sciences. Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Nationals of a developing country other than Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Kenya, who hold a PhD in a natural sciences Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, field, may apply. Applicants must not hold a Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, visa for temporary or permanent residency in Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Comoros, Korea, Kenya or any developed country. Applicants Democratic People's Republic of, Liberia, must be regularly employed and hold a Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Malawi, research assignment in a developing country Mozambique, Niger, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra and provide an official acceptance letter from Leone, Somalia, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, icipe. Proficiency in English is a requirement Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, for this programme. Zimbabwe, Lower-Middle-Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries, South Sudan Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months and include a monthly stipend which covers Disciplines living costs such as accommodation, food and ------health insurance. Chemistry; Biological Sciences; Agriculture; Medicine & Health Closing date: 31 Aug 16

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34151 Trieste Contact Details Tel: +39 040 2240 314 ------Fax: +39 040 2240 689 TWAS Fellowships Office Email: [email protected] ICTP Campus Strada Costiera 11

NTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research I

Description: The Federal Ministry of Education and approximate deadline we expect. This call is Research, in association with the International repeated once a year. Research Center of Work and Human Posted date: 21 Jul 15 Lifecycle in Global History at Humboldt Award type: Senior fellowships, Early- University, invites applications for its Career fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, international fellowships for the academic Travel for research purposes year 2016-2017. These support researchers Award amount max: - wishing to conduct a project within the area of Award budget total: - work and labour in relation to life course. Website: http://www2.hu- berlin.de/arbeit/en/fellowships.html Possible topics include the household, loss of Application form: work, the relationship between work and https://secure.jotformeu.com/form/515929560 non-work, work and gender and free and 81361 unfree labour. Projects should employ a Eligibility profile historical and transregional perspective. ------Proposals about all regions of the world are Country of applicant institution: Any welcome and especially those that look at comparisons, conflicts or relations between Disciplines different regions. ------

Welfare Economics; Feminist, Women's & Applicants must be postdoctoral candidates Gender Studies; Labour History; Employment or senior scholars. & Unemployment Studies; Labour &

Demographic Economics Fellows receive a monthly stipend, office space and organisational help. They are Contact Details obliged to work at the research centre in ------Berlin. Up to 10 fellowships are available. Tel: +49 30 209 370 206

Fax: +49 30 209 370 210 Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected] Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the

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ESEARCH AND STUDY GRANTS Association for the Promotion of Occupational Health – Työterveyden Edistämisyhdistys ry R

Description: The Association for Promotion of Award type: Directed grants for individual Occupational Health invites applications for investigators, Travel for research purposes, its research and study grants. These are Financial aid for postgraduate students, awarded for studies or research projects in the Personal development field of occupational health and safety, Award amount max: - conducted outside of Finland. Funding may Award budget total: - be awarded for the following activities: Website: http://www.ttl.fi/partner/tey/apurahat/sivut/  long-term postdoctoral studies or default.aspx work abroad;  training or research projects of up to Eligibility profile three months’ duration, carried out in ------leading research institutions abroad; Country of applicant institution: Finland Country of applicant institution: Lower-  educating students from developing Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries in Finland. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries

The annual grant budget varies between Disciplines €6,000 and €9,000. ------

Environmental & Occupational Health & Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 Safety August 2016, 31 March 2017, and repeated annually. Contact Details Posted date: 16 Dec 14 ------Tel: +358 30 474 2851 Email: [email protected]

STABLISHMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS Korea Foundation E

Description: The Korea Foundation invites applications for social sciences programmes are eligible to the establishment of professorships. All apply for support. universities outside Korea that plan to create a new professorship in Korean language or The period of support is three to five years. Korean studies under their humanities or Tenure track applicants will receive funding

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for a portion of the new professor’s salary and Eligibility profile employee benefits, and endowed chair ------applicants will receive an endowment Country of applicant institution: Any provided that the host institution matches the fund on a one-to-one basis. Disciplines Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet South-East Asian History; Korean History; been announced by funder, but this is the Asian Studies; History; Korean Literature; approximate deadline we expect. This call is History of the Indian Subcontinent; Japanese repeated once a year. History; Chinese History; Korean Language Posted date: 04 Sep 13 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Senior fellowships ------Award amount max: - Korea Foundation Award budget total: - 10F Diplomatic Center Building Website: 2558 Nambusunhwanno https://apply.kf.or.kr/main.nkf?lang=en_US Seocho-gu Application form: Seoul, 137-863 https://apply.kf.or.kr/main.nkf Tel: +44 2 3463 6075

SSAY PRIZE Katherine Mansfield Society E

Description: The Katherine Mansfield Society invites  KM and Russian ballet or theatre. entries for its essay prize. This recognises an essay on the subject of Katherine Mansfield Anyone may apply. and Russia. Essays that address all aspects of Katherine Mansfield and Russia, whether The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 literary, cultural, historical, or biographical, and the winning essay will be considered for are welcomed. Topics might include: publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies yearbook.  KM and Chekhov;  KM and Tolstoy; Closing date: 31 Aug 16  KM and Dostoevsky; Deadline information: This call is repeated  KM and Russian literature; once a year.  KM and Marie Bashkirtseff; Posted date: 26 Feb 16  the Hogarth Press and Russia; Award type: Prizes  translating with Koteliansky; Award amount max: £200 Award budget total: -  KM and Constance Garnett; Website:  KM and the Russian revolution of http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/e 1917; ssay-prize/  KM, Gurdjieff and his institute;

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Literature, Fiction; Russian History; Literary Eligibility profile Theory; New Zealand Literature; Translation ------Studies; Russian Literature Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Email: [email protected]

WAS-CIIT POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the economic sciences sciences and provide COMSATS Institute of Information and evidence of proficiency in English. Applicants Technology invites applications for the must be able to provide an acceptance letter TWAS-CIIT postgraduate fellowship from CIIT. programme. This enables young scientists from developing countries other than Fellowships include a monthly stipend to Pakistan to obtain their PhD in natural or cover living costs, such as accommodation, social and economic sciences. Fellowships are food and health insurance. tenable in the departments and laboratories of the seven campuses of CIIT. Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated The programme offers two categories of once a year. fellowships: Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Award type: Predoctoral fellowships,  sandwich fellowships – for those Directed grants for individual investigators, registered for a PhD in their home Financial aid for postgraduate students, country and tenable for six up to 18 Young investigator awards months; Award amount max: -  full-time fellowships – for those not Award budget total: - registered for a PhD in their home Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- ciit-postgraduate-fellowship-programme country and tenable for up to three Application form: years. http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/

2016-pg-application- Nationals from a developing country other form_finalmarch2016_4.doc than Pakistan, who are no more than 35 years of age on 31 December of the year of Eligibility profile application, may apply. Applicants must not ------hold a visa for temporary or permanent Country of applicant institution: Armenia, residency in Pakistan or any developed Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, country. Applicants should hold a master’s Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, degree in a field of the natural or social and

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Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, ------Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Social Sciences; Physics; Earth Systems & Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's Environmental Sciences; Food Science; Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Materials Sciences; Chemistry; Biological Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Sciences Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, Contact Details Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, ------Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, TWAS Fellowships Office Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- ICTP Campus Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Strada Costiera 11 Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low 34151 Trieste Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income Tel: +39 040 2240 314 countries, Kosovo Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Email; [email protected] Disciplines

WAS-CIIT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the Fellowships include a monthly stipend which COMSATS Institute of Information and covers living costs such as accommodation, Technology invites applications for the food and health insurance. TWAS-CIIT postdoctoral fellowship programme. This enables young scientists Closing date: 31 Aug 16 from developing countries other than Deadline information: This call is repeated Pakistan to pursue postdoctoral research in once a year. the natural sciences or social and economic Posted date: 19 Apr 16 sciences. Fellowships are tenable for a Award type: Early-Career fellowships, minimum of six and a maximum of 12 months Young investigator awards, Directed grants at the departments and laboratories of the for individual investigators CIIT. Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Candidates must apply for the fellowships Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- within five years of having obtained a PhD in ciit-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme the natural sciences social and economic Application form: sciences. Applicants must be nationals of a http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ 2016-pdoc-application- developing country other than Pakistan, be form_march2016_10.doc regularly employed in a developing country other than Pakistan and hold a research Eligibility profile assignment there, and be proficient in English. ------

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WAS-CIIT VISITING SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: The World Academy of Sciences and the a requirement for this programme. COMSATS Institute of Information and Applications must include an acceptance Technology invite applications for the TWAS- letter from CIIT. CIIT visiting scholar fellowship programme. These enable scientists from developing Fellowships are tenable for one up to three countries other than Pakistan to pursue months and include a monthly stipend to advanced research in the natural sciences or cover living costs, such as accommodation, social and economic sciences at the food and health insurance. departments and laboratories of CIIT. Closing date: 31 Aug 16 Nationals of developing countries other than Deadline information: This call is repeated Pakistan, who are no more than 55 years of once a year. age on 31 December of the application year, Posted date: 21 Apr 16 may apply. Applicants must not hold a visa Award type: Directed grants for individual for temporary or permanent residency in investigators, Senior fellowships, Mid- Pakistan or any developed country. Career fellowships, Young investigator Applicants should hold a PhD in the natural awards sciences or social and economic sciences with Award amount max: - at least five years of postdoctoral research Award budget total: - experience, and be engaged in a regular research assignment. Proficiency in English is

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Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, ciit-visiting-scholar-fellowship-programme- Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low pakistan Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income Application form: countries, Kosovo http://twas.org/sites/default/files/scientist/20 16-vr-application-form_f_2.doc Disciplines ------Eligibility profile Food Science; Physics; Earth Systems & ------Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Country of applicant institution: Armenia, Materials Sciences; Social Sciences; Chemistry Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Contact Details Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, ------Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, TWAS Fellowships Office Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's ICTP Campus Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Strada Costiera 11 Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, 34151 Trieste Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Email: [email protected] Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor-

IBBUTZ FUND PRIZE University of Haifa K

Description: The Institute for the Research on the Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea at the University of The prize is worth US$2,000. Haifa invite applications for their Kibbutz Fund prize. This recognises a completed Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) research paper or publication related to the Deadline information: !! Call has not yet kibbutz movement. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is In particular, the research will contribute to repeated once a year. new knowledge or expertise in the following Posted date: 06 Feb 14 areas: Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $2,000  promoting the economic productivity Award budget total: - of the kibbutz today and in the future; Website:  improving the kibbutz work and http://kibbutz.haifa.ac.il/index.php/kibbutz- fund2 income structure;

 strengthening community life, based Eligibility profile on fundamental kibbutz values.

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------Econometrics; Social & Cultural Country of applicant institution: Any Anthropology; History of Economic Thought; Philosophy Disciplines ------Contact Details Political Philosophy; African Studies; ------Anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies; Kibbutz Fund Agriculture; Middle Eastern Languages; Institute for Study and Research of the Agricultural Collectives & Cooperatives; Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea Social Programmes; Industrial Organisation in University of Haifa Economics; Politics & International Studies; Mount Carmel Agricultural Production Systems; Production Haifa 31905 & Organisations; History; Sociology; Political Tel: +972 4824 0418 Sociology; Political Ideologies; Economics & Fax: +972 4824 0409

BEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME International Mathematical Union A

Description: The International Mathematical Union and collaboration should take place at the the Niels Henrik Abel Board invite international partner’s home institution. applications for the Abel visiting scholar programme. This enables mathematicians The grant is worth up to US$5,000, and will professionally based in developing countries cover health insurance, visa cost, all travel to visit an international research collaborator and living expenses, including for a period of one month. accommodation for one month.

Applicants must hold a PhD in mathematics, Closing date: 31 Aug 16 be based in a developing country at the time Deadline information: Applications must be of application, hold a position in a university received at least four months before the or research institution and be in the early desired starting date. Deadlines on: 30 April stages of their professional careers. Applicants 2016, 31 August 2016, 8 January 2017. should not yet be of full professorial rank but Posted date: 14 Jan 16 have a working contract in a university or Award type: Personal development, Travel college, and they must be under 40 years of for research purposes, Young investigator age on the application deadline. The awards, Directed grants for individual maximum age may be increased by up to investigators, Networking/collaboration three years in the case of an individual with a Award amount max: $5,000 broken career pattern. Applications from Award budget total: - women mathematicians are strongly Website: http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grants/abel- encouraged. The applicant must already have visiting-scholar-program/ initiated contact with the proposed international research partner. The

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Application form: Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/image Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, s/cdc/downloads/Application_Form_for_the_ Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Abel_Visiting_Scholar_Program.docx Paraguay, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, Eligibility profile El Salvador, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, ------Tajikistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Republic of, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Benin, Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, the Democratic South Sudan Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Disciplines Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated ------States of, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Mathematical Sciences Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Contact Details Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Lao People's ------Democratic Republic, Liberia, Lesotho, Email: [email protected] Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Mali, Mauritania, Malawi,

LBA/PUFFIN AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives A

Description: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and Website: http://www.alba-valb.org/news- the Puffin Foundation invite nominations for events/human-rights-project their human rights activism award. This recognises individuals or organisations whose Eligibility profile work has had an exceptionally positive ------impact on the advancement and defence of Country of applicant institution: Any human rights. Disciplines The prize is worth US$100,000. ------Access to Justice; Natural Hazards & Closing date: 31 Aug 16 (Forecast) Disasters; International Aid & Relief; Peace & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disarmament; Immigration Policy & Asylum; been announced by funder, but this is the Civil & Human Rights; Politics & approximate deadline we expect. This call is International Studies; International Security repeated once a year. Posted date: 01 Jul 14 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $100,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -

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OLLEGE TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow C

Description: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons development, Travel for research purposes, of Glasgow invites applications for its Young investigator awards travelling fellowships. These enable younger Award amount max: £2,000 members of the college to travel to centres of Award amount min: - excellence in order to gain further experience Award budget total: £32,000 in any area of surgery, or for members from Website: https://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/The- overseas to visit centres in the UK. In College/Supporting-Your-Career/Awards- addition, the fellowships support a variety of and-Scholarships/Travelling- other learning opportunities, including taster Awards/College-Travelling-Fellowship.aspx weeks for junior doctors. Application form: https://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/~/media/P3/Files/A Members and fellows of the college, including wards%20and%20Scholarship/Forms/AppFo introductory postgraduate, associate or rmCollege%20Travelling%202016.doc affiliate members, as well as members of the Eligibility profile faculties of travel medicine and podiatric ------medicine, may apply. Country of applicant institution: Any

Up to 16 fellowships, worth up to £2,000 each, Disciplines are available every year. Four of these are ------allocated to overseas members. Funding Surgery & Intensive Care covers travel and subsistence expenses, but does not support attendance at year-long Contact Details salaried post, courses or conferences. ------

RCPSG Closing date: 31 Aug 16 232-242 St Vincent Street Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 Glasgow G2 5RJ August 2016, 30 November 2016. Posted date: 21 Jan 16 Tel: +44 141 221 6072 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +44 141 211 1804 investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Email: [email protected] Postdoctoral training fellowships, Personal

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BE FELLOWSHIP Social Science Research Council A

Description: The Social Science Research Council and the governance, human rights, the Japan Foundation Center for Global changing role of non-governmental Partnership invite applications for the Abe organisations and non-profits, the rise fellowship. This encourages international of new media and government roles in multidisciplinary research on topics of fostering innovation. pressing global concern and promotes intellectual cooperation between the Japanese Applications are open to citizens of the US and American academic and professional and Japan, as well as to nationals of other communities. Research proposals may countries who can demonstrate strong and address one or more of the following themes: long-term affiliations with research communities in Japan or the US. Applicants  threats to personal, societal and must hold a PhD or the terminal degree in international security, including food, their field, or have attained an equivalent water and energy insecurity, level of professional experience. Applications pandemics, climate change, disaster from researchers in professions other than preparedness, prevention and academia are encouraged. recovery, conflict, terrorism and cybersecurity; The fellowship provides three to 12 months of  growth and sustainable development, full-time support over a two-year period. including global financial stability, Tenure must begin between 1 April and 31 trade imbalances and agreements, December of a given year. adjustment to globalisation, climate change and adaptation, and poverty Closing date: 01 Sep 16 and inequality; Deadline information: This call is repeated  social, scientific and cultural trends once a year. and transformations, including ageing Posted date: 15 Jun 16 and other demographic change, Award type: Directed grants for individual benefits and dangers of reproductive investigators, Early-Career fellowships, genetics, gender and social exclusion, Senior fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, expansion of STEM education among Networking/collaboration women and underrepresented Award amount max: - populations, migration, rural Award budget total: - Website: depopulation and urbanisation, http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe- impacts of automation on jobs, fellowship/ poverty and inequality and Application form: https://soap.ssrc.org/ community resilience;

 governance, empowerment and Eligibility profile participation, including challenges to ------democratic institutions, participatory

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Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Email: [email protected] Japanese Literature; Development Studies; Japanese History; Japanese Language; North American Studies; Social Sciences

HILIP HAUGE ABELSON PRIZE American Association for the Advancement of Science P

Description: The American Association for the Disciplines Advancement of Science invites nominations ------for the Philip Hauge Abelson prize, worth Chemical Engineering; Civil Engineering; US$5,000. The prize is awarded annually, Mechanical Engineering; Statistics; Materials either to a public servant in recognition of Sciences; Applied Mathematics; sustained exceptional contributions to Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; advancing science, or a scientist whose career Petroleum Engineering; Research & has been distinguished both for scientific Innovation Economics & Policy; Biological achievement and for other notable services to Sciences; Mining Engineering; Physics; Pure the scientific community. It includes US$5,000 Mathematics; Physical Sciences and and complimentary registration and Engineering; Politics & International Studies; reimbursement for reasonable travel and hotel General Engineering; Education; Ceramics; expenses to attend the AAAS annual meeting. Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Earth Sciences; Science & Technology Education; Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Chemistry; Environmental Science; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Engineering; Electrical & Electronic been announced by funder, but this is the Engineering; Metallurgy; Computer Science & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Informatics repeated once a year. Posted date: 19 Apr 12 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, ------meetings etc. Science and Policy Programs Award amount max: $5,000 American Association for the Advancement of Award budget total: - Science Website: http://www.aaas.org/node/1250 1200 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005 Eligibility profile Tel: +1 202 326 6600 ------Fax: +1 202 289 4950 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]

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WARD FOR SCIENCE DIPLOMACY American Association for the Advancement of Science A

Description: The American Association for the Award budget total: - Advancement of Science invites nominations Website: for its award for science diplomacy. This http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/int/in recognises an individual or small group in the dex.shtml scientific or engineering community for their contribution to furthering science diplomacy. Eligibility profile ------This award is open to all, regardless of Country of applicant institution: Any nationality or citizenship. Disciplines The winner receives US$5,000, complimentary ------registration and reimbursement for Social Sciences; Physical Sciences and reasonable travel and hotel expenses to attend Engineering; Bio/Medical the association’s annual meeting. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet AAAS International Office been announced by funder, but this is the 1200 New York Avenue, NW approximate deadline we expect. This call is Washington DC 20005 repeated once a year. Tel: +1 202 326 6650 Posted date: 26 Feb 15 Fax: +1 202 289 4958 Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Email: [email protected] meetings etc. Award amount max: $5,000

CIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AWARD American Association for the Advancement of Science S

Description: The American Association for the  focused public attention on important Advancement of Science invites nominations potential impacts of science and for its scientific freedom and responsibility technology on society by their award. This recognises scientists and responsible participation in public engineers who have: policy debates;  established important new precedents  acted to protect the public's health, in carrying out the social safety, or welfare; responsibilities or in defending the

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professional freedom of scientists and engineers. Eligibility profile ------Nominations are open to all, regardless of Country of applicant institution: Any nationality or citizenship. Disciplines The award includes US$5,000 and ------reimbursement for travel and hotel expenses Social Sciences; Sociology of Science & to attend the association’s annual meeting. Technology; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Environmental & Occupational Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Health & Safety; Bio/Medical Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. AAAS Science and Policy Programmes Posted date: 26 Feb 15 1200 New York Avenue, NW Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Washington DC 20005 meetings etc. Tel: +1 202 326 6794 Award amount max: $5,000 Fax: +1 202 289 4950 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.aaas.org/page/aaas- award-scientific-freedom-and-responsibility

NERGY TECHNOLOGY DIVISION RESEARCH AWARD Electrochemical Society E

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites Electrochemical Society may be considered. applications for the research award of the The award is worth US$1,500. energy technology division. The award recognises outstanding and original Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) contributions to the science and technology of Deadline information: !! Call has not yet energy related research areas that include been announced by funder, but this is the scientific and technological aspects of fossil approximate deadline we expect. This call is fuels and alternative energy sources, energy repeated once a year. management and environmental Posted date: 09 Nov 11 consequences of energy utilization. Although Award type: Prizes the award is not limited to any particular age Award amount max: $1,500 group, its primary purpose is to develop Award budget total: - interest in energy related science and Website: technology among younger electrochemists. http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division Only currently active members of the /division_awards.htm

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Eligibility profile Resources; Mining Engineering; Energy ------Absorbing Materials; Renewable Energy Country of applicant institution: Any Engineering; Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Electrochemistry; Metallurgy; Disciplines Earth Sciences; Energy Engineering; Civil ------Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Energy General Engineering; Mechanical Storage - Batteries & Grid; Architecture, Built Engineering; Fossil Energy; Nuclear Environment & Planning; Geothermics & Chemistry; Environmental Science; Radiation Radiometrics Sources & Isotopes; Electrical & Electromagnetic Geophysics; Petroleum & Contact Details Coal Geology; Energy Consumption; ------Catalysis & Chemical Reactions; Chemistry; Electrochemical Society Nuclear Physics; Energy Conversion; 65 South Main Street Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Materials Pennington, NJ 08534-2839 Sciences; Physics; Aerospace Engineering & Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Avionics; Particle Physics; Isotope Email: [email protected] Geochemistry; Use & Management of Natural

BE FELLOWSHIP Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership A

Description: The Japan Foundation Center for Global Japan or the United States are eligible. Partnership invites applications under the Applicants must hold a PhD or the terminal Abe fellowship program. The fellowship aims degree in their field, or have attained an to encourage international multidisciplinary equivalent level of professional experience. research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) interested in policy-relevant topics of long- Deadline information: !! Call has not yet range importance. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Applications are accepted from scholars and repeated once a year. non-academic research professionals in the Posted date: 10 Dec 08 social sciences and related disciplines to Award type: Directed grants for individual conduct research in the following subject investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate areas: traditional and non-traditional students approaches to security and diplomacy; global Award amount max: - and regional economic issues; and the role of Award budget total: - civil society. Citizens of the US and Japan as Website: well as to nationals of other countries who can http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe- fellowship/ demonstrate strong and serious long-term Application form: http://soap.ssrc.org/ affiliations with research communities in

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Eligibility profile Policy; Economics & Econometrics; Sociology; ------Environmental Planning; Social Policy & Country of applicant institution: Any Administration; Asian Studies; Social Policy

Disciplines Contact Details ------American History; Social Stratification & Abe Fellowship Program Mobility; Built Environment & Spatial Social Science Research Council Planning; Globalisation & Transnationalism; 810 Seventh Avenue Politics & International Studies; Public Policy; New York, NY 10019 Marxian Economics; American Literature; Tel: +1 212 377 2700 International Relations & Diplomacy; Legal & Fax: +1 212 377 2727 Social Change; Political Parties & Institutions; Email: [email protected] Political Economics & Economy; Environmental Policy; Social Work & Social

RIZE LECTURE Experimental Psychology Society P

Description: The Experimental Psychology Society invites Award amount max: - nominations for its prize lecture. This Award budget total: - recognises distinguished research Website: achievement by experimental psychologists at http://www.eps.ac.uk/index.php/eps-prize- an early stage in their career. lecturer

Nominees should normally have obtained Eligibility profile their PhD no more than 10 years previously. ------Any ordinary member of the society may Country of applicant institution: Any make a nomination, and there are no nationality or membership restrictions for Disciplines nominees. ------Psychology; Experimental Psychology The winner will be invited to deliver a lecture at one of the society meetings. The award Contact Details includes an honorarium. ------EPS Closing date: 01 Sep 16 School of Psychology Deadline information: This call is repeated University of Nottingham once a year. University Park Posted date: 02 Oct 14 Nottingham NG7 2RD Award type: Prizes

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DEA GRANTS Barth Syndrome Foundation I

Description: The Barth Syndrome Foundation invites Institutional development, Young proposals for its idea grants. These support investigator awards basic science and clinical research on the Award amount max: $70,000 natural history, biochemical basis and Award budget total: - treatment of Barth syndrome. Website: http://www.barthsyndrome.org/view.asp?cci Funding is available as seed grants for testing d=365 initial hypotheses and the collection of Application form: preliminary data that may lead to successful http://www.barthsyndrome.org/CMFiles/201 long-term funding by major granting 3GrantApplicationandGuidelinesVERSION institutions. Young, non-tenured investigators 437HZW-632013-7480.137HZW-632013- are allowed to include up to 75 per cent of the 7480.doc direct costs as principal investigator salary Eligibility profile while experienced investigators may only ------include up to 10 per cent for this purpose. Country of applicant institution: Any

Idea grants are worth up to US$50,000 over Disciplines one to two years. Indirect costs are limited to ------10 per cent of the direct costs. An additional Diagnostic Sciences; Biological Sciences; US$20,000 may be available for clinically- Growth & Growth Factors; Muscle Diseases; oriented applications to support the travel of Clinical Medicine; Orphan & Rare Diseases; research volunteers to specific clinical Genetic Diseases; Biochemistry & Molecular research sites. Biology

Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Barth Syndrome Foundation repeated once a year. 132 Creemer Avenue Posted date: 02 Jul 13 Iselin, NJ 08830 Award type: Directed grants for individual Email: [email protected] investigators, Travel for research purposes,

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INA FEITELSON RESEARCH AWARD International Reading Association D

Description: The International Reading Association invites dina-feitelson-guidelines-2014-award- nominations for the Dina Feitelson research year.pdf award. This recognises an outstanding empirical study published in English in a Eligibility profile refereed journal and that reports on one or ------more aspects of literacy acquisition, such as Country of applicant institution: Any phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, bilingualism, home influences on literacy Disciplines development or cross-cultural studies of ------beginning reading. The results of the study Teacher Education & Professional should have clear implications for instruction. Development; Education; Bilingual & Intercultural Education; Comparative Works published between January and Education; Curriculum & Pedagogy Theory; December 2012 may be nominated. Cognitive Processes; First Language Nomination is open to all literacy Education; Multicultural & Cross-Cultural professionals. Studies; Psychology; Social Work & Social The award is worth US$500. Policy; Modern Languages & Linguistics; Learning Difficulties; Literacy; Psychology of Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Language Acquisition Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. International Reading Association Posted date: 02 Jul 13 IRA Dina Feitelson Research Award Award type: Prizes Research Unit Award amount max: $500 800 Barksdale Road Website: P.O Box 8139 http://www.reading.org/Resources/Awardsa Newark, DE 19714-8139 ndGrants/research_feitelson.aspx Email: [email protected] Application form: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/awards/ira-

ULLERENES, NANOTUBES AND CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES DIVISION RICHARD E SMALLEY RESEARCH AWARD F Electrochemical Society

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites research award. The award is intended to applications for the Richard E Smalley recognise, in a broad sense, those persons

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who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding and applications of Eligibility profile fullerenes. Only active members of the society ------may be considered for the award. The award Country of applicant institution: Any includes a cash prize of US$1,000 and up to US$1,500 for travel assistance to meeting of Disciplines award presentation. ------Materials Sciences; Nanotechnology; Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Composite & Hybrid Materials; Physics; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Metallurgy been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated every 2 years. ------Posted date: 03 Nov 11 Electrochemical Society Award type: Prizes 65 South Main Street, Building D Award amount max: $2,500 Pennington, New Jersey 08534-2839 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division /rules/full_smalley_rules.htm

CCO FELLOWSHIP European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation E

Description: The European Crohn's and Colitis  applicants and their hosts must be Organisation invites applications for its ECCO members, however applicants fellowship. This aims to encourage young are not limited to the ECCO member individuals in their career and to promote countries and can apply from non- innovative scientific research in inflammatory European countries. bowel diseases in Europe. Two awards worth €60,000 each over one year In order to be eligible, the following criteria are available. must be met: Closing date: 01 Sep 16  applicants must not be older than 40 Deadline information: This call is repeated years or still in training at the time of once a year. application; Posted date: 17 May 16  they must have a hosting laboratory Award type: Young investigator awards, or department outside their own Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants for country which has accepted to host individual investigators and supervise them; Award amount max: €60,000 Award budget total: -

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Website: http://www.ecco- Bowel Diseases ibd.eu/science/fellowships-and-grants.html Contact Details Eligibility profile ------ECCO Office Country of applicant institution: Any Ungargasse 6/13 1030 Vienna Disciplines Email; [email protected] ------

C FUNG YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD American Society of Mechanical Engineers Y

Description: The American Society of Mechanical Posted date: 30 Jul 15 Engineers invites nominations for the YC Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Fung young investigator award. This awards, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. recognises a young investigator who is Award amount max: - committed to pursuing research in the field of Award amount min: $1,000 bioengineering and has demonstrated Award budget total: - potential to contribute to the field. These may Website: http://www.asme.org/about- include the design or development of new asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/y- methods, equipment or instrumentation in c--fung-young-investigator-award bioengineering, or research publications in Application form: peer-reviewed journals. https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Participate/Hono Nominees must be under 36 years of age. rs%20Awards/YC-Fung-Young-Nomination- Form.doc They should have received a PhD or equivalent bioengineering degree within Eligibility profile seven years of their nomination, and must be ------active members of the society’s Country of applicant institution: Any bioengineering division.

Disciplines The award consists of US$1,000, a bronze ------medal, a certificate and a travel supplement. Bioengineering

Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 434 243 6321 approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

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R LISSNER MEDAL American Society of Mechanical Engineers H

Description: The American Society of Mechanical Posted date: 30 Jul 15 Engineers invites nominations for the HR Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Lissner medal. This recognises active etc., Prizes members of the bioengineering division for Award amount max: - accomplishments in the area of Award amount min: $1,000 bioengineering. Eligible achievements may Award budget total: - include the following: Website: http://www.asme.org/about- asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/h-  significant research contributions; r--lissner-medal  development of new methods of Application form: measuring; https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Honors%20Awa  design of new equipment and rds/Achievement%20Awards/Achievement- instrumentation; Nomination-Form.doc  educational impact in the training of

bioengineers; Eligibility profile  service to the bioengineering ------community in general and to the Country of applicant institution: Any ASME bioengineering division in particular. Disciplines ------The award includes US$1,000 and a travel Bioengineering supplement to attend the award presentation. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +1 732 445 4500 been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected] approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year.

AN C MOW MEDAL American Society of Mechanical Engineers V

Description: The American Society of Mechanical through research, education, professional Engineers invites nominations for the Van C development, leadership in the development Mow medal. This recognises an individual of the profession, mentorship to young who has demonstrated meritorious bioengineers, and with service to the contributions to the field of bioengineering bioengineering community.

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Each candidate must have earned a PhD or Website: http://www.asme.org/about- equivalent degree between 10 and 20 years asme/honors-awards/achievement- prior to June 1 of the year of the award in any awards/van-c--mow-medal field of engineering, physics, medicine or life Application form: sciences. Candidates should be active https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ members of the bioengineering division. ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Honors%20Awa rds/Achievement%20Awards/Achievement- The award consists of US$1,000, a bronze Nomination-Form.doc medal, a certificate and a travel supplement. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Bioengineering Posted date: 29 Jul 15 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Contact Details etc., Prizes ------Award amount max: - Tel: +1 608 263 9593 Award amount min: $1,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -

ETURN HOME FELLOWSHIPS International Brain Research Organization R

Description: The International Brain Research  research students who have been Organization invites applications for its return trained in a centre of excellence in home fellowships. These aim to improve the brain research; opportunities for productive neuroscience  scientists who are developing a research within the less advantaged regions of successful basic or clinical research the world and to provide more aid to those career in a developed country and researchers trained overseas who wish to wish to return to their country of return to their home countries. Applicants origin, or to a less developed country, may be: for personal or cultural reasons.

 postdoctoral fellows who have Fellowships are worth up to €20,000 each. finished training in neuroscience in a centre of excellence in a developed Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) country; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect.

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Applications invited between August and 12 Country of applicant institution: Any midnight CET, 1 September 2015. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 10 Jul 15 ------Award type: Travel for research purposes, Neuroscience Directed grants for individual investigators, Postdoctoral training fellowships Contact Details Award amount max: €20,000 ------Award budget total: - IBRO Website: http://ibro.info/professional- 255 Rue Saint Honoré development/funding-programmes/return- 75001 Paris home-fellowships/ Tel: +33 1 4647 9292 Fax: +33 1 4647 4250 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------

TUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS American Hemerocallis Society S

Description: The American Hemerocallis Society invites  use of microtubule degradants (eg, applications for its student research grants. trifluralin, oryzalin, The grants support graduate or amiprophosmethyl) to produce undergraduate students or faculty/staff using polyploids; daylilies (plant genus Hemerocallis) as  seed dormancy factors; experimental organisms in original research  pests and diseases (eg, crown rot, projects. Fundamental areas of investigation spring sickness, bulb mites, gall are encouraged, such as: midge, daylily rust).

 banded chromosome preparations; The grants are up to $3,000 per year. Grants  gene mapping; are renewable for a total of three years.  fine structural studies of vegetative or reproductive parts; Closing date: 01 Sep 16  microscopic analysis of the ontogeny Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 of flower scapes in the crown; September 2016, 1 April 2017, and repeated  effect of various hormones on plant annually. growth and formation of Posted date: 11 Feb 11 proliferations on scapes. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Practical areas of study are encouraged, such students as: Award amount max: $9,000 Award budget total: - Website:  hardiness of various cultivars in http://www.daylilies.org/AHSgrants.html different climatic zones;

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Eligibility profile Forest Health, Pests & Diseases; Agriculture; ------Plant Genome & Genetics Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------American Hemerocallis Society Botany; Plant Diseases & Pathology; 7665 NW McDonald Circle Horticultural Crop Growth; Biological Corvallis, OR 97330 Sciences; Plant Development & Reproduction; Tel: +1 541 745 5496 Email: [email protected]

EMLOW PRIZE McGill University H

Description: The Burney Society invites applications for Award amount max: - the Hemlow prize. This recognises the best Award budget total: - essay written by a graduate student on any Website: aspect of the life or writings of Frances Burney http://burneycentre.mcgill.ca/burneysociety. or the Burney family. The essay, which can be html up to 6,000 words, should make a substantial contribution to Burney scholarship. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must have been registered as a Country of applicant institution: Any graduate student within the last year. Disciplines The award includes US$250 and a year's ------membership in the Burney Society. English Language & Literature

Contact Details Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet English Department been announced by funder, but this is the Boise State University approximate deadline we expect. This call is 1910, University Drive repeated once a year. Boise ID, 83725-1525 Posted date: 26 Aug 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes, Student awards

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FR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PHD AND POSTDOCTORAL GRANTS National Research Fund Luxembourg A

Description: The National Research Fund Luxembourg Closing date: 01 Sep 16 invites applications for its AFR public private Deadline information: Applications due by partnerships programme. This aims to foster 2pm CET. Deadlines on: 17 March 2016, 1 cooperation between Luxembourg based September 2016. companies and public research institutions in Posted date: 26 Jan 16 Luxembourg and abroad by funding PhD and Award type: Travel for research purposes, postdoctoral research projects. Projects should Grants - undirected, Academic-Industry not be pure engineering projects, and should links, Early-Career fellowships, Postdoctoral stimulate discovery oriented, industry led training fellowships research. Award amount max: €254,676 Award budget total: - PhD applicants should hold a relevant degree Website: http://fnr.lu/funding- from a recognised institution prior to the start instruments/afr -ppp/ Application form: https://grants.fnr.lu/ of the research project, and must have been enrolled in their PhD for no more than than Eligibility profile one year. Postdoctoral applicants can apply ------for up to eight years after their PhD. Country of applicant institution: Any

The maximum annual salary awarded for Disciplines PhD grants is €44,030 for up to two years. The ------maximum annual salary awarded for Any postdoctoral grants is €62,191 for up to four years. Awardees may also receive a one off Contact Details travel grant for between €250 and €2,000, and ------a training allowance of up to €6,000 for PhD Email: [email protected] researchers, and €4,000 for postdoctoral researchers.

ELLOWSHIPS Utrecht University F

Description: Utrecht University’s Descartes Centre invites philosophy of science. There are two types of applications for its fellowships. These aim to fellowships: promote intellectual exchange and strengthen international collaboration in history and  junior fellowships, which support independent doctoral research and

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research at Dutch museums and Eligibility profile archives – worth €1,500 per month; ------ senior fellowships, which allow senior Country of applicant institution: Andorra, researchers to contribute to the Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Descartes Centre by means of public and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, lectures, research seminars and Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, teaching – worth €2,500 per month. Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Both fellowships are available for up to three Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, months. Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Applicants must demonstrate an existing or Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, potential collaboration with one or more the former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, members of the Descartes Centre by a Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian corresponding letter of recommendation. Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Fellows must have a permanent home address Marino, Turkey, Ukraine, Holy See (Vatican outside of the Netherlands. City State), All African Nations, All Asian nations, All South American nations, All Closing date: 01 Sep 16 Oceanian nations, Kosovo, All North Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 American nations September 2016, 1 March 2017, and repeated annually. Disciplines Posted date: 16 Jun 16 ------Award type: Networking/collaboration, Humanities Early-Career fellowships, Senior fellowships, Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators ------Award amount max: €7,500 Descartes Centre Award budget total: - Drift 6 Website: http://www.uu.nl/en/descartes- Rooms 2.04 - 2.06 centre/about-us/fellowships 3512 BS, Utrecht Application form: Tel: +31 30 253 1739 http://www.uu.nl/en/files/descartes-centre- Email: [email protected] fellowship-application-formdocx

ULLERENES, NANOTUBES AND CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES DIVISION SES RESEARCH YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD F Electrochemical Society

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and nominations for the SES Research young nanostructures, and carries a reward of investigator award. The award is given to an US$500. Nominees must be under the age of outstanding young researcher in the field of 35 as of January 1 of the nominating year. The

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successful candidate is expected to present a lecture on his or her research work at one of Eligibility profile the FNCN Division symposia at the spring ------meeting of ECS when the award is given. The Country of applicant institution: Any prize is worth US$500 plus free meeting registration. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Macromolecular Chemistry; Electrochemistry; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Chemistry; Physics; Nanotechnology been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 16 Nov 11 Electrochemical Society Award type: Prizes 65 South Main Street, Building D Award amount max: $500 Pennington, New Jersey 08534-2839 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Website: Fax: +1 609 737 2743 http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division Email: [email protected] /rules/full_young_investigator_rules.htm

UPRAMIAM SRINIVASAN YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD Electrochemical Society S

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites Award budget total: - applications for the energy technology Website: division’s Supramaniam Srinivasan young http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division investigator award. The award recognises and /rules/etd_srinivasan_rules.html rewards an outstanding young researcher in the field of energy technology, and is Eligibility profile intended to encourage especially promising ------researchers to remain active in the field. Country of applicant institution: Any Nominees must be 35 as of January 1 of the nominating year. The prize is worth US$1,000, Disciplines plus free meeting registration. ------Catalysis & Chemical Reactions; Chemistry; Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Chemical Engineering; Electrochemistry; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Nuclear Chemistry been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 16 Nov 11 Electrochemical Society Award type: Prizes 65 South Main Street, Building D Award amount max: $1,000 Pennington, New Jersey 08534-2839

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STRIK L GABRIEL DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EDUCATION A University of Notre Dame

Description: The University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Award budget total: - Institute invites applications for the Astrik L Website: Gabriel doctoral fellowship in the history of http://medieval.nd.edu/information-for- medieval education. This supports one visitors/funding-for-research- semester of research on medieval institutions. visitors/#GabrielFellowships

All doctoral students currently enrolled in a Eligibility profile PhD programme may apply. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The fellowship is worth US$10,000. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Sep 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Medieval History; History of Education once a year. Posted date: 17 Jun 16 Contact Details Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, ------Directed grants for individual investigators, Tel: +1 574 631 6604 Access to libraries Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $10,000

STRIK L GABRIEL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EDUCATION A University of Notre Dame

Description: The University of Notre Dame’s Medieval All scholars holding a PhD may apply. Institute invites applications for the Astrik L The fellowship is worth US$20,000. Gabriel postdoctoral fellowship in the history of medieval education. This supports one Closing date: 01 Sep 16 semester of research into the history of Deadline information: This call is repeated medieval education. once a year.

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Posted date: 17 Jun 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Access to libraries, Predoctoral Disciplines fellowships ------Award amount max: $20,000 Medieval History; History of Education Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://medieval.nd.edu/information-for------visitors/funding-for-research-visitors/ Tel: +1 574 631 6604 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------

TRUCTURAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS GROUP BURSARIES Institute of Physics S

Description: The Institute of Physics’ structural condensed Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings matter physics group, formerly known as the etc., Young investigator awards physical crystallography group, invites entries Award amount max: £250 for its bursaries. These enable young members Award budget total: - of the group to attend meetings, conferences Website: and training schools relevant to the group’s http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/s areas of interest. cmp/news/page_50520.html

Applications are welcome from members of Eligibility profile the Institute of Physics affiliated to the PCG------SCMP group. Country of applicant institution: Any

Bursaries are worth £250. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Sep 16 Physics; Metallurgy; Crystallography; Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 Condensed Matter Physics; Materials Sciences September 2016, 1 December 2016, 1 March 2017, 1 June 2017, and repeated annually. Contact Details Posted date: 08 May 14 ------Email: [email protected]

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EVELOPMENT GRANTS Barth Syndrome Foundation D

Description: The Barth Syndrome Foundation invites Travel for research purposes, Institutional proposals for its development grants. These development support basic science and clinical research on Award amount max: $120,000 the natural history, biochemical basis and Award amount min: - treatment of Barth syndrome. Award budget total: - Website: Funding is available as seed grants for testing http://www.barthsyndrome.org/english/Vie initial hypotheses and the collection of w.asp?x=1635 preliminary data that may lead to successful Application form: long-term funding by major granting http://www.barthsyndrome.org/CMFiles/201 institutions. Young, non-tenured investigators 3GrantApplicationandGuidelinesVERSION are allowed to include up to 75 per cent of the 437HZW-632013-7480.137HZW-632013- direct costs as principal investigator salary 7480.doc while experienced investigators may only Eligibility profile include up to 10 per cent for this purpose. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any Development grants are worth up to

US$100,000 over two to three years. Indirect Disciplines costs are limited to 10 per cent of the direct ------costs. An additional US$20,000 may be Muscle Diseases; Biological Sciences; available for clinically-oriented applications to Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Growth & support the travel of research volunteers to Growth Factors; Clinical Medicine; Diagnostic specific clinical research sites. Sciences; Orphan & Rare Diseases; Genetic

Diseases

Closing date: 01 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Barth Syndrome Foundation repeated once a year. >132 Creemer Avenue Posted date: 02 Jul 13 >Iselin, NJ 08830 Award type: Directed grants for individual Email: [email protected] investigators, Young investigator awards,

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NNOVATION AWARDS International Union of Railways – Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer I

Description: The International Union of Railways invites Award type: Directed grants for individual nominations for its innovation awards. These investigators, Innovation grants, Directed support and promote the development of grants to institutions, research groups etc, theoretical, experimental and applied research Prizes in the railway sector. Awards are available in Award amount max: €5,000 the following six categories: safety and Award budget total: €30,000 security, sustainable development, rail system Website: http://www.uic-innovation- technology, rail freight services, passenger awards.org/Call-for-candidates services, and cost reduction. Application form: http://www.uic- innovation-awards.org/Call-for-candidates Applicants may fall within one of the following categories: representatives of rail Eligibility profile transport operators, infrastructure managers, ------rail research institutes, academia specialised Country of applicant institution: Any in rail research, rail supply industry, passenger transport or user organisations, Disciplines public transport authorities, individual ------researchers or other relevant organisations. Transport Planning; Safety Engineering; Sustainable Development & Resource Use; Awards are worth €5,000 each. Transportation Engineering; Transport Infrastructure Management Closing date: 01 Sep 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details every 2 years. ------Posted date: 02 Jul 15 Email: [email protected]

OUNG RESEARCHERS AWARDS International Union of Railways – Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer Y

Description: The International Union of Railways invites Nominees must meet the following eligibility nominations for its young researchers awards. criteria: These recognise young engineers and researchers for their contributions to rail  be involved in at least one successfully research and innovation. realised railway research project;  be no more than 30 years old;

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 be currently involved in research Website: http://www.uic-innovation- activities; awards.org/Young-Researchers-Awards  have publications in scientific literature; Application form: http://www.uic-  have participated in scientific innovation-awards.org/Young-Researchers- conferences, exhibitions and seminars. Awards

Three awards are available and each consist of Eligibility profile a certificate, a material prize and the ------reimbursement of travel costs and Country of applicant institution: Any accommodation for the UIC innovation awards 2016 ceremony. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Sep 16 Transport Infrastructure Management; Deadline information: This call is repeated Transport Planning; Transportation every 2 years. Engineering Posted date: 02 Jul 15 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Contact Details etc., Young investigator awards, Prizes ------Award amount max: - Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -

ESEARCH FELLOWSHIP GRANTS TREE Fund R

Description: The TREE Fund invites applications for its  species diversity to mitigate loss and research fellowship grants. These support enhance benefits of urban forests; scientists who are pursuing research projects  mitigating tree damage and loss in the fields of arboriculture and urban following construction. forestry. The overall research priority for this call is the discovery and dissemination of new Ideal candidates are early career, pre-tenure knowledge in the fields of arboriculture and assistant or tenured associate rank professor, urban forestry, however proposals should aim supervising a PhD student. Applicants at to focus on the following issues: assistant professor or pre-tenure level are strongly encouraged to partner with a tenured  nursery production practices that professor as co-principal investigator. enhance survival, structural Applicants may be of any national origin. soundness and post-installation performance; Grants are worth up to US$100,000 over three  young tree care to enhance longevity; to five years. Applicants may include  soil biology and soil amelioration; institutional overhead costs in the project  sustainable pest and disease budget worth 10 per cent of total grant value. management alternatives;

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Matching funds of at least 10 per cent of Eligibility profile requested grant amount are required. ------Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 01 Sep 16 Disciplines Deadline information: ------Posted date: 01 Jun 16 Forest Health, Pests & Diseases; Forest Award type: Networking/collaboration, Mid- Management; Environmental Conservation & Career fellowships, Early-Career Biodiversity; Genetically Modified Trees; fellowships, Directed grants for individual Forest Ecology; Tree Selection & Breeding; investigators Forest Engineering Award amount max: $100,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.treefund.org/grants/research- TREE Fund grants/fellowship 552 S. Washington St., Suite 109 Naperville IL 60540 Application form: Tel: +1 630 369 8300 https://app.wizehive.com/apps/tffellowship2 Fax: +1 630 369 8382 016 Email: [email protected]

CCO-IOIBD FELLOWSHIP International Organisation For the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease E

Description: The International Organisation for the Study The award is worth €60,000 over one year, of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the with the possibility of an extension for up to European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation two years. invite applications for their fellowship programme. This aims to encourage young basic and clinical scientists in their career and Closing date: 01 Sep 16 promote scientific exchange in inflammatory Deadline information: This call is repeated bowel disease between Europe and other once a year. continents. Posted date: 14 Jun 16 Award type: Young investigator awards, Applicants must not be older than 40 years or Networking/collaboration, Directed grants still in training at the time of application, and for individual investigators, Early-Career must have a hosting laboratory or department fellowships outside their own country which has accepted Award amount max: €60,000 to host and supervise them. Either the Award budget total: €60,000 applicant or the host must be an ECCO Website: http://www.ioibd.org/ecco-ioibd- member at the time of application. fellowship-program/

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Eligibility profile Bowel Diseases ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------

OUNG TRIALIST GRANT European CanCer Organisation (formerly the Federation of European Cancer Societies) Y

Description: European CanCer Organisation invites Award amount max: - applications for its young trialist grant. This Award budget total: - enables three young clinical oncologists to Website: participate and present their novel trial http://www.eccocongress.org/Scientific- concepts in the art of designing clinical trials – Programme/Fellowship-and-Grants/Young- the latest methods in clinical cancer research Trialist-Grant workshop, to be held on 30 January 2017 at the ECCO2017 congress. Application form: http://www.eccocongress.org/~/media/Docu Junior physicians specialising in oncology, ments/ECCO%20sections/Amsterdam%20201 junior clinical professionals managing cancer 7/Scientific%20Programme/ECCO2017_Youn patients and junior radiologists or g%20Trialist%20Grant%20Application%20F pathologists involved in cancer care may orm.docx apply. Applicants must be within five years of Eligibility profile completion of residency or fellowship ------training. Country of applicant institution: Any

Each grant includes free registration to the Disciplines congress, the opportunity to present in a ------congress session and a networking possibility Oncology Nursing; Cancer Studies & with oncology experts. Oncology

Closing date: 01 Sep 16 Contact Details Deadline information: ------Posted date: 12 May 16 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Email: [email protected] etc., Young investigator awards, Networking/collaboration

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ISITING FELLOWSHIPS University of Oxford V

Description: The University of Oxford’s All Souls College Deadline information: Applications due by 4 invites applications for its visiting pm UK time. This call is repeated once a fellowships. These enable scholars to engage year. in study and research in Oxford and to Posted date: 03 Jun 16 participate in the academic life of the college Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, Early- for a period of one to three terms within the Career fellowships, Senior fellowships academic year. There is no limitation upon the Award amount max: - field of study. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting- Applications are open to holders of university fellowships posts and others who wish to carry out Application form: http://www.all- scholarly work in Oxford, including those in souls.ox.ac.uk/go/vf public life. Persons holding posts in Oxford or Eligibility profile who are already resident in or near Oxford ------are not considered. Country of applicant institution: Any

Fellows are provided with lunches and Disciplines dinners, a study in college and furnished ------residential accommodation in Oxford, which Any may also accommodate partners and young children. Fellows are expected to cover their Contact Details visa and medical insurance costs, though ------limited financial assistance may be offered in All Souls College exceptional circumstances. Oxford OX1 4AL

Tel: +44 186 527 9379

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ONORARY FELLOWSHIP Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health H

Description: The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child commitment, major contributions to Health invites nominations for its honorary paediatrics during their career. fellowship. This recognises an individual who has demonstrated, through research or clinical Nominations are accepted in the following categories:

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 paediatrics UK; Award amount max: -  paediatrics international; Award budget total: -  non-paediatric scientists UK and Website: http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/member- international; services/get-involved/honorary-fellowship  non-scientists UK and international, including pioneers from the voluntary Application form: sector, sociologists, philosophers and http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/member- politicians. services/apply/honorary- fellowship/nominations/honorary-

fellowship-nomination-form The fellowship includes invitations to special events, college publications, and reduced fees Eligibility profile at the society’s annual conference, among ------other things. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 04 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Paediatrics been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Contact Details Nominations due by 5pm. This call is repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 02 Jun 15 RCPCH Award type: Early-Career fellowships, 5-11 Theobalds Road Publish, edit, translate, disseminate, Travel London WX1X 8SH to conferences, meetings etc., Senior Tel: +44 20 7092 6000 fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships Email: [email protected]

ENIOR FELLOWSHIPS CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) S

Description: CERN invites applications for its senior Applicants must hold a PhD, or have at least fellowships. These enable researchers working four years of experience after the degree in experimental and theoretical physics, or which gives access to doctoral programmes, conducting advanced development work and up to a maximum of ten years experience. related research in applied science, computing Nationals of CERN member or associate states and engineering, to spend time working in a may apply. A limited number of fellowships research group at CERN. An integrated are also available for nationals of non-member graduate engineering training scheme is states. available for engineering graduates looking for professional experience in a wide range of Stipends are worth between CHF5165 and engineering and technical fields. CHF8043 per month, for between six and 24 months, with a possible extension of up to 36 months.

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Ref: AFC-2016-2/FELL. and.form?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id =11857

Closing date: 05 Sep 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Applications due by ------11.59pm CET. This call is repeated 2 times a Country of applicant institution: Any year. Posted date: 11 Apr 16 Disciplines Award type: Travel for research purposes, ------Senior fellowships, Directed grants for Engineering; Computer Science & Informatics; individual investigators, Postdoctoral Physics training fellowships Award amount max: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://jobs.web.cern.ch/job/11857 CERN 1211 Geneva 23 Application form: Tel: +41 22 767 8484 https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_portal_c Email: [email protected]

ONG-TERM INVITATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN JAPAN Japan Society for the Promotion of Science L

Description: The Japan Society for the Promotion of been activity engaged in research for a period Science invites applications for its long-term of over 10 years. invitation fellowship programme for research in Japan. This enables researchers employed Applications must be submitted to JSPS by a at Japanese research institutions to invite host scientist in Japan through the head of fellow researchers from other countries to their university or institution or by an Japan to participate in cooperative activities at overseas nominating authority. Foreign their research institutions. All fields of the scientists wishing to participate in this humanities, social sciences and natural programme are advised to establish contact sciences are included under this programme. with a Japanese researcher in their field and to ask them to submit an application. Invited researchers must be university professors, associate or assistant professors, Fellowships last two to 10 months and include research associates or of equivalent status. a round-trip air ticket, a monthly maintenance Other researchers may be eligible if they have allowance of ¥369,000, a domestic research held a doctoral degree for a period of more travel allowance of ¥100,000, research than six years. They must be citizens of a expenses of ¥40,000 and travel insurance. country that has diplomatic relations with Japan. If the candidate is of Japanese Closing date: 05 Sep 16 (Forecast) nationality, they must have lived abroad and

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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nations, All Oceanian nations, All North been announced by funder, but this is the American nations approximate deadline we expect. Applications invited between 1 September Disciplines and 5pm, 5 September. This call is repeated ------once a year. History; Environmental Science; Chemistry; Posted date: 28 May 14 Anthropology; Communication & Media Award type: Travel for research purposes, Studies; Sociology; Portuguese Language; Early-Career fellowships, Senior Mathematical Sciences; Middle Eastern fellowships, Directed grants for individual Studies; Geography; Classics; Creole investigators, Mid-Career fellowships, Languages; North American Studies; Asian Networking/collaboration Studies; Social Work & Social Policy; Business Award amount max: - & Management Studies; Law; Eastern Award budget total: - European Languages; Scandinavian Website: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e- Languages; Art & Design: History, Practice & inv/apply15.html Theory; Universe Sciences; English Language Application form: http://www.jsps.go.jp/j- & Literature; Linguistics; Libraries & inv/27/index.html Information Science; Dutch Language;

Oceanography; Accounting & Finance; Sports Eligibility profile & Exercise Studies; Psychology; Biological ------Sciences; Theology & Religious Studies; Built Country of applicant institution: United Arab Environment & Spatial Planning; Humanities; Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Atmospheric Sciences; European Studies; Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Spanish Language; Central European Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, China, Languages; German Language; Social Christmas Island, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Sciences; Physics; Italian Language; Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, British Indian Philosophy; Russian Language; Education; Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic Archaeology; Physical Sciences; Earth of, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Korea, Sciences; African Studies; British & Irish Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Studies; Politics & International Studies; Republic of, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lao French Language; Economics & Econometrics People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Sri

Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Macao, Contact Details Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, ------Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Overseas Fellowship Division Occupied, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi JSPS Arabia, Singapore, Syrian Arab Republic, 5-3-1 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tokyo 102-0083 Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Tel: +81 3 3263 2480 Vietnam, Yemen, All African Nations, All Email: [email protected] European Nations, All South American

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I3POD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME European Molecular Biology Laboratory E

Description: The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and dissemination of knowledge on scientific invites applications, under its EMBL progress. interdisciplinary postdocs (EIPOD) initiative, for the EI3POD postdoctoral fellowship Applicants of any nationality who hold a PhD programme. This enables researchers to take or have four years of full-time equivalent part in international and interinstitutional research experience may apply. Scientists who collaborations, or an intersectional experience, are currently doing postdoctoral research at whilst carrying out interdisciplinary research. other institutions may apply, as well as postdoctoral researchers at EMBL, provided Applicants should propose their own research that the previous affiliation does not exceed projects, and choose one of the three available 12 months in the last three years. specialisation pathways: Approximately 20 three-year fellowships are  interdisciplinary EIPOD, aimed at an available, with funding for cross-disciplinary academic career path and involving projects, and healthcare benefits and pension an interdisciplinary research project access. which includes one coordinating group leader and one partner laboratory both from EMBL faculty; Closing date: 05 Sep 16  international or inter-institutional Deadline information: Applications are EIPOD, including an interdisciplinary invited between 15 June and 5 September research project that should involve 2016. This call is repeated once a year. EMBL supervisors, and one external Posted date: 24 May 16 academic partner; Award type: Academic-Industry links,  intersectorial EIPOD, involving an Financial aid for postgraduate students, interdisciplinary research project that Networking/collaboration, Postdoctoral is designed to foster exposure to the training fellowships, Travel for research applied or commercial side of science, purposes, Personal development Award amount max: - and involves EMBL supervisors and Award budget total: - either one industry partner from a Website: group from the EMBL network of http://www.embl.de/training/postdocs/08- institutionalised partnerships or eipod/EI3POD-programme- collaborations, or an active overview/index.html involvement of an EIPOD in intellectual property generation, out- Eligibility profile licensing and, if applicable, in the first ------steps towards a spin-off activity. Country of applicant institution: Any

The programme includes mandatory training Disciplines modules in intellectual property, ------entrepreneurship in life sciences, research Drug Design; Radiology & Medical Imaging; ethics, career development, gender dimension Non-Communicable Diseases; Biochemistry & in science and outreach, public management Molecular Biology; Proteomics & Molecular

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Interactions; Neurobiology; Biological Contact Details Physics; Genetics & Systems Biology; ------Robotics; Stem Cell; Chemistry; Infectious EMBL Heidelberg Diseases; Cell & Developmental Biology; Meyerhofstraße 1 Crystallography; Evolutionary Biology; 69117 Heidelberg Physics; Plant Cell & Molecular Biology; Tel: +49 6221 387 8329 Research & Innovation Economics & Policy Email: [email protected]

ESEARCH GRANTS IN BASIC AND CLINICAL SCIENCE Tourette Syndrome Association R

Description: The Tourette Syndrome Association invites Website: http://www.tsa- applications for its research grants in basic usa.org/research.html and clinical sciences. Grants are available for Application form: http://tsa- research into any area that has the potential to usa.org/aResearch/images/PreproposalTSA_ contribute to the understanding of Tourette 2014_15.pdf syndrome. Eligibility profile Candidates must have a PhD, MD or ------equivalent and experience in the field of Country of applicant institution: Any movement disorders. They may come from outside the US, and be part of non-profit or Disciplines for-profit organisations. ------Public Health, Health Services & Primary Grants are worth up to US$75,000 per year for Care; General Practice & Family Health; up to two years. Postdoctoral fellowships Primary Care; Epidemiology; Disease Models; worth up to US$40,000 for one year. Neuropharmacology; Developmental Disorders; Diagnostic Sciences; Medical Closing date: 06 Sep 16 (Forecast) Genetics; Physiology; Neuroscience; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Neuropsychology; Neurology; been announced by funder, but this is the Electrophysiology; Psychology; approximate deadline we expect. Pre- Neuroimaging; Neuroanatomy; Psychiatry; proposals due by 6 September; full Genetics & Systems Biology; Pharmacy & proposals due by 15 November 2013. This Pharmacology; Clinical Medicine call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 23 Jul 13 Contact Details Award type: Early-Career fellowships, ------Senior fellowships, Clinical trials, Directed Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc. grants for individual investigators 42-40 Bell Boulevard Award amount max: $150,000 Bayside, NY 1136 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 718 224 2999 ext 222 Email: [email protected]

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WARD FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE American Association for the Advancement of Science A

Description: The American Association for the Posted date: 26 Feb 15 Advancement of Science invites nominations Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, for its award for public engagement with meetings etc. science. This recognises scientists and Award amount max: $5,000 engineers who make contributions to the Award budget total: - popularisation of science. Nominees may be Website: working in any scientific field, including http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/publi social and behavioural sciences and c/index.shtml biomedical fields. Eligible activities include: books, magazines, and newspaper articles; Eligibility profile broadcasting; lecturing; museum presentation ------and exhibit design; and other public outreach Country of applicant institution: Any activities, local, national or international work. Disciplines ------The award includes US$5,000 and Physical Sciences and Engineering; Social reimbursement for reasonable travel and hotel Sciences; Bio/Medical expenses to attend the association’s annual meeting. Contact Details ------Closing date: 07 Sep 16 (Forecast) AAAS Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 1200 New York Avenue, NW Room 639 been announced by funder, but this is the Washington DC 20005 approximate deadline we expect. Tel: +1 202 326 6645 Nominations due by 12 midnight. This call Fax: +1 202 371 9849 is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

YSON PRIZE International Psychoanalytical Association T

Description: The International Psychoanalytical may only be made by IPA candidates. Papers Association invites submissions for the Tyson may be submitted in English, French, German prize. This is awarded for an excellent and or Spanish. The winner will receive US$500. original clinical paper that describes the Two runners-up will each receive US$250. essence of a psychoanalytic treatment by an individual who has graduated from an IPA Closing date: 07 Sep 16 (Forecast) institute in the last two years. Submissions Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is IPA repeated every 2 years. Broomhills Posted date: 03 Jul 14 Woodside Lane Award type: Prizes London N12 8UD Award amount max: $500 +44 20 8446 8324 Award amount min: $250 Tel: +44 20 8445 4729 Award budget total: - Email:[email protected] Website: http://www.ipa.org.uk/en/Events/IPA_Awar Disciplines ds_and_Prizes/en/news_and_events/IPA_Aw ------ards_and_Prizes.aspx?hkey=0a26fc4f-2eef- Psychotherapy; Group Therapy; Public 41b8-b161-e516c91d0f73 Health, Health Services & Primary Care;

Psychology; Primary Care; Analytical Eligibility profile (Jungian) Psychology; Experimental ------Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Offender Country of applicant institution: Any Rehabilitation & Correctional Theory;

Psychology of Selected Fields

AREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Leukemia and Lymphoma Society C

Description: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society invites substantial support from a national applications for its career development agency; programme. This enables researchers to  scholar in clinical research award, undertake basic, clinical or translational available for a period of five years and research related to leukaemia, lymphoma and worth US$110,000 per year, for myeloma. scholars who hold an independent faculty-level appointment and are Applicants must have received a PhD, MD or conducting original, independent, DVM degree at the time of review. applied research often involving early-stage clinical trials that will The following award categories are available: advance the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of hematologic  scholar award, available for a period malignancies; of five years and worth US$110,000  special fellow award, available for a per year, for scholars conducting period of two to three years and worth original investigation in the field of US$65,000 per year, for an investigator hematologic malignancies who hold with at least two and a maximum of an independent faculty-level or four and a half years of postdoctoral equivalent position and have obtained research training;

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 special fellow in clinical research Award budget total: - award, available for a period of two to Website: http://www.leukemia- three years and worth US$65,000 per lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=11618 year, for a researcher who holds a Application form: http://lls.fluxx.io/ PhD, MD or equivalent degree and has completed between two and four Eligibility profile and a half years of clinical ------haematology, oncology or Country of applicant institution: Any hematopathology training, or postdoctoral research training in a Disciplines clinical discipline; ------ fellow award, worth US$55,000 per Immunology; Nursing; Genetics & Systems year for a period of three years, for a Biology; Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers; promising investigator with under Diagnostic Sciences; Cancer Genetics; two years of postdoctoral research Molecular Genetics; Virology; Oncology training. Nursing; Biological Sciences; Lymphatic System; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Primary Care; Public Health, Health Services Closing date: 08 Sep 16 (Forecast) & Primary Care; Cell & Developmental Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biology; Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; been announced by funder, but this is the Medical Genetics; Cancer Studies & Oncology; approximate deadline we expect. Letters of Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Preventive intent due 3pm ET, 8 September; full Medicine proposal due 3pm ET, 1 October 2014. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 21 Aug 14 ------Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, LLS Directed grants to institutions, research 1311 Mamaroneck Avenue groups etc, Directed grants for individual White Plains, NY 10605 investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Tel: +1 914 821 8301 Senior fellowships Email: [email protected] Award amount max: -

AUL A SAMUELSON AWARD Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund P

Description: The Teachers Insurance and Annuity annually in recognition of an outstanding Association College Retirement Equities Fund research publication containing ideas that the Institute invites applications for the Paul A public and private sectors can use to maintain Samuelson award. This award recognises and improve Americans' financial wellbeing. outstanding scholarly writing on issues related to lifelong financial security. It is given

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There are no nationality restrictions on entry. Country of applicant institution: Any The award includes a cash prize worth US$10,000. Disciplines ------Industrial & Corporate Security; Financial Closing date: 09 Sep 16 (Forecast) Economics; Savings & Investments; Insurance Deadline information: !! Call has not yet & Actuarial Science; Business & Management been announced by funder, but this is the Studies; Health Insurance; Economics & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Econometrics; Welfare Economics; repeated once a year. Accounting & Finance Posted date: 29 Jun 07 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $10,000 ------Award budget total: - TIAA-CREF Institute Website: http://www.tiaa- 730 Third Avenue, 730/19/60 crefinstitute.org/awards/samuelson.html New York, NY 10017-3206 Tel: +1 800 842 2733 ext 3663 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------

PRING MEETING COMPETITIONS Academy of Medical Sciences S

Description: The Academy of Medical Sciences invites Medical Research Society prize worth abstracts for three competitions at their £2,500 and runner-up prize of £500; annual spring meeting, to be held on 23  young investigator competition – February 2017 at the Royal College of postdoctoral clinical academic trainees Physicians in London. These enable clinical including clinical lecturers, clinician academic trainees together to present their scientist fellows and equivalent posts, work, meet one another and network with may apply for the Lancet prize worth senior scientists. The following competitions £2,500 and runner-up prize of £750. are open: Applicants must have completed or be in the  poster competition – clinical academic process of completing a medical, dental, trainees at all career stages may apply veterinary, nursing or other allied health for the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle professional qualification and be undertaking Wolfson Prize worth £2,500, and four a period of genuine research. All abstracts runner-up prizes of £500 each; accepted for the oral and poster competitions  oral plenary competition – foundation will be published in a special edition of The year doctors, academic clinical fellows Lancet. and PhD students may apply for the Closing date: 09 Sep 16

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Deadline information: Abstracts are ------accepted between 27 June and 5pm GMT, 9 Country of applicant institution: Any September 2016. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 13 Jun 16 ------Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Clinical Medicine; Veterinary Medicine; awards, Networking/collaboration Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing Award amount max: £2,500 & Pharmacy Award amount min: £500 Award budget total: £10,750 Contact Details Website: ------https://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/careers/career- Tel: +44 203 1762 165 development-events/spring-meeting/ Email: [email protected]

Eligibility profile

OCTORAL THESIS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Swiss National Science Foundation D

Description: The Swiss National Science Foundation possibility for extension for another two invites proposals for its Doc.CH programme years. in humanities and social sciences.

This supports promising researchers who Closing date: 10 Sep 16 wish to write a dissertation on a topic of their Deadline information: If the deadline falls own choice in the humanities and social on a weekend or public holiday, the sciences in Switzerland. deadline is automatically extended to the next working day. Deadlines on: 10 Applicants must have a master’s degree or September 2016, 10 March 2017, and repeated equivalent from a Swiss higher education annually. institution, obtained no more than two years Posted date: 20 Apr 16 ago. Researchers should have had at least one Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, change of higher education institution Financial aid for postgraduate students, between their bachelor and the start of the Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Publish, doctoral studies. Swiss Nationals with foreign edit, translate, disseminate, Equipment and degrees may also apply. materials, Travel for research purposes Award amount max: -

Award budget total: - Funding covers salary and a contribution Website: towards project costs, such as material of http://www.snf.ch/en/funding/careers/docch/ enduring value, consumables, travel and Pages/default.aspx conference costs and additional funding for Application form: the digital publication of the doctoral thesis https://www.mysnf.ch/login.aspx?language= and articles. Grants last for two years with the en

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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Switzerland SNSF Country of applicant institution: Any Wildhainweg 3 P.O Box 8232 Disciplines 3001 Berne ------Tel: +41 31 308 2222 Humanities; Social Sciences Fax: +41 31 305 2978 Email: [email protected]

TRENDLEY DEAN MEMORIAL AWARD International Association for Dental Research H

Description: The International Association for Dental Award amount max: $3,500 Research, supported by the Colgate-Palmolive Award budget total: - Company, invites nominations for the H Website: Trendley Dean memorial award. This http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa recognises the best research in epidemiology geid=3642#.VbeDPrevOi5 and public health. The award is part of the association's distinguished scientist awards Application form: programme. http://www.iadr.fluidreview.com/

Only IADR members may be nominated. Eligibility profile ------The award is worth US$3,500. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 11 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Epidemiology; Public Health been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 09 Jul 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes

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YLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT University of Southern California T

Description: The University of Southern California invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nominations for the Tyler prize for been announced by funder, but this is the environmental achievement. The prize is approximate deadline we expect. This call is awarded for environmental science, health repeated once a year. and energy conferring great benefit upon Posted date: 19 May 11 humanity. Prizes are awarded for any one of Award type: Prizes the following: Award amount max: $200,000 Award budget total: -  the protection, maintenance, Website: improvement or understanding of an http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/tylerprize/no ecological or an environmental minate.html condition anywhere in the world; Application form: http://tylerprize.usc.edu/documents/Nominat  the discovery, further development, ionForm.pdf improvement, or understanding of

known or new sources of energy; Eligibility profile  medical discoveries or achievements ------with such worldwide implications Country of applicant institution: Any that they significantly benefit

environmental aspects of human Disciplines health. ------Energy Engineering; Environmental Science; Individuals or public or private institutions of Medicine & Health any nation are eligible for nomination. Self- nominations are not accepted. Contact Details ------The prize is worth US$200,000. Tel: +1 213 740 9760 Fax: +1 213 740 1313 Closing date: 11 Sep 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected]

EASDALE-CORTI HUMANITARIAN AWARD Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Collège Royal des Médicins et Chirurgiens du Canada T

Description: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons providing healthcare or emergency services, of Canada invites nominations for the go beyond the accepted norms of routine Teasdale-Corti humanitarian award. This practice that may include exposure to recognises Canadian physicians who, while personal risk.

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Nominees should be Canadian physicians Website: based anywhere in the world. Nominations http://www.royalcollege.ca/portal/page/porta may be submitted by any fellow of the l/rc/awards/awards/teasdale_corti_award college. Application form: http://www.royalcollege.ca/common/docume One award is available. The recipient will nts/awards/teasdale_corti-app.pdf receive a memento plus coverage of travel and accommodation expenses to receive the Eligibility profile award. A donation to the affiliated relief ------organisation may also be awarded. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 11 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Medicine & Health been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Contact Details Nominations due by 4pm EST. This call is ------repeated once a year. Awards and Grants Section Posted date: 08 May 15 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Canada meetings etc. 774 Echo Drive Award amount max: - Ottawa ON K1S 5N8 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 613 730 8177 Email: [email protected]

ULP BIOLOGY AND REGENERATION AWARD International Association for Dental Research P

Description: The International Association for Dental The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. Research invites nominations for its pulp biology and regeneration award. This award is part of the association's distinguished Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) scientist awards programme that honours Deadline information: !! Call has not yet IADR members. The award recognises, been announced by funder, but this is the encourages, and stimulates outstanding approximate deadline we expect. This call is research contributions in the field of pulp repeated once a year. biology. In order to be eligible, the nominee Posted date: 12 Jun 14 must have contributed significantly to the Award type: Prizes body of knowledge in the field of pulp Award amount max: $3,500 biology through basic or clinical research. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Only IADR members may be nominated.

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Website: Disciplines http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa ------geid=3424 Dental Health & Hygiene; Dentistry; Oral Medicine Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Email: [email protected]

ALIVARY RESEARCH AWARD International Association for Dental Research S

Description: The International Association for Dental approximate deadline we expect. This call is Research invites nominations for its salivary repeated once a year. research award. This award is part of the Posted date: 12 Jun 14 association's distinguished scientist awards Award type: Prizes programme that honours IADR members. The Award amount max: $3,500 award is designed to stimulate and recognise Award budget total: - outstanding and innovative achievements in Website: either basic sciences or applied clinical http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa sciences that have contributed to the basic geid=3424 understanding of salivary gland structure, secretion and function, or salivary Eligibility profile composition and function. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Only IADR members may be nominated. Disciplines The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. ------Oral Medicine; Dentistry; Dental Health & Hygiene Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------Email: [email protected]

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ILMER SOUDER AWARD International Association for Dental Research W

Description: The International Association for Dental Posted date: 12 Jun 14 Research invites nominations for the Wilmer Award type: Prizes Souder award. This award is part of the Award amount max: $3,500 association's distinguished scientist awards Award budget total: - programme that honours IADR members. The Website: award intends to confer the highest honour in http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa the field of dental materials research upon geid=3424#.UYzEiIKxNz8 those scientists who, through research in this field, bring about outstanding advances in Eligibility profile dental health. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Only IADR members may be nominated. Disciplines The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. ------Medical Implants; Dental Health & Hygiene; Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) Prosthetic & Orthotic Devices; Dentistry Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. . This call ------is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

OUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD International Association for Dental Research Y

Description: The International Association for Dental The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. Research invites nominations for its young investigator award. This award is part of the association's distinguished scientist awards Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) programme that honours IADR members. The Deadline information: !! Call has not yet award is designed to stimulate basic research been announced by funder, but this is the in all dental research disciplines. approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Nominees must be IADR members within 10 Posted date: 12 Jun 14 years of completing their last terminal degree Award type: Prizes, Young investigator at the time of the submission deadline. awards Award amount max: $3,500

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Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa Periodontics; Preventive Dentistry; Oral geid=3424 Medicine; Restorative Dentistry; Dentistry; Cariology; Dental Health & Hygiene Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Email: [email protected]

RANIOFACIAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD International Association for Dental Research C

Description: The International Association for Dental Award amount max: $3,500 Research invites nominations for its Award budget total: - craniofacial biology research award. The Website: award is part of the association's http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa distinguished scientist awards programme geid=3641 which honours IADR members. The award Application form: recognises persons who have contributed to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iadraadraw the body of knowledge in craniofacial biology ards over a significant period of time. It further recognises these research contributions to be Eligibility profile accepted by the scientific community. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Only IADR members may be nominated. Disciplines The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. ------Dental Health & Hygiene; Allied Health Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) Professions; Craniofacial Disorders; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biomedical Engineering; Dentistry; Medicine been announced by funder, but this is the & Health approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 28 Aug 14 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]

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ASIC RESEARCH IN PERIODONTAL DISEASE AWARD International Association for Dental Research B

Description: The International Association for Dental approximate deadline we expect. This call is Research invites nominations for its basic repeated once a year. research in periodontal disease award. The Posted date: 12 Jun 14 award is part of the association's Award type: Prizes distinguished scientist awards programme Award amount max: $3,500 that honours IADR members. This award Award budget total: - recognises outstanding research achievements Website: in basic research in periodontal disease. http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa Clinical investigation alone is not considered geid=3424#.UYzEiIKxNz8 basic research for this award. However, clinical investigation in support of basic Application form: research may be considered a part of the http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iadraadraw contribution in determining the recipient of ards the award. Eligibility profile

------Nominees must be IADR members actively Country of applicant institution: Any engaged in the line of research for which the award is made. Disciplines

------The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. Dentistry; Periodontics

Contact Details Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the

HARMACOLOGY, THERAPEUTICS AND TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD International Association for Dental Research P

Description: The International Association for Dental award recognises contributions to the Research invites nominations for its understanding of the mechanisms, efficacy pharmacology, therapeutics and toxicology and safety of drugs used to treat dental research award. This award is part of the disease and associated symptoms such as pain association's distinguished scientist awards and peri-operative apprehension. In practice, programme that honours IADR members. The this encompasses basic and clinical

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pharmacology studies of analgesics, Website: anaesthetics, sedatives, fluorides and other http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa drug classes used by dentists. geid=3424#.UYzEiIKxNz8

Only IADR members may be nominated. Eligibility profile ------The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Dentistry; been announced by funder, but this is the Methods of Drug Delivery; Diagnostic approximate deadline we expect. This call is Sciences; Screening of Drugs & Agents; Drug repeated once a year. Design; Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology Posted date: 12 Jun 14 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $3,500 ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

CHOLARSHIPS Africa London Nagasaki Scholarship Fund S

Description: The Africa London Nagasaki Scholarship graduation. Fluency in English is a Fund invites applications for its scholarships. requirement for all applicants. These enable African scientists to undertake an MSc in a subject relevant to the control of Scholarships are worth up to US$50,000 each, infectious diseases in Africa, either at the to cover tuition fees, travel and living Institute of Tropical Medicine in Nagasaki or expenses. at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) Applicants must be of African nationality and Deadline information: !! Call has not yet normally resident in sub-Saharan Africa. been announced by funder, but this is the Applicants to LSHTM must have a first or approximate deadline we expect. This call is upper-second-class BSc or equivalent, usually repeated once a year. combined with at least two years’ prior Posted date: 04 Aug 14 research experience in an area relevant to the Award type: Directed grants for individual study of infectious diseases. Applicants to investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate NEKKEN should have obtained an MB ChB students, Personal development, Travel for or equivalent medical qualification, with at research purposes least two years’ clinical experience following Award amount max: $50,000

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Award budget total: $200,000 Website: Disciplines http://www.alnscholarshipfund.org/scholars ------hips Primary Care; Medicine & Health; Infectious Application form: Diseases; Disease Control; Tuberculosis; http://www.alnscholarshipfund.org/scholars Blood Tests; Preventive Medicine; Diagnostic hips/application-process Sciences; Malaria; Biological Sciences; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Eligibility profile Physiology; Pathogenesis; Tropical & ------Neglected Diseases; Clinical Medicine; Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan Infection Agents & Pathogens; HIV/Aids Africa

ERIT SCHOLARSHIPS Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education M

Description: The Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in who have not received support for attending Education invites applications for its merit past ICCEs. scholarships. These scholarships provide financial aid for students to attend the annual Up to eight scholarships, worth US$500 each, international conference on computers in are available. education, to be held 30 November to 4 December 2014 in Nora, Japan. Closing date: 12 Sep 16 (Forecast) Applicants must be first-authors or presenters Deadline information: !! Call has not yet of accepted papers or have received overall been announced by funder, but this is the favourable ratings from the reviewers. approximate deadline we expect. This call is Graduate students who are in need of repeated once a year. financial support may apply, as well as those Posted date: 26 Aug 14 who have graduated with a master’s degree Award type: Student awards, Young within the past 12 months and who wait to be investigator awards, Travel to conferences, enrolled in a PhD programme. meetings etc., Financial aid for postgraduate students Preference is given to those who have Award amount max: $500 contributed as an individual to the research Award budget total: - community. Added advantage is given to Website: http://www.apsce.net/scholarship.php?id=10 applicants whose papers have been 07 recommended for awards and who are self- financed. Priority is also given to those Eligibility profile students whose papers have been accepted for ------the theme-based conference as well as those Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Technology; Text Processing; Social Networks ------& Social Media Networking Protocols; Computer Networks; Education; Internet & Mobile Technology; Contact Details Computer Science & Informatics; Computer ------Engineering & Hardware; Classroom Email: [email protected]

ETER H ROSSI AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OR PRACTICE OF PROGRAM EVALUATION P Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

Description: The Association for Public Policy Analysis Award budget total: - and Management invites nominations for the Website: Peter H Rossi award for contributions to the http://www.appam.org/awards/rossi.asp theory or practice of program evaluation. The award recognizes important contributions to Eligibility profile the theory or practice of program evaluation. ------The award may be given for a recent paper or Country of applicant institution: Any publication or for an entire body or work. Disciplines Nominations may be made by any individual ------or organization. The prize consists of a Methodologies & Concepts in Sociology; plaque, reimbursement for travel expenses to Politics & International Studies; Social Work attend the APPAM fall research conference & Social Care; Social Work & Social Policy; and a cash award of $1,000. Public Policy; Social Policy

Closing date: 14 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the APPAM approximate deadline we expect. This call is 1029 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 1150 repeated once a year. Washington, DC 20005 Posted date: 21 Jun 10 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $1,000

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2020-MSCA-IF-2016 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS Horizon 2020: Excellent Science H

Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: reference rate for experienced researchers is Excellent Science invites proposals for its €55,800 per year. The allowances are subject to H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 Marie Sklodowska- country correction. Researchers in some Curie individual fellowships call. This categories will also receive a mobility supports individual, transnational fellowships allowance of €600 and a family allowance of for promising researchers seeking €500. The total indicative budget for this call is employment in member states or associated €218.5 million. countries, based on an application made jointly by the researcher and host Ref: OJ C6776. organisation. Closing date: 14 Sep 16 Fellowships must take the form of European Deadline information: Proposals invited fellowships or global fellowships. between 12 April and 5pm Brussels time, 14 Applications may be submitted for the September 2016. following topics: Posted date: 14 Oct 15 Award type: Grants - undirected, Mid-Career  MSCA-IF-EF-CAR CAR: career restart fellowships, Senior fellowships, Early- panel; Career fellowships  MSCA-IF-EF-RI RI: reintegration Award amount max: - panel; Award budget total: €218,500,000 Website:  MSCA-IF-EF-SE: society and http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port enterprise panel; al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202  MSCA-IF-EF-ST: standard European 0-msca-if-2016.html fellowships;

 MSCA-IF-GF: global fellowships. Eligibility profile ------The beneficiary must be a legal entity located Country of applicant institution: EU in an EU member state or associated country, (European Union), EU Associated Countries, including Switzerland, and employing the Overseas Countries and Territories researcher during the project. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: Switzerland Funding for European fellowships will support eligible researchers for a period of 12 Disciplines to 24 months and funding for global ------fellowships includes support for a period of Any 24 to 36 months. The living allowance

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ALAND FELLOWSHIPS IN CLINICAL INVESTIGATION American Philosophical Society D

Description: The American Philosophical Society invites Award type: Postdoctoral training nominations for the Daland fellowships in fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, clinical investigation. These support research Directed grants for individual investigators in the several branches of clinical medicine Award amount max: $80,000 including internal medicine, neurology, Award amount min: - paediatrics, psychiatry and surgery. Patient- Award budget total: - oriented research may be prioritised. Website: http:// www.amphilsoc.org/grants/daland Nominees must have held an MD or PhD Application form: degree for less than eight years. Applicants http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/ may be US citizens or foreign nationals, grants/2015DalandApp.pdf however they are expected to conduct their research in the US. Preference may be given to Eligibility profile candidates who have less than two years of ------postdoctoral training and research. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Fellowship are worth US$40,000 each per year ------for a maximum period of two years. Clinical Medicine

Contact Details Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the APS approximate deadline we expect. This call is 104 South Fifth Street repeated once a year. Philadelphia, PA 19106 Posted date: 03 Aug 15 Tel: +1 215 440 3429 Email: [email protected]

SBORNE AND MENDEL AWARD American Society for Nutrition

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Description: The American Society for Nutrition, supported by ILSI North America, invites The award is worth US$2,500. nominations for the Osborne and Mendel Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) award. This is given for outstanding recent Deadline information: !! Call has not yet basic research accomplishments in nutrition. been announced by funder, but this is the

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approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Food Consumption; Food Science; Food Posted date: 25 Jul 13 Nutrient Content; Human Nutrient Award type: Prizes Requirements; Malnutrition; Nutrition & Award amount max: $2,500 Dietetics; Allied Health Professions Award budget total: - Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- Contact Details asn/awards/ ------ASN Eligibility profile 9650 Rockville Pike ------Bethesda, MD 20814 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected] Disciplines

ONRAD A ELVEHJEM AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IN NUTRITION American Society for Nutrition C

Description: The American Society for Nutrition invites Award type: Prizes nominations for the Conrad A Elvehjem Award amount max: $1,500 award for public service in nutrition. This Award budget total: - recognises specific and distinguished service Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- to the public through the science of nutrition. asn/awards/ Services could be rendered through governmental, industrial, private or Eligibility profile international institutions while contributions ------of an investigative character are not excluded. Country of applicant institution: Any

The award is worth US$1,500 and it will be Disciplines awarded during the scientific sessions and ------annual meeting at experimental biology, Food Consumption; Malnutrition; Food which is to take place between 26 and 30 April Science; Human Nutrient Requirements; 2014 in San Diego. Allied Health Professions; Nutrition & Dietetics; Food Nutrient Content

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the ASN approximate deadline we expect. This call is 9650 Rockville Pike repeated once a year. Bethesda, MD 20814 Posted date: 25 Jul 13 Email: [email protected]

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EAD JOHNSON AWARD American Society for Nutrition M

Description: The American Society for Nutrition, in Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- partnership with Mead Johnson Nutrition, asn/awards/ invites nominations for the Mead Johnson award. This recognises an investigator for a Eligibility profile single outstanding piece of nutrition research ------or a series of papers on the same subject Country of applicant institution: Any accomplished within 10 years of postgraduate training. Disciplines ------The award is worth US$2,500. Nutrition & Dietetics; Food Consumption; Food Science; Human Nutrient Requirements; Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Allied Health Professions; Food Nutrient Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Content; Malnutrition been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 25 Jul 13 ASN Award type: Prizes 9650 Rockville Pike Award amount max: $2,500 Bethesda, MD 20814 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

FIZER CONSUMER HEALTHCARE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AWARD American Society for Nutrition P

Description: The American Society for Nutrition, The award is worth US$1,500. supported by Pfizer, invites nominations for the Pfizer consumer healthcare nutritional science award. This recognises recent Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) investigative contributions of contemporary Deadline information: !! Call has not yet significance to the understanding of human been announced by funder, but this is the nutrition. The contributions need not be approximate deadline we expect. This call is restricted to investigative work with humans repeated once a year. as long as they have relevance to human Posted date: 25 Jul 13 nutrition and health. Preference is usually Award type: Prizes given to scientists in the western hemisphere. Award amount max: $1,500 Award budget total: - Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- Requirements; Nutrition & Dietetics; asn/awards/ Malnutrition; Food Nutrient Content

Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any ASN 9650 Rockville Pike Disciplines Bethesda, MD 20814 ------Email: [email protected] Allied Health Professions; Food Consumption; Food Science; Human Nutrient

IO-SERV AWARD IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL NUTRITION American Society for Nutrition B

Description: The American Society for Nutrition and Bio- Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- Serv Inc invite nominations for their Bio-Serv asn/awards/ award in experimental animal nutrition. This recognises meritorious research in nutrition Eligibility profile by an investigator within 10 years of ------postgraduate training. The work must involve Country of applicant institution: Any the nutrition of experimental animals used as models. Disciplines ------The award is worth US$1,000. Nutrition & Dietetics; Animal Care; Animal Feeds & Nutrition; Veterinary Medicine; Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Agriculture; Livestock & Animal Science Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. ASN Posted date: 25 Jul 13 9650 Rockville Pike Award type: Prizes Bethesda, MD 20814 Award amount max: $1,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -

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LR STOKSTAD AWARD American Society for Nutrition E

Description: The American Society for Nutrition, Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- supported by an endowment from the family asn/awards/ of ELR Stokstad, invites nominations for the ELR Stokstad award. This is given for Eligibility profile outstanding fundamental research in ------nutrition, with preference given to scientists Country of applicant institution: Any at relatively early stages in their careers. Disciplines The award is worth US$2,500. ------Malnutrition; Human Nutrient Requirements; Food Nutrient Content; Food Science; Food Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Consumption; Nutrition & Dietetics; Allied Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Health Professions been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 25 Jul 13 ASN Award type: Young investigator awards, 9650 Rockville Pike Prizes Bethesda, MD 20814 Award amount max: $2,500 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -

ANNON INSTITUTE MENTORSHIP AWARD American Society for Nutrition D

Description: The American Society for Nutrition and the Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Dannon Institute invites applications for the been announced by funder, but this is the Dannon Institute mentorship award. This is approximate deadline we expect. This call is given for outstanding mentorship in the repeated once a year. development of successful nutritional Posted date: 25 Jul 13 research science investigators. Nominees Award type: Prizes should have at least two trainees. Award amount max: $2,500 Award budget total: - The award is worth US$2,500. Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- asn/awards/ Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast)

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Eligibility profile Professions; Food Science; Nutrition & ------Dietetics; Malnutrition Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------ASN Food Nutrient Content; Food Consumption; 9650 Rockville Pike Human Nutrient Requirements; Allied Health Bethesda, MD 20814 Email: [email protected]

HARMACIA-ASPET AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics P

Description: The American Society of Pharmacology and Nominations due by 5pm EDT. This call is Experimental Therapeutics invites repeated once a year. nominations for its Pharmacia-ASPET award Posted date: 15 Aug 14 for experimental therapeutics. This recognises Award type: Prizes and stimulates outstanding research in Award budget total: - pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, Website: including basic laboratory or clinical research http://www.aspet.org/awards/aspet/Pharmaci that has had, or potentially will have, a major a-ASPET/ impact on the pharmacological treatment of disease. Eligibility profile ------There are no restrictions on the nominees for Country of applicant institution: Any the award. Nominations must, however, be made by members of the society, and no Disciplines member may nominate more than one ------candidate per year. Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Pharmacotherapy; Clinical Medicine; Public The award consists of an honorarium of Health, Health Ser US$2,500, a plaque, and complimentary vices & Primary Care; Pharmacy & registration and travel support for the winner Pharmacology; Primary Care; Diagnostic and their spouse to attend the award Sciences ceremony. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ASPET Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 9650 Rockville Pike been announced by funder, but this is the Bethesda, MD 20814-3995 approximate deadline we expect. Email: [email protected]

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ORALD SOLLMANN AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics T

Description: The American Society of Pharmacology and Award budget total: - Experimental Therapeutics invites Website: applications for its Torald Sollmann award in http://www.aspet.org/awards/aspet/sollmann pharmacology. The award of US$3,500 is / presented for significant contributions over many years to the advancement and extension Eligibility profile of knowledge in the field of pharmacology. ------The recipient will be invited to deliver a Country of applicant institution: Any lecture to the membership that may be published in an appropriate ASPET journal. Disciplines ------There are no restrictions on nominees for this Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; award; however, a nomination must be made Pharmacy & Pharmacology by a member of ASPET. Contact Details Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ASPET been announced by funder, but this is the 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda approximate deadline we expect. This call is Maryland, 20814-3995 repeated every 2 years. Tel: +1 301 634 7989 Posted date: 07 Apr 09 Fax: +1 301 634 7061 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $3,500

E DUVE INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS De Duve Institute D

Description: The de Duve Institute invites applications for group leader of the laboratory of choice before its postdoctoral fellowships. These enable any application. young scientists to pursue postdoctoral research within one of the research groups in The one-year fellowships are renewable once, the institute. and provide a tax-free monthly allowance of approximately €2,200. Health insurance, Candidates must hold a PhD, MD or insurance against accidents, and registration equivalent degree, not obtained at a Belgian fee for the university are also included. university. It is mandatory to contact the

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Closing date: 15 Sep 16 files/upload/deDuveInst_application_form_J Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 an2016.doc September 2016, 15 January 2017. Posted date: 15 Mar 16 Eligibility profile Award type: Young investigator awards, ------Postdoctoral training fellowships, Directed Country of applicant institution: Any grants for individual investigators Award amount max: - Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Clinical Medicine http://www.deduveinstitute.be/post- doctoral-program Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.deduveinstitute.be/sites/default/ Email: [email protected]

NDUSTRIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING DIVISION HH DOW MEMORIAL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD I Electrochemical Society

Description: The Electrochemical Society invites Posted date: 19 Sep 13 nominations for the HH Dow memorial Award type: Student awards, Prizes, student achievement award of the industrial Financial aid for postgraduate students, electrolysis and electrochemical division. The Equipment and materials award, which includes a cash prize of Award amount max: $1,000 US$1,000, is intended to recognise promising Website: young engineers and scientists in the field of http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division electrochemical engineering and applied /rules/ieee_dow_rules.htm electrochemistry. Eligibility profile Nominees should be enrolled in a college or ------university as a graduate student, or have been Country of applicant institution: Any accepted for enrolment. The award may be used for expenses associated with the Disciplines recipient’s education or research project, ------including tuition, books, equipment or Electrochemistry; Electrical & Electronic supplies. Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 609 737 1902 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated once a year.

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EW RESEARCH WORKERS’ AWARDS Quaternary Research Association N

Description: The Quaternary Research Association invites Award amount max: £1,000 applications for its new research workers’ Award budget total: - awards. These recognise younger researchers Website: https://www.qra.org.uk/ studying for higher degrees in quaternary Application form: science and typically support such activities https://www.qra.org.uk/media/uploads/NR as field expeditions, geological surveys, WAapplication15.docx coring activities, laboratory visits, purchase of field equipment and laboratory analyses. Eligibility profile ------Postgraduates who have been members of the Country of applicant institution: Any association for at least six months may apply. Applicants must not hold a doctoral degree or Disciplines tenured academic position. Preference will be ------given to those who have no source of Structural Geology; Archaeological Sites & fieldwork funding or whose access to such Field Work funds is limited. Contact Details Awards are normally worth up to £1,000. ------QRA Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Department of Geography Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Durham University September 2016, 15 January 2017, 15 May Science Laboratories 2017, and repeated annually. South Road Posted date: 13 Jan 16 Durham DH1 3LE Award type: Travel for research purposes, Tel: +44 191 33 43498 Equipment and materials, Directed grants Email: [email protected] for individual investigators, Student awards

OSTGRADUATE MEETINGS AWARDS Quaternary Research Association P

Description: The Quaternary Research Association invites Registered postgraduates who are current applications for its postgraduate meetings members of the association may apply. awards. These enable postgraduates to attend Applications are particularly encouraged association meetings, namely field meetings from students in their first year of and annual discussion meetings. postgraduate study. The main criteria for the Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

distribution of awards will be relevance to Eligibility profile research topic and financial need. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Awards normally cover 50 per cent of the costs of the meeting, excluding travel to the Disciplines venue. ------Quaternary Environments Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Contact Details September 2016, 15 January 2017, 15 May ------2017, and repeated annually. QRA Posted date: 20 Jul 15 Department of Geography Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Durham University etc., Student awards Lower Mountjoy Award amount max: - South Road Award budget total: - Durham Website: https://www.qra.org.uk/ DH1 3LE Application form: Tel: +44 191 334 3498 https://www.qra.org.uk/media/uploads/Postg Email: [email protected] radMeetingApp15.docx

BEL PRIZE Norske Videnskaps-Akademi – Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters A

Description: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Letters invites nominations for the Abel prize. Deadline information: This call is repeated This recognises outstanding scientific work in once a year. the field of mathematics, including Posted date: 01 Apr 16 mathematical aspects of computer science, Award type: Prizes mathematical physics, probability, numerical Award amount max: kr6,000,000 analysis and scientific computing, statistics Award budget total: - and applications of mathematics in the Website: sciences. http://www.abelprize.no/c53676/artikkel/vis. html?tid=53705 The prize can be awarded to a single person Application form: or shared for closely related fundamental http://forum.abelprisen.no/en/_nom/index.ht contributions. The right to nominate is open ml

to anyone. Self-nominations are not accepted. Eligibility profile

------The prize is worth NOK6 million. Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Drammensveien 78 ------0271 Oslo Mathematical Sciences Tel: +47 2284 1500 Fax: +47 2212 1099 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

ERNON YOUNG INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR AMINO ACID RESEARCH American Society for Nutrition V

Description: The American Society for Nutrition, Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- supported by the Ajinomoto Co Inc, invites asn/awards/ nominations for the Vernon Young international award for amino acid research. Eligibility profile This recognises an investigator for a single ------piece of research or for a series of papers in a Country of applicant institution: Any related area of amino acid metabolism completed early in their career, usually Disciplines interpreted as within 10 years of postgraduate ------training. Food Nutrient Content; Human Metabolism; Nutrition & Dietetics; Cell Physiology & The award is worth US$2,500. Metabolism; Biological Sciences; Human Nutrient Requirements; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Allied Health Professions; Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Chemistry; Food Science Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. ASN Posted date: 25 Jul 13 9650 Rockville Pike Award type: Prizes Bethesda, MD 20814 Award amount max: $2,500 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -

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IVISION FOR DRUG METABOLISM EARLY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics D

Description: approximate deadline we expect. The American Society for Pharmacology and Applications due by 5pm EDT. This call is Experimental Therapeutics invites repeated every 2 years. nominations for its division for drug Posted date: 03 Jul 14 metabolism early-career achievement award. Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, This recognises excellent original research by meetings etc. early-career investigators in the area of drug Award amount max: $2,000 metabolism and disposition. Research Award budget total: - contributions in any sector of the drug Website: http://www.aspet.org/Drug- metabolism community may be nominated. Metabolism/Early-Career-Achievement- Award/ Nominees must have a doctoral degree and must be within 15 years of receiving their final Eligibility profile degree as of December 31 of the year of the ------award. The nominee must have two Country of applicant institution: Any nominators who are ASPET members. Disciplines The award consists of US$1,000, a plaque, ------complimentary registration plus travel Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Drug Resistance; expenses of up to US$1,000 to attend the Drug Design; Toxicology; Pharmacokinetics; awards ceremony at the ASPET’s annual Chemistry meeting. The awardee will deliver a lecture at Contact Details the meeting describing relevant research ------accomplishments, and will be invited to ASPET publish a review article on the subject matter 9650 Rockville Pike of the award lecture. Bethesda, MD 20814

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Tel: +1 301 634 7060 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the

ULIUS AXELROD AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics J

Description: The American Society for Pharmacology and pharmacology. This recognises significant Experimental Therapeutics invites contributions to understanding the nominations for the Julius Axelrod award in biochemical mechanisms underlying the

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pharmacological actions of drugs and for Award budget total: - contributions for mentoring other Website: pharmacologists. The award shall be made on http://www.aspet.org/awards/aspet/axelrod/ the basis of originality and uniqueness of accomplishments throughout a long career. Eligibility profile ------There are no restrictions on the nominees of Country of applicant institution: Any the award. Nominations must, however, be made by members of the society or the Disciplines Catecholamine Club. No member may ------nominate more than one candidate per year. Human Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Pharmacokinetics; Pharmaceutical Drugs; The award includes an honorarium of Pharmacogenomics; Allied Health US$2,500, a medal and travel support for the Professions; Biological Sciences; Clinical winner and spouse to the annual meeting. The Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Diagnostic winner will be invited to deliver a lecture and Sciences; Pharmacotherapy; Medicinal organise a symposium at the annual meeting Chemistry; Clinical Chemistry; Pharmacy & a year hence. Pharmacology

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the ASPET approximate deadline we expect. 9650 Rockville Pike Nominations due by 5pm EDT. Bethesda, MD 20814-3995 Posted date: 25 Jul 14 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $2,500

AVID KRITCHEVSKY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN NUTRITION American Society for Nutrition D

Description: Nominees may be from governmental, private The American Society for Nutrition, or academic sectors. supported by Mondelēz International, invites nominations for the David Kritchevsky career The award is worth US$2,500. achievement award in nutrition. This recognises a career devoted to promoting interaction among, support for, and assistance Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) of outstanding nutrition researchers resulting Deadline information: !! Call has not yet in the application of fundamental knowledge been announced by funder, but this is the to the delivery of better nutrition products approximate deadline we expect. This call is and information to the public. repeated once a year. Posted date: 25 Jul 13

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Award type: Prizes Human Nutrient Requirements; Allied Health Award amount max: $2,500 Professions; Food Nutrient Content; Food Award budget total: - Science; Nutrition & Dietetics; Malnutrition; Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- Food Consumption asn/awards/ Contact Details Eligibility profile ------ASN Country of applicant institution: Any 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------

V MCCOLLUM AWARD American Society for Nutrition E

Description: The American Society for Nutrition, Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- supported by Pfizer, invites nominations for asn/awards/ the EV McCollum award. This is given to a clinical investigator who is perceived as a Eligibility profile major creative force, actively generating new ------concepts in nutrition and personally seeing to Country of applicant institution: Any the execution of studies testing the validity of these concepts. Contact ------The award is worth US$1,500. ASN 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected] Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Human Nutrient Requirements; Allied Health Posted date: 25 Jul 13 Professions; Nutrition & Dietetics; Food Award type: Prizes Consumption; Food Science; Malnutrition; Award amount max: $1,500 Food Nutrient Content Award budget total: -

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OBERT H HERMAN MEMORIAL AWARD American Society for Nutrition R

Description: Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- The American Society for Nutrition invites asn/awards/ nominations for the Robert H Herman memorial award. This is awarded to a clinical Eligibility profile investigator whose research work has ------contributed importantly to the advancement Country of applicant institution: Any of clinical nutrition, particularly the biochemical and metabolic aspects of human Disciplines nutrition. ------Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Human Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Metabolism; Allied Health Professions; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Nutrition & Dietetics; Biological Sciences been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 25 Jul 13 ASN Award type: Prizes 9650 Rockville Pike Award amount max: - Bethesda, MD 20814 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

ORMAN KRETCHMER MEMORIAL AWARD IN NUTRITION AND DEVELOPMENT American Society for Nutrition N

Description: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet The American Society for Nutrition is inviting been announced by funder, but this is the applications for the Norman Kretchmer approximate deadline we expect. This call is memorial award in nutrition and repeated once a year. development. This recognises a young Posted date: 25 Jul 13 investigator for a substantial body of Award type: Prizes, Young investigator independent research in the field of nutrition awards and development with potential relevance to Award amount max: $1,500 improving child health. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- The award is worth US$1,500. asn/awards/

Eligibility profile Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Contact Details ------Paediatrics; Infant Paediatrics; Child ASN Development; Nutrition & Dietetics; Human 9650 Rockville Pike Nutrient Requirements; Food Nutrient Bethesda, MD 20814 Content; Maternal Health; Allied Health Email: [email protected] Professions; Food Science

XCELLENCE IN NUTRITION EDUCATION AWARD American Society for Nutrition E

Description: Posted date: 25 Jul 13 The American Society for Nutrition, Award type: Prizes supported by Cengage Learning, invites Award amount max: $2,500 nominations for its excellence in nutrition Award budget total: - education award. This is given for Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- outstanding contributions to teaching asn/awards/ nutrition. Eligibility profile The recipient should have demonstrated ------superior ability as an educator in nutrition Country of applicant institution: Any science, as evidenced through a combination of excellence in nutrition teaching or nutrition Disciplines education research and original contributions ------to teaching and translating new discoveries Science & Technology Education; Nutrition & into classroom or educational materials. Dietetics; Human Nutrient Requirements; Allied Health Professions; Education The award is worth US$2,500. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ASN Secretariat Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 9650 Rockville Pike been announced by funder, but this is the Bethesda, MD 20814 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated once a year.

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SSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION/PROQUEST METHODOLOGY PAPER COMPETITION A Association for Library and Information Science Education

Description: The Association for Library and Information Award type: Prizes Science Education invites proposals for its Award amount max: $500 methodology paper competition, sponsored Award budget total: - by ProQuest. This competition aims to Website: stimulate communication on research http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId methodologies at ALISE annual conferences. =55542 Papers must be limited to the description and discussion of a research method or a Eligibility profile technique associated with a particular ------research method. These include sampling, Country of applicant institution: Any grounded theory, historical methods and statistical methods. Disciplines ------At least one author in each group must be a Research Methods in Sociology; Social Work personal member of ALISE at the deadline & Social Policy; Applied Anthropology; date. Human Geography, Methods & Theory; Methodologies & Concepts in Sociology; An honorarium of US$500 will be awarded. Information Science; Research & Innovation Economics & Policy; Libraries & Information Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Science; Computer Science & Informatics; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Research Ethics & Misconduct been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 17 Jul 14 Email: [email protected]

SSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION/LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTION PAPER AWARD A Association for Library and Information Science Education

Description: public libraries or school library media The Association for Library and Information centres. Possible topics include: Science Education, in collaboration with Linworth Publishing, invites papers for their  resources specially developed for youth services paper award. This award youth; recognises an outstanding paper reporting  history of youth services in libraries; innovative research into youth services in  information seeking behaviour of youth;

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 service and programme evaluation; Award type: Prizes  policy research; Award amount max: $1,000  technology innovation; Award budget total: -  the relationship between libraries and Website: other organisations; http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId  collection development. =55541

Eligibility profile Papers must include a section on the ------applicability of research to practice, and Country of applicant institution: Any should not have been previously published.

Authors must be personal members of ALISE Disciplines or the ALISE youth services special interest ------group or the school library media special Libraries & Information Science; Information interest group. The award is worth US$1,000. Science; Youth & Adolescents; Sociology;

Social Work & Social Policy; Computer

Science & Informatics Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 16 Jul 14

WAS-USM POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: Malaysia or any developed country. The World Academy of Sciences and the Applicants should hold a master’s degree in a Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang invite field of the natural sciences and provide applications for the TWAS-USM postgraduate evidence of proficiency in English. They must fellowship programme. This enables young also provide an official acceptance letter from scientists from developing countries other SN Bose. than Malaysia to pursue studies leading to a PhD in the natural sciences. Fellowships are Fellowships include a standard monthly tenable for up to three years in the allowance to cover living costs such as departments, institutions and laboratories of accommodation and subsistence. USM.

Nationals of a developing country other than Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Malaysia, who are no more than 35 years of Deadline information: This call is repeated age on 31 December of the application year, once a year. may apply. Applicants must not hold a visa Posted date: 19 Apr 16 for temporary or permanent residency in

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Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, Directed grants for individual investigators, Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, Young investigator awards Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Thailand, Award amount max: - Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Award budget total: - Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Website: Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-usm- Middle-Income countries, Low Income postgraduate-fellowship-programme countries, Montenegro Application form: http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Disciplines 2016-pg-application------form_finalmarch2016_2.doc Engineering; Biological Sciences; Medicine & Health; Physical Sciences; Agriculture Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Albania, ------Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, TWAS Fellowships Office Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ICTP Campus Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Strada Costiera 11 China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, 34151 Trieste Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, Tel: +39 040 2240 689 Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, Email: [email protected] Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former

WAS-USM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: temporary or permanent residency in The World Academy of Sciences and the Malaysia or any developed country. Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang invite Applicants must be regularly employed and applications for the TWAS-USM postdoctoral hold a research assignment in a developing fellowship programme. This enables young country and provide an official acceptance scientists from developing countries other letter from the USM institute of postgraduate than Malaysia to pursue advanced research in studies. natural sciences. Fellowships are tenable for one to three years in the departments, Fellowships include a standard monthly institutions and laboratories of USM. allowance to cover living costs, such as accommodation and subsistence. Nationals of developing countries other than Malaysia, who have obtained their PhD in natural sciences in the past five years, may Closing date: 15 Sep 16 apply. Applicants must not hold a visa for

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Deadline information: This call is repeated Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, once a year. Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, Directed grants for individual investigators, Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Thailand, Young investigator awards Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Award amount max: - Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Award budget total: - Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- Website: Middle-Income countries, Low Income http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-usm- countries, Montenegro postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Application form: Disciplines http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ ------2016-pdoc-application- Agriculture; Physical Sciences; Biological form_march2016_5.doc Sciences; Engineering; Medicine & Health

Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Albania, TWAS Fellowships Office Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, ICTP Campus Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Strada Costiera 11 Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, 34151 Trieste China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, Email: [email protected] Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan,

WAS-BIOTEC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: past five years and are not more than 40 years The World Academy of Sciences, together old on 31 December of the application year with the National Center for Genetic may apply. Applicants must not hold a visa Engineering and Biotechnology, invites for temporary or permanent residency in applications for the TWAS-BIOTEC Thailand or any developed country. postdoctoral fellowship programme. This Applicants should have obtained their PhD in enables young scientists from developing molecular biology, molecular genetics, countries other than Thailand to pursue microbiology, biochemistry, biotechnology or advanced research in biotechnology at the bioinformatics. Applicants should be National Centre for Genetic Engineering and regularly employed and hold a research Biotechnology in Thailand. assignment in a developing country, and must be proficient in English. Applicants should be Nationals of developing countries, other than able to provide an acceptance letter from Thailand, who have obtained their PhD in the BIOTEC.

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Fellowships cover living expenses such as Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, accommodation and food and are tenable for Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, one to two years. Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, Deadline information: This call is repeated Mexico, Malaysia, Namibia, Panama, Peru, once a year. Palau, Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Directed grants for individual investigators, Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- Young investigator awards Middle-Income countries, Low Income Award amount max: - countries, Montenegro Award budget total: - Website: Disciplines http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas------biotec-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Biotechnology Application form: http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ Contact Details 2016-pdoc-application------form_march2016_11.doc TWAS Fellowships Office

ICTP Campus Eligibility profile Strada Costiera 11 ------34151 Trieste Country of applicant institution: Albania, Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Email: [email protected] Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba,

CCORMICK SCIENCE INSTITUTE RESEARCH AWARD American Society for Nutrition M

Description: The award is worth US$2,500. The American Society for Nutrition and the McCormick Science Institute invites nominations for the McCormick Science Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Institute research award. This recognises an Deadline information: !! Call has not yet investigator conducting clinical, translational, been announced by funder, but this is the in vitro or ex vivo research, whose scientific approximate deadline we expect. This call is contributions have advanced the repeated once a year. understanding of the potential health benefits Posted date: 25 Jul 13 of culinary herbs and spices. Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $2,500

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Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- Malnutrition; Nutrition & Dietetics; Allied asn/awards/ Health Professions

Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any ASN 9650 Rockville Pike Disciplines Bethesda, MD 20814 ------Email: [email protected] Food Nutrient Content; Food Consumption; Human Nutrient Requirements; Food Science;

ARY SWARTZ ROSE SENIOR INVESTIGATOR AWARD American Society for Nutrition M

Description: Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- The American Society for Nutrition, with asn/awards/ support from the Council for Responsible Nutrition, invites applications for the Mary Eligibility profile Swartz Rose senior investigator award. This ------recognises an investigator for outstanding Country of applicant institution: Any research on the safety and efficacy of bioactive compounds for human health. Disciplines ------The award is worth US$2,500. Food Science; Malnutrition; Allied Health Professions; Nutrition & Dietetics; Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Nutrigenomics Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. ASN Posted date: 25 Jul 13 9650 Rockville Pike Award type: Prizes Bethesda, MD 20814 Award amount max: $2,500 Email: [email protected]

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ARY SWARTZ ROSE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD American Society for Nutrition M

Description: Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- The American Society for Nutrition invites asn/awards/ nominations for the Mary Swartz Rose young investigator award. This recognises a young Eligibility profile investigator within 10 years of postgraduate ------training for outstanding research on the safety Country of applicant institution: Any and efficacy of bioactive compounds for human health. Disciplines ------The award is worth US$2,500. Food Science; Malnutrition; Nutrition & Dietetics; Nutrigenomics; Allied Health Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Professions Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. ASN Posted date: 25 Jul 13 9650 Rockville Pike Award type: Young investigator awards, Bethesda, MD 20814 Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $2,500 Award budget total: -

WAS-CONACYT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: Nationals of a developing country other than The Academy of Sciences for the Developing Mexico, who have obtained a PhD in the field World and the National Council on Science of natural sciences within the last five years, and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico invite may apply. Applicants must not hold a visa applications for the TWAS-CONACYT for temporary or permanent residency in postdoctoral fellowship programme. This Mexico or any developed country and must enables scientists from developing countries be regularly employed in a developing other than Mexico to conduct advanced country other than Mexico and hold a research in the natural sciences and related research assignment there. Candidates must fields at research centres or institutions of have proven knowledge of Spanish or provide higher education in Mexico. a certificate of proficiency in English if these languages are not their mother tongue.

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Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, and provide a standard monthly allowance to Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, cover living costs and a fixed amount for Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, health insurance coverage. Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, Malaysia, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Thailand, Deadline information: This call is repeated Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, once a year. Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Middle-Income countries, Low Income Directed grants for individual investigators countries, Montenegro Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas------conacyt-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Physics; Chemistry; Biological Sciences; Application form: Medicine & Health; Agriculture http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ 2016-pdoc-application- Contact Details form_march2016_6.doc ------

TWAS Fellowships Office Eligibility profile ICTP Campus ------Strada Costiera 11 Country of applicant institution: Albania, 34151 Trieste Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Email: [email protected] China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria,

WAS-USM FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING RESEARCHERS IN MALAYSIA TWAS T

Description: Applicants should be no more than 55 years The World Academy of Sciences and the of age on 31 December of the application year Universiti Sains Malaysia invite applications and must not hold a visa for temporary or for the TWAS-USM fellowships for visiting permanent residency in Malaysia or any scholars in Malaysia. These enable scientists developed country. Applicants must hold a from developing countries other than PhD in natural sciences with at least five Malaysia to pursue advanced research in years’ postdoctoral research experience, and natural sciences. be engaged in a regular research assignment. Proficiency in English is a requirement for this

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programme. Applications must include an Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, acceptance letter from the USM. China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Fellowships are tenable for one to three Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, months and include a standard monthly Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, allowance to cover living costs, such as Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, accommodation, subsistence and health Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former insurance. Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Thailand, Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Deadline information: This call is repeated Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, once a year. Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- Posted date: 21 Apr 16 Middle-Income countries, Low Income Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, countries, Montenegro Directed grants for individual investigators, Senior fellowships, Young investigator Disciplines awards ------Award amount max: - Food Science; Chemistry; Materials Sciences; Award budget total: - Biological Sciences; Earth Systems & Website: Environmental Sciences; Physics http://www.twas.org/opportunity/twas-usm- fellowships-visiting-researchers-malaysia Contact Details Application form: ------http://twas.org/sites/default/files/scientist/20 TWAS Fellowships Office 16-vr-application-form_f_1.doc ICTP Campus

Strada Costiera 11 Eligibility profile 34151 Trieste ------Tel: +39 040 2240 314 Country of applicant institution: Albania, Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, Email: [email protected] Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

XTENDED DEADLINE: AWARDS FOR EARLY-CAREER WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD E Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World

Description: The Organization for Women in Science for previous deadline of 1 September 2015 has the Developing World, in association with the now been extended to 15 September 2015. All Academy of Sciences for the Developing other call information remains unchanged. World and the Elsevier Foundation, has extended the closing date for the women These recognise early-career women scientists scientists in developing countries awards. The from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin

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America and the Caribbean. The 2016 awards Award budget total: - are in the biological sciences. Website: http://owsd.ictp.it/career- development/awards Nominees must be within 10 years of receiving their PhD and have lived and Eligibility profile worked for at least three years in a listed ------country within one of the regions. Self- Country of applicant institution: Lower- nominations are not accepted. Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries One winner from each of the five regions will receive a prize of US$5,000, as well as full Disciplines expenses to attend the American Association ------for the Advancement of Science annual Bio/Medical meeting in 2016, which will be held in Washington DC. Contact Details ------OWSD Secretariat Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ICTP campus Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Strada Costiera 11 been announced by funder, but this is the 34151 Trieste approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +39 040 224 0321 repeated once a year. Fax: +39 040 224 0689 Posted date: 28 Aug 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Prizes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc.

USANNE KLEIN-VOGELBACH PRIZE FOR THE RESEARCH OF HUMAN MOVEMENT Georg and Susanne Klein Vogelbach Foundation S

Description: Movement in this context covers all kinds of The Georg and Susanne Klein-Vogelbach muscular-induced human movement, Foundation invites applications for the including mime and music. Susanne Klein-Vogelbach prize for the research of human movement. This recognises Authors who have published a scientific work in neuroscience, orthopaedics and paper in this area within the last two years, or associated sciences which is oriented to whose paper has been accepted for establish a better understanding of the publication, are eligible to apply. Papers underlying principles of human movement which have already been submitted for a prize and its rehabilitation. will not be taken into account.

The prize is worth CHF10,000. Additionally, outstanding publications in physical therapy

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may be submitted for a further CHF2,000 Application form: http://www.kv- award. award.de/participate

Eligibility profile Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Disciplines Posted date: 30 Jul 15 ------Award type: Prizes Physiology; Music Therapy; Musculoskeletal Award amount max: SFr.12,000 System; Neuroscience Award budget total: - Website: http://www.fbl-klein- Contact Details vogelbach.org/ueber-fbl/der-skv------preis/announcement-prize-2012.html Email: [email protected]

AMUEL J FOMON YOUNG PHYSICIAN AWARD American Society for Nutrition S

Description: Award amount max: $5,000 The American Society for Nutrition and the Award budget total: - Nestlé Nutrition Institute invite nominations Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- for the Samuel J Fomon young physician asn/awards/ award. This recognises a physician within 10 years of completing their medical Eligibility profile postdoctoral training for outstanding work in ------the general area of paediatric nutrition. Infant Country of applicant institution: Any nutrition, infant growth or body composition are of particular interest. Preclinical or clinical Contact Details research that contributes to medical ------applications or produces impacts upon the ASN practice of infant feeding will be recognised. 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 The award is worth US$5,000. Email: [email protected]

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Child Development; Food Science; Human approximate deadline we expect. This call is Nutrient Requirements; Paediatrics; Maternal repeated once a year. Health; Allied Health Professions; Food Posted date: 25 Jul 13 Nutrient Content; Infant Paediatrics; Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Nutrition & Dietetics awards

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ENERAL MILLS BELL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION INNOVATION AWARD G American Society for Nutrition

Description: Award amount max: $5,000 The American Society for Nutrition and the Award budget total: - General Mills Bell Institute invite applications Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- for the General Mills Bell Institute of Health asn/awards/ and Nutrition innovation award. This recognises an investigator whose scientific Eligibility profile contributions advance the understanding of ------the health benefits of whole grains. Country of applicant institution: Any

Eligible recipients are conducting mechanistic, Disciplines epidemiological, clinical, translational, in vitro ------or ex vivo research contributing to the Allied Health Professions; Grains & Cereals; knowledge of the health benefits of cereal and Food Consumption; Nutrition & Dietetics; grain components. Agriculture; Food Nutrient Content; Human Nutrient Requirements; Food Science; The award is worth US$5,000. Harvest, Transport, Processing & Storage; Malnutrition

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the ASN approximate deadline we expect. This call is 9650 Rockville Pike repeated once a year. Bethesda, MD 20814 Posted date: 25 Jul 13 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes, Innovation grants

ILBERT A LEVEILLE LECTURESHIP AND AWARD American Society for Nutrition G

Description: health and well-being. The award is worth The American Society for Nutrition, in US$3,000 and includes an engraved plaque. cooperation with the Institute of Food Technologies, invites applications for the Gilbert A Leveille lectureship and award. This Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) recognises outstanding research and public Deadline information: !! Call has not yet service within the disciplines of nutrition and been announced by funder, but this is the food science, over a period of five years or approximate deadline we expect. This call is more, which has contributed to improved repeated once a year. Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

Posted date: 15 Jul 15 Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: $3,000 ------Award budget total: - Food Science; Nutrition & Dietetics Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- asn/awards/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Tel: +1 301 634 7050 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any

WAS-ICIPE POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: candidates should be maximum 40 years of The World Academy of Sciences and the age by 31 December in the year of application. International Centre of Insect Physiology and There is no age limit for sandwich Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya invite applications fellowships. Candidates must provide for their postgraduate fellowship programme. evidence of proficiency in English and proof This enables young scientists from developing that they will return to their home country countries other than Kenya to undertake PhD after the fellowship. studies in Kenya. The research should be conducted in the fields of agricultural Three fellowships per year are available, each sciences, structural, cell or molecular biology, providing a standard monthly allowance, biological systems and organisms, medical which may be used to cover living costs such and health sciences, including neurosciences as accommodation, subsistence and health or chemical sciences. There are two types of insurance. fellowships:

 full-time fellowships, granted for a Closing date: 15 Sep 16 period of six to 12 months, for Deadline information: This call is repeated students registered for a PhD in a once a year. developing country; Posted date: 19 Apr 16  SANDWICH fellowships, granted for Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, three years, for candidates not Financial aid for postgraduate students, registered for a PhD in their home Directed grants for individual investigators, country. Young investigator awards Award amount max: - Permanent residents of a developing country Award budget total: - Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- other than Kenya may apply. Applicants icipe-postgraduate-fellowship-programme should hold a master’s degree or higher and Application form: have an official acceptance letter from the host http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ institution. For full-time fellowships

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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Bio/Medical; Chemistry Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Contact Details Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ------Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, TWAS Fellowships Office Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Comoros, Korea, ICTP Campus Democratic People's Republic of, Liberia, Strada Costiera 11 Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Malawi, 34151 Trieste Mozambique, Niger, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Tel: +39 40 224 0314 Leone, Somalia, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Fax: +39 40 224 0689 Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Email: [email protected]

WAS-ICIPE FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING SCHOLARS IN KENYA TWAS T

Description: Fellowships are tenable for one to three The World Academy of Sciences and the months and include a standard monthly International Centre of Insect Physiology and allowance to cover living costs, such as Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya invite applications accommodation, subsistence and health for the TWAS-icipe fellowships for visiting insurance. scholars in Kenya. These enable visiting scholars from developing countries other than Kenya to pursue advanced research in the Closing date: 15 Sep 16 natural sciences. Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Applicants should be no more than 55 years Posted date: 21 Apr 16 of age on 31 December of the application year Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, and must not hold a visa for temporary or Directed grants for individual investigators, permanent residency in Kenya or any Young investigator awards, Senior developed country. Applicants should hold a fellowships PhD in the natural sciences with at least five Award amount max: - years’ postdoctoral research experience, and Award budget total: - be engaged in a regular research assignment. Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- Proficiency in English is a requirement for this icipe-fellowships-visiting-scholars-kenya programme. Applications must include an acceptance letter from the International Application form: http://twas.org/sites/default/files/scientist/20 Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology. 16-vr-application-form_f.doc

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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Physics; Biological Sciences; Food Science; Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Materials Sciences; Earth Systems & Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Environmental Sciences; Chemistry Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Contact Details Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Comoros, Korea, ------Democratic People's Republic of, Liberia, TWAS Fellowships Office Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Malawi, ICTP Campus Mozambique, Niger, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Strada Costiera 11 Leone, Somalia, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, 34151 Trieste Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Tel: +39 040 224 0330 Zimbabwe, Lower-Middle-Income countries, Fax: +39 040 224 0689 Upper-Middle-Income countries, South Sudan Email: [email protected]

NDUSTRIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD I Electrochemical Society

Description: Posted date: 19 Sep 13 The Electrochemical Society invites Award type: Student awards, Prizes nominations for the industrial Award amount max: $1,000 electrochemistry and electrochemical Award budget total: - engineering division student achievement Website: award. This recognises promising young http://www.electrochem.org/awards/division engineers and scientists in the field of /rules/ieee_student_rules.htm electrochemical engineering, and is intended to encourage recipients to initiate or continue Eligibility profile careers in this field. ------To be eligible, candidates must be enrolled in Country of applicant institution: Any a college or university or have been accepted for enrolment. Disciplines ------The award carries a US$1,000 prize. Chemical Engineering; Electrochemistry; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Chemistry Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 609 737 1902 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

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RANZ WERFEL FELLOWSHIP Austrian Exchange Service F

Description: Award budget total: - The Austrian Exchange Service (OEAD) Website: invites applications for the Franz Werfel https://www.scholarships.at/out/default.aspx fellowship. This enables young university ?TemplateGroupID=5&PageMode=3&Grain teachers whose work focuses on Austrian EntryID=13977&HZGID=14864&LangID=2 literature, to be visiting researchers at university departments and carry out Eligibility profile specialist studies in libraries, archives or at ------research institutions. Follow-up funding is Country of applicant institution: Andorra, also available, covering: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus,  a yearly invitation to a professionally Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, relevant symposium; Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland,  book allowance on the occasion of the France, United Kingdom, Georgia, Greece, symposium; Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy,  a one-month research grant every Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, three years; Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova,  a habilitation grant; Republic of, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav  a publication allowance. Republic of, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian University teachers from all countries except Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Austria, who are no more than 35 years of age Marino, Turkey, Ukraine, Holy See (Vatican and who focus on Austrian literature may City State), All African Nations, All Asian apply. nations, All South American nations, All Oceanian nations, European Institution (ESA, Up to seven grants are available for a duration ESF, European Commission & others of four to nine months, renewable for up to 18 affiliated to the EU or the idea of Europe), months. Grants consist of €1,040 monthly, as Kosovo, All North American nations, well as a €93 book allowance, accident and Montenegro health insurance, accommodation, tuition fee Disciplines exemption, and for applicants from non------European developing countries a travel grant Central European Literature; German of up to €730. Literature

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Contact Details times a year. ------Posted date: 02 Jun 16 OEAD Award type: Directed grants for individual Ebendorferstrasse 7 investigators, Travel for research purposes, 1010 Vienna Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Publish, Tel: +43 1 5340 8405 edit, translate, disseminate, Equipment and Fax: +43 1 5340 8499 materials, Young investigator awards Email: [email protected] Award amount max: -

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OLAND L WEINSIER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MEDICAL OR DENTAL NUTRITION EDUCATION R American Society for Nutrition

Description: Award amount max: $2,500 The American Society for Nutrition, Website: http://www.nutrition.org/about- supported by the Dannon Institute, invites asn/awards/ nominations for the Roland L Weinsier award for excellence in medical or dental nutrition Eligibility profile education. This recognises an outstanding ------career in medical or dental nutrition Country of applicant institution: Any education. Disciplines Nomination depends on acknowledged ------excellence in nutrition teaching or nutrition Medical Education; Nutrition & Dietetics; education research that extends beyond the Dentistry; Allied Health Professions; Science local institution and that includes innovations & Technology Education; Education; Human in medical or dental education. Nutrient Requirements

The award is worth US$2,500. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) ASN Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 9650 Rockville Pike been announced by funder, but this is the Bethesda MD 20814 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 301 634 7050 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 07 Aug 14 Award type: Prizes

ASTER’S THESIS GRANTS Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation M

Description: institute, one of the two preferably being The Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation invites situated in Switzerland. applications for its master’s thesis grants. These support collaborative inter-university Grants include a monthly stipend worth research in the fields of engineering, CHF1,900 to cover travel and local living environmental sciences and medieval studies, costs, plus limited research expenses for a including digital humanities. The grant aims duration of three to six months. to encourage research collaboration between the home university of the master’s thesis Closing date: 15 Sep 16 candidate and a hosting university or research

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Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Eligibility profile September 2016, 15 March 2017, and repeated ------annually. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 02 Apr 15 Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Disciplines Directed grants for individual investigators, ------Networking/collaboration, Travel for Medieval Literature; Medieval History; research purposes, Financial aid for Environmental Science; Engineering postgraduate students Award amount max: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Website: http://www.zenokarlschindler- Via Tesserete 8 foundation.ch/masters-thesis-grant.html 6945 Origlio Email: [email protected]

OBERT R RUFFOLO CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics R

Description: Application due by 5pm EDT. This call is The American Society of Pharmacology and repeated once a year. Experimental Therapeutics invites Posted date: 22 Jul 14 nominations for the Robert R Ruffolo career Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, achievement award in pharmacology. This meetings etc. recognises significant scientific contributions Award amount max: - to the field of pharmacology by scientists at Award amount min: $2,500 the height of their careers. Award budget total: - Website: There are no restrictions on nominees for the http://www.aspet.org/awards/aspet/Robert- award. Nominations must, however, be made Ruffolo/ by members of the society, and no more than one candidate may be nominated per year by Eligibility profile any member. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award includes a US$2,500 honourarium, a medal, and registration and travel support Disciplines for the winner and spouse to the annual ------meeting. Allied Health Professions; Medicinal Chemistry; Human Biological Sciences; Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Diagnostic Sciences; Pharmacy & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Pharmacology; Pharmacotherapy; been announced by funder, but this is the Pharmacogenomics; Clinical Pharmacy & approximate deadline we expect. Pharmacology; Pharmaceutical Drugs;

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Chemistry; Clinical Chemistry; Biological ASPET Sciences; Pharmacokinetics 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------

ARRO E TYLER PRIZE American Society of Pharmacognosy V

Description: Website: The American Society of Pharmacognosy http://www.pharmacognosy.us/grants-and- invites applications for the Varro E Tyler awards/grants-and-awards-archive/tyler- prize. This recognises an individual who has prize/ made outstanding scientific contributions to the field of dietary supplements, with special Eligibility profile emphasis on botanicals. The contributions ------should be in an area of phytochemistry, Country of applicant institution: Any pharmacognosy or pharmacology. Disciplines The prize includes US$5,000, a plaque and ------travel expenses to the society’s annual Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Natural meeting. Products & Pharmacognosy; Diagnostic Sciences; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Pharmacogenomics; Pharmacy & Deadline information: This call is repeated Pharmacology once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 08 Jun 16 ------Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Email: [email protected] etc., Prizes Award amount max: - Award budget total: -

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ID CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR SURGEONS – TRAUMA AO Foundation C

Description: Senior fellowships, The AO Foundation invites applications for Networking/collaboration, Travel for the CID clinical research fellowship research purposes programme for surgeons – trauma. This Award amount max: - enables surgeons to gain training and Award budget total: - experience in all phases of clinical research, Website: including study planning, monitoring, data https://www.aofoundation.org/Structure/rese analysis and publication, by spending three arch/clinical-research/activity- months at the foundation’s Clinical service/clinical-research- Investigation and Documentation branch fellowship/Pages/AOCID-Clinical-Research- office in Switzerland. Fellowship-Program-Surgeons.aspx Application form: Applicants must meet the following criteria: https://www.aofoundation.org/Structure/rese arch/clinical-research/activity- service/clinical-research-  hold a medical doctorate with fellowship/Documents/FellowshipApplicati minimum orthopaedic training; onForm.pdf  have published at least one clinical

investigation; Eligibility profile  be willing to dedicate at least 10 per ------cent of their time to clinical research; Country of applicant institution: Any  be supported by an AOTrauma or AOCMF member at their home clinic. Contact Details ------Up to two fellowships are available. They Stettbachstrasse 6 cover accommodation and travel expenses to 8600 Dübendorf and from Switzerland, and travel costs for Tel: +41 44 200 2463 public transport within Zurich. Fax: +41 44 200 2460 [email protected] Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Deadline information: Disciplines Posted date: 11 Apr 16 ------Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, Clinical Medicine; Traumatology, Accidents & Postdoctoral training fellowships, Early- Injury Career fellowships, Personal development,

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RREGULAR MIGRATION RESEARCH GRANTS Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection I

Description: Applications are due by 2pm AEST. This call The Australian Government Department of is repeated once a year. Immigration and Border Protection invites Posted date: 15 Aug 14 applications for its irregular migration Award type: Studentship allocations, research programme. This aims to develop an Directed grants to institutions, research evidence base on the drivers, determinants groups etc, Travel for research purposes, and decision-making of irregular migration. Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Proposals should address the following Networking/collaboration research topics: Award amount max: $500,000 Award budget total: -  transit migration; Website:  citizenship-specific insights; http://www.border.gov.au/about/reports- publications/research-statistics/research/live-  intricacies of decision-making; in-australia/irregular-migration-research  irregular and regular migrant

decision-making. Eligibility profile ------Research proposals which fall outside these Country of applicant institution: Any categories will be considered provided they relate to irregular migration and migrant Disciplines decision-making. ------Immigration Policy & Asylum; Social Work & Applicants must apply through an Social Policy; Immigration & Emigration Law; administering institution or organisation, Immigrants & Migrants; Law either within the public or private sector. Organisations must be either incorporated or Contact Details not-for-profit or an accredited university. ------Crawford School of Public Policy Funding is worth up to AU$500,000 per ANU College of Asia & the Pacific project. JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing The Australian National University Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast) Canberra, ACT 0200 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +61 2 6125 2238 been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected] approximate deadline we expect.

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WAS-UPM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: 2016-pdoc-application- The World Academy of Sciences and the form_march2016_4.doc Universiti Putra Malaysia invite applications for the TWAS-UPM postdoctoral fellowship Eligibility profile programme. This enables young scientists ------from developing countries other than Country of applicant institution: Albania, Malaysia to pursue advanced research in Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, natural sciences. Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Nationals of developing countries other than China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Malaysia, who obtained their PhD in any field Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, of natural sciences within the last five years, Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, may apply. Applicants must not hold a visa Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, for temporary or permanent residency in Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, Malaysia or any developed country. Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former Applicants must be regularly employed and Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, hold a research assignment in a developing Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, country and provide an official acceptance Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Thailand, letter from UPM. Proficiency in English is a Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, requirement for this programme. Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Middle-Income countries, Low Income and include a monthly stipend which covers countries, Montenegro living costs such as accommodation and food. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Physical Sciences; Engineering; Biological Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 Sciences; Agriculture; Medicine & Health times a year. Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Early-Career fellowships, TWAS Fellowships Office Young investigator awards ICTP Campus Award amount max: - Strada Costiera 11 Award budget total: - 34151 Trieste Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- Tel: +39 040 2240 314 upm-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Fax: +39 040 2240 689 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/

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WAS-NCP POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TWAS T

Description: Closing date: 15 Sep 16 The World Academy of Sciences and the Deadline information: This call is repeated National Centre for Physics in Islamabad once a year. invite applications for the TWAS-NCP Posted date: 19 Apr 16 postdoctoral fellowship programme. This Award type: Directed grants for individual enables young scientists from developing investigators, Early-Career fellowships, countries other than Pakistan to pursue Young investigator awards postdoctoral research in physical sciences. Award amount max: - Fellowships are tenable in the following fields Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- of physics: ncp-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme Application form:  plasma physics; http://twas.org/sites/default/files/fellowship/ 2016-pdoc-application-  high energy physics; form_march2016_9.doc  quantum information;

 applications of ion beam techniques Eligibility profile using tandem accelerator; ------ earthquake studies; Country of applicant institution: Armenia,  atomic physics and spectroscopy; Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire,  laser induced breakdown Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, spectroscopy; Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia,  modelling; Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras,  simulation and computing; Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's  astrophysics and cosmology; Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho,  nano sciences; Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia,  vacuum science and technology. Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory, Nationals of developing countries other than Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Pakistan, who are within five years of Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, obtaining their PhD in any field of natural Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor- sciences, may apply. Applicants must not Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, hold a visa for temporary or permanent Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low residency in Pakistan or any developed Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income country. Applicants must be regularly countries, Kosovo employed and hold a research assignment in a developing country and provide an official Disciplines acceptance letter from NCP. Proficiency in ------English is a requirement for this programme. Computer Simulation & Modelling; Computer Science & Informatics; Structural Chemistry & Fellowships are tenable for six to 12 months Spectroscopy; Physics; Seismology & Seismic and include a monthly stipend which covers Waves living costs such as accommodation, food and health insurance. Contact Details ------TWAS Fellowships Office

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WAS-UPM FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING SCHOLARS IN MALAYSIA TWAS T

Description: Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- The World Academy of Sciences and the upm-fellowships-visiting-scholars-malaysia Universiti Putra Malaysia invite applications Application form: for the TWAS-UPM fellowships for visiting http://twas.org/sites/default/files/scientist/20 scholars in Malaysia. These enable scientists 16-vr-application-form_f_0.doc from developing countries other than Malaysia to pursue advanced research in Eligibility profile natural sciences. ------Country of applicant institution: Albania, Applicants should be no more than 55 years Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, of age on 31 December of the application year Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and must not hold a visa for temporary or Bulgaria, Brazil, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, permanent residency in Malaysia or any China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Serbia, Cuba, developed country. Applicants should hold a Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, PhD in the natural sciences with at least five Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Iraq, years’ postdoctoral research experience, and Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Jordan, be engaged in a regular research assignment. Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Libya, Proficiency in English is a requirement for this Marshall Islands, Macedonia, the former programme. Applications must include an Yugoslav Republic of, Mauritius, Maldives, acceptance letter from UPM. Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Palau, Romania, Seychelles, Suriname, Thailand, Fellowships are tenable for one to three Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, months and include a standard monthly Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, allowance to cover living costs, such as Venezuela, Mayotte, South Africa, Lower- accommodation, subsistence and health Middle-Income countries, Low Income insurance. countries, Montenegro

Closing date: 15 Sep 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Materials Sciences; Food Science; Physics; Posted date: 21 Apr 16 Chemistry; Biological Sciences; Earth Systems Award type: Directed grants for individual & Environmental Sciences investigators, Senior fellowships, Young investigator awards, Mid-Career fellowships Contact Details Award amount max: ------Award budget total: - TWAS Fellowships Office

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WAS-NCP FELLOWSHIPS FOR VISITING SCHOLARS IN PAKISTAN TWAS T

Description: programme. Applications must include an The World Academy of Sciences and the acceptance letter from NCP National Centre for Physics invite applications for the TWAS-NCP fellowships Fellowships are tenable for one to three for visiting scholars in Pakistan. These enable months and include a standard monthly scientists from developing countries other allowance to cover living costs, such as than Pakistan to pursue advanced research in accommodation, subsistence and health physics. Fellowships are offered in the insurance. following fields of physics: Closing date: 15 Sep 16  plasma physics; Deadline information: This call is repeated  high energy physics; once a year.  quantum information; Posted date: 21 Apr 16  applications of ion beam techniques Award type: Directed grants for individual using tandem accelerator; investigators, Senior fellowships, Young  earthquake studies; investigator awards, Mid-Career fellowships Award amount max: -  atomic physics and spectroscope; Award budget total: -  laser induced breakdown Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- spectroscopy; ncp-fellowships-visiting-scholars-pakistan  modelling; Application form:  simulation and computing; http://twas.org/sites/default/files/scientist/20  astrophysics and cosmology; 16-vr-application-form_f_3.doc  nano sciences;  vacuum science and technology. Eligibility profile ------Applicants should be no more than 55 years Country of applicant institution: Armenia, of age on 31 December of the application year Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, and must not hold a visa for temporary or Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, permanent residency in Pakistan or any Micronesia, Federated States of, Georgia, developed country. Applicants should hold a Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, PhD in the natural sciences with at least five Indonesia, India, Kiribati, Lao People's years’ postdoctoral research experience, and Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, be engaged in a regular research assignment. Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Proficiency in English is a requirement for this Mauritania, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Palestinian Territory,

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Occupied, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Contact Details Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor------Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, TWAS Fellowships Office Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Low ICTP Campus Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income Strada Costiera 11 countries, Kosovo 34151 Trieste Tel: +39 040 2240 330 Disciplines Fax: +39 040 2240 689 ------Email: [email protected] Computer Simulation & Modelling; Physics; Power & Energy Systems Engineering; Earthquake Engineering

ZB/ISSC GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung – Social Science Research Center Berlin W

Description: developing countries in the next five The Social Science Research Center Berlin to 10 years; (WZB) and the International Social Science  write or contribute to a paper for the Council invite applications for their global World Social Science Forum 2015, to fellowship programme. This enables one take place from 13 to 16 September early-career scientist residing and working in 2015 in Durban, South Africa. a developing country to conduct research for up to six months at the WZB in Berlin, Application is open to postdoctoral Germany. The research project of the fellow researchers with no more than five years' should focus on global societal problems with work experience after their PhD, or scientists particular relevance to developing country without a PhD but with an equivalent level of contexts. Moreover, it should be linked to research experience and output. both research conducted at the WZB and to the topic of the ISSC's World Social Science The WZB offers a grant for up to six months at Forum 2015: transforming global relations for a level commensurate with a German a just world. postdoctoral researcher, as well as a contribution to local accommodation up to While at the centre, the fellow may focus €500 per month. Economy travel costs to and entirely on a dedicated research project and is from Berlin will be reimbursed. The centre invited to participate in the intellectual life at also offers a workplace as well as full library the WZB. They are required to: privileges and additional technical services. The fellow will also receive support to  conduct a public lecture or an participate in the World Social Science Forum academic seminar; 2015.  write a report outlining a vision of their research field with relevance to Closing date: 15 Sep 16 (Forecast)

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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Diplomacy; Disadvantaged & Minority been announced by funder, but this is the Groups; Politics & International Studies; Civil approximate deadline we expect. This call is & Human Rights; Health Disparities; repeated once a year. Sustainable Agriculture; Peace & Posted date: 02 Aug 13 Disarmament; Prejudice & Discrimination; Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Philosophy; Education in Developing Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Travel Countries; Child Protection & Welfare; Public for research purposes Policy; Poverty; Corruption; Maternal Health; Award amount max: - Litigation & Mediation; Sociolegal Studies; Award budget total: - Cultural Studies; Education; Preventive Website: http://www.wzb.eu/en/about-the- Medicine; Social Stratification & Mobility; wzb/cooperation Food Security; Agriculture; Government & Governance Studies; Social Services Delivery; Eligibility profile Food Science; Women's Rights; Legal & Social ------Change; Environmental Science; Victimisation Country of applicant institution: Lower- & Victims' Rights; Social Work & Social Middle-Income countries, Low Income Policy; Built Environment & Spatial Planning; countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries HIV/Aids; Gender Roles & Sexuality;

Development Studies; Law Disciplines

------Contact Details Economics & Econometrics; Sociology; Equal ------Educational Opportunity; Natural Hazards & WZB Disasters; Social Reform & Social Movements; Reichpietschufer 50 Economic Development; Accessibility for 0785 Berlin Disabled People; Legal Reform; Sustainable Tel: +49 30 254 910 Development & Resource Use; Democracy & Fax: +49 30 2549 1684 Participation; Water Quality Engineering; Email: [email protected] Political Sociology; International Relations &

NDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies I

Description: Applicants for junior fellowships must have a The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies PhD and one to six years of postdoctoral invites applications for its individual experience. Applicants for senior fellowships fellowships. These support junior and senior must have a minimum of six years’ researchers in any disciplines that can be postdoctoral experience, or a tenured supported at the University of Freiburg. These professorship or equivalent position. There include humanities, social sciences, natural are no restrictions on researcher nationality. and life sciences, engineering Applicants may not have had their main residence in Germany for more than one year

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out of the last three prior to the application Eligibility profile deadline. ------Country of applicant institution: Andorra, Each fellow receives a monthly allowance of Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia up to €450 in theoretical disciplines and €1,050 and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, in experimental disciplines. Fellows without a Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, work contract with their home institute will Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Faroe receive an attractive salary of approximately Islands, France, United Kingdom, Georgia, €54,000 for junior fellows, or €80,000 for senior Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, fellows. A mentoring programme is available Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, for junior fellows, as well as office space and Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova, assistance with accommodation. A senior Republic of, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav fellowship last for three to 10 months and a Republic of, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, junior fellowship lasts 12 months. There are Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian approximately 25 fellowships available. Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Turkey, Ukraine, Holy See (Vatican City State), All African Nations, All Asian Closing date: 15 Sep 16 nations, All South American nations, All Deadline information: Applications are due Oceanian nations, Kosovo, Caribbean, All by 12 midnight CET. This call is repeated North American nations once a year. Posted date: 17 Jun 16 Disciplines Award type: Early-Career fellowships, ------Directed grants for individual investigators, Any Senior fellowships Award amount max: - Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.frias.uni- Tel: +49 761 2039 7351 freiburg.de/en/news/call-for- Email: [email protected] applications/cfa-fcfp

EDIEVAL STUDIES SCHOLARSHIPS Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation M

Description: The Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation invites  the Walter Haug scholarship, for PhD applications for its medieval studies students in the field of German scholarships. This aims to support scientific medieval studies or connected research in the field of medieval studies or branches; connected medieval research branches by  the Claudio Leonardi scholarship, for enabling researchers each year to go abroad PhD or postdoctoral students in the for their research work. Two scholarships are field of medieval Latin studies or available: connected branches.

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Researchers of any nationality may apply. Website: http://www.zenokarlschindler- foundation.ch/ Funding is worth CHF2,500 per month for three to six months. Candidates may also Eligibility profile apply for an additional amount of CHF3,000 ------to cover the publication of their thesis. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 15 Sep 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Latin & Classical Greek Languages; German once a year. History; German Literature; Medieval Posted date: 04 Mar 16 Literature; Medieval History Award type: Travel for research purposes, Young investigator awards, Publish, edit, Contact Details translate, disseminate, Directed grants for ------individual investigators Email: [email protected] Award amount max: - Award budget total: -

ECTURE PRIZE Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy L

Description: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet The Commonwealth Association of Surveying been announced by funder, but this is the and Land Economy invites submissions for its approximate deadline we expect. This call is lecture prize. This is awarded for the best repeated once a year. paper on any topic of surveying or land Posted date: 10 Feb 14 economy. The paper must have been Award type: Young investigator awards, presented at a CASLE conference or Prizes continuing professional development meeting Award amount max: £500 by a member association or other CPD Award budget total: - seminar by arrangement. Website: http://www.casle.org/grants.htm

The competition is open to undergraduates, Eligibility profile graduates, postgraduates and young ------professionals. Applicants must be under 32 Country of applicant institution: years of age. The paper must be in English Commonwealth member states and not more than 4,000 words. Disciplines The prize is worth £500. ------Land Use Planning & Policy; Economics & Closing date: 16 Sep 16 (Forecast) Econometrics; Built Environment & Spatial

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Planning; Surveying & Mapping; Civil University of the West of England Engineering Coldharbour Lane Bristol BS16 1QY Contact Details Tel: +44 117 328 3036 ------Fax: +44 117 328 3036 CASLE Email: [email protected] Faculty of Environment and Technology

ALUE OF MEDICINES AWARD Medicines New Zealand V

Description: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Medicines New Zealand invites nominations been announced by funder, but this is the for its value of medicines award. This approximate deadline we expect. recognises those who have developed and Nominations due by 9am. This call is implemented innovative projects that are repeated once a year. sustainable examples of improving health Posted date: 08 Jul 15 through the use of medicines and vaccines. Award type: Prizes Award amount max: - Nominations are open to all areas of the Award budget total: - health sector, including health providers and Website: associated groups. Candidates must be either http://www.medicinesnz.co.nz/value-of- New Zealand citizens, including non-resident medicines-award/ citizens, or permanent residents. The eligible Application form: http://www.medicinesnz.co.nz/assets/Downl piece of original research may deal with any oads/2015-VOM-nomination-form.doc health-related field which includes the development and use of medicines or Eligibility profile vaccines, and must either have been ------completed and published within the last two Country of applicant institution: Any years, or planned to commence within 12 months. Disciplines

------The winning individual or research team will Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Immunisation receive NZ$20,000. The nominee is also Programmes & Vaccination entitled to have their travel within New

Zealand covered, to receive the award in Contact Details Wellington on 16 September 2015. ------

Tel: +64 4 499 1159 Closing date: 16 Sep 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected]

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OSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP GRANT Alpha-1 Foundation P

Description: Posted date: 09 Jul 15 The Alpha-1 Foundation invites applications Award type: Directed grants for individual for its postdoctoral research fellowship grant. investigators, Postdoctoral training This supports postdoctoral research fellows fellowships, Early-Career fellowships who are starting their research careers and are Award amount max: $100,000 working in the laboratories of established Award budget total: - researchers or conducting research with the Website: http://alpha- mentorship of established researchers. In 1foundation.org/research-grant- addition, this grant category provides support opportunities/ for postdoctoral research fellows who intend Application form: to pursue a career in alpha-1 antitrypsin https://proposalcentral.altum.com/Opportuni research. Applications are open to candidates ties.asp?GMID=135 holding an MD, PhD or equivalent degrees who are interested in conducting basic Eligibility profile ------science, clinical research, or ethic, legal, social Country of applicant institution: Any issues studies related to AAT deficiency.

Applicants must indicate a commitment to Disciplines AAT-related research by focusing 50 per cent ------of their time to AAT deficiency research or Genetic Epidemiology; Respiratory Medicine; clinical practice. Medical Genetics; Pathogenesis

Fellowship grants are worth up to US$50,000 Contact Details per year for a maximum period of two years. ------

Alpha-1 Foundation Closing date: 18 Sep 16 (Forecast) 3300 Ponce de Leon Blvd Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Coral Gables approximate deadline we expect. Letters of FL 33134 intent due by 11.59pm EDT. This call is Tel: +1 877 228 7321 ext 242 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

XTENDED DEADLINE: RESEARCH IN DENTAL CARIES AWARD International Association for Dental Research E

Description: September 2014. All other call details remain The International Association for Dental unchanged. Research has extended the closing date for its research in dental caries award. The deadline This is part of the association's distinguished has been extended from 12 September to 19 scientist awards programme. The award

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recognises outstanding and innovative Deadline information: !! Call has not yet achievements that have contributed to the been announced by funder, but this is the basic understanding of caries aetiology or to approximate deadline we expect. This call is the prevention of dental caries. repeated once a year. Posted date: 18 Sep 14 Evidence must be presented that the nominee Award type: Prizes has conducted original and important Award amount max: $3,500 investigations in any of the biological or Award budget total: - chemical disciplines involved in caries Website: research. Clinical investigations may also be http://www.iadr.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa considered if they have contributed geid=3424 significantly to the prevention and control of dental caries. Eligibility profile ------At the time of nomination, the nominee must Country of applicant institution: Any be a IADR member and be actively engaged Disciplines in the area of research for which the award is ------presented. Work considered for the award Cariology; Dentistry; Diagnostic Sciences; should be fully tested and accepted by the Preventive Dentistry; Dental Health & scientific community and must have been Hygiene published not fewer than ten years prior to the time of the nomination. Contact Details

------The award consists of a US$3,500 cash prize. Email: [email protected]

Closing date: 19 Sep 16 (Forecast)

ENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE Wellcome Trust S

Description: Applicants should have between seven and 12 The Wellcome Trust invites applications for years’ research experience at postdoctoral its senior research fellowships in basic level or veterinary equivalent, and a biomedical science. These support substantial publication record in their chosen outstanding postdoctoral scientists based in area of research in leading international academic institutions in the UK and the journals. Each applicant must be: Republic of Ireland. Candidates are expected to have an excellent track record in their  a UK or EEA national; scientific field and be able to demonstrate  a non-EEA national who either has a their ability to carry out independent relevant degree from a UK university, research. or has worked in the UK for at least a continuous three-year period;

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 an exceptional biomedical scientist due by 5pm, 21 November 2016. Deadlines who does not fall within the categories on: 24 May 2016, 19 September 2016. above. Posted date: 14 Dec 15 Award type: Senior fellowships, Equipment Applicants need an eligible sponsoring host and materials, Networking/collaboration, institution in the UK or Ireland with the Travel for research purposes, Travel to support of the relevant head of department or conferences, meetings etc., Publish, edit, equivalent, who must have a contract of translate, disseminate, Mid-Career employment with the host institution or an fellowships honorary academic appointment. Applicants Award amount max: - who wish to undertake fieldwork or research Award budget total: - in a low- or middle-income country must Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed identify an appropriate head of department at ical-science/Funding- the overseas institution. Time spent outside schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical- the research environment is considered. fellowships/WTD004442.htm

Application form: Fellowships are tenable for five years in the https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/ first instance, and provide a basic salary, normally of up to £65,000 per year, with an Eligibility profile additional trust supplement of £12,500 per ------year, research programme costs, including Country of applicant institution: Any equipment and collaborative travel, inflation allowance and public engagement costs. Disciplines ------Closing date: 19 Sep 16 Medicine & Health; Biological Sciences Deadline information: First round preliminary applications due by 5pm, 24 Contact Details May; invited full applications due by 5pm, ------27 July; second round preliminary Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 applications due by 5pm, 19 September; Email: [email protected] invited full applications for second round

ENIOR FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE Wellcome Trust S

Description: aim of building sustainable capacity in areas The Wellcome Trust invites applications for of research that increases health benefits for its senior fellowships in public health and people and their livestock in these countries. tropical medicine. These enable researchers Public health and tropical medicine cover a from low- or middle-income countries to wide range of health problems, including establish themselves as leading investigators communicable and non-communicable at an academic institution in the field of diseases. public health or tropical medicine, with the

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Applicants must be nationals or legal applications due by 5pm, 19 September; residents of a low- or middle-income country, invited full applications for second round and either be graduates in a subject relevant due by 5pm, 21 November 2016. Deadlines to public health or tropical medicine with a on: 24 May 2016, 19 September 2016. PhD and at least five years' postdoctoral Posted date: 08 Jan 16 experience; or be medical graduates with a Award type: Senior fellowships, Travel for higher qualification equivalent to membership research purposes, Travel to conferences, of the UK Royal College of Physicians; or be meetings etc., Equipment and materials, recognised specialists within a relevant Directed grants for individual investigators, research area and have at least five years’ Networking/collaboration, Financial aid for research experience. postgraduate students, Clinical trials Award amount max: - Applicants who do not have a PhD but are Award amount min: - Award budget total: - educated to first degree or master’s level and Website: have substantial research experience, may http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed also apply. Priority is given to researchers ical-science/Funding- working overseas who wish to return to their schemes/Fellowships/Public-health-and- home country. In addition, applicants must be tropical-medicine/WTD025884.htm based at an eligible host institution in a low- Application form: and middle-income country, and have an https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/ appropriate sponsor who is a head of department or equivalent and holds an Eligibility profile established post for the duration of the ------fellowship. Country of applicant institution: Lower- Middle-Income countries, Low Income Fellowships are tenable for up to five years countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries and cover salary, research expenses, course fees, research management and support costs, Contact inflation allowance and public engagement ------costs. An overseas allowance may be Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 provided for periods of training or Email: [email protected] collaborative research spent outside the host institution. Research-dedicated costs may not Disciplines exceed £100,000 per year. ------Infectious Diseases; Non-Communicable Closing date: 19 Sep 16 Diseases; Population Studies; Immunity & Deadline information: First round Immunogenetics; Health Systems in preliminary applications due by 5pm, 24 Developing Countries; Public Health; Tropical May; invited full applications due by 5pm, & Neglected Diseases 27 July; second round preliminary

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OUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD American Society of Clinical Oncology

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Description: time: 11:59pm EDT. This call is repeated The American Society of Clinical Oncology once a year. invites applications for its young investigator Posted date: 14 Jun 11 award. This award provides funding to Award type: Young investigator awards promising investigators to encourage and Award amount max: $50,000 promote quality research in clinical oncology. Award budget total: - The purpose of the award is to fund Website: physicians during the transition from a http://www.conquercancerfoundation.org/fo fellowship programme to a faculty undation/Cancer+Professionals/Funding+O appointment. Proposals with a clinical pportunities/Complete+Listing+of+Funding research focus are supported; preclinical in +Opportunities/Young+Investigator+Award vitro and animal studies are acceptable as Application form: long as the outcome of these studies would https://grants.conquercancerfoundation.org ultimately lead to patient-orientated clinical Eligibility profile research. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must be physicians (MD, DO or international equivalent with explanation) Disciplines who are currently in the last two years of their ------subspecialty training at an academic medical Carcinogenesis; Clinical Medicine; Diagnostic institution at the time of grant submission. Sciences; Cancer Studies & Oncology; The applicant must also be a member of Nursing; Cancer Cell Biology; Oncology ASCO, or submit a membership application Nursing with the grant application. The amount of the award is US$50,000 for one year. Applicants Contact Details must have a mentor in the proposed research ------field from a sponsoring institution. ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation

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Alexandria, VA 22314 Closing date: 20 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +1 571 483 1700 been announced by funder, but this is the Fax: +1 571 366 9552 approximate deadline we expect. Deadline Email: [email protected]

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AREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD American Society of Clinical Oncology C

Description: time: 11:59pm EDT. This call is repeated The American Society of Clinical Oncology once a year. invites applications for its career development Posted date: 14 Jun 11 award. This award provides funding to Award type: Early-Career fellowships clinical investigators who have received their Award amount max: $200,000 initial faculty appointment to establish an Website: independent clinical cancer research program. http://www.conquercancerfoundation.org/fo ASCO supports application submissions in all undation/Cancer+Professionals/Funding+O oncology subspecialties that have a clinical pportunities/Complete+Listing+of+Funding research focus. Proposals must have a patient- +Opportunities/Career+Development+Awar orientated focus including a clinical research d study incuding humans. Application form: https://grants.conquercancerfoundation.org Eligible applicants must be physicians (MD, Eligibility profile DO, or international equivalent with ------explanation) and be in the first, second or Country of applicant institution: Any third year of a full-time, primary faculty appointment in a clinical department at an Contact academic medical institution. Applicants ------should have a mentor from a sponsoring ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation institution and be able to commit more than 2318 Mill Road, Suite 800 50 per cent of full-time effort in research Alexandria, VA 22314 during the award period. Applicants must be Tel: 1 571 483 1700 a member of ASCO or submit a membership Fax: +1 571 366 9552 application with the grant application. Email: [email protected]

The grant is worth $200,000 over three years. Disciplines

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Diagnostic Sciences; Epidemiology; Nursing; Closing date: 20 Sep 16 (Forecast) Screening for Diseases; Cancer Studies & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Oncology; Prognosis & Natural History of approximate deadline we expect. Deadline Disease; Cancer Cell Biology; Oncology Nursing; Clinical Medicine; Carcinogenesis

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EADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: SENIOR NON-CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP – TRANSITION TO LEADERSHIP D Medical Research Council

Description: The fellowship comprises salary costs, The Medical Research Council has brought support for research staff, consumables forward the deadline for applications for its expenses, capital equipment for the research senior non-clinical fellowship. The previous project and travel costs for a period of up to deadline of 22 September has been brought seven years. There is no limit for funding. forward to 21 September 2016. All other information remains unchanged. *** Closing date: 21 Sep 16 Deadline information: Applications are This fellowship provides non-clinical accepted between 12 August and 12 researchers with a track record of excellence midnight, 21 September 2016. in their scientific field with the opportunity to Posted date: 13 Jun 16 transition into research leaders. Proposals are Award type: Senior fellowships, Directed encouraged across all areas of the research grants for individual investigators, council’s remit, from basic studies with Networking/collaboration, Travel for relevance to mechanisms of disease to research purposes, Equipment and materials translational and developmental clinical Award amount max: - research. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- Applicants should hold a PhD or equivalent; careers/fellowships/non-clinical- however, there are no rules based on years of fellowships/senior-non-clinical-fellowship- sncf/ postdoctoral experience. There are also no Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ residence eligibility restrictions for this fellowship. The award is not available to Eligibility profile individuals who hold a tenured academic ------position at the time of application. Applicants Country of applicant institution: Any are encouraged to consider the opportunities to establish collaborative networks and for Contact Details cross-sector development as the award will ------support a period of research overseas, at a Email: [email protected] second UK institution or within industry if appropriate. Disciplines

------In addition, applicants should demonstrate Population Studies, Medical; Clinical that their skills and experience match those of Medicine; Cell & Developmental Biology; the transition to leadership career stage at the Neuroscience; Mental Health time of their application.

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EADLINE BROUGHT FORWARD: CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD Medical Research Council D

Description: MRC encourages applicants to consider the The Medical Research Council has brought funding for research outside the UK, at a forward the deadline for proposals for its second UK institution or within industry in career development award. The previous order to establish collaborative networks or deadline of 22 September has been brought cross-sector development. forward to 21 September 2016. All other information remains unchanged. Closing date: 21 Sep 16 Deadline information: Proposals are This award enables postdoctoral researchers accepted between 12 August and 12 to lead their own research plans and establish midnight, 21 September 2016. their own research team to make the Posted date: 13 Jun 16 transition from postdoctoral researcher to Award type: Early-Career fellowships, independent investigator. Proposals are Directed grants for individual investigators, encouraged across all areas of the research Travel for research purposes, council’s remit, and they may range from Networking/collaboration, Equipment and basic studies with relevance to mechanisms of materials disease, to translational and developmental Award amount max: - clinical research. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- Applicants are normally expected to have a careers/fellowships/non-clinical- fellowships/career-development-award-cda/ PhD; however, in some cases applicants Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ without a PhD may be considered. Applicants who hold a tenured academic position are not Eligibility profile eligible. There are no eligibility rules based on ------postdoctoral experience. Applicants must be Country of applicant institution: Any able to demonstrate that their skills and experience match those of the transition to Disciplines independence career stage. ------

Clinical Medicine Funding provides salary, support for research staff, consumables, travel costs and capital Contact Details equipment appropriate for the research ------project. The maximum duration of an award Email: [email protected] is five years. There is no limit for funding.

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ISITING SENIOR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM National Gallery of Art V

Description: Fellows also receive allowances for The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual photography. Arts, a part of the National Gallery of Art, announces its program for the Paul Mellon Closing date: 21 Sep 16 and Ailsa Mellon Bruce visiting senior Deadline information: Deadlines on: 21 fellowships. Fellowships are for full time September 2016, 21 March 2017, and repeated research, and scholars are expected to reside annually. in Washington and to participate in the Posted date: 07 Mar 11 activities of the center throughout the Award type: Senior fellowships fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and Award amount max: - informal discussions complement the Award budget total: - fellowship program. Website: http://www.nga.gov/casva/casvavissen.shtm Applications will be considered for study in Application form: the history, theory and criticism of the visual http://www.nga.gov/casva/pdf/visiting_sr_fl arts, including painting, sculpture, w_app.pdf architecture, landscape architecture, Eligibility profile urbanism, prints and drawings, film, ------photography, decorative arts, industrial Country of applicant institution: Any design, and other arts, of any geographical area and of any period. Applications are also Disciplines solicited from scholars in other disciplines ------whose work examines artifacts or has Art Criticism; Painting; History of Art; implications for the analysis and criticism of Photography & other Lens-based Art; physical form. Performing Arts, Criticism; Sculpture; History

of Architecture; Communication & Media Fellowships are intended for those who have Studies; Visual Arts; Decorative Arts & held a PhD for five years or more or who Jewellery; Art & Design: History, Practice & possess an equivalent record of professional Theory; Printmaking accomplishment at the time of application.

Fellowships are awarded without regard to Contact Details the age or nationality of applicants. ------

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts There are up to 12 short-term fellowships National Gallery of Art lasting up to 60 days. Fellows receive a 2000B South Club Drive stipend that includes round-trip travel and Landover, MD 20785 local expenses. Stipends for a two-month Tel: +1 202 842 6482 fellowship range from $6,000 to $8,000, Fax: +1 202 789 3026 depending on relocation requirements.

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ANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Government of Canada – Gouvernement du Canada B

Description: institution. Non-Canadian applicants or The Government of Canada invites Canadian citizens and permanent residents applications for the Banting postdoctoral who obtained their qualifications from a fellowships. These support postdoctoral foreign university must hold their award at a applicants who will contribute to Canada’s Canadian institution. economic, social and research-based growth. They aim to attract and retain top-tier Fellowships are worth CA$70,000 per year for postdoctoral talent both nationally and two years and 70 awards are available every internationally, develop fellows’ leadership year. potential and position them for success as research leaders. Fellowships are distributed Closing date: 21 Sep 16 among the Natural Sciences and Engineering Deadline information: Applications due by Research Council, the Social Sciences and 8pm EDT. This call is repeated once a year. Humanities Research Council and the Posted date: 19 Apr 16 Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Therefore, the areas of research supported are Directed grants for individual investigators, health, natural sciences and engineering, and Postdoctoral training fellowships social sciences and humanities. Award amount max: $140,000 Award budget total: $9,800,000 Candidates may be of any nationality. They Website: http://banting.fellowships- must have fulfilled all requirements for a bourses.gc.ca/en/app-dem_overview- PhD, a PhD-equivalent or health professional apercu.html degree on a date between 21 September 2013 Application form: https://www.researchnet- and 30 September 2017. However, a two-year recherchenet.ca/rnr16/LoginServlet?language =E extension to this window for degree completion is available for candidates who are Eligibility profile health professionals previously engaged in ------post-degree non-research related clinical Country of applicant institution: Canada training or candidates whose career has been Country of applicant institution: Any interrupted or delayed due to parental leave, illness, health-related family responsibilities Disciplines or mandatory military service. ------

Social Sciences; Physical Sciences and Eligible institutions are universities, affiliated Engineering; Humanities; Bio/Medical research hospitals, and colleges or non-profit organisations with a strong research mandate Contact Details and capacity. Canadian citizens or permanent ------residents who have obtained their degree Email: [email protected] from a Canadian university may hold their fellowship at a Canadian or foreign

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ARL BRÄNDÉN AWARD Protein Society C

Description: The Protein Society invites nominations for Eligibility profile the Carl Brändén award. ------Country of applicant institution: Any This award honours an outstanding protein scientist who has also made exceptional Disciplines contributions in the areas of education or ------service to the science. Protein Trafficking; Cell Physiology & Metabolism; Education; Science & Technology Nominations can only be made by members Education; Proteomics & Molecular of the Protein Society. Interactions; Chemistry; Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover; Biological Sciences; Closing date: 22 Sep 16 (Forecast) Biological Macromolecules, Physical Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Characteristics; Structural Biology been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Contact Details Nominations are due by 12 noon EST. This ------call is repeated once a year. The Protein Society Posted date: 11 Jun 14 1450 S Rolling Road, Ste 3.007 Award type: Prizes Baltimore MD 21227 Award amount max: - Tel: +1 443 543 5450 Award budget total: - Fax: +1 443 543 5453 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.proteinsociety.org/protein- society-awards/the-carl-branden-award/

OMING SOON: ERNEST RUTHERFORD FELLOWSHIPS Science and Technology Facilities Council C

Description: These studentships enable early-career The Science and Technology Facilities Council researchers from the UK and overseas to will shortly be inviting applications for the establish an independent research programme Ernest Rutherford fellowships. Proposals will in the fields of astronomy, solar and planetary be invited between 1 July and 22 September science, particle physics, particle astrophysics, 2016. The following information is taken from cosmology and nuclear physics. the previous call and is subject to change. Applicants may be of any nationality and must have a PhD and at least five years’

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research experience from the start of the Posted date: 04 Apr 16 programme leading to the award of the PhD Award type: Early-Career fellowships, and a minimum of two years’ postdoctoral Travel for research purposes, Equipment and experience. They must not yet hold a materials, Directed grants for individual permanent academic position. Fellowships investigators, Travel to conferences, may be held at any eligible UK research meetings etc. organisation. Outstanding candidates Award amount max: - returning from a career break or from Award budget total: - working outside academic research may Website: apply for a returner fellowship. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/fellowships/e rnest-rutherford-fellowship Funding is provided at 80 percent of the full economic costs requested. Fellowships are Eligibility profile tenable for five years and provide funds to ------cover salaries, travel for collaborative visits Country of applicant institution: Any and fieldwork, attendance at one conference Disciplines workshop or symposium, relocation, and ------minor equipment and consumables. Up to 12 Universe Sciences; Particle, Plasma & Nuclear fellowships are available per year. Physics

Contact Details Closing date: 22 Sep 16 Deadline information: Proposals are invited ------between 1 July and 22 September 2016. This Tel: +44 1793 413 195 call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]

TUDENT PRIZE Musicological Society of Australia S

Description: Zealand citizens studying overseas in non- The Musicological Society of Australia invites Australian institutions of higher education. applications for its student prize. This is Foreign citizens studying at a non-Australian awarded for the best piece of scholarly work or non-New Zealand institutions of higher in musicological research presented by a education are ineligible, as are past recipients. student member at the annual conference. Only the version of the scholarly work that is actually presented at the conference is eligible Applicants must be student members at the for consideration. The submission shall not time their scholarly work is considered and have already been published, nor have the prize awarded. Applications are open to already been presented at another national or candidates enrolled in a programme of international conference. supervised research at a recognised Australian or New Zealand institution of The prize is worth AU$500. higher education, or Australian or New

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Closing date: 23 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Country of applicant institution: New Applications due at midnight AEDST. This Zealand, Australia call is repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 30 Jan 15 Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: $500 ------Award budget total: - Musicology Website: http://www.msa.org.au/Main.asp?_=Student Contact Details %20Prize ------Application form: Musicological Society of Australia http://www.msa.org.au/Main.asp?_=Student %2520Prize#Form

ERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS Québec Social and Cultural Research Fund – Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Société et Culture M

Description: Scholarships are available to applicants The Quebec Social and Cultural Research worldwide who are not Canadian citizens and Fund invites applications for its merit do not have permanent residency in Canada. scholarship programme for foreign students. This supports the internationalisation of Recipients are also offered an exemption from research activities in Quebec’s institutions of paying the higher tuition fees required of higher education, to attract the best foreign foreign students and the medical insurance researchers and students, and to promote coverage offered by the Régie de l'assurance Quebec universities and college centres for the maladie du Québec. transfer of technologies abroad. The programme has three components: Closing date: 23 Sep 16 (Forecast)  doctoral research scholarships, worth Deadline information: !! Call has not yet CA$25,000 per year for a maximum of been announced by funder, but this is the four years; approximate deadline we expect. University  postdoctoral scholarships, worth submissions to FRQNT due by 23 CA$35,000 for one year; September; full applications due by 12  short-term research or professional midnight UTC-5 Est, 1 November 2015. This development scholarships, worth call is repeated once a year. CA$3,000 per month for a period of Posted date: 03 Sep 15 up to four months. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate students Award amount max: $87,000

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Award amount min: $3,000 Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Saint Website: Vincent and the Grenadines, Virgin Islands, http://www.frqnt.gouv.qc.ca/en/bourses-et- British, Virgin Islands, US, All African subventions/consulter-les-programmes- Nations, All European Nations, All Asian remplir-une-demande/bourse/merit- nations, All South American nations, All scholarship-program-for-foreign-students- Oceanian nations, Caribbean, Central f9tcxbzm1430400825724 America, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, St Eustatius, Saba, Saint Barthélemy Eligibility profile ------Disciplines Country of applicant institution: Antigua and ------Barbuda, Anguilla, Bonaire, Aruba, Barbados, Arts and Humanities; Physical Sciences and Bermuda, Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Engineering; Social Sciences; Bio/Medical Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Contact Details Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and ------Nevis, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Tel: +1 418 643 8560 Martinique, Montserrat, Mexico, Nicaragua, Email: [email protected] Panama, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Turks and Caicos Islands,

TOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE Stockholm International Water Institute S

Description: administrative principles applicable to Stockholm International Water Institute sustainable water management. Self invites nominations for the Stockholm water nominations are not allowed. The prize. This honours individuals, institutions prize includes an award of US$150,000 or organisations whose work contributes broadly to the conservation and protection of water resources and to the improved health of Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) the planet’s inhabitants and ecosystems. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Nominations are accepted in three categories, been announced by funder, but this is the one of which is research. The research approximate deadline we expect. This call is category includes both basic and applied repeated once a year. research and regards the development of, and Posted date: 09 May 14 leadership in, new knowledge of: Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $150,000  natural or physical or technological Award budget total: - processes; Website:  the functioning of complex systems; http://www.siwi.org/stockholmwaterprize/ Application form:  development of new ecological, http://webforms.siwi.org/swp_s/ economical, legislative, institutional or

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Eligibility profile Environmental Impact Assessment; Water ------Quality Engineering; Fish Stocks & Country of applicant institution: Any Ecosystems; Earth Sciences; Environmental Planning; Sustainable Development & Disciplines Resource Use; Built Environment & Spatial ------Planning Water Pollution, Regulation & Control; Ocean Chemistry; Subsurface & Ground Water; Contact Details Biological Sciences; Civil Engineering; ------Freshwater Ecology & Limnology; Ecology; SIWI Water Resources Engineering & Management; Drottninggatan 33 Wastewater Treatment; Water Treatment; 111 51 Stockholm Environmental Policy; Oceanography; Tel: +46 8 1213 6051 Hydraulic Engineering & Harbours; Marine & Email: [email protected] Estuarine Ecology; Environmental Science;

ARY NEIL PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics G

Description: time: 4pm ET. This call is repeated once a The American Society for Clinical year. Pharmacology and Therapeutics is soliciting Posted date: 17 May 11 nominations for the Gary Neil prize for Award type: Prizes innovation in drug development. The goal of Award amount max: $2,500 this award is to stimulate the application of Award budget total: - innovative science to clinical drug Website: development by recognizing individuals or http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ teams who have been leaders in this area. GaryNeilPrize/tabid/6748/Default.aspx Application form: Individuals, as well as teams, who have http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ demonstrated leadership in the application of AwardsNomination/tabid/6835/Default.aspx significant, innovative science to clinical drug development, are eligible to apply. The award Eligibility profile is open to individuals from all clinical ------pharmacology employment sectors. Any Country of applicant institution: Any individual may submit a nomination for an Disciplines ASCPT award. The award includes a $2,500 ------honorarium, a plaque and expenses. Drug Design; Biotechnology; Medicinal Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) Chemistry; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Chemistry; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Biological been announced by funder, but this is the Sciences; Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology approximate deadline we expect. Deadline

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Contact Details Alexandria, VA 22314 ------Tel: +1 703 836 6981 ASCPT Awards Email: [email protected] 528 North Washington St

ILLIAM B ABRAMS AWARD IN GERIATRIC CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics W

Description: Award amount max: $1,000 The American Society for Clinical Award amount min: - Pharmacology and Therapeutics is soliciting Award budget total: - nominations for the William B Abrams award Website: in geriatric clinical pharmacology. The http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ objective of this award is to honor an WilliamBAbramsAward/tabid/6747/Default. investigator's contributions to the field. aspx Application form: A nominee must be an investigator in http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ geriatrics who is actively engaged in high- AwardsNomination/tabid/6835/Default.aspx quality teaching and research in geriatric clinical pharmacology. Eligibility profile ------Any individual may submit a nomination for Country of applicant institution: Any an ASCPT award. The award includes a $1,000 honorarium, a plaque and expenses for Disciplines the annual meeting. ------Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Pharmacy & Pharmacology Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Deadline ASCPT Awards time: 4pm ET. This call is repeated once a 528 North Washington St year. Alexandria, VA 22314 Posted date: 17 May 11 Tel: +1 703 836 6981 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]

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SCAR B HUNTER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR THERAPEUTICS American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics O

Description: Website: The American Society for Clinical http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ Pharmacology and Therapeutics is soliciting OscarBHunterAward/tabid/6745/Default.asp nominations for the Oscar B Hunter memorial x award in therapeutics. This award is for Application form: outstanding contributions to clinical http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ pharmacology and therapeutics and AwardsNomination/tabid/6835/Default.aspx recognizes a meritorious career in drug research, excellence or contributions to direct Eligibility profile patient care, and a distinguished teaching ------career. Country of applicant institution: Any

Any individual may submit a nomination for Disciplines an ASCPT award. The award includes a ------$1,500 honorarium, a bronze medal and General Practice & Family Health; Primary expenses for the annual meeting. Care; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Pharmacy & Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) Pharmacology; Patient Care & Education; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Drug Design been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Deadline Contact time: 4pm ET. This call is repeated once a ------year. ASCPT Awards Posted date: 17 May 11 528 North Washington St Award type: Prizes Alexandria, VA 22314 Award amount max: $1,500 Tel: +1 703 836 6981 Email: [email protected]

AWLS-PALMER PROGRESS IN MEDICINE LECTURE AND AWARD American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics R

Description: between the results of research and its The American Society for Clinical application in patient care. Pharmacology and Therapeutics is soliciting nominations for the Rawls-Palmer progress in The candidate must be an investigator who is medicine lecture and award. This award aims actively engaged in high-quality clinical to incorporate the efforts of modern research pharmacologic research. The award is in patient care and to help bridge the gap presented at the ASCPT annual meeting,

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where the recipient will present a lecture Application form: focusing on recent developments in clinical http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ pharmacology. Any individual may submit a AwardsNomination/tabid/6835/Default.aspx nomination for an ASCPT award. The award includes a US$1,000 honorarium, a plaque Eligibility profile and expenses. ------Country of applicant institution: Any

Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Patient Care & Education; Public Health, approximate deadline we expect. Health Services & Primary Care; Pharmacy & Applications due by 4pm ET. This call is Pharmacology; Clinical Pharmacy & repeated once a year. Pharmacology; Primary Care; Drug Design Posted date: 17 May 11 Award type: Prizes Contact Award amount max: $1,000 ------Website: ASCPT Awards http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ 528 North Washington St RawlsPalmerAward/tabid/6746/Default.aspx Alexandria, VA 22314 Tel: +1 703 836 6981 Email: [email protected]

EON I GOLDBERG YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics L

Description: $1,000 honorarium, a plaque and expenses for The American Society for Clinical the annual meeting. Pharmacology and Therapeutics is soliciting nominations for the Leon I Goldberg young investigator award. This award is designed to Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) encourage and recognize young scientists Deadline information: !! Call has not yet active in the field of clinical pharmacology. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Deadline There are no restrictions concerning the time: 4pm ET. This call is repeated once a scientific field in which nominees have earned year. their doctoral degrees. Nominees must not be Posted date: 17 May 11 more than 41 years of age as of March 1 of the Award type: Prizes year in which the award is presented. Award amount max: $1,000 Website: Any individual may submit a nomination for http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ an ASCPT award. The award includes a LeonIGoldbergAward/tabid/6750/Default.as px

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Application form: Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; http://www.ascpt.org/AboutASCPT/Awards/ Pharmacy & Pharmacology AwardsNomination/tabid/6835/Default.aspx Contact Eligibility profile ------ASCPT Awards Country of applicant institution: Any 528 North Washington St Alexandria, VA 22314 Disciplines Tel: +1 703 836 6981 ------Email: [email protected]

NITSCHKOW PRIZE European Atherosclerosis Society

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Description: and 25 September 2015. This call is repeated The European Atherosclerosis Society invites once a year. nominations for the Anitschkow prize. This Posted date: 13 Jul 15 recognises outstanding research in the field of Award type: Prizes atherosclerosis and linked metabolic Award amount max: €10,000 disturbances. Website: http://www.eas- society.org/?page=anitschkow&hhSearchTer All candidates must be nominated by a ms=%22anitschkow%22 member of the society. The candidate is required to be an active researcher with an Eligibility profile excellent track record of publications in the ------atherosclerosis area. Country of applicant institution: Any

The winner receives a medal, a prize worth Disciplines €10,000 and will be invited to present the ------Anitschkow lecture at the EAS congress. Cardiovascular Diseases; Human Metabolism

Contact Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet EAS been announced by funder, but this is the Box 5243 approximate deadline we expect. 402 24 Göteborg Nominations are invited between 25 August Tel: +46 3 1760 2427 Fax: +46 3 1812 2022 Email: [email protected]

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ID INNOVATION CHALLENGE AidEx A

Description: Award type: Prizes, Innovation grants, AidEx invites applications for its aid Development (Africa/Caribbean), innovation challenge.This challenge aims to Technology innovation/development find new ideas for products and services for Award budget total: - the humanitarian and development sector. Website: http://www.aid-expo.com/aid- innovation-challenge-2015 Design agencies, engineering companies and Application form: http://www.aid- budding young designers and engineers who expo.com/aid-innovation-challenge-2015- are not currently working for a company or entry organisation may apply. Eligibility profile Shortlisted entrants will be required to attend ------AidEx 2015 held in Brussels on 18 and 19 Country of applicant institution: Any November, where they will pitch their concept to a panel of judges. Prizes will be Disciplines awarded in two categories: the best individual ------entry will receive a grant of £3,960 to develop Any their idea, while the best business entry will win a free exhibition stand at AidEx 2016. Contact ------AidEx Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) Centaur Exhibitions Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Wells Point been announced by funder, but this is the 79 Wells Street approximate deadline we expect. This call is London W1T 3QN repeated once a year. Tel: +44 20 7970 6543 Posted date: 04 Sep 15 Fax: +44 870 191 6687

HD STUDENTS RESEARCH GRANTS International Olympic Committee P

Description: and image archives. Applicants may apply for The International Olympic Committee invites one of the following categories: proposals for its PhD students research grants. These support doctoral research with a  category A – open subject, on any humanities or social sciences perspective on aspect of the Olympic movement; the Olympic movement, and facilitate access  category B – national Olympic to IOC historical archives, library collections committees’ policy priority, on topics

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of interest to the National Olympic Award amount min: - Committees of their country. Award budget total: - Website: All current postgraduate students enrolled on http://www.olympic.org/news/launch-of-the- a PhD degree programme may apply. phd-students-research-grant-programme- Applicants must be fluent in French or 2016/244978 English. Application form: http://www.olympic.org/Assets/OSC%20Sect Grants are worth up to US$8,000 each. ion/pdf/PhD_Students_Research_Grant_pro g_application%20form.pdf

Closing date: 25 Sep 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 31 Jul 15 ------Award type: Access to libraries, Travel for Cultural Heritage; Cultural History; Sports research purposes, Financial aid for History postgraduate students, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Directed grants for individual Contact investigators ------Award amount max: $8,000 Email: [email protected]

MEA PHD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME Microsoft Corporation E

Description:  Cambridge systems and networking. Microsoft Research invites applications for its EMEA PhD scholarship programme. This If selected, supervisors will have up to one supports collaborative research projects year to find the best possible student to jointly carried out by Microsoft Research undertake the chosen research project. Cambridge and PhD supervisors from academic institutions in Europe, the Middle Each Microsoft scholarship consists of an East and Africa. Proposals must address one annual bursary for a period up to a maximum of the following research areas: of three years. The amount varies in different countries and may depend on specific  computational science; arrangement with public research funding  computer-mediated living; agencies.  constraint reasoning;  machine learning and perception;  online services and advertising; Closing date: 26 Sep 16 (Forecast)  programming principles and tools;

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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Palestinian been announced by funder, but this is the Territory, Occupied approximate deadline we expect. Applications due by 5pm GMT. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 07 Aug 14 Internet & Mobile Technology; Physical Award type: Studentship allocations, Sciences and Engineering; Computer Science Predoctoral fellowships & Informatics; Machine Learning; Software Award budget total: - Development Practices; Networking Website: http://research.microsoft.com/en- Protocols; Operating Systems; Sales & us/collaboration/global/apply-europe.aspx Marketing; Programming Languages; Computer Networks; Applied Mathematics; Eligibility profile Pure Mathematics; Advertising ------Country of applicant institution: All African Contact Nations, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, ------Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Email: [email protected] Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Yemen, All European Nations

ACR/AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION A American Association for Cancer Research

Description: attend the AACR annual meeting, where the The American Association for Cancer winner will give a 50-minute lecture. Research and the American Cancer Society invite nominations for their award for research excellence in cancer epidemiology Closing date: 29 Sep 16 (Forecast) and prevention. This honours an individual Deadline information: !! Call has not yet investigator for outstanding research been announced by funder, but this is the accomplishments in the fields of cancer approximate deadline we expect. This call is epidemiology, biomarkers and prevention. repeated once a year. Posted date: 29 Jul 13 Candidacy is open to all cancer researchers Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings who are affiliated with any institution etc., Prizes involved in cancer research, cancer medicine Award budget total: - or cancer-related biomedical science Website: anywhere in the world. Self-nominations are http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/ not accepted. Awards- Detail.aspx?ItemId=1#.VPBrRHbahBI Application form: The award includes a cash prize of US$5,000, http://proposalcentral.altum.com/ and support for the winner and a guest to

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Eligibility profile Physiology; Epidemiology; Prostate & ------Testicular Cancers; Clinical Medicine; Country of applicant institution: Any Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Cancers; Non-cancerous Tumours; Lung Cancer; Disciplines Diagnostic Sciences; Cancer Cell Biology; ------Carcinogenesis; Human Biological Sciences; Preventive Medicine; Molecularly Targeted Cancer Immunology Therapy; Biological Markers & Sensor Mechanisms; Melanoma & Other Skin Contact Cancers; Brain Cancer; Leukaemia & Other ------Blood Cancers; Primary Care; Breast Cancer; AACR Biochemical Markers; Cancer Studies & 17th Floor, 615 Chestnut St Oncology; Public Health, Health Services & Philadelphia, PA 19106-4404 Primary Care; Gynaecological Cancers; Email: [email protected]

ACR PRINCESS TAKAMATSU MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP American Association for Cancer Research A

Description: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet The American Association for Cancer been announced by funder, but this is the Research invites nominations for the Princess approximate deadline we expect. This call is Takamatsu memorial lectureship. This repeated once a year. recognises an individual scientist whose novel Posted date: 29 Jul 13 and significant work has had or may have a Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings far-reaching impact on the detection, etc., Prizes diagnosis, treatment or prevention of cancer, Award amount max: - and who embodies the dedication of the Award amount min: - princess to multinational collaborations. Award budget total: - Website: Candidacy is open to all cancer researchers http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/ who are affiliated with any institution Awards-Detail.aspx?ItemId=7#.VS0jPBeJKi4 involved in cancer research, cancer medicine, Application form: https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ or cancer-related biomedical science anywhere in the world. Self-nominations are Eligibility profile not accepted. ------

Country of applicant institution: Any The award includes a cash prize of US$10,000 and support for the winner and a guest to Disciplines attend the AACR annual meeting, where the ------winner will give a 50-minute lecture. Cancer Cell Biology; Lung Cancer; Melanoma

& Other Skin Cancers; Chemotherapy;

Gynaecological Cancers; Brain Cancer; Cancer Closing date: 29 Sep 16 (Forecast)

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Immunology; Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Cancers; Carcinogenesis; Physiology; Contact Cancer Studies & Oncology; Oncology ------Nursing; Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers; AACR Nursing; Diagnostic Sciences; Prostate & 17th Floor, 615 Chestnut Street Testicular Cancers; Non-cancerous Tumours; Philadelphia, PA 19106-4404 Molecularly Targeted Therapy; Breast Cancer; Email: [email protected] Clinical Medicine; Human Biological Sciences

2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE CO-FUNDING OF REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES H Horizon 2020: Excellent Science

Description: The remuneration costs provided for The European Commission Horizon 2020: researchers recruited under an employment Excellent Science invites proposals for its contract will not be lower than €2,597 for H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016 Marie early-stage researchers and €3,675 for Sklodowska-Curie co-funding of regional, experienced researchers. The remuneration national and international programmes call. costs provided for researchers recruited under This aims to stimulate regional, national or a status equivalent to a fixed-amount international programmes to foster excellence fellowship will be at least €1,298 for early- in researchers’ training, mobility and career stage researchers and €1,837 for experienced development. This will be achieved by co- researchers. Funding will support eligible funding new or existing regional, national and researchers for a minimum of three months. international programmes to open up to and The indicative budget for this call is €80 provide for international, intersectoral and million. interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of Ref: OJ C 6776. researchers at all stages of their career. Applications may be submitted for: Closing date: 29 Sep 16  MSCA-COFUND-DP doctoral Deadline information: Proposals invited programmes; between 14 April and 5pm Brussels time, 29  MSCA-COFUND-FP fellowship September 2016. programmes. Posted date: 14 Oct 15 Award type: Grants - undirected, Hosting Beneficiaries in these programmes must be visits, Networking/collaboration, legal entities established in an EU member Studentship allocations, Institutional state or associated country, including development Switzerland, that fund or manage doctoral or Award budget total: €80,000,000 fellowship programmes for researchers. All Website: H2020 funding calls allow third country http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 partners who secure their own funding to 0-msca-cofund-2016.html participate in consortia.

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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: EU Any (European Union), EU Associated Countries, Overseas Countries and Territories Contact Country of applicant institution: Any ------Country of applicant institution: Switzerland Brussels

AILLET LATOUR HEALTH PRIZE Baillet Latour Fund - Fonds Baillet Latour B

Description: Award amount max: €250,000 The Baillet Latour Fund, in collaboration with Award amount min: - the National Fund for Scientific Research, Award budget total: - invites nominations for the Baillet Latour Website: http://www1.frs- health prize. This recognises achievements in fnrs.be/en/index.php/sponsorship- biomedical research for the benefit of human prizes/prix/biomedical-sciences health and encourages the laureate in the pursuit of his or her career. The theme for Application form: http://www1.frs- 2017 is neurological diseases. fnrs.be/en/docs/Prix/FRS- FNRS_Formulaire_Baillet_Latour_health_pri Scientists of any nationality who have not ze.doc previously received an equivalent prize for their personal use may be nominated. Eligibility profile Exceptionally, the prize may be shared by two ------people who have collaborated closely over a Country of applicant institution: Any long period. Disciplines The prize is worth €250,000. ------Neurology

Closing date: 30 Sep 16 Contact Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Tel: +32 2 504 9240 Posted date: 26 May 16 Fax: +32 2 504 9210 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]

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LAIN BENSOUSSAN FELLOWSHIPS European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics A

Description: week visiting another ERCIM member The European Research Consortium for institute. Informatics and Mathematics invites applications for the Alain Bensoussan fellowship programme. This enables early- Closing date: 30 Sep 16 career scientists to conduct research at leading Deadline information: European centres outside their own country. Posted date: 16 May 16 Research must align with the following topics: Award type: Networking/collaboration, computer applications, computer systems Travel for research purposes, Early-Career organisation, computing methodologies, fellowships, Travel to conferences, meetings computing milieux, data, hardware, etc., Young investigator awards information systems, mathematics, Award amount max: €42,600 mathematics of computing, software, theory Award amount min: €14,760 of computation and other related disciplines. Award budget total: - Website: Applicants must have obtained a PhD degree http://fellowship.ercim.eu/information during the last eight years, or be in the last Application form: year of their thesis work, although the PhD https://fellowship.ercim.eu/application/new degree must be completed before the start of Eligibility profile the fellowship programme. Applicants must ------be fluent in English. Member institutes may Country of applicant institution: Any not host a candidate of the same nationality.

Disciplines Fellowships last for 12 months and each ------fellow receives a monthly allowance worth Computing & Mathematics between €1,230 and €3,550, depending on the host country, and is reimbursed for travel Contact expenses. Fellows must spend at least one ------Email: [email protected]

IOMEDICAL PRIZE Wiley Foundation B

Description: by its excellence, originality and impact on the The Wiley Foundation invites nominations for understanding of biological systems and its prize in biomedical sciences. This processes. recognises breakthrough research in the pure or applied life sciences that is distinguished

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The award may recognise a specific Website: contribution or series of contributions by http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyfoundati scientists or research teams that demonstrate on/about_prize.html significant leadership in the development of Application form: research concepts or their clinical application. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id- Preference will be given to research that 390111.html champions novel approaches and challenges accepted thinking in the biomedical sciences. Eligibility profile Self-nominations are not accepted. ------Country of applicant institution: Any This prize is worth US$35,000. Contact ------Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Wiley Foundation Deadline information: !! Call has not yet John Wiley & Sons been announced by funder, but this is the 111 River Street approximate deadline we expect. This call is Hoboken NJ 07030 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 15 Jul 15 Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: $35,000 ------Award budget total: $35,000 Bio/Medical; Biological Systems Analysis & Modelling

USTANDING YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD Materials Research Society O

Description: Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) The Materials Research Society invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nominations for its outstanding young been announced by funder, but this is the investigator award. This prize recognizes approximate deadline we expect. This call is interdisciplinary scientific work in materials repeated once a year. research by a young scientist or engineer. The Posted date: 19 May 11 awardee must also show promise as a Award type: Prizes developing leader in the materials area. Award amount max: $5,000 Award amount min: - The award includes $5,000. Meeting Award budget total: - registration fee and reasonable travel Website: http://www.mrs.org/oyi- expenses to attend the society meeting will be nomination-info/ reimbursed. Nominees must be under 36 Application form: http://www.mrs.org/oyi- years of age, but may be of any nationality nomination-form-pdf/ and need not be a member of the society. Eligibility profile

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Disciplines Contact ------Materials Fabrication & Processing; MRS Metallurgy; Materials Properties & Analysis; 506 Keystone Drive Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Warrendale Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; PA 15086-7537 Mechanical Engineering; Materials Sciences Tel: +1 724 779 3003 Fax: +1 724 779 8313 Email: [email protected]

ALTER L HUBER CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRIZE American Society of Civil Engineers W

Description: Website: http://www.asce.org/leadership- The American Society of Civil Engineers and-management/awards/huber-prize/ invites nominations for the Walter L Huber Application form: civil engineering research prize. These prizes http://www.asce.org/files/doc/NOMINATIO are awarded to members of the society in any NFORM.doc grade for notable achievements in research related to civil engineering. Preference is Eligibility profile given to younger candidates, generally under ------40 years of age, of early accomplishment who Country of applicant institution: Any can be expected to continue fruitful careers in research. Each award consists of a certificate Disciplines and a cash prize. ------Civil Engineering

Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Honors and Awards Program approximate deadline we expect. This call is ASCE repeated once a year. 1801 Alexander Bell Drive Posted date: 25 Feb 11 Reston, VA 20191-4400 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 800 548 2723 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]

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MIL THOMAS KAISER AWARD Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) E

Description: Eligibility profile The Protein Society invites nominations for ------the Emil Thomas Kaiser award. The award Country of applicant institution: Any recognizes a recent, highly significant contribution in applying chemistry to the Disciplines study of proteins. The recipient will be ------recognized at the 25th annual symposium of Biological Macromolecules, Physical the Protein Society by presenting a plenary Characteristics; Chemistry; Proteomics & lecture on the structure and function of Molecular Interactions; Protein Synthesis, protein science as it relates to his or her field Modification & Turnover; Cell Physiology & of study. Metabolism; Biological Sciences; Protein Trafficking; Structural Biology

Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Contact Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Protein Society approximate deadline we expect. Deadline 9650 Rockville Pike time: midnight. This call is repeated once a Bethesda, MD 20814 year. Tel: +1 301 634 7277 Posted date: 20 Aug 10 Fax: +1 301 634 7271 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.proteinsociety.org/pages/page03c .htm

AS AWARD FOR THE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE National Academies N

Description: Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) The National Academies invites nominations Deadline information: !! Call has not yet for its NAS award for the industrial been announced by funder but this is the application of science. This award recognises approximate deadline we expect. original scientific work of intrinsic scientific Submissions are due by 11.59 pm EDT. importance which has significant beneficial Posted date: 31 Jul 13 applications in industry, with specific focus Award type: Prizes on the field of bio-energy. There are no age or Award amount max: $25,000 nationality restrictions, nor condition of NAS Award amount min: - membership. The prize is worth US$25,000. Award budget total: -

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Website: http://www.nasonline.org/about- Business & Management Studies; Energy nas/awards/industrial-application-of- Consumption; Renewable Energy science.html Engineering; Use & Management of Natural Application form: Resources; Combustion & Fuel Engineering http://www.nasonline.org/about- nas/awards/how-to-nominate.html Contact ------Eligibility profile National Academy of Sciences ------Awards Program, Room NAS 285 Country of applicant institution: Any 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Disciplines Tel: +1 202 334 2000 ------Email: [email protected] Energy Engineering; Environmental Science; Industrial Organisation in Economics;

CO INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP International Council of Ophthalmology I

Description: Award amount max: - The International Council of Ophthalmology Award amount min: - invites applications for its international Award budget total: - fellowships. This enables young Website: ophthalmologists below 40 years of age from http://www.icoph.org/refocusing_education/ developing countries to improve their fellowships.html practical skills and broaden their perspectives of ophthalmology. Application form: http://www.icoph.org/refocusing_education/ Fellows are expected to return to their home fellowships/how_to_apply.html countries and take part in programs to preserve and restore vision.Fellowships Eligibility profile generally last for three months. The grant ------covers the fellow’s travel expenses and three- Country of applicant institution: Albania, month living expenses in the host country. Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Belize, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, Closing date: 30 Sep 16 Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Honduras, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Kiribati, Lao September 2016, 31 March 2017, and repeated People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, annually. Lesotho, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Posted date: 04 Feb 11 Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nigeria, Award type: Postdoctoral training Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, fellowships, Travel for research purposes Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied,

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Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Senegal, Ophthalmology; Clinical Medicine; Eye Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Diseases Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Contact Details Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Lower------Middle-Income countries, Low Income International Council of Ophthalmology countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries, Fellowship Division Kosovo, South Sudan Widmannweg 16 93049 Regensburg Disciplines Tel: +49 3212 3200120 ------Email: [email protected]

ERNAND BRAUDEL SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS European University Institute F

Description: Award amount max: €30,000 The European University Institute invites Website: applications for the Fernand Braudel senior http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/Acad fellowships. These enable established emicService/Fellowships/FernandBraudelSe academics with an international reputation to niorFellowships/Index.aspx pursue their research at the EUI. Fellowships Application form: are offered at the following departments: http://apply.eui.eu/osiris_application_euiprd economics, law, history and civilisation, and /Welkom.do political and social sciences. Eligibility profile Established academics of any nationality may ------apply. They must have an international Country of applicant institution: Any reputation and a good knowledge of English. Disciplines Fellowships last between three and 10 months ------and the monthly stipend is worth up to History; Business & Management Studies; €3,000. Economics & Econometrics; Society

Contact Closing date: 30 Sep 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by Academic Service 12 midnight CEST. Some departments may European University Institute consider applications for only one of the Via dei Roccettini 9 annual deadlines. Deadlines on: 30 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole September 2016, 30 March 2017, and repeated Tel: +39 55 468 5377 annually. Fax: +39 55 468 5444 Posted date: 28 Jan 16 Email: [email protected] Award type: Senior fellowships

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AE/TIMKEN-HOWARD SIMPSON AUTOMOTIVE TRANSMISSION AND DRIVELINE INNOVATION AWARD S Society of Automotive Engineers

Description: Posted date: 19 May 11 The Society of Automotive Engineers invites Award type: Prizes nominations for the SAE/Timken-Howard Award amount max: $2,000 Simpson automotive transmission and Website: driveline innovation award. This award http://www.sae.org/news/awards/list/timken/ recognizes an engineer from the automotive Application form: industry for outstanding contributions to the http://www.sae.org/news/awards/list/timken/ technology progress and dissemination in the app-timken.doc area of automotive transmission and driveline. The award recognizes new ideas, Eligibility profile concepts, innovations or applications that will ------assist in improving this technology. Country of applicant institution: Any

The recipient will be recognized as an Disciplines individual and not as an organization or ------company. The award consists of an engraved Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; crystal award and a $2,000 honorarium. Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Automotive Engineering; Mechanical Nominees must be SAE members or be Engineering involved with SAE activities. Contact Details ------Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) SAE World Headquarters Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 400 Commonwealth Drive been announced by funder, but this is the Warrendale, PA 15096-0001 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 724 776 4841 repeated once a year. Fax: + 1 724 776 0790

CHOLARSHIPS International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis S

Description: Applications are encouraged from developing The International Society for Peritoneal countries. From developed countries, only Dialysis invites applications for its individuals younger than 40 years of age are scholarships. These aim to promote awareness eligible. of peritoneal dialysis by encouraging qualified individuals to extend their Scholarships are worth up to US$3,000 for six knowledge and expertise of peritoneal weeks to three months of study. Funding is dialysis by visiting a center of excellence. available to support travel and living Issue 26: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (July – September, 2016)

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Eligibility profile Closing date: 30 Sep 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Country of applicant institution: Any September 2016, 31 March 2017, and repeated annually. Disciplines Posted date: 10 Mar 15 ------Award type: Personal development, Directed Nephrology & Kidneys grants for individual investigators, Travel for research purposes, Young investigator Contact Details awards ------Award amount max: $3,000 ISPD Award amount min: - Global Operations Center Award budget total: - Rue des Fabriques 1B Website: http://ispd.org/ispd-fellows/ B1000 Brussels Application form: Tel: +1 567 251 4018 http://www.ispd.org/media/ISPD_fellowship Fax: +32 2 808 44 454 Email: [email protected]

ASUO SAKAKIBARA PRIZE American Studies Association Y

Description: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet The American Studies Association invites been announced by funder, but this is the applications for the Yasuo Sakakibara prize. approximate deadline we expect. This call is This prize is awarded to international scholars repeated once a year. who have had papers accepted for the Posted date: 20 May 11 association's annual meeting. Papers may Award type: Prizes focus on any aspect of American history, Award amount max: $500 culture or society. Website: http://www.theasa.net/prizes_and_grants/aw Scholars or practitioners whose institutional ards_and_prizes/ affiliation is outside the US are eligible. The winning author must be a member of the Eligibility profile American Studies Association or an affiliated ------international American studies association. Country of applicant institution: Canada, Mexico, All African Nations, All European The prize consists of a certificate and $500. Nations, All Asian nations, All South American nations, All Oceanian nations, Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Caribbean, Central America

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Disciplines Duke University ------243 Ernestine Friedl Building Cultural Studies; American Literature; North Campus Box 90252 American Studies; History; American History Durham NC 27708 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------African and African American Studies

ACKS PRIZE Association for Symbolic Logic S

Description: Award type: Prizes, Student awards The Association for Symbolic Logic invites Award amount max: - nominations for the Sacks prize. This is Award amount min: - awarded for the most outstanding doctoral Award budget total: - dissertation in mathematical logic. Website: http://www.aslonline.org/Sacks_nomination The thesis must have been defended by 30 s.html September in the year of nomination. Nominations should be made by the thesis Eligibility profile advisor. There are no restrictions on the ------nationality of the candidate or the university Country of applicant institution: Any where the doctorate is granted. Theses may be submitted in any language, provided that the Disciplines candidate also supplies a summary of the ------thesis in English. Pure Mathematics; Philosophy; Mathematical Logic & Set Theory; Logic The prize consists of a cash award and five years’ membership in the association. Contact Details ------ASL Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Box 742, Vassar College Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 124 Raymond Avenue been announced by funder, but this is the Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 845 437 7080 repeated once a year. Fax: +1 845 437 7830 Posted date: 01 Nov 13 Email: [email protected]

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ILLIAM PROCTER PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society W

Description: Applied Mathematics; Psychology; Ceramics; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Chemistry; Aerospace Engineering & invites nominations for the William Procter Avionics; Medicine & Health; Physical prize for scientific achievement. This prize is Sciences and Engineering; Business & awarded to a scientist who has made an Management Studies; Electrical & Electronic outstanding contribution to scientific research Engineering; Pure Mathematics; Mechanical and has demonstrated an ability to Engineering; Accounting & Finance; communicate the significance of this research Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; to scientists in other disciplines. Metallurgy; Social Sciences; Mining Engineering; Civil Engineering; Public Health, The prize consists of a certificate, glass Health Services & Primary Care; sculpture and $5,000. In addition, each Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; recipient is asked to designate a younger Physiology; Clinical Medicine; Materials scholar, usually working in the same field, to Sciences; Computer Science & Informatics; receive a $5,000 grant-in-aid of research General Engineering; Food Science; Social award from the Procter prize fund. Work & Social Policy; Built Environment & Spatial Planning; Anthropology; Statistics; Agriculture; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Sociology; Law; Agriculture, Veterinary & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Food Science; Education; Science & been announced by funder, but this is the Technology Education; Nursing; Physics; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Geography; Chemical Engineering; Diagnostic repeated once a year. Sciences; Engineering; Economics & Posted date: 20 May 11 Econometrics; Human Biological Sciences; Award type: Prizes Sports & Exercise Studies; Dentistry; Award amount max: $5,000 Petroleum Engineering; Allied Health Award amount min: - Professions; Biological Sciences; Politics & Award budget total: $10,000 International Studies Website: https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes- Contact Details awards/william-procter ------Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Eligibility profile PO Box 13975 ------3106 East NC Highway 54 Country of applicant institution: Any Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Tel: +1 919 549 4691 Disciplines Fax: +1 919 549 0090 ------Email: [email protected]

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OHN P MCGOVERN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY AWARD Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society J

Description: Anthropology; Physics; Business & Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Management Studies; Nursing; Agriculture; invites nominations for the John P McGovern Engineering; Politics & International Studies; science and society award. This award is Physical Sciences and Engineering; Pharmacy presented to an individual who has been a & Pharmacology; Manufacturing & Industrial highly visible and prominent spokesperson Engineering; Aerospace Engineering & for the public understanding and appreciation Avionics; Education; Chemistry; Dentistry; of science. The award consists of a medal and Social Work & Social Policy; Environmental a $5,000 honorarium. Science; Statistics; Medicine & Health; Petroleum Engineering; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Clinical Medicine; Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Materials Sciences; Allied Health Professions; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sports & Exercise Studies; Diagnostic been announced by funder, but this is the Sciences; Sociology of Science & Technology; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Earth Sciences; General Engineering; repeated once a year. Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; Posted date: 20 May 11 Mining Engineering; Biological Sciences; Award type: Prizes Economics & Econometrics; Food Science; Award amount max: $5,000 Pure Mathematics; Physiology; Psychology; Award amount min: - Built Environment & Spatial Planning; Civil Award budget total: - Engineering; Human Biological Sciences; Website: Social Sciences; Metallurgy; Applied http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes/mc Mathematics; Ceramics; Law; Sociology govern.shtml Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Country of applicant institution: Any PO Box 13975

3106 East NC Highway 54 Disciplines Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 ------Tel: +1 919 549 4691 Mechanical Engineering; Computer Science & Fax: +1 919 549 0090 Informatics; Electrical & Electronic Email: [email protected] Engineering; Accounting & Finance; Geography; Chemical Engineering;

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HD INTERNSHIPS World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University P

Description: EET, 30 September annually. Deadlines on: The World Institute for Development 30 September 2016, 31 March 2017, and Economics Research of the United Nations repeated annually. University invites applications for its PhD Posted date: 19 Mar 15 internships. These offer registered doctoral Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, students an opportunity to utilise the Travel for research purposes, Publish, edit, resources and facilities at UNU-WIDER for translate, disseminate, Directed grants for their PhD dissertation or thesis research, and individual investigators, Access to libraries, to work with researchers in areas related to Networking/collaboration developing economies. Internships typically Award amount max: - last from two to three months and take place Award amount min: - in UNU-WIDER’s facilities in Helsinki, Award budget total: - Finland. PhD interns prepare one or more Website: research papers and present a seminar on http://www.wider.unu.edu/opportunities/en _GB/phd-internships their research findings. They may also have Application form: the opportunity to publish their research in http://www.wider.unu.edu/opportunities/en UNU-WIDER’s working paper series. _GB/phd-

internships/_files/91330439075332772/default Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD /Information%20Fields%20PhD%20Internsh programme and have shown ability to ip%20Programme%202015.pdf conduct research on developing economies. Candidates working in other social sciences Eligibility profile may apply, but should keep in mind that ------UNU-WIDER is an economics-focused Country of applicant institution: Any institute. Fluent oral and written English skills are required. Preference is given to applicants Disciplines who are living or working in developing ------countries, and who are at later stages of their Economic Development; Social Sciences PhD. Contact Details Internships include a travel grant, medical ------insurance and a monthly stipend of €1,600 to UNU-WIDER cover living expenses in Helsinki. Katajanokanlaituri 6 B 00160 Helsinki Tel: +358 9 615 9911 Closing date: 30 Sep 16 Fax: +358 9 6159 9333 Deadline information: Applications are Email: [email protected] invited between 1 March and 11.59pm EET, 31 March, and 1 September and 11.59pm

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CTP PRIZE Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics I

Description: Award amount max: €3,000 The International Centre for Theoretical Website: http://www.ictp.it/about- Physics invites nominations for the ICTP ictp/prizes-awards/the-ictp-prize.aspx prize. This recognises outstanding and original contributions in physics by young Eligibility profile scientists from developing countries. ------Country of applicant institution: Lower- Nominees must be from a developing country Middle-Income countries, Low Income and be no more than 41 years of age on 31 countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries December of the application year. Disciplines The prize includes a sculpture, a certificate ------and a €3,000 cash award. Physics

Contact Details Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ICTP Prize 2014 been announced by funder, but this is the Director’s Office approximate deadline we expect. This call is Strada Costiera 11 repeated once a year. 34051 Trieste Posted date: 26 Aug 15 Tel: +39 040 2240 410 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]

OBERT AND JESSIE COX AWARD International Studies Association

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Description:  democratization; The International Studies Association invites  mutual respect for distinct nominations for the Robert and Jessie Cox civilizations; award. This award honors the best graduate  concern for the biosphere; student paper of critical inquiry into  equality among societies, genders and international relations. The purpose of the races. prize is to encourage critical study of international political economy, world orders, Submissions must be in English, not have and civilizations. Papers submitted should been accepted for publication by the relate, broadly, to the following topics: submission deadline and not be longer than 10,000 words. Applicants The award is worth  diffusion of power; $500.

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Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Groups; Women's Rights; Political Science; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Political Authority & Power; Sociology; been announced by funder, but this is the Gender Roles & Sexuality; Peace & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disarmament; Environmental Conservation & repeated once a year. Biodiversity; Democracy & Participation; Posted date: 24 Mar 11 Environmental Policy; Disadvantaged & Award type: Student awards Minority Groups; Cultural Heritage; Built Award amount max: $500 Environment & Spatial Planning; Art & Website: Design: History, Practice & Theory; http://isanet.typepad.com/paperawards/2007/ Environmental Science; Social Work & Social 05/robert_jessie_c.html Policy; Ecological Impacts of Climate Change; Environmental Planning; Racism & Race Eligibility profile Relations; Cultural Studies ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Disciplines ISA ------324 Social Sciences Comparative Government & Politics; Tucson AZ 85721 International Relations & Diplomacy; Tel: +1 520 621 7715 Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies; Climate Fax: +1 520 621 5780 Change & Global Warming; Pluralism; Email: [email protected] Politics & International Studies; Ethnic

ELIX WANKEL ANIMAL WELFARE RESEARCH AWARD Ludwig-Maximilians University F

Description: persons or groups involved in research in Ludwig-Maximilians University invites Germany or abroad. The papers should be nominations for the Felix Wankel animal recent and contain the results of original welfare research award. This recognises research. The award is worth a maximum of outstanding, experimental and innovative €30,000 which may be divided among several scientific papers aimed at, or resulting in, the prize winners. replacement or reduction of animal testing, the general fostering of the idea of animal protection, ensuring the health and the Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) appropriate housing of laboratory animals, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet pets and livestock, or supporting core been announced by funder, but this is the research for the purpose of enhancing animal approximate deadline we expect. This call is protection. Scientists, members of scientific repeated every 2 years. institutions, expert societies, authorities or Posted date: 08 May 14 representatives of the scientific media may Award type: Prizes nominate candidates. Nominees may be Award amount max: €30,000

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Website: http://www.felix-wankel- Animals; Animal Feeds & Nutrition; forschungspreis.de/index.php/en/ausschreib Veterinary Medicine; Animal Breeding ung Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Department of Veterinary Science Country of applicant institution: Any LMU Munich Veterinärstr. 13/R Disciplines 80539 Munich ------Tel: +49 89 2180 78300 Animal Parasites & Pathogens; Agriculture; Fax: +49 89 2180 78333 Animal Housing; Animal Care; Laboratory Email: [email protected]

EMORIAL ESSAY PRIZE Vernacular Architecture Group M

Description: Award type: Prizes The Vernacular Architecture Group invites Award amount max: £250 applications for its memorial essay prize. This Website: http://www.vag.org.uk/prize.htm recognises the best essay on a subject related to vernacular architecture. The emphasis may Eligibility profile be historical, structural, stylistic or ------archaeological. Country of applicant institution: Any

There is no age limit for entrants, but Disciplines applicants must not have previously had their ------work published in national journals. Architecture; History of Architecture

The prize is worth £250. The winning essay Contact Details will be considered for publication in ------Vernacular Architecture. Vernacular Architecture York Archaeological Trust Cuthbert Morrell House Closing date: 30 Sep 16 47 Aldwark Deadline information: This call is repeated York YO1 7BX once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 12 Feb 16

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NTERNATIONAL TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS Nutricia Research Foundation I

Description: Award amount max: €25,000 The Nutricia Research Foundation invites Website: http://www.nutricia-research- applications for its international training foundation.org/itfellowships.htm fellowships. These enable young scientists to receive research training in renowned Eligibility profile institutes in order to learn new techniques ------and perform short research projects. Country of applicant institution: Any

Scientists from developing countries are Disciplines encouraged to apply. Applicants must contact ------the host institute prior to application. Funding Nutrition & Dietetics; Allied Health of up to €25,000 is provided for a period of Professions one year. Contact Details ------Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Secretariat Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Nutricia Research Foundation been announced by funder, but this is the cf. Danone Rsearch approximate deadline we expect. This call is 30 Biopolis Street repeated once a year. Matrix Building #05-01B Posted date: 03 Sep 14 Singapore 138671 Award type: Young investigator awards, Tel: +65 6830 9420 Predoctoral training fellowships, Email: [email protected] Postdoctoral training fellowships

NIMAL WELFARE RESEARCH AWARD Felix Wankel Foundation A

Description: supporting core research in order to enhance The Felix Wankel Foundation, through the animal protection. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, invites nominations for its animal welfare Scientists, members of scientific institutions, research award. This recognises outstanding expert societies, authorities or representatives experimental and innovative scientific papers of the scientific media may submit aimed at, or resulting in, the reduction or nominations. Nominated papers must be replacement of animal testing, the general recent, in print and contain the results of fostering of the idea of animal protection, original research. Self-nominations are not ensuring the health and appropriate housing permitted and papers should not have of laboratory animals, pets and livestock, or previously won an animal protection award.

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The prize is worth up to €30,000 and may be Disciplines divided among several prize winners. ------Farm Management; Livestock & Animal Science; Ethology & Comparative Psychology; Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Veterinary Medicine; Animal Parasites & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Pathogens; Animal Breeding; Companion been announced by funder, but this is the Animals; Animal Care; Laboratory Animals; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Agriculture repeated every 2 years. Posted date: 12 Aug 14 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: €30,000 Felix Wankel Foundation Award amount min: - Department of Veterinary Science Award budget total: - LMU MÜnchen Website: http://www.felix-wankel- Veterinärstr. 13/R forschungspreis.de/index.php/en/ausschreib 80539 München ung Tel: +49 892 1807 8300 Fax: +49 892 1807 8333 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any

EA EUROTALENTS FELLOWSHIPS Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - French Atomic Energy Commission C

Description: initiate and carry out an innovative The French Atomic Energy Commission research project in one of the CEA invites applications for its Eurotalents laboratories; fellowships. These aim to give researchers  outgoing fellowships to financially international experience and widen their support scientists with a research scientific skills. Proposals must address one of project in a partner laboratory the following research fields: Energy, established outside France and that environment and climate change; key identifies a CEA laboratory as a return enabling technologies; life sciences and host laboratory after the training biotechnology; high energy physics, high period to be funded. energy density physics, and physics of the universe.

Two types of fellowships are available: To be eligible for an incoming fellowship, applicants must not have lived in France for  incoming fellowships to financially more than 12 months in the three years prior support international scientists to to the submission of their research proposal.

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To be eligible for an outgoing fellowship, individual investigators, Access to applicants must not have lived in their laboratories, telescopes etc., potential outgoing country for more than 12 Networking/collaboration months in the two years prior to the Award amount max: - submission of their research proposal. Only Award amount min: - researchers with at least four years experience Award budget total: - after their master’s degree, or in possession of Website: http://eurotalents.cea.fr/ a PhD, may apply. Application form: http://eurotalents.cea.fr/research@20project@ Around 150 one to three-year fellowships are 20template.doc available. Monthly grants vary from €3,450 to €5,350, including mobility allowance. 20 per Eligibility profile cent of the grant will go to towards pension ------funds and insurance. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 30 Sep 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 31 May Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and 2016, 30 September 2016, 31 January 2017, 31 Engineering May 2017. Posted date: 20 May 16 Contact Details Award type: Travel for research purposes, ------Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants for Email: [email protected]

INETTA SAGAN AWARD FOR WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS Amnesty International USA G

Description: Posted date: 21 Sep 11 Amnesty International USA invites Award type: Development nominations for the Ginetta Sagan award for (Africa/Caribbean), Prizes women’s and children’s rights. The award Award amount max: $10,000 recognises and assists women who are Award amount min: - working to protect the liberty and lives of Award budget total: - women and children in areas where human Website: http://www.amnestyusa.org/about- rights violations are widespread. The prize is us/grants-and-awards/ginetta-sagan-fund worth $10,000. Application form: http://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/file s/images/sagan/gsfcallfornominations2011.p Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) df Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Eligibility profile approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any

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Disciplines Sociology; Social Work & Social Policy; Peace ------& Disarmament; Politics & International Economic Development; Poverty; Gender Studies Roles & Sexuality; Law; Child Protection & Welfare; Development Studies; Labour Contact Details Economics; Government & Governance ------Studies; Women's Rights; Litigation & Ginetta Sagan Fund Mediation; Disadvantaged & Minority c/o Amnesty International USA Groups; Economics & Econometrics; 350 Sansome Street, Suite 210 Democracy & Participation; Civil & Human San Francisco, CA 94104 Rights; Violence & Violent Crime; Corruption; Tel: +1 415 288 1800 ext 1745 International Relations & Diplomacy; Email: [email protected]

EINZ GERISCHER AWARD Electrochemical Society H

Description: Award type: Prizes The Electrochemical Society invites Award amount max: €3,000 nominations for the European section Heinz Award amount min: - Gerischer award. The objective of the prize is Award budget total: - to recognise an individual or group of no Website: more than three individuals who have made http://www.electrochem.org/awards/section/s an outstanding contribution to the science of ection_awards.htm#f semiconductor electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry including the Eligibility profile underlying areas of physical and materials ------chemistry of significance to this field. Country of applicant institution: Any

The award carries a reward of €2,000; an Disciplines additional €1,000 is available to cover travel ------expenses incurred to receive the award. The Chemistry; Macromolecular Chemistry; winner is invited to deliver the Gerischer Physical Chemistry; Elemental prize lecture during the international meeting Semiconductors; Physics; Compound at which the award will be presented. Semiconductors; Electrochemistry; Clinical Chemistry; Metallurgy; Chemical Characteristics of Materials; Organic Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Semiconductors; Materials Sciences Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated every 2 years. Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Posted date: 19 Jul 13 Email: [email protected]

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OCHHAUSEN RESEARCH AWARD Canadian National Institute for the Blind – Institut National Canadien pour les Aveugles H

Description: Award budget total: - The Canadian National Institute for the Blind Website: invites applications for the E Ben and Mary http://www.cnib.ca/en/research/funding/hoc Hochhausen access technology research hhausen/ award. This encourages research in accessible Application form: technology for people with vision loss. http://www.cnib.ca/en/research/funding/hoc Funding may be used to support research hhausen/Documents/CNIB_Research_Hochh projects, studies at centres of excellence in ausen_Access_Technology_Research_Award technology, fellowships, development of _Application.doc prototypes or bringing important new products to market. Eligibility profile ------Applicants may be students enrolled in a Country of applicant institution: Any recognised study programme or researchers from industry, academia or applied science. Disciplines Applications are accepted from any country in ------the world. Accessibility for Disabled People; Diagnostic Sciences; Computer Science & Informatics; Grants are each worth up to CA$10,000. Computer Vision; Allied Health Professions; Assistive Technology; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Vision Science; Sensory Systems; Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Medical Instrumentation; Prosthetic & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Orthotic Devices; Blindness; Medical Devices been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 04 Nov 14 CNIB Award type: Directed grants for individual Hochhausen Fund Trustees investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate 1929 Bayview Avenue students, Prototypes and demonstrations, Toronto ON M4G 3E8 Directed grants to institutions, research Tel: +1 416 468 2500 ext 7622 groups etc, Innovation grants, Technology Fax: +1 416 480 7000 innovation/development Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $10,000 Award amount min: -

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OSTGRADUATE GRANT SCHEME International Association of Sedimentologists P

Description: Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate The International Association of students, Directed grants for individual Sedimentologists invites applications for its investigators, Travel for research purposes postgraduate grant scheme. This supports Award amount max: - PhD students in their fieldwork, data Award amount min: - acquisition and analysis, visits to other Award budget total: - institutes to use specialised facilities, or Website: participation in field excursions directly https://www.sedimentologists.org/grants related to their PhD research subject. Eligibility profile Applicants must be IAS members who are ------PhD students. Preference will be given to Country of applicant institution: Any applications that are not supported by substantial industry funding. Disciplines ------Up to 10 grants of about €1,000 each are Sedimentology available. Contact Details ------Closing date: 30 Sep 16 IAS Office of the Treasurer Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Department of Geology and Soil Science September 2016, 31 March 2017, and repeated Ghent University annually. Krijgslaan 281/S8 Posted date: 11 Feb 16 9000 Gent

OCTORAL GRANTS Institut Pasteur

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Description: opportunities for young scientists and for that The Institut Pasteur International Network reason should the internships be completed invites applications for its doctoral grants. outside the applicants’ home country or the These support the completion of doctoral country where they attended university. theses within the network’s Calmette and Yersin programme. The research topic can be Applicants must hold a master’s degree or related to any theme developed in equivalent diploma and be enrolled at the laboratories within the International Network doctoral school to which the host laboratory is Institutes. The goal is to promote mobility affiliated. Candidates who have already

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started their thesis cannot apply. The program Award budget total: - is open to all nationalities. Website: http://www.pasteur- international.org/ip/easysite/pasteur- Funding is available for three years and international-en/for- covers living and insurance expenses worth scientists/fellowships2/doctoral-grants2 €1,400 per month, and one return air fare. Application form: http://bourses.pasteur- international.org/public.aspx

Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. Applications are invited between late March Disciplines and 30 September. This call is repeated once ------a year. Infectious Diseases; Diagnostic Sciences; Posted date: 23 Feb 15 Epidemiology Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Contact Details Travel for research purposes ------Award amount max: - Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -

ORLAUG COCOA FELLOWSHIPS FOR WESTERN AFRICA US Department of Agriculture B

Description:  soil fertility and plant nutrition; The US Department of Agriculture, in  agroforestry; cooperation with the World Cocoa  climate change – sustainable Foundation, invites applications for the cocoa agriculture practices. Borlaug fellowship programme. This initiative provides fellows with skills and knowledge to Applications are open to citizens of help their countries become more competitive Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia and in producing and exporting cocoa and cocoa Nigeria. Applicants must be fluent in English, products. Fellows will work one-on-one with have completed a master’s degree or higher, a US mentor who will later visit the fellow’s and be in the early or middle stage of their home institution to continue the collaboration. career, with at least two years of practical Research priorities include: experience. Candidates must be employed by a university, government agency or research  genomics, genetics and breeding; entity in their home country and demonstrate  plant propagation methods; their intention to continue working in their  pests and diseases – plant pathology home country. and control methods, particularly cocoa mirids, swollen shoot virus and Fellows are hosted at a US research institution black pod rot; for up to 12 weeks.

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Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Côte d'Ivoire, approximate deadline we expect. This call is Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria repeated once a year. Posted date: 21 Aug 15 Disciplines Award type: Early-Career fellowships, ------Travel for research purposes, Entomology; Fertilisers & Agrochemicals; Soil Networking/collaboration, Mid-Career Biology; Plant Selection & Breeding; fellowships Agroforestry; Sustainable Agriculture; Soil Award amount max: - Chemistry; Plant Diseases & Pathology; Award amount min: - Botany; Plant Genome & Genetics Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/borlaug------fellowship-program Tel: +1 202 690 2870 Application form: Email: [email protected] https://borlaug.myreviewroom.com/

ETER JONES MEMORIAL AWARD Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association P

Description: Deadline information: This call is repeated The Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association once a year. invites applications for the Peter Jones Posted date: 02 Nov 15 memorial award. This recognises a Award type: Prizes postgraduate student for a research Award amount max: £500 publication that has made a major Website: contribution to knowledge in estuarine http://www2.hull.ac.uk/administration/ecsa_ science, technology and management. home/ecsa_awards/peter_jones_memorial_a ward.aspx Applicants must be members of the Application form: association, but may be from anywhere in the http://www2.hull.ac.uk/administration/docs/ world. Current PhD or master’s research PETER%20JONES%20AWARD%20- students, as well as those who have held a %20APPLICATION%20FORM.doc degree for a maximum of 12 months, may apply. Eligibility profile ------The award is worth £500. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines

Closing date: 30 Sep 16 ------Marine & Estuarine Ecology

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Contact ------Email: [email protected]

UROPEAN PHD DISSERTATION AWARD Freshwater Biological Association E

Description: Closing date: 30 Sep 16 The Freshwater Biological Association, Deadline information: Nominations due by sponsored by the European Federation for 30 September 2016; final theses due by 5 Freshwater Sciences, invites nominations for January 2017. This call is repeated every 2 the European PhD dissertation award. This years. award recognises the best PhD dissertation in Posted date: 26 Jan 16 Europe within the field of freshwater science. Award type: Student awards, Travel to The winner is required give a lecture on their conferences, meetings etc. PhD dissertation topic at the association’s next Award amount max: - meeting. Award amount min: - Award budget total: - Candidates must have submitted their thesis Website: http://www.fba.org.uk/effs-award in Europe, and must be members of the association in good standing at the time the Eligibility profile dissertation is submitted through to the time ------of the award presentation. The association Country of applicant institution: Any will accept nominations from the UK, and also Disciplines consider submissions from members outside ------the UK who do not have their own national, Freshwater Ecology & Limnology federated association.

Contact Details The prize consists of a diploma and a grant ------towards registration fees, travel and FBA accommodation for the next European The Ferry House Freshwater Sciences symposium. In addition, The Ferry Landing two subsidiary prizes are awarded for Far Sawrey attendance at the symposium. Ambleside

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OMING SOON: NUCLEAR PHYSICS GROUP PRIZE Institute of Physics C

Description: approximate deadline we expect. This call is *** The Institute of Physics’ nuclear physics repeated once a year. group will shortly be inviting nominations for Posted date: 30 Jul 15 its prize. The closing date is expected to be 30 Award type: Prizes, Young investigator September 2015 and further call details will be awards announced in August or September 2015. The Award amount max: £250 following information is subject to change. *** Website: http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/n This prize recognises outstanding early-career p/prize/page_45155.html scientists for contributions to nuclear physics. Eligibility profile Each candidate should have no more than five ------years’ postgraduate and postdoctoral research Country of applicant institution: Any experience, excluding career breaks, and should be working in the applications of Disciplines nuclear physics or the nuclear and nuclear------related industries. Particle, Plasma & Nuclear Physics; Nuclear Physics The prize is worth £250. Contact Details ------Closing date: 30 Sep 16 (Forecast) Tel: +44 1216 051 142 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the

LEXANDRIA SICOT FELLOWSHIP International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology A

Description: surgery, paediatric surgery, microsurgery, The International Society of Orthopaedic hand surgery and orthropaedic surgery. Surgery invites applications for the Alexandria SICOT fellowship. This enables Applicants should be SICOT members of at surgeons to receive training in different least two years standing, who have at least specialised departments at the Hadra four years of professional experience. Orthopaedic and Traumatology University Applicants must be 40 years or under at the Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. The candidate beginning of the fellowship. may train in up to two departments, including arthroplasty, arthroscopic surgery, spinal

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Two fellowships are available. They cover travel expenses up to €1,000 and Eligibility profile accommodation for the six-month duration of ------the fellowship. Country of applicant institution: Any

Disciplines Closing date: 30 Sep 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Paediatrics; Orthopaedic Surgery; Cancer once a year. Studies & Oncology Posted date: 26 Jan 16 Award type: Travel for research purposes, Contact Details Early-Career fellowships, Predoctoral ------fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, Prof Ahmed HASSAAN Personal development, Young investigator Hadra University Hospital awards Lambrozo, Alexandria Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.sicot.org/alexandria- fellowship

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