2015 December EURAXESS LINKS Issue 32 BRAZIL
Dear Colleagues, We have the pleasure to present to you the 32nd edition of the EURAXESS Links Brazil Newsletter for December 2015. This month, our “EU Insight” section concerns a recently published report on the current state of ERC Grants and their institutional distribution. Furthermore, we present you with an interview with Dr. Balázs Vince Nagy. As EURAXESS Links Brazil well as being a senior Hungarian lecturer at the Budapest University of Newsletter is a monthly Technology and Economics (BME) in Hungary, and currently a visiting electronic newsletter, edited professor at the University of São Paulo, Dr. Balázs is also the by EURAXESS Links representative of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference (HRC) in Brazil and partners. shares his experience of bilateral cooperation with Brazil. The information contained in Under EURAXESS Links activities, we tell you more about the recent Tour of this publication is intended for Brazil event held at Fiocruz in Rio. This B.Bice+ Project, organised together personal use only. It should with Wallonie-Bruxelles International and FIOCRUZ with the support not be taken in any way to of FAPERJ and the Delegation of the European Union in Brazil was very reflect the views of the popular and provided an opportunity to discuss potential collaboration and European Commission nor of partnerships in the Health Sector between Brazil, the European Commission the Delegation of the and EU Member States and Associated Countries, as well as presenting European Union to Brazil. EURAXESS LINKS BRAZIL supporting tools to the participants. Please email to As usual, in our “News and Developments” section, we report on several [email protected] with any relevant developments in the EU and Brazil, as well as on cooperation comments on this newsletter, activities between Brazil, the EU and its Member States. contributions you would like to You will also find a broad selection of grants & fellowships funded by the make, if you think any other European Commission, EU Member States or Brazilian authorities. colleagues would be interested in receiving this In order to improve the services we provide to international researchers, we ask newsletter, or if you wish to you to please take a few minutes to complete our brief satisfaction survey. unsubscribe. The survey has 7 questions and will take 3-5 minutes of your time. We highly value your opinion and look forward to your feedback on how to best to improve Editors: Charlotte GRAWITZ, our services! EURAXESS Links Brazil, Country Representative, We wish you a pleasant read! Ingrid LE VAN, Support Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year from the EURAXESS Links Brazil Officer Team. Charlotte Grawitz and Ingrid Le Van.
Contents
1 EU Insight – ERC’s “excellence only” principle leads to grant concentration in EU’s top institutions ...... 5 2 Feature – Interview with Balázs Vince Nagy, representative of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference (HRC) in Brazil ...... 7 3 EURAXESS Links Brazil and EU partners activities ...... 9 3.1 EURAXESS Links Satisfaction survey ...... 9 3.2 EURAXESS Links Brazil activities in 2015 ...... 9 3.3 EURAXESS Links Network Newsletter ...... 10 3.4 Tour of Brazil – EU-BR Cooperation in the Health sector, Rio de Janeiro, 10 December...... 10
3.4.1 Cloudscape Brazil 2015 - How business and research are innovating in the cloud ...... 11 This Newsletter is also intended as a communication 4 News & Developments ...... 11 tool with you all, so please do 4.1 EU & Multilateral Cooperation ...... 11 not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] for 4.1.1 Historic climate deal in Paris: EU leads global efforts ...... 11 comments, corrections or if 4.1.2 EU research and innovation supports delivery on COP21 you want to advertise for a commitments ...... 12 particular funding scheme or event. 4.1.3 Commission's European Research Council awards 291 young researchers with EUR 429 million in grants ...... 13 4.1.4 Tunisia joins Horizon 2020, the EU's Research and Innovation Programme ...... 13 4.1.5 Commission invests EUR 33 million for quicker market access of 15 new innovative projects ...... 14 4.1.6 Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe ...... 14 4.1.7 Investment Plan for Europe: over £100 million for new Birmingham super hospital ...... 15 4.2 Brazil ...... 15 4.2.1 Satellites help track the route of Rio Doce sediments ...... 15 4.2.2 Fast-spreading virus may cause severe birth defects ...... 16 4.2.3 Researcher Ronald Cintra Shellard becomes new director of CBPF 16 4.2.4 Preliminary analysis of the ‘Science without Borders’ programme in Brazil ...... 16 4.2.5 Launch of Latin America's first public human genome database .... 17 4.2.6 Half of all tree species in the Amazon could face extinction ...... 17 4.2.7 Scientists start preparing Brazil's biodiversity assessment ...... 17 4.2.8 Researchers decipher the genome of the mosquito transmitting Chagas disease ...... 18 4.2.9 Commission approves budget increase for research in Amazon .... 18
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 2 of 41 4.3 Cooperation EU, Member States, Brazil ...... 18 4.3.1 Brazil’s President Rousseff speaks at COP-21 in Paris ...... 18 4.3.2 EU and Brazil announce innovative proposal on carbon markets during Paris climate talks ...... 19 4.3.3 European Union increases cross-border cooperation between Guyana and neighbouring countries in the Amazon ...... 19 4.3.4 New research center in Sao Paulo should expand natural gas in the energy mix ...... 19 4.3.5 Brazil and Scotland's science academies sign cooperation agreement ...... 19 4.3.6 Minister plans bilateral meetings in 2016 with Portugal...... 20 4.3.7 Brazil and Germany discuss production of new fuels ...... 20 4.3.8 EU-funded POLICYMIX project in Europe and Latin America sheds new light on good forest governance ...... 20 4.3.9 EU-Brazil partnership signals new era for anti-inflammatory therapies ...... 21 4.3.10 GSK invests in pharma research ...... 21 4.3.11 Catching a ride on Brazil's sustainable transport revolution ...... 22 4.3.12 Studying the past to predict the future: the Amazon River ...... 22 5 Grants & Fellowships ...... 23 5.1 European Union ...... 23 5.1.1 Selection of Horizon 2020 Calls of potential interest for Brazil ...... 23 5.1.2 EURATOM - International participation called under the Research and Training Programme 2014 - 2018 ...... 25 5.1.3 Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Programme (RISE) call ...... 25 5.1.4 Cruz del Sur (Erasmus Mundus) – second call for applications ...... 26 5.1.5 ERANet-LAC second Joint Call on Research and Innovation ...... 26 5.2 EU Member States and Associated Countries ...... 27 5.2.1 National EURAXESS Portals ...... 27 5.2.2 FRANCE - MATH-AmSud & STIC-AmSud calls for proposals ...... 27 5.2.3 GERMANY - 4 Early Career research fellowships at the University of Göttingen ...... 27 5.2.4 GREECE - Onassis Foundation Fellowships for incoming foreigners 27 5.2.5 IRELAND - Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme 2016 ...... 28 5.2.6 SPAIN – Fundación Carolina incoming fellowships ...... 28 5.2.7 UK (British Council) Newton Institutional Links calls for proposals . 28 5.2.8 UK - International Partnership and Mobility Funding Call in humanities and social sciences ...... 29
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 3 of 41 5.2.9 UK (University of Sussex) – Chancellor's International Research Scholarship (2016) ...... 29 5.2.10 UK (univ. of Nottingham) - Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Research Excellence ...... 29 5.2.11 Wellcome Trust awards and fellowships...... 30 5.3 Brazil ...... 30 5.3.1 CNPQ - Teachers for the Future call for 3 months stay in Finland .. 30 5.3.2 BRAZIL – FAPESP Visiting Researcher Programme ...... 31 5.3.3 1st Call for Proposals for Joint Research and Development (R&D) Projects between German and Brazilian Companies ...... 31 5.3.4 UK (BBSRC) – BRAZIL (FAPESP) Joint funding of research ...... 31 5.3.5 UK (BBSRC) – BRAZIL (FAPESP) - pump-priming awards ...... 32 5.4 Calls still open ...... 32 5.4.1 European Union ...... 32 5.4.2 EU Member States and Associated Countries ...... 33 5.4.3 Brazil ...... 38 6 Jobs ...... 39 6.1 EURAXESS Jobs ...... 39 6.2 More research career sites ...... 40 6.2.1 Other EU Research Career Sites: ...... 40 6.2.2 Jobs Portals in Member States and Associated Countries...... 40 7 Events ...... 40 7.1 Partners events ...... 40 7.1.1 Call for content: Vitae Connections - Leadership in researcher development ...... 40 7.2 Upcoming events ...... 41
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 4 of 41 1 EU Insight – ERC’s “excellence only” principle leads to grant concentration in EU’s top institutions In a recent report published by the European Research Council (ERC) on “ERC funding activities 2007-2013”, key facts, patterns and trends on the council’s funding activities are laid down in detail. The report not only shows the grants’ high competitiveness, but – once again – demonstrates that the ERC’s “excellence only” principle leads to a concentration of grants in Europe’s top research institutes and universities. The report The report combines in-house data on ERC funding activities and data from external sources, and covers seven areas of interest: ERC proposal selection and funding, research areas, grant characteristics (such as project duration and costs), demographic profiles of applicants, and analyses of host data, i.e. host institutions of applicants, host countries, and host regions and sub-regional level. Over the course of FP7, the 18 completed calls for proposals under the five ERC grant schemes received nearly 45,000 applications. With a budget of 7.7 billion euros, corresponding to approximately 15% of the total FP7 budget, 4,556 proposals were funded. While the overall success rate was 10.5%, the European Research Council rate varied considerably amongst the different ERC grant schemes, e.g. (ERC) grants support Starting Grant (9%), Advanced Grant (13.8%), and Synergy Grant (2.1%). individual researchers of any nationality and age who wish Concentration of grants in Europe’s top research institutes and to pursue their frontier universities research. The ERC Between 2007 and 2013, the ERC received close to 42,000 eligible applications encourages in particular for the Starting (StG), Consolidator (CoG), and Advanced (AdG) grant funding proposals that cross schemes from researchers belonging to 113 different nationalities in total.1 The disciplinary boundaries, researchers who received ERC grants under these schemes as Principal pioneering ideas that address Investigators are of 63 different nationalities in total, including those of all 28 EU new and emerging fields and Member States, and at the time of application, they declared a total of 40 applications that introduce countries of residence, including 27 EU Member States. Without counting unconventional, innovative countries of nationality with none or very few grantees, the highest success approaches. rates are attained by applicants of non-EU nationalities, namely of Swiss (18.2%), Israeli (17.5%) and US (16.7%) nationalities. More information on the funding schemes can be As of mid-2014, ERC grant recipients are hosted by about 600 research found here. organisations located in a smaller group of 30 countries (i.e., ‘host countries’), consisting of 25 EU Member States (all but Lithuania, Malta and Romania) and 5 Associated Countries (Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). However, there has also been a noticeable concentration of funding at a small group of Host Institutions. Over 40% of the grants have been awarded to researchers based at the top 31 Host Institutions. The report comes to the conclusion, that given the aims of the ERC, which include channelling resources
1 Please note that in the following paragraphs, the data only relates to these three schemes.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 5 of 41 to the most promising researchers, this distribution can be seen as a strong sign that the ERC is achieving its aims. It should be no surprise that many of Europe’s top researchers are already at some of Europe’s top research institutions.
Further information: “ERC funding activities 2007-2013 – Key facts, patterns and trends”, 2015, https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publication/files/ERC_funding_activities_ 2007_2013.pdf “Top institutions dominate in fierce ERC grant battle”, University World News, 13 November 2015, Global Edition Issue 390, http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20151113155204222
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 6 of 41 2 Feature – Interview with Balázs
Vince Nagy, representative of the Hungarian Rectors’ Dr. Balázs Vince Nagy is a senior Hungarian lecturer at the Budapest University of Conference (HRC) in Brazil Technology and Economics Balázs, you are representing the Hungarian Rectors Conference in Brazil. (BME) in Hungary, at the Could you tell us a little bit more about the HRC’s objectives and Faculty of Mechanical activities? Engineering, Department of Mechatronics, Optics and Sure, with great pleasure! The HRC is the entity embodying all of Hungary’s 66 Engineering Informatics. Dr. Higher Education Institutions. Its main objectives are to represent the HEIs and Balázs is currently a visiting to protect their interests on both national and international levels. Besides professor at the University of expressing this mutual position in relevant issues internally (for the member São Paulo, in the Vision HEIs) and externally (towards political bodies and civil society) the HRC takes Laboratory of the Psychology part in several actions in international academic cooperation such as the Institute. He holds a PhD in Science without Borders programme (SwB) with Brazil. Mechanical Engineering and Could you give us a short overview of the existing Brazil-Hungary completed post-graduate research cooperation? studies in both Economics and Illumination Engineering. With a few sporadical contacts, mainly at research level and with a few He is the representative of the institutional agreements, Hungary used to be a distant country from Brazil in Hungarian Rectors’ both geographic and academic terms. However, recent activities, such as the Conference (HRC) in Brazil. above mentioned SwB have provided a giant step towards Hungarian – Brazilian academic cooperation. When they became acquainted with the [email protected] dedication and hard work of Brazilian fellowship holders in Hungary, our HEIs' [email protected] interest in collaborating with Brazilian counterparts was significantly increased. In the last three years, several university delegations have visited Brazilian
HEIs, establishing partnerships and starting or reinforcing joint academic and research projects. For us at the HRC, these are important results yielded by our recent Brazil related activities, in which we received a lot of support from the colleagues at the Hungarian Embassy in Brazil and at the Hungarian Consulate in São Paulo as well. Where do you see the biggest opportunities for increased cooperation between both countries? Hungary has always been a country that relied on its scientific achievements and Brazil has been rising on these strength too. Besides, in our world today, one can hardly exist without working together with international partners. Both Brazil and Hungary are seeking such joint efforts and therefore we have a great chance to find significant synergies with each other. The main areas where this can be fruitful is definitely innovation and we can add value where both countries can express their strong and well prepared minds. Do you have any figures regarding Brazilian researchers in Hungary and Hungarian ones in Brazil? It depends on who we call Hungarian researchers, as there are a large number of academics that are Hungarian born or of Hungarian descent in Brazil. Only the University of São Paulo has more than ten professors of Hungarian origin, and most of them are engaging in research collaborations with Hungary. One of them, the Hungarian born Brazilian nuclear physicist, Prof. Dr. Alinka Lépiné- Szily was elected as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Science last year.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 7 of 41 Of course we have exchanges involving researchers of both countries. These are recent and are funded by either Brazil or the EU through different programmes. On the other hand, the intention is to increase these numbers. The over 2000 Brazilian students in Hungary have demonstrated the extent to which Brazilian students are interested in research, raising great interest within the Hungarian HEIs and motivating Hungarian researchers to look southward. Brazilian academics have also become aware of opportunities with Hungary. A good example for this is my home department at the BME, which just employed a Brazilian lecturer this year. In your opinion, what could be done to further enhance the mobility of international researchers between Europe and Brazil? Since we are not neighbour countries, the ever increasing online collaboration is one way to start or at least make each other interested. At the same time, for long term and efficient joint projects the visit of researchers in each other’s countries is inevitable. Besides the Brazilian and EU initiatives, the Hungarian government is offering a special scholarship for Brazilian students and scholars which will hopefully be launched early next year. Such a dedicated opportunity shall increase academic and research relations. You are a researcher yourself and hold a Chair at USP (correct me if I am wrong). What is your project about? Actually, I am employed by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. At USP I did my post-doc and currently I work as a visiting professor giving classes in Photometry and Colorimetry and contributing to other subjects such as Sensory Psychology and several engineering student projects. I dedicate most of my time to my research. The principal project I am working on is to analyse the effect of illumination on human visual perception, which, in the era of colour LED lighting, brings about a lot of challenges. Beside this, I collaborate in many vision and perception related projects both in human and animal research. For example projects on the psychophysical evaluation of perception, the retinal and cortical electrophysiology, looking at the neural signals of our visual system, and the non-visual effects of light such as pupil reflexes and circadian rhythm, which gives us insight into what time of the day it is, or whether it is good or not to have bluish illumination in our ambient light. The Laboratory of Vision at the Institute of Psychology, led by Prof. Dr. Dora Fix Ventura, has a real interdisciplinary team, where I have the opportunity to contribute in several aspects and learn a lot at the same time. Meanwhile I did not lose contact with light measurement, my original profession and I work regularly with colleagues at the Photometry Lab of IEE-USP. In your opinion, what makes Brazil attractive for European researchers? Brazil has been demonstrating a huge potential for research. The support given by agencies like CNPq, CAPES and the FAPs provide a crucial motivation for researchers to enrol in projects. The dedication of the individual researchers is also amazing and the vision that international collaboration is the best path for results is key and well known. Beside these research related issues, the Brazilian way of welcoming and treating visitors is very helpful for someone visiting from as far away as Europe. Did you face any specific difficulties to come to Brazil? Nothing major, besides the few administrative issues to get and regularly extend my visa. I would comment more on the ease of getting acquainted with everyday life and work. It is really easy, without any problems and offers a lot of opportunities.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 8 of 41 What motivates you as a researcher? I want to get know everything! OK, this is impossible, but at least I want to get close to it. It is really nice to have a look into such complicated processes as our neural system and human perception. There is still a lot to find out and it never gets boring.
3 EURAXESS Links Brazil and EU partners activities 3.1 EURAXESS Links Satisfaction survey Helps us improve our service for you in the future! It will only take you 3-5 minutes to answer the 7 questions of our online survey. 3.2 EURAXESS Links Brazil activities in 2015 The EURAXESS Links Brazil team would like to thank all their partners for their collaboration throughout the year. We are very proud of our achievements in 2015, with an increasing community of researchers interested in the European science and technology landscape, and also in collaboration and mobility opportunities. This year, we had the chance to improve our cooperation with European higher education agencies, the Association of Brazilian researchers abroad, Brazilian stakeholders such as CNPq, CAPES, CONFAP, local FAPs, SBPC, the Brazilian Academy of Science ABC, Fiocruz, REARI-RJ, FORPROEX and universities and research institutes all over the country.
In 2015, EURAXESS Links Brazil co-organised the “My research on climate and sustainable development in 180 seconds” competition with the French Embassy, as well as European PhD event in São Paulo with Nuffic Neso Brazil, DAAD and Campus France. We organised a EURAXESS Share event on Industrial PhD, as well as information sessions on EU funding and tools and participated in many other events during the year, including the Tour of Brazil events organised by the EU Delegation to Brazil and other EU Member State embassies and research institutes. In this context, we visited Vítoria, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Florianopolis, Brasília, among others. Keep following us on the We also held the third edition of our science communication contest, the EURAXESS Links Brazil EURAXESS Science Slam Brazil, which featured high level participation and 5 website, on our Facebook astonishing candidates. This year, the finals were part of the official Science page, through our and Technology National week (SNCT) agenda, and included a guest EURAXESS Links – performance by the neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Internationally mobile EURAXESS Links Brazil had the chance to meet a number of inspiring researchers group on reasearchers and stakeholders, and to provide you with interviews with some of LinkedIn and on our YouTube them. We met, amongst others, with European researchers in Brazil (Jean- channel. Pierre BRIOT, former representative of CNRS in Brazil, the Hungarian Dr. Balázs Vince Nagy, above) and Sarah O'Sullivan, director of international collaborations at Research Brazil Ireland - RBI, representatives of Associations of Brazilian Postgraduate Students and Researchers in Europe and Eramus Mundus Association, an ERC grantee (the mathematician Artur Avila) and the MCAA Chair Snezana Kristic. We also spoke with authorities such as Helmut Schwarz, President of the Humboldt Foundation, Helena Nader, researcher and president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science - SBPC and Professor Carlos H. de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director of FAPESP.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 9 of 41 Two documents of great relevance for Brazilian researchers looking for EU funding to support their mobility were published: a focus on Erasmus Mundus (EM) What’s in it for Brazilian students and researchers? and another on Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). We participated in many scientific and education related events organised by our European and Brazilian partners, including the 61st Brazilian Congress of Genetics, Science without Borders Roadshow and Destination Europe. Finally, we are also very proud of the publication of several jobs and fellowships offered by Brazilian institutions on the EURAXESS Jobs portal. This free portal is open to all research institutes from Brazil who wish to increase their visibility in Europe and recruit international research talents. In 2016, EURAXESS Links Brazil will continue to strive to connectEU and Brazil researchers amongst themselves and with Europe, while also assisting researchers wishing to collaborate and/or advance their career in one of the best research institutions in Europe! 3.3 EURAXESS Links Network Newsletter in this last edition of 2015, the Network Newsletter embrace an approach that is simultaneously both retrospective and forward-looking, in order to take a closer look at where EURAXESS Links as a project has been, where we’re at, and where we are going in the future. With this in mind, we wish you happy reading! 3.4 Tour of Brazil – EU-BR Cooperation in the Health sector, Rio de Janeiro, 10 December The B.Bice+ Project, together with Wallonie – Bruxelles International and FIOCRUZ, successfully held a Tour of Brazil event with the support of FAPERJ and the Delegation of the European Union to Brazil. This Tour of Brazil event, held at FIOCRUZ on 10 December 2015, provided an opportunity to discuss potential collaboration and partnerships in the Health Sector between Brazil, the European Commission and EU Member States and Associated Countries. The Tour of Brazil event is a joint effort amongst the Relying on the participation of researchers, companies and political actors European Commission and interested in conducting cooperation and collaborative projects with European the representatives of institutions, the event featured the participation of EU Delegation to Brazil Member States in Brazil with representatives, as well as researchers and political actors from Belgium, specific interest in promoting Switzerland, Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands. the visibility of the European The event gathered the participants from key institutions of the Brazilian and research and the potential of European health sectors: local researchers from FIOCRUZ laboratories and the EU-Brazil cooperation in institutes and representatives from the private sector – enterprises and start- ST&I. ups. During the different panels, these participants demonstrated a great deal of interest and motivation to reinforce existing EU-BR cooperation in this field and Stay tuned for 2016 agenda. to find new ways to elaborate collaborative research and innovation actions. The EU Delegation shared information on the Horizon 2020 programme with a specific focus on the health sector. The B.BICE+ project also highlighted the results of the EU-BR participation in European framework programmes in the health sector.Furthermore, EURAXESS Links Brazil presented their services to the local community. FIOCRUZ, FAPERJ and FINEP presentations focused on the Brazilian programmes supporting health research and innovation. This better understanding of the Brazilian instruments is key in facilitating the interaction between the two regions and to identifying matched funding opportunities. All presentations can be accessed here.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 10 of 41 3.4.1 Cloudscape Brazil 2015 - How business and research are innovating in the cloud Cloudscape Brazil was organised in Rio de Janeiro on 1-2 December 2015, by the EUBrazilCloudConnect project and hosted by RNP, sponsored by Microsoft and supported by OW2, Cloud Security Alliance Brazil and Science Node as Media Partner. With the European Commission and Brazilian Ministry of Science and EUBrazil Cloud Connect is a Technology making joint investments of EUR 5 million in two cloud computing project funded under the projects and EUR 4,5 million in three Internet of Things (IoT) pilots, the event second Eu-Brazil coordinated took stock of progress to data. It was also a unique opportunity to see how call under the topic a) Cloud common priorities will shape the future of these technologies. The 3Os will be computing for Science. Its the key for future technologies: Open data, Open platform, and Open Science. aim is to create an A wide number of states in Brazil and countries in Europe gathered together, intercontinental federated and included researchers, SMEs, large Industries and policy makers actively infrastructure for scientific involved in 30 talks in 12 sessions. Fifteen position papers were collected and usage. This e-infrastructure published. Following the event, dialogue must now continue between all will join resources from stakeholders with an interest in transforming society and the economy through different frameworks, like the cloud and big data. Cloudscape Brazil has now taken the steps towards a private clouds, recurring event with the EUCloudBrasil FORUM project organising the 2016 and supercomputing and 2017 workshops. opportunistic desktop resources to offer the community high level 4 News & Developments scientific gateways and 4.1 EU & Multilateral Cooperation programming models. 4.1.1 Historic climate deal in Paris: EU leads global efforts The European Union played a key role in brokering a historic agreement in Paris on 12 December, where 195 countries adopted a new universal, legally binding global climate deal. The ambitious and balanced agreement, the first major multilateral deal of the 21st century, sets out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C. The deal is the culmination of years of efforts by the international community to bring about a universal multilateral agreement on climate change. Following limited participation in the Kyoto Protocol and the lack of agreement in Copenhagen in 2009, the EU has been building a broad coalition of developed and developing countries in favour of high ambition that shaped the successful outcome of the Paris conference. The Paris Agreement sends a clear signal to investors, businesses, and policy-makers that the global transition to clean energy is here to stay and resources have to shift away from polluting fossil fuels. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: "Today the world is united in the fight against climate change. Today the world gets a lifeline, a last chance to hand over to future generations a world that is more stable, a healthier planet, with fairer societies and more prosperous economies. This robust agreement will steer the world towards a global clean energy transition. This deal is also a success for the European Union. We have long been the global leader in climate action, and the Paris Agreement now reflects our ambition worldwide. I would like to thank the EU’s chief negotiator Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and his team for working day and night to make this agreement happen and for keeping the European Union the central player throughout the negotiations. I am proud of all of you.” EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete said: “This agreement is a major win for Europe. But more importantly, it is a major win for the global community. Europe has led the efforts in Paris to get an ambitious and legally binding global climate deal. We have forged alliances and others
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 11 of 41 have joined. Our key objectives − on the long-term goal, the 5-yearly review cycles and transparency − are in the new agreement. The agreement also reconfirms global commitment to continued support to those in need of assistance. We succeeded. Now, what has been promised must be delivered. Europe will continue to lead the global low-carbon transition we have agreed to." The Paris climate deal The Paris climate change agreement is a bridge between today's policies and climate-neutrality before the end of the century. In Paris, governments agreed on ambition, commitment, and solidarity. Ambition: Governments agreed to a long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C, since this would significantly reduce risks and the impacts of climate change. The agreement calls for global emissions to peak as soon as possible, recognising that this will take longer for developing countries and to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with the best available science. Before and during the Paris conference, countries submitted comprehensive national climate action plans to reduce their emissions. The sum total of the 185 intended nationally determined contributions prepared in advance of the Paris conference are not yet enough to keep the world below 2°C by the end of the century. However, the agreement traces the way to achieving this target. Commitment: To achieve this common ambition, governments agreed to come together every 5 years to set more ambitious targets as required by science. They also accepted to report to each other and the public on how well they are doing to implement their targets, to ensure transparency and oversight. A global stocktaking will take place every five years. A robust transparency and accountability system will track progress towards the long-term goal. Solidarity: The EU and other developed countries will continue to support climate action to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change impacts in developing countries. Other countries are encouraged to provide or continue to provide such support voluntarily. Continued and enhanced international support for adaptation will be provided to developing countries. Developed countries intend to continue their existing collective goal to mobilise USD 100 billion per year until 2025 when a new collective goal will be set. Full article: European Commission
4.1.2 EU research and innovation supports delivery on COP21 commitments The European Commission announced a new Research, Innovation and Competitiveness Strategy of the Energy Union at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. The Commission would like the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) to make the transition to decarbonisation irreversible and kick-start a low-carbon innovation race. The EU should take the lead in this race through research and innovation (R&I). This is what the Commission is proposing through the Research, Innovation and Competitiveness Strategy of the Energy Union, announced today by Maroš Šefčovič, Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union, and Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, at the COP 21flagship event on "Research and innovation: Our energy for a low-carbon future". Commissioner Moedas said: "Limiting the warming of the world's climate to below 2°C from pre-industrial level may be the defining social and scientific
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 12 of 41 endeavour of this century. Our view is that investment in energy research and innovation is still far too low. It is now time for swift and coordinated action. To make low and inconsistent public and private investment in European energy research and innovation is a thing of the past." R&I will be critical for achieving global climate goals. The EU is expected to invest at least 35% of its EUR 77 billion research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, into climate-related activities. This is a substantial increase on previous EU programmes, especially as regards investment into clean energy research and innovation. The research, innovation and competitiveness strategy is a crucial part of the Energy Union, the EU's key energy policy initiative. It will be launched in 2016, and aims to ensure public support for innovative low-carbon technology as well as support the creation of the right policy environment to stimulate innovation and competition. It will also include an "open science – open innovation" initiative on pathways for decarbonisation by 2050, since the low- carbon transition does not only concern the energy sector, but rather society as a whole. Full Article: European Commission 4.1.3 Commission's European Research Council awards 291 young researchers with EUR 429 million in grants The European Research Council (ERC) announced on 4 December the award of its Starting Grants to 291 early-career researchers. On the occasion, Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: "We need to keep our most talented researchers in Europe while attracting the new and diverse perspectives of top researchers from elsewhere in the world. These grants ensure many of the world's most exciting ideas are developed right here: giving researchers and scientists the freedom and security to pursue their careers and ambitions on our continent." The funding, worth EUR 429 million in total and up to EUR 1.5 million per grant, will enable them to set up their own research teams and pursue ground-breaking ideas in all disciplines, covering topics like climate change, rare diseases and digital media. See ERC press release for more details Source: European Commission 4.1.4 Tunisia joins Horizon 2020, the EU's Research and Innovation Programme Researchers and innovators from Tunisia will now be able to participate in Horizon 2020, the EU's framework programme for research and innovation, under the same conditions as their counterparts from EU Member States and other 13 associated countries. The agreement, associating Tunisia to Horizon 2020, was by Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Chiheb Bouden, Tunisian Minister for High Education and Scientific Research. Commissioner Moedas said: "I am pleased to welcome Tunisia into Horizon 2020, the biggest programme for research and innovation of the world. This agreement is a historical one. It shows that through research and innovation, the EU is supporting the young Tunisian democracy and helping to invest in knowledge as a foundation of future development. Tunisia's accession also shows how a research policy open to the world can bring novel ideas and enrich our common research efforts." The Association Agreement allows for enhanced cooperation in research and innovation between the EU and Tunisia, vital for successful and modern
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 13 of 41 economies. It also represents another step towards reaching the EU goal of opening research and innovation to the world. Tunisian research institutes, universities and individual researchers will now have access to all opportunities offered by Horizon 2020 that funds diverse scientific areas, from blue sky research to demonstration projects. Tunisian SMEs and businesses will also be able to benefit from increased support to develop new ideas and bring products and services to the market. Source: European Commission 4.1.5 Commission invests EUR 33 million for quicker market access of 15 new innovative projects The European Commission is awarding EUR 32.7 million to 15 innovative projects involving 67 partners in 15 countries to help speed up their access to the market. Under the second round of the Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) scheme, run under the EU's research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, each of these projects will receive up to EUR 3 million. The projects include designing a scooping device for fighting forest fires by air, bringing the recovery and reuse of plastic waste from photovoltaic panels to an industrial scale, developing a novel diagnostic to make a better use of antibiotics, making a mobile 3D-scanner for forensic data and building an exoskeleton to rehabilitate patients with spinal cord or brain injury. Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: “Under Horizon 2020 we aim to give top innovative businesses a head start in the race to market. These latest results bring the total investment to nearly EUR 70 million in fast-access EU funding. This instrument is delivering on its promise to promote innovation activities at the close-to market stage." The FTI scheme was launched in January 2015. This second round of the scheme attracted a total of 229 project proposals involving 922 participants by its cut-off date of 1 September 2015. This brings the total of proposals received since the launch of the programme to 498, of which 31 received more than EUR 68 million in funding. Almost half the project participants in this stage are SMEs. Source: European Commission 4.1.6 Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe European researchers and innovators should have the explicit right to process on a large scale the content to which they have legal access. That is why the European Commission proposed today a mandatory exception for research in the EU copyright legislation. This exception should overcome the current fragmented copyright regime across the EU, the lack of clarity around copyright and ownership of derived works, and the inadequacy of licensing solutions. These obstacles have so far hampered the use of technologies commonly known as Text and Data Mining (TDM) in the EU. As a result, researchers – especially those from public interest research organisations – have felt discouraged to use such techniques to analyse vast amounts of digital content. Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: "Scientific research is collaborative and knows no borders, so the currently fragmented copyright regime in Europe is simply unacceptable. We also need to ensure that Europe does not fall behind other regions of the world, where text and data mining is already made easy. I have strongly supported a copyright exception for our researchers and innovators because they should be given the
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 14 of 41 best conditions to do their jobs. The exception proposed today will be pivotal in spurring innovation and growth in Europe." The harmonisation of the copyright exception for scientific research purposes was identified earlier this year as a key for the functioning of the Digital Single Market. The planned exception will help the scientific community and innovative companies that have established collaboration with them – in particular in the case of public-private partnerships – make the best use of digital content they have already lawfully acquired or obtained access to. It will help bring coherence amongst the EU's 28 Member States and remove key barriers to Open Science and Open Innovation. The legislative package, including the exception for research, is planned to be released in spring 2016. Source: European Commission
4.1.7 Investment Plan for Europe: over £100 million for new Birmingham super hospital The European Investment Bank (EIB), Europe’s long-term lending institution, has agreed to provide £108 million to support construction of the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham. This construction project is the first hospital to be supported by the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the heart of the Investment Plan for Europe. Once open in three years’ time the brand new hospital will provide state of the art acute healthcare for 530,000 people living in Sandwell and West Birmingham. It will include one of the largest accident and emergency departments in Europe, expected to treat more than 140,000 patients a year. Source: European Commission 4.2 Brazil 4.2.1 Satellites help track the route of Rio Doce sediments
The images obtained were analysed by INPE experts in studies monitoring the dispersion of sediment plume and the prediction of winds on the coast of the Espirito Santo state. A satellite image sequence shows the trajectory of the
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 15 of 41 sediments in the Rio Doce related to the bursting of the mining dams in Mariana (Minas Gerais state), nearly a month ago. The images were taken between 5 November and 1 December by the Modis sensor on board of NASA satellites Aqua and Terra, the US space agency. Full article: MCTI 4.2.2 Fast-spreading virus may cause severe birth defects An emerging virus that is causing an unprecedented epidemic in Brazil and is quickly spreading through Latin America may be responsible for a spike in severe birth defects. The Zika virus, a little-known pathogen that until 2007 hadn't been seen outside of Africa and Asia, spread earlier this year to South America and has infected more than 84,000 people in Brazil. Zika usually causes relatively mild symptoms, including fever and rashes. Many infected people do not get sick at all. But the Brazilian government is now warning that the virus may be responsible for a dramatic increase in cases of microcephaly, a severe birth defect in which the brain fails to develop properly and the head is much smaller than normal. Children with microcephaly frequently have developmental delays, learning disabilities, impaired motor function, and seizures. Full article: Science Magazine 4.2.3 Researcher Ronald Cintra Shellard becomes new director of CBPF Ronald Cintra Shellard graduated in Physics from the University of São Paulo, did his Masters at the State University of Sao Paulo and received his PhD from the University of California,Los Angeles. A researcher at the CBPF, Shellard also served as deputy director from 2005 to 2013. He was also vice president of the Brazilian Society of Physics from 2009 to 2013. Mr Shellard advocates the expansion of research institutes and the focus on innovation to speed up the development of resources in order to overcome the great scientific challenges of the country. The physician was nominated by Celso Pansera, the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation to lead the Brazilian Research Centre of Physics for the next four years. Full article: MCTI/CBPF 4.2.4 Preliminary analysis of the ‘Science without Borders’ programme in Brazil A preliminary analysis of the Ciência sem Fronteiras Programme (Science without Borders), translated from a report published by the Federal Senate of Brazil, shows results based on a survey of 14,627 students and highlights the profile of survey participants, results on ALUMNI maintaining academic contacts abroad and the degree to which students are passing on knowledge after returning from their scholarship. When asked about the transfer of acquired knowledge upon return to Brazil, 68% reported that they had had the opportunity to pass on their knowledge to colleagues and teachers. Scholars in biology, biomedical sciences or health sciences had the most opportunity, at 73%, while 64% of students studying engineering and technology were able to share their knowledge. Also important was the encouragement CsF (SwB) gave scholars to study harder: 59% of those who are still abroad and 53% of those who have already completed the programme dedicated themselves more to their studies after the experience. Full Article: Sannam 4
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 16 of 41 4.2.5 Launch of Latin America's first public human genome database Latin America’s first public human genome database went online and can be accessed free of charge at bipmed.iqm.unicamp.br. The virtual environment is open both to scientists who wish to query the data, covering genes, transcripts and genomic variants so far, and to anyone who wants to upload data from their own research.“This is the first product launched by BIPMed, the Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine, a venture that aims to create the conditions for implementation of precision medicine in Brazil,” said Iscia Lopes-Cendes, a professor at the University of Campinas’s School of Medical Sciences (FCM-UNICAMP) and one of the project’s creators.
Launched on the same day as the genome database in a ceremony held at FAPESP’s headquarters, BIPMed is staffed by members of five Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) supported by FAPESP: the Center for Computational Engineering and Sciences (CCES), the Center for Cell-Based Therapy (CTC), the Obesity and Comorbidities Research Center (OCRC), the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CRID), and as lead institution the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN). Full Article: FAPESP 4.2.6 Half of all tree species in the Amazon could face extinction If the Amazon’s destruction continues at its current rate, by 2050, more than half of all tree species could be extinct, reportsBritish newspaper, The Guardian . If no further destruction takes place in protected areas, 57% of its tree species could be at risk of extinction—still a tremendous threat to the world’s largest rainforest, according to a study published last week in Science Advances. Species expected to suffer major losses include wild Brazil nut trees and açaí palms. But many more could be under threat: So far, only atiny fraction of potentially endangered species has been assessed at the individual level. Full Article: Science Magazine
Açai palm: under threat 4.2.7 Scientists start preparing Brazil's biodiversity assessment A diagnosis of Brazil’s biodiversity and associated ecosystem services will be issued in 2018 by Brazilian scientists belonging to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES), established in April 2012 as an independent body open to all member countries of the United Nations to strengthen the dialogue between the scientific community and policy makers. To offer guidance for the production of the report, engage the Brazilian academic community and interact with other sectors of society, this group of researchers affiliated with an array of institutions will publish a white paper in March 2016 explaining the reasons why such a diagnosis is key to sustainable development in Brazil. The decision was made at an event held on November 5-6 in Indaiatuba, São Paulo State, which was attended by IPBES’s 25 Brazilian members. The meeting was organised by FAPESP Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use (BIOTA) in partnership with the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) and the Brazilian Sustainable Development Foundation (FBDS).
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 17 of 41 Source: FAPESP 4.2.8 Researchers decipher the genome of the mosquito transmitting Chagas disease An international team of scientists, with the participation of researchers from several Brazilian institutions, for the first time sequenced and analysed the insect genome Rhodnius prolixus, one of the species popularly known as “barbeiro” and known as one of the main causes of Chagas disease. According to scientists, the results point out unique features of this subfamily group of Triatomine and can help towards developing new strategies to prevent the transmission of the disease caused by the Trpanosoma cruzi parasite which affects approximately seven million people worldwide, mainly in Latin America. Full Article: FAPERJ 4.2.9 Commission approves budget increase for research in Amazon The Commission on National Integration, Regional Development and the Amazon approved a project by congressman Hélio Leite which doubles the percentage of the resources of the Amazon Development Fund (FDA) intended for investment and funding activities in research, technological development and innovation in the region. Currently, 1.5% of the return of the FDA's financial operations are applied in enhancing research, development and technology activities in the region. The project will increase this limit to 3%. Full article: Jornal da Ciência 4.3 Cooperation EU, Member States, Brazil 4.3.1 Brazil’s President Rousseff Speaks at COP-21 in Paris With leaders from around the world gathering in Paris for the United Nation’s Climate Conference, COP 21, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff put forth the country’s ambitious goals to alleviate climate changes. According to Rousseff, Brazilians are already feeling the effects of climate change with drought in the North/Northeastern regions and floods in the South. Rousseff also mentioned the environmental disaster in Minas Gerais after dams burst and flooded the region with water filled with residues from a mining plant. Brazil announced that it has set a target to reduce gases which cause the greenhouse effect by 37 percent until 2025 and by 43 percent until 2030. According to Rousseff this reduction is well beyond the country’s ‘contribution’ Brazil’s President put forth the to global-warming. country’s ambitious goals to As for deforestation of the Amazon region, one of the greatest criticisms by alleviate climate changes. people around the world against Brazil, Rousseff said much has already been done. “The Brazilian government and its people are doing their part (in curbing climate change). During the last decade deforestation rates in the Amazon region has declined by nearly eighty percent,” said Rousseff adding that the government’s target is zero deforestation by 2030. Brazil’s President told U.N. representatives and global leaders that low-carbon farming processes were being implemented throughout the country and that Brazil continues to expand its renewable energy matrix. “Our challenge is to replant and restore 12 million hectares of forest and another 15 million hectares of degraded pasture land,” added Rousseff. Full Article: Rio Times
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 18 of 41 4.3.2 EU and Brazil announce innovative proposal on carbon markets during Paris climate talks The European Union and Brazil reached an agreement and presented an innovative proposal for rules governing the use of the international carbon market during the UN climate talks in Paris. The joint proposal demonstrates the European and Brazilian willingness to engage in common and robust rules on accountability for all parties. The proposal aims to support an ambitious and robust agreement, providing a common basis to avoid the duplication of counting of carbon use when the parties use international markets, which is a key concern for both Brazil and the EU to ensure the environmental integrity of carbon markets. Full Article: European Union Delegation in Brazil 4.3.3 European Union increases cross-border cooperation between Guyana and neighbouring countries in the Amazon On 2 December the European Commission approved a new cross-border cooperation programme for the 2014 - 2020 period between the French overseas department of Guyana and Suriname and the Brazilian states of Amapa and the Amazon. The total budget of the programme is of more than EUR 28 million, of which EUR 19 million stem from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The programme focuses on four strategic priorities: transportation, environment, health and business development in the regional market. Full Article: European Union Delegation in Brazil 4.3.4 New research center in Sao Paulo should expand natural gas in the energy mix FAPESP and BG Brazil, a subsidiary of BG Group, inaugurated the Research Center for Innovation in Natural Gas, headquartered at the University of São Paulo (USP). The main objective of the project is to contribute to the increase of the natural gas share in the Brazilian energy matrix and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the next decades. EUR 7 million will be invested by FAPESP and EUR 8 million by BG Brazil.
Amongst the institutions partnering with the initiative are: the Sustainable Gas Carlos Henrique de Brito Institute of Imperial College London, University College London, the University Cruz, scientific director, of Cambridge and the University of Leeds (all in the UK); the University of FAPESP (left), Marco Antonio Illinois, Texas A & M University (both in the USA), Technische Universität Zago, rector of USP, José Darmstadt (Germany) and the Université de Lyon (France). Goldemberg, President of Full article: FAPESP FAPESP, Ricardo Toledo Silva, Joint Secretary of 4.3.5 Brazil and Scotland's science academies sign Energy and Mining of the cooperation agreement state of Sao Paulo, Adam Hillier, Director of On 20 November the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and the Royal Technology, BG Group Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's leading scientific institution, signed a (Photo: Leandro Negro) cooperation agreement in order to promote and strengthen cooperation between scientists of both countries. Amongst the focus areas of the agreement are the exchange of news and information about activities of scientists in each country; the collaboration between researchers on projects of interest to both parties and conducting
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 19 of 41 symposia on a regular basis to discuss topics relevant to the academic communities of both countries. Full Article: ABC 4.3.6 Minister plans bilateral meetings in 2016 with Portugal The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Celso Pansera, received the ambassador of Portugal, Francisco Ribeiro Telles on 10 December and discussed bilateral meetings for 2016 to increase cooperation between the two countries. Telles stressed that the Portuguese will collaborate with Brazil in various fields, especially in nanotechnology and further added, "We also want to explore our potential for collaboration in the areas of biotechnology, space, sea and life sciences.” The two countries plan next year to hold, , in Brasilia, the next Luso-Brazilian Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation. In terms of multilateral collaboration, the minister and the ambassador agreed to make use of mechanisms of the European Commission, such as the Horizon 2020 programme, which seeks to answer the global impact of issues such as economic crisis, sustainability of world populations, security and the environment. Full Article: MCTI 4.3.7 Brazil and Germany discuss production of new fuels Brazil and Germany are finalising negotiations in order to begin a project to produce a new fuel from electricity generated from renewable sources in 2016. The project is part of the cooperation agreement in science, technology and innovation signed between the two countries in August, within the framework of the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Brazil. The main objective is to develop renewable fuels which will be used in the aeronautical, naval and railway industries and to use electricity from renewable sources such as wind The main objective is to and solar, but also smaller hydropower projects in order to produce innovative develop new fuel from fuels. electricity generated from Full Article: MCTI renewable sources. 4.3.8 EU-funded POLICYMIX project in Europe and Latin
America sheds new light on good forest governance Case studies carried out in Europe and Latin America as part of the EU-funded POLICYMIX project have shed new light on how the right mix of forest governance policies can help to conserve biodiversity and boost local economies. Forest management strategies have traditionally been assessed on their individual merits, especially their perceived cost-effectiveness. An EU-funded project has shown that what is needed is a better understanding of how all forest-related policies and their components, such as economic benefits, social impacts, legal and institutional options, help – or hinder – biodiversity conservation. Researchers also determined the extent to which policy lessons can be transferred from Europe to Latin America, and what lessons can be drawn for Europe from the experience of innovative policy approaches practised in Latin America. An online analysis toolbox is available (http://policymix.nina.no/Policymix-tool), which includes software that enables users to experiment with different combinations of policies and their potential effects on a simulated forest landscape.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 20 of 41 The core of the project has been seven key case studies, carried out in Europe and Latin America. Allowing for an effective exchange of knowledge and experiences, they involved Brazil (Mato Grosso and Mata Atlântica), Costa Rica, Norway, Finland, Germany and Portugal. The project included two additional case studies in Australia and Colombia. Benefits to local communities A case study of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso was able to identify existing policy tools that local stakeholders could use to promote regional concerns while at the same time remaining compatible with national legislation. Full Article: European Commission
4.3.9 EU-Brazil partnership signals new era for anti- inflammatory therapies Through close cooperation between European and Brazilian scientists, an EU- funded project is developing and currently testing novel preclinical drug candidates designed to prevent various chronic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The TARKINAID project is in the process of validating the use of these newly developed anti-inflammatory agents, which inhibit a particular family of signalling molecules. If successful, the team hopes to be able to develop entirely novel small-molecule inhibitors as oral anti-inflammatory therapeutics. Besides its scientific achievements, the project also brought together scientists from various countries, encouraging the development of a network between European and Brazilian immunologists (two group leaders are from Brazil) and promoting research in Eastern European countries (the coordinator and one SME partner are from Hungary). Full Article: European Commission 4.3.10 GSK invests in pharma research UK based pharmaceutical giant is investing in Brazil’s basic research and sustainable chemistry sector, as a means of fostering the nation’s drug innovation process. This will be executed through studies of respiratory and metabolic diseases in the fields of immunology and inflammation – all in pursuit of antibacterial-antiviral treatments The São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) and GSK in November 2015 agreed to fund Centres of Excellence in Research to be established at higher education and research institutions in São Paulo State. The first of these centres, to be established at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), will focus on the development of sustainable chemicals for use in drug discovery. The second, to be hosted by the Butantan Institute, will be dedicated to the advancement of basic research and potential development of drugs capable of satisfying currently unmet medical needs. The centres will be funded over a ten-year period. Some R$88.4 million will be invested in establishing and maintaining the Centres of Excellence, with FAPESP and GSK sharing R$34.6 million. The remaining R$53.7 million will be invested by the host institutions over the same period. Full Article: Science for Brazil
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 21 of 41 4.3.11 Catching a ride on Brazil's sustainable transport revolution Some of the most innovative sustainable transport initiatives are being driven by the world's emerging economies. An EU-funded project is making sure that European industry can learn and prosper from these developments. “Europe-Brazil cooperation projects are often aimed at delivering advanced technology from Europe to Brazil,” explains VIAJEO PLUS coordinator Yanying
Li, Senior Manager at ERTICO – ITS Europe, an umbrella organisation promoting ‘intelligent transport’. “This initiative is a two-way learning project. Brazil has demonstrated strong innovation and fast adoption of new solutions on urban mobility.” A notable example is the country’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). Full Article: European Commission
4.3.12 Studying the past to predict the future: the Amazon River Climate change knows no boundaries. Its impacts are being felt everywhere, including in the Amazon River basin in South America. An EU-funded partnership between European and Brazilian researchers is studying the underlying mechanisms with a view to drawing up environmental and social mitigation policies. Discharging over 200,000 m3 per second into the Atlantic Ocean, the Amazon © P. Dutra. Maia River is the largest river worldwide. As such, the changes happening in the region – extensive droughts on the one hand and floods on the other – are important on a global scale. In addition, the sediment found in river basins represent a kind of detailed archive of the river’s history for those who know how to read them. “By studying the sediment, you get a better idea of how the river system worked in the past – this is particularly important for the people living nearby, because if you know the underlying mechanisms of the system well, you have a better chance of predicting what will happen in the future, depending on changes induced by human activity or climate change, for instance,” says CLIM- AMAZON coordinator Franck Poitrasson of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The CLIM-AMAZON project is the continuation of a long-standing research partnership between the French Institute of Research for the Development (IRD) – now spearheading CLIM-AMAZON – and the Geosciences Institute of the Federal University of Brasilia (UnB) in Brazil. The two have been collaborating in a joint laboratory for 20 years. The EU funding has opened the door for researchers from other EU Member States as well as Associated Countries to join in, building on past research, but also developing new avenues. Full Article: European Commission
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 22 of 41 5 Grants & Fellowships 5.1 European Union 5.1.1 Selection of Horizon 2020 Calls of potential interest for Brazil Access all open calls on the Horizon 2020 Participant Portal. You’ll find below a selection of calls focussed either on Brazil, or third countries, or where international cooperation is explicitly indicated as an added value. They are distributed amongst the three pillars of Horizon 2020:
- Excellent Science programme Useful links: Check all calls. The following ones are specifically open to or encourage H2020 Work Programme for collaboration with Brazil: 2016-2017 (budget of almost EUR 16 billion). o European Research Council ERC Consolidator Grant – Deadline: 2 Horizon 2020 Participant February 2016 (see below) Portal. o European Research Council ERC Advanced Grant. To open on 24 May Calls focussed either on 2016. Expected deadline : 1 September 2016. Brazil, or third countries, or where international o Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) – To open in April cooperation is explicitly 2016. Forthcoming deadlines: 14 September 2016 and 2017 indicated as an added value. o Marie Sklodowska Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) 2016 and 2017. Deadlines: 28 April 2016 and 5 April 2017. International cooperation o Marie Sklosowska Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) 2016 and 2017. Deadlines: 12 January 2016 and 10 January 2017. ALL H2020 calls are open to international and more o Marie Sklosowska Curie National Contact Points. Deadline: 4 May specifically Brazilian 2017. participation. o Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities (INFRAIA-01- For more details on funding of 2016/2017 and INFRAIA-02-2017). Deadline: 30 March 2016 (1st applicants from non-EU countries, click here. stage) and 29 March 2017 (second stage) “Legal entities established in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan,
Russia, Mexico and USA, which provide, under the grant, access to their research infrastructures to researchers from Members States and Associated countries, are eligible for funding from the Union.” - Industrial Leadership o Future Internet Experimentation - Building a European experimental infrastructure (ICT-13-2016). Open! Deadline: 12 April 2016 o EU-Brazil Joint Call - Cloud Computing (EUB-01-2017). Opening date : 7 November 2016. Deadline: 14 July 2017. o EU-Brazil Joint Call - IoT Pilots (EUB-02-2017). Opening date : 7 November 2016. Deadline: 14 July 2017. o Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, Promoting safe innovation through global consolidation and networking of nanosafety centres and strengthening the European industry through cooperation in nanosafety (NMBP-27-2016). Open! Deadline: 21 January 2016 “[...]international cooperation according to the current rules of participation is encouraged, in particular with Brazil, South Korea and the USA”.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 23 of 41 - Societal Challenges Open and forthcoming calls including the following ones specifically encouraging or mentioning collaboration with Brazil: o Secure, clean and efficient energy, International Cooperation with Brazil on advanced lignocellulosic biofuels (LCE 22 – 2016). Opening date: 10 May 2016. Deadline : 8 September 2016. ”Participants in the EU Collaborative Project are required to conclude a coordination agreement with the Brazilian participants in the coordinated project funded by the Brazilian authorities.” o Smart, green and integrated transport, Protection of all road users in crashes (MG-3.2-2017). Opening date; 19 September 2016.Deadlines: 26 January 2017 (first stage) and 19 October 2017 (second stage) “[...] international cooperation is encouraged, in particular with industrialised countries (i.e. US, Japan, Canada, Australia) and emerging economies (primarily China, India, Brazil)”. o Smart, green and integrated transport, Behavioural aspects for safer transport (MG-3.5-2016). Open! Deadlines: 20 January 2016 (first stage) and 29 September 2016 (second stage) “[...] international cooperation is encouraged, in particular with industrialised countries (i.e. US, Japan, Canada, Australia) and emerging economies (primarily China, India, Brazil)”. o Smart, green and integrated transport, Stimulating European research and development for the implementation of future road transport technologies (GV-11-2016). Open! Deadline: 26 January 2016. “[...] international cooperation is encouraged with key emerging countries, in particular China and Brazil.” o Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies, Centres/Networks of European research and innovation (ENG-GLOBALLY-09-2016). Opening date : 7 December 2015. Deadline: 14 April 2016. READ OUR FOCUSES “Proposals addressing all or part of Brazil, China and the USA are strongly Erasmus Mundus (EM) encouraged without excluding other countries with similar characteristics. Under What’s in it for Brazilian this topic, legal entities established in the target country/region are eligible for students and researchers? funding from the Union.“ Focus on Marie Sklodowska- Curie Actions (MSCA)
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 24 of 41 5.1.2 EURATOM - International participation called under the Research and Training Programme 2014 - 2018
EURATOM related Complementing the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and resources: Innovation, two opportunities under the "Euratom Programme - 2014-2018" are currently open to all international actors, including Brazilian institutions, - SNE-TP, Sustainable stakeholders and participants: Nuclear Energy Technology 1) Euratom nuclear (fission and fusion) research and training activities Platform, with its pillars Calls for proposals published under the WP2016-2017 (indirect NUGENIA, (NUclear actions) with detailed description of all topics and actions GENeration II and III Association), NC2I (Nuclear The Call will be open for submission of proposals from 11 May to 5 October Cogeneration Industrial 2016. Initiative) and ESNII Since entities from Brazil are eligible to participate in the Euratom Programme, (European Sustainable in particular through European consortia, these institutions are encouraged to Nuclear Industrial Initiative) seek relevant research partners by interacting with specific European entities in (from that website one can the various nuclear fields. reach the sites of NUGENIA, NC21 and ESNII) 2) NUCLEAR RESEARCH NETWORKING - IGT-TP, Implementing of In order to establish contacts and interaction with European stakeholders, Geological Disposal of Brazilian entities can benefit - if it is still not the case - from existing Radioactive Waste European nuclear research networks. Technology Platform In this respect, further information on several Euratom technological - MELODI, Multidisciplinary platforms (TPs), initiatives and associations mainly in the fields of reactor Low Dose Radiation Initiative systems, management of radioactive waste and radiation protection can be - ENEN, European Nuclear provided. The technology platforms are industry-led stakeholder forums, Education Network recognized by the EC as key actors in driving innovation, knowledge transfer and competitiveness. SETIS (Strategic Energy Technologies Information 5.1.3 Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Research and System), which provide Innovation Staff Exchange Programme (RISE) call further information on This Marie Skłodowska-Curie scheme aims at promoting international and inter- potential partners from the sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges. It also European R&I landscape encourages knowledge sharing and bringing ideas from research to market.
RISE enables international and intersectoral collaboration, based on short-term staff exchanges between organisations worldwide. The RISE programme is the successor programme of the previous IRSES programme.
Proposals should include at least three partners, which can be universities, research institutions, or non-academic organisations. Small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged to participate. Did you know that Brazil is the second country Partner organisations should be from three different countries. At least two of worldwide with the highest these should be from the EU or Associated Countries. Brazilian research number of staff exchanges institutions can join a consortia as partner, but can’t receive direct funding under Marie Sklodowska from the European Commission for the secondment of their researchers. Curie actions, just after China? Partners get together and propose a joint project. Proposals should highlight networking opportunities, sharing of knowledge and the skills development of staff members.
Research staff of any nationality and any career level (postgraduates to experienced researchers) can undertake a secondment. Staff members working in managerial, technical or administrative roles can also be seconded.
Deadline: 28 April 2016. More here.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 25 of 41 5.1.4 Cruz del Sur (Erasmus Mundus) – second call for applications
CRUZ DEL SUR will award a total of 194 scholarships in the period 2015-2018 to Latin American and European nationals. Scholarships are awarded on all levels: undergraduate, master, doctoral, post-doctoral and staff. 142 scholarships for degree and non-degree mobility from Latin America to Europe and 52 scholarships for degree and non-degree mobility from Europe to Latin America. Mobility from LA to EU: only to EU full partners CRUZ DEL SUR is an Mobility from EU to LA: only from EU full partners to LA full partners Erasmus Mundus Action 2 consortium consisting of 19 The call is open to nationals from EU member countries and nationals from European and Latin American Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Nicaragua, Higher Education Institutions. Panama and Uruguay. The following areas are covered: It is coordinated by the Agriculture Sciences Languages and Philological University of Murcia, Spain. Sciences Thirteen partners from 9 Architecture, Urban and Regional different target countries in Planning Law Latin America participate, Art and Design Mathematics, Informatics including from Brazil. Six Business Studies, Management Medical Sciences partners from 5 different Science Natural Sciences target countries in Europe Education, Teacher Training participate. Social Sciences Engineering, Technology Communication and Information Geography, Geology Science Humanities Other Areas of Study Deadline: 15 March 2016. Mobility starting: from September 2016 to December 2017 5.1.5 ERANet-LAC second Joint Call on Research and Innovation The aim of the ERANet-LAC Joint Calls is to start new, sustainable and multilateral research cooperation between researchers from Europe, Latin- America and the Caribbean countries. WHAT? Within the framework of the 2nd ERANet-LAC Joint Call, transnational research and innovation projects will be funded for a period of up to 36 months. The goal of the Joint Transnational Call is to create long-term collaboration between EU Member States and/or Associated Countries, Latin-American and ERANet-LAC is a Network of Caribbean countries by submitting transnational calls in research and innovation the European Union (EU), WHO? funding organisations which wish to foster new, sustainable and Latin America and the multilateral research cooperation between researchers from both regions. Caribbean Countries Topics will be derived from the thematic areas Biodiversity/Climate, (CELAC) funded by the Bioeconomy, Energy, Health and ICT. European Commission FP7. It strengthens the bi-regional Deadline: 10 March 2016 partnership in Science, Technology and Innovation by planning and implementing concrete joint activities and by creating a sustainable framework for future bi- regional joint activities.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 26 of 41 5.2 EU Member States and Associated Countries 5.2.1 National EURAXESS Portals The latest information on open calls for national grants and fellowships in the 40 member countries of the EURAXESS network can be accessed on the respective national EURAXESS portals:
Besides providing information Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech on funding opportunities for Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Macedonia, incoming international and Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, European researchers, staff Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, at the EURAXESS Service Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Centres offer individual Turkey, UK. assistance on all aspects of researcher mobility. 5.2.2 FRANCE - MATH-AmSud & STIC-AmSud calls for proposals
NOTE: in 2016, Capes won’t WHAT? Funding for up to 2 years for joint research projects and exchange launch specific calls for the of researchers and students amongst South American countries involved, as well as between researchers/students and France in all topics related to funding of Brazilian mathematics (MATH-AmSud Program) and information and communication participation in MATH- sciences and technologies (STIC-AmSud). AmSud and STIC-AmSud but will still receive support The applications must include at least two countries on the South American requests under its general region participating in the program (including one Brazilian), and at least one international cooperation team of French scientists. programmes. Deadline: 15 May 2016. Brazilian investigators must also present their project to 5.2.3 GERMANY - 4 Early Career research fellowships at the CAPES between January University of Göttingen 1st and May 31th 2016 on the site of PGCI program. WHAT? Fellowships to join one of the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences research groups for the study of either:
- Globalising the Enlightenment: Knowledge, Culture, Travel, Exchange and Collections; - European Intellectual History/History of Political Thought; - Primate Cognition: Philosophical, Linguistic, and Historical Perspectives. WHO? Candidates who have received a doctorate within the last 6 years. Deadline: 7 July 2016. 5.2.4 GREECE - Onassis Foundation Fellowships for incoming foreigners The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation announced the 22nd annual Programme of Research Grants and Educational Scholarships addressed to non-Greeks, university professors of all levels (PhD.holders), postdoctoral researchers (PhD holders), artists, post-graduate students and PhD candidates. Deadline: 26 February 2016.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 27 of 41 5.2.5 IRELAND - Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme 2016 The Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme offers scholarships for suitably qualified individuals to pursue a Research Masters or a PhD (either traditional or structured) in any discipline at an eligible HEI (higher education institution) within Ireland. In addition, a number of targeted scholarships are offered in collaboration with their strategic funding partners (see website for more details). The Council encourages interdisciplinary research and engagement with enterprise. WHO? Excellent researchers from any country and across all disciplines. Scholars must be full-time students affiliated with an eligible HEI in Ireland. Scholars may hold a Council Postgraduate Scholarship.
Deadline: 3 February 2016. Incoming 5.2.6 SPAIN – Fundación Carolina incoming fellowships Fellowships open to Ibero-American students to carry out part of their post- graduation, PhD, post-doc studies in Spain. The programme also supports researchers and Brazilian teachers’ mobility and funding to join the Escuela Complutense de Verano and the Programa de Emprendimiento. Deadlines: 10 February (summer course), 6 March (post-graduation) and 7 April 2016 for Brazilian teachers and researchers and for PhD.
5.2.7 UK (British Council) Newton Institutional Links calls for proposals The Newton Fund in Brazil is offering grants between £10,000 and £100,000, to develop new UK-Brazil training programmes to support staff or researchers in public and civil society institutions, science museums and botanic gardens. The grants are available between £10,000 and £100,000 and should cover up to 50% of the costs of the project.
The remaining 50% of the funding or in-kind resources needed to implement the project should come from the Brazilian beneficiary institution(s) or another source, and can include non-financial contributions. WHO? Training programmes must be supported by a relevant UK partner institution (university, research institution or public agency) – although the applications must be led by the Brazilian institution The projects must have a duration of up to 12 months in one of the following thematic priority areas: Urban Transformations (including human rights, tackling violence, housing, transportation, access to water, immigration, social inclusion and reducing inequalities) Climate and Environment (including biodiversity and valorisation of traditional knowledge) Agriculture (focus on small-scale, sustainable production in rural or traditional areas) Inclusive economy (including women empowerment, forest economy, fair-trade, entrepreneurship and creative economy in vulnerable territories) Neglected and Infectious Diseases Social Science for social and economic development
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 28 of 41 STEM in Basic Education (including popularization of sciences, community engagement and non-formal teaching spaces and methodologies) Deadline: 20 January 2016 5.2.8 UK - International Partnership and Mobility Funding Call in humanities and social sciences The British Academy invites applications to its International Partnership and Mobility (IPM) Scheme 2015-16. Three-year awards of up to £30,000 are available to support the development of research partnerships between UK scholars and scholars in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Eurasia, South Asia, East and South-East Asia. Awards cover any branch of the humanities and social sciences, and are intended to focus on collaborative research on a specific theme of mutual interest. There is an emphasis on innovative, new initiatives that broaden the UK research base as well as on sustainability. Partnerships can include a range of related activities, and mobility (in the form of visits in both directions, exchanges, etc.) should form an integral part of proposals. This year the British Academy expects to make approximately 20 three-year awards and approximately 10 one-year awards. WHO? Applicants must be of postdoctoral or equivalent status (i.e. academic staff with at least one or two years of teaching/research experience) and should be based in a research active institution for the duration of the award. Deadline: 10 February 2016
5.2.9 UK (University of Sussex) – Chancellor's International Research Scholarship (2016)
Other Postgraduate research A scholarship will normally be tenable for one year in the first instance, scholarships are available to renewable annually for a maximum of 3 years for full-time doctoral students. study at University of Sussex The scholarship will cover international fees and provide a stipend which will in various areas. Check here match that provided for UK doctoral students by the UK Research Council. Applicants must apply for a PhD in one of the Social Science Schools of study at the University of Sussex: - School of Business, Management and Economics - School of Education and Social Work - School of Global Studies - School of Law, Politics and Sociology Deadline: 13 January 2016 5.2.10 UK (univ. of Nottingham) - Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Research Excellence WHAT? 50 full tuition fees scholarships WHO? Overseas students/researchers holding an offer to start a full-time research degree programme, PhD or MPhil, at Nottingham in September or October 2016, any subject area. Engineering research students should apply for the Faculty of Engineering Research Excellence PhD Scholarships Deadline: 11 March 2016
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 29 of 41 5.2.11 Wellcome Trust awards and fellowships Senior Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine This scheme supports outstanding researchers from low and middle-income countries to establish themselves as leading investigators at an academic institution in a low and middle-income country location, including in Brazil. Research should be aimed at understanding and improving public health and tropical medicine of local, national and global relevance. Public health and tropical medicine cover a wide range of health problems, including communicable and non-communicable diseases. WHO? National or legal resident of a low- and middle-income country, including Brazil. Next deadline for preliminary application : 24 May 2016. Investigator Award
To be eligible for a New Funding for world-class researchers and clinicians with a compelling long-term Investigator Award one vision for their research. Provides a flexible package of funding that is driven by the requirements of the proposed research. Awards may be small or large, should be based in the typically up to £3 million, and lasting up to seven years. UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income Next deadlines : 26 February 2016 country Seed Awards in Science What? Small, one-time grants - of up to £100,000 for up to two years - to help researchers develop original and innovative ideas. Deadline: 8 February 2016 5.3 Brazil 5.3.1 CNPQ - Teachers for the Future call for 3 months stay in Finland The Brazilian Education Ministry, along with CNPq, launched the third call for “Teacher for the future” open to Brazilian teachers from institutes belonging to the Federal network of professional, scientific and technologic education to be trained in Finland for 3 months. The vocational and higher education teachers can expand their knowledge of applied learning in one of the 2 finish institutions : University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences (HAAGA- HELIA) e TAMK University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). Deadline : 25 January 2015.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 30 of 41 5.3.2 BRAZIL – FAPESP Visiting Researcher Programme
In 2014, 199 proposals The Visiting Researcher Programme offers full or partial support for the received funding out of a total hosting of experienced investigators, associated with foreign research institutions, who will work in a research institution in the State of São Paulo for of 243 submissions a period from 2 weeks to a maximum (non-extendable) period of 12 months. evaluated. The visiting researcher must hold PhD degree and have an outstanding record If you would like FAPESP to of scientific accomplishments. The host investigator must have a PhD degree assist you in finding a (or equivalent), be associated to a research institution of the State of São Paulo potential host in the State of and must have an expressive record of scientific contribution to her(his) field. São Paulo feel free to ask for Proposals can be submitted at any time by investigators associated with higher information to Regina education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo. Final decision on Oliveira, Science Manager, the proposal can be expected in up to 75 days. at [email protected]. 5.3.3 1st Call for Proposals for Joint Research and Development (R&D) Projects between German and Brazilian Companies The joint R&D projects between German and Brazilian companies must focus on developing innovative products, technology based services, processes or methods in all technological and application areas which have strong market potential. The proposal for cooperation must involve at least one Brazilian company and one small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) from Germany, which contributes considerably to the project, for the development of new products, services and processes of industrial application leading to commercialization in the domestic and/or global markets. The new product/process/service must be innovative, relevant for a potential market, with technological risk and add value to the economies of both countries. The participation of at least one company in each country is mandatory. Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 October 2016
5.3.4 UK (BBSRC) – BRAZIL (FAPESP) Joint funding of research Collaborative research proposals may be submitted in any area of science that is within the remit of both Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and FAPESP. WHO ? The Brazilian partner must be based at an institution eligible for FAPESP support. Standard eligibility criteria apply for BBSRC applicants. Deadline: 13 January 2016.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 31 of 41 EURAXESS 5.3.5 UK (BBSRC) – BRAZIL (FAPESP) - pump-priming Services Centres awards FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) and BBSRC (Biotechnology and To better plan and organise Biological Sciences Research Council) are pleased to invite applications for the their stay in a foreign Pump-Priming Award (FAPPA) scheme. The aim of this award is to provide European country, short term pump-priming to new collaborations between research groups in the researchers and their families State of São Paulo, Brazil and BBSRC funded research groups in the UK. can also benefit from the free and personalised assistance Successful UK applicants will be funded by BBSRC while their São Paulo based offered by the EURAXESS counterparts will be funded by FAPESP. Priority will be given to applications in Services Centres, a network the area of food security and/or Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology. of more than 200 centres WHO ? Applications must be made by a Principle Investigator (PI) currently in located in 40 different receipt of BBSRC research funding European countries. Deadline: anytime, however, proposals must be received by BBSRC no less than 12 weeks before the proposed start date. 5.4 Calls still open (Click on the blue links or see previous newsletters for more details) 5.4.1 European Union ERC consolidator grant (incoming) for researchers with 7-12 years of experience of any nationality and areas. Deadline: 2 February 2016. More details are available here. Puedes (Erasmus Mundus) – incoming/outgoing scholarships between EU and Latin America open to undergraduate, master, PhDs and post doctorates, and staff in Business and Management, Engineering and Technology, Law, Medical Sciences and Social Sciences (in Europe) and Agricultural Sciences and Geology, or renewable energies, climate change or human rights (in Latin America). Deadline: 1 March 2016. SUD-UE (Erasmus Mundus)– 3rd call for applications to select 41 ERC National Contact Point undergraduate, sandwich PhD and post-doctorate grantees in ALL FIELDS in Brazil: OF STUDY. Europeans have access to undergraduate and PhD mobility and staff grants. This call is only open to students and researchers from higher Prof. Moacyr MARTUCCI Jr education institutions members of the partnership. Deadline: 22 March 2016. Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, Fellow-Mundus (Erasmus Mundus) – 3rd call for applications offers all type Trav 3, 158 – sala C2-49 of outgoing scholarships to Latin American and European candidates. São Paulo, SP Deadline: 15 January 2016. +55 11 3091 5626 IBrasil (Erasmus Mundus) – scholarships in engineering and technology for undergraduates, PhD sandwich students, post-doctorate and staff. Deadline: [email protected] 14 February 2016. [email protected] EMBO Courses and Workshops in life science offer Travel grants to support the attendance of participants from countries with less-developed scientific infrastructures. Next deadline : 1 March 2016 European Respiratory Society (ERS) Long-Term Research Fellowships (outgoing). WHO? investigators and clinicians in the early stages of their career in any field related to respiratory medicine. Deadline: 31 January 2016.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 32 of 41 ERS Short Term Fellowships (incoming). For young scientists and clinicians. Next deadline: 1 April 2016.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) offers: For clinicians/researchers based in Europe going overseas - Junior and Senior Fellowship and Graduate Engineering Training (GET) targeting researchers in physical sciences and engineering graduates. Open to nationals of CERN Member States. Deadline to submit applications: 1 March 2016 - Doctoral student programme to spend 6 to 36 months doing thesis research at CERN. Open to CERN member states nationals, Romanian, Serbian and researchers, including Brazilians, residing in a member state for the last 5 years. Deadline for application: 26 April 2016. - Post Career Break Fellowship: full-time or part-time Fellowships to science and engineering graduates wishing to re-start their careers. Deadline: 1 March 2016. - Studentships in Summer 2016 (Non Member State Nationals) for
undergraduate and junior post-graduate students of physics, computing CERN is proud to be involved and engineering. Deadline: 27 January 2016. in COFUND a European Commission Horizon 2020 European University Institute (Italy): Fernand Braudel Incoming Senior Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships: Up to ten months fellowships in one of the EUI's four Action. departments, which in turn invite fellows to participate in departmental activities (seminars, workshops, colloquia, etc.). Deadlines: there are two annual deadlines for applications - 30 March and/or 30 September. EUI Special Doctoral Fellowships (4 years) in Economics, History and Civilization, Law, and Political and Social Sciences. Deadline: 31 January 2016 EU - European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO): EMBO Short-Term Fellowships in Life Sciences, for visits of up to three months to laboratories, with the home or host lab based in Europe. Deadline: rolling basis (Short-Term); EMBO Long-Term Fellowships for post-doctoral research visits to laboratories throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. Deadlines: 12 February and 12 August 2016 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA Postdoctoral Research programme offers up to 2 years positions. Upcoming application deadlines: 2016: 1 April, 1 October and 2017: 1 April, 1 October Young Scientists Summer Program at IIASA (the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis based in Austria) for PhD students on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. Deadline: 11 January
2016
The IST Scholar programme 5.4.2 EU Member States and Associated Countries is partially funded by the EU. AUSTRIA - Institute of Science and Technology (IST) PhD programme in all Top-ranked students who fulfil disciplines of the natural sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and any the mobility criteria will also related interdisciplinary areas. Deadline: 8 January 2016. be Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows. AUSTRIA - Lise Meitner Programme for Scientists from Abroad. WHO: Highly qualified scientists of any discipline with an invitation from an Austrian research institution. No deadline.
AUSTRIA – Ernst Mach Incoming Grant for postgraduates, PhDs, postdocs and lecturers from all over the world with Maximum 35 years to conduct
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 33 of 41 studies in Austria for one to 9 months. Deadline to apply for the academic year 2016-2017 is 1 March 2016. AUSTRIA – Marietta Blau outgoing PhD Grant (6-12 months). The next application deadlines are 1 February and 1 September 2016. AUSTRIA – Franz Werfel Incoming Grant (four to eighteen months) for young university teachers of German language and Austrian literature. Next deadlines: 1 March and 15 September 2016. AUSTRIA – Richard Plaschka Incoming Fellowship for visiting university CLICK ON BLUE TITLES lecturers (Postgraduates, PhD holders, researchers) in humanities (four to FOR MORE INFORMATION eighteen months). Next deadlines: 1 March and 15 September 2016. AUSTRIA: Erwin Schrödinger Outgoing Fellowship including a return phase open to young and especially highly qualified post-docs of any discipline. No application deadlines. BELGIUM - first “MOVE-IN LOUVAIN” call for incoming post-docs from abroad in all research fields are eligible (Sciences and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences). Deadline: 1 January 2016. Move in Louvain is co- BELGIUM (Wallonie-Bruxelles) – Incoming and outgoing doctoral and financed by the Marie postdoctoral Scholarship for Excellence IN.WBI & WBI.World in various fields. Curie Sklodowska Actions WHO? foreigners wishing to enrol in a University of Wallonia-Brussels and of the European Union Belgian or resident students to follow a doctorate or post doctorate programme in a university abroad. Deadline: 1 March 2016 BELGIUM (Wallonie-Bruxelles) - F.R.S.-FNRS Post-doctoral temporary incoming fellowship (up to 3 years) for a non-Belgian PhD holder (with maximum 6 years of experience). Deadline: rolling basis BELGIUM (Wallonie-Bruxelles) - Ulysses incoming Mobility: employment contract for 3 years to lead a research team in a Wallonie-Bruxelles Federation (WBF) university. WHO? highly qualified researcher, working abroad for at least 5 years. Deadline: rolling basis. BELGIUM (Flanders) - FWO PhD and postdoc fellowships, such as:
Candidates are only eligible - Incoming PhD fellowship in all topics. WHO? young EU, ERA and for a PhD fellowship within Swiss researchers based at Flemish universities. the first five years of obtaining - Special PhD. fellowship. WHO? persons not employed within their Master’s degree, scientific research calculated on the start date of - Postdoctoral fellowships (3 years). WHO? PhD obtained no longer the fellowship (1 October). than 6 years ago. - [PEGASUS]2 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships - [PEGASUS]2 INCOMING Postdoctoral fellowships. WHO? postdoctoral researchers (Belgians and non-Belgians) who obtained their PhD no more than three years ago - [PEGASUS]2 OUTGOING Postdoctoral fellowships. Deadlines: 1 February 2016.
BELGIUM – FWO Travel Grants for Long Stays Abroad (5 weeks to 12 months) for researchers affiliated with a university in the Flemish community (or to a university college of the corresponding association) or belong to the scientific staff (of the Dutch-speaking community) of a federal or Flemish scientific With co-financing of the institute. Submission deadline: no later than 3 months before departure. COFUND work programme (No 665501)* within the Marie DENMARK - Industrial PhD and post doc Programmes open to candidates of Skłodowska-Curie Actions any nationality, holding or expecting to hold soon a master’s degree with (MSCA) of Horizon 2020. excellent records may apply. Three deadlines per year. Next deadline: 11 January 2016
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 34 of 41 ESTONIA - Archimedes Foundation supports short-term study and research activities of PhD students visiting Estonian universities. Deadlines vary for each host institution (Estonian universities and Higher Educations institutions).
ESTONIA - Scholarships for incoming PhD students in all areas enroled in a doctoral programme at a recognised educational institution in another country.
CLICK ON THE BLUE FINLAND - CIMO Fellowships. WHO? Young doctoral level students and TITLES FOR MORE researchers from all countries and from all academic fields. No application INFORMATION deadline.
FINLAND – Finish Foundations’ Outgoing Post Doc Pool for at least one academic year. Two application rounds per year. Deadline: 15 January 2016. FRANCE - PRESTIGE Postdoc programme (incoming, outgoing, re-integration) Open to any post-doc level researcher complying with the Marie Curie Actions mobility rules. Each applicant has to secure co-financing for his/her PRESTIGE mobility from the host organisation. The PRESTIGE Call for applications is open all year long with four cut-off dates. The next ones are: 31 December 2015, 31 March 2016; 30 June 2016 and 30 September 2016.
FRANCE – CNRS exceptional call for proposals (multidisciplinary research The PRESTIGE programme projects) capable of exploring all the potential issues and challenges that is co- financed under the surround the tragic attacks recently perpetrated in Paris, paving the way for Marie Curie Actions-COFUND durable solutions. Research projects (3 to 5 pages maximum) must be sent in of the FP7. electronic (pdf) format to: [email protected]. Projects will be examined as they are submitted. There is no standard form.
Eiffel admissibility: FRANCE – Eiffel excellence scholarships 2016/2017 for overseas students on Master's (12 to 36 months) and PhD courses (for 10 months under a thesis Maximum 30 years old joint supervision or co-tutorship) in Engineering sciences (at Master level), candidates for masters, 35 sciences in a broader sense for PhD level, Economics and management, years old for PhD. Law and political science. Applications must be submitted by the French higher education institutions before 8 January 2016. Only non-French FRANCE - LE STUDIUM® incoming programme for senior researchers offers - LE STUDIUM research professorship . WHO? foreign Professor *LE STUDIUM® Loire Valley - LE STUDIUM research fellowship. WHO? Experienced international Institute for Advanced researchers with a host laboratory and/or host enterprise. Studies, operating in region - LE STUDIUM research consortium of five researchers (one researcher from Centre of France, has as its region Centre). members the University of Orleans, University François- Deadlines: 8 February 2016. Rabelais Tours, INSA Centre CIFRE Doctoral grants to carry out research in collaboration with industry in Val de Loire, ESAD, national France. More: http://www.anrt.asso.fr; section CIFRE BRÉSIL. research institutions including BRGM, CEA, CNRS, INRA, FRANCE – Pasteur incoming study grants scientific staff from RIIP. No INSERM and Poles of application deadline. competitiveness. In total, FRANCE – 15 Postdoctoral Fellowships on Biology and Information more than forty laboratories in Technologies open to all nationalities at the French Atomic and Alternative member structures work with Energies Commission (CEA). No specific application deadline: The positions LE STUDIUM®. are open until they are filled by appropriate candidates. LE STUDIUM is co-funded by FRANCE - Post-doctoral research visits at the French Institute for Research in the European Union Marie Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) for individuals of all nationalities Skłodowska-Curie Actions holding PhDs. Deadline: rolling basis. (MSCA). GERMANY (DAAD) - Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (P.R.I.M.E) in all disciplines. Salaries provided for 18 months, in
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 35 of 41 which 12 months have to be spent abroad and 6 months (re-integration phase) at a German university. Deadline: 1 February 2016. GERMANY – PhD fellowships in organismal biology at the International Max CLICK ON BLUE TITLES Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology. WHO? Non-German FOR MORE INFORMATION citizens not living in Germany for more than 15 months prior to application. Deadline: 15 January 2016. GERMANY - Humboldt INCOMING Fellowships for researchers at different stages in their careers: - Humboldt Incoming Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (6-24 months) for researchers from abroad who have completed their doctorate in the last four years; - Humboldt INCOMING Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (6-18 months research projects) for Assistant Professors or Junior Research Group Leaders from abroad who completed their doctorate less than twelve years ago; Georg Forster Research Fellowship (HERMES) for Postdoctoral Researchers (6−24 months research project) for postdoctoral or experienced researchers from *Scientists from Brazil may developing or transition countries who have completed their doctorate in the last be nominated for the Georg 4 (post-doc)/12 years (experienced researchers). Deadline: any time during Forster Research Award. In the year: the Fellowship Programme, researchers from Brazil can GERMANY - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards of EUR 45,000 and up only apply for a Capes- to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist Humboldt Research colleagues at a research institution in Germany by the Humboldt Foundation. Rolling call for applications with two reviews panels per year. In spring and Fellowship for the time being. autumn. GERMANY – Gerda Henkel Foundation post-doctoral 1 to 24 months Research Scholarships in humanities to carry out an independent research project alone. Applications are welcome at any time. GERMANY- DAAD Reintegration of German scientists with the goal of reintegrating into the German scientific community after having spent at least 1 year abroad. GERMANY – 20 PhD positions at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (IMPRS-RECHARGE) open to students from all countries. Deadline: 31 December 2015. GERMANY – Incoming Emmy Noether Programme. WHO? Outstanding postdocs/junior researchers with 2 to 4 years postdoctoral experience. No application deadlines. GERMANY - DLR-DAAD Research Incoming Fellowships in the fields of Space, Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation Research open to foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students as well as senior scientists. Deadlines depend on the current offers.
IRELAND – President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) for early career researchers to carry out their research in Ireland. Applications, on a The Berlin Mathematical rolling basis, must be submitted by an eligible Irish research body. School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of the IRELAND – SFI incoming Research Professorship open to researchers in mathematics departments of academia or industry. Applications on a rolling basis. the three major Berlin LUXEMBOURG - INTER Mobility Programme 2016 supports OUTGOING and universities: Freie Universität INCOMING established senior researchers. The next application deadline is (FU), Humboldt-Universität 20 January 2016. (HU) and Technische Universität (TU).
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 36 of 41 LUXEMBOURG – ATTRACT Call 2016 by the National Research Fund (FNR) aims to support Luxembourgish research institutions to attract outstanding young researchers with a PhD and between 2 and 8 years’ professional ATTRACT: Criteria: 2 to 8 experience with high potential to set up an independent research team years professional experience within a public-sector research institution in Luxembourg. Deadline: 15 since successful completion January 2016 of doctoral studies. 5 years NETHERLANDS (NWO) - Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni to projects. conduct independent research for a period of three years. All fields are FNR financial contribution for covered by this scheme. WHO? The grant is open to researchers who have ‘Starting Investigators’: up to recently obtained their PhD (within the last three years), including from EUR 1,500,000; for outside the Netherlands, but the project to be funded should be carried out at a ‘Consolidating Investigators’ Dutch institution recognised by NWO. Deadline: 5 January 2016. up to EUR 2,000,000 NETHERLANDS - Holland Scholarships for bachelor’s and master’s candidates Deadlines: either 1 February 2016 or 1 May 2016. NETHERLANDS – Orange Tulip Scholarship Brazil to partially or fully cover tuition fees and other costs to carry out a MBA and Master in the areas of Arts, Health, Biology, Science and Humanities. Registration until 1 April 2016 but make sure to check the deadline established by the university to which you are applying. NETHERLANDS – NWO visitor’s travel grant for foreign senior researchers to stay in the Netherlands for a maximum of 4 months. Continuous application. NETHERLANDS – Incoming Visitor’s travel grant for highly qualified senior researchers from abroad who hold a PhD for stays of up to 4 months. Continuous application. NORWAY – The Research Council of Norway: Personal Visiting Researcher Grant for international researchers with qualifications at the professor level. Deadline: ongoing. POLAND (Foundation for Polish Science) - IDEAS FOR POLAND for Winners of the “ERC Starting Grants” competition who intend to pursue scientific research in Poland. Rolling basis.
PORTUGAL - Grants for Sabbatical Leave (outgoing) for PhD holders to CLICK ON BLUE TITLES carrying out research at foreign universities. All research fields and FOR MORE INFORMATION nationalities are eligible. The call is permanently open. SWEDEN – VINNMER Marie Curie calls for proposals for incoming and outgoing transnational mobility for experienced researchers (with at least four years of research experience.) in the following modalities: - VINNMER Marie Curie Incoming (to Sweden). - VINNMER Marie Curie Industry Outgoing. - VINNMER Marie Curie Academy Outgoing: Application deadline of all calls: 16 March 2016.
Vinnmer grants are co- Planning grant are also available: funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. - VINNMER Marie Curie Incoming – Planning Grant - VINNMER Marie Curie Industry Outgoing – Planning Grant - VINNMER Academy Outgoing - planning grant SWITZERLAND - Swiss National Science Foundation International Exploratory Workshops in all fields of research. Call open to at researchers in Switzerland to support the visit of their international colleagues. The forthcoming dates are: 2 March 2016 and 1 June 2016.
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 37 of 41 AMBIZIONE: Incoming SWITZERLAND – Incoming Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione for young researchers with a PhD in all disciplines from all countries PhD + 5 years or 3 years of to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher clinical experience for medical education institution. Deadline: 12 February 2016. practitioners SWITZERLAND - Swiss National Science Foundation: International Short Visits, aimed at researchers in Switzerland who wish to go abroad for a short period or researchers abroad who wish to collaborate with researchers in Switzerland. During the visit, they pursue a small joint research project. Deadline: Continuous application. SWITZERLAND (SNSF) – outgoing fellowships for Swiss nationals or permanent residents: - Doc.mobility, for doctoral students. Deadlines: 1 March & 1 September - Early Post-doc.Mobility: for postdocs at the beginning of their career. Deadlines: 1 March & 1 September - Advanced Postdoc.Mobility for advanced postdocs. Deadlines: 1 February & 1 August INTERNATIONAL - Society in Science: the Branco Weiss Postdoctoral Fellowship for young researchers of any nationality to work at an academic institution of their choice anywhere in the world in new areas of science, engineering and social sciences. Deadline: 15 January 2016. TÜBİTAK: in the fields of TURKEY – TÜBITAK Fellowships for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Natural Sciences, Sabbatical Leave to give seminars/conferences/lectures, or engage in R&D Engineering and activities for 1 month to 12 month visits. Next deadline: rolling basis. Technological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Agricultural UK - Imperial College PhD scholarship programme 2016-2017 for research Sciences, Social Sciences students in their chosen research field. The earliest start date for funded places and Humanities. is 1 August 2016.
5.4.3 Brazil FAPESP funds collaborative research under the Horizon 2020 (H2020) programme. Researchers eligible for funding by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) can use the normal modes of funding offered by the foundation to support their participation in H2020 proposals under Thematic Project, Regular Project, and Young Investigator Award, to be chosen by the proposer. Deadline: any time by FAPESP, but following the deadlines for H2020 calls. H2020 proposals can include researchers, academic and BRAZIL - Visiting professor programme 2015 at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (IEA/USP). non-academic institutions (including enterprises) from CAPES – International cooperation programme to support joint research countries outside the projects and partnerships with universities from countries with whom Brazil has European Union. international agreements but with whom Capes has not. It includes sandwich PhD and post-doc mobility. Rolling basis. BRAZIL (FAPESP) – GERMANY (Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts - StMBW) - call for workshops proposals to bring together a Bavaria-São Paulo cohort of early career researchers to take part in workshops in all fields of knowledge. Deadline: 26 February 2016. FAPESP - SPRINT fourth call for proposals to fund exchange of researchers, visits to research planning, international workshops and initial activities of data collection, including with Imperial College London, University of
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 38 of 41 Bath, and University of Southampton, UK. SPRINT call for proposals are open on a recurring basis of every three months. Deadline: 1 February 2016.
FORTHCOMING: BRAZIL (FAPESP/CONFAP/MCTI) fund Brazilian researchers participation in biofuels under Horizon 2020 call
The European announcement The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), jointly with the National for the call H2020-LCE-2016- Council for the State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), will fund Brazilian participation in the 2017 can be found here. It European Commission call to fund international collaborative research in will be launched on 11 May advanced lignocellulosic biofuels. 2016and will close on 8 September 2016 WHO? Applicants in Brazil, must meet the conditions and restrictions of the FAPESP Program for Research Partnerships for Technological Innovation (PITE), described at www.fapesp.br/pite.
6 Jobs 6.1 EURAXESS Jobs
There are currently around 7712 research jobs and fellowship programmes (all over Europe, but also in other countries such as in Brazil and in all disciplines) announced on the EURAXESS Jobs database. Opportunities can be viewed by country, level of seniority, field or research or via free text searches. Please note that these jobs also include doctoral fellowships.
Use the EURAXESS Job portal to find the best candidates or find the best position in research, in 40 European countries, but also in the rest of the world:
- Research organisation, university, lab, companies can publish their offers (fellowships and jobs) on the EURAXESS Jobs portal for FREE and increase your visibility!
- Researchers can post their CVs for FREE. Do not hesitate to do it and increase your potential.
Should you need further Example of offers funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: assistance, the EURAXESS Links Brazil team will be Early Stage Researcher / Developer in Interactive full-parallax 3D display within happy to help you. the European Training Network on Full Parallax Imaging (ETN-FPI), funded by the MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS of the Horizon2020 Framework Programme of the European Commission. Area : Computer science and hardware. Deadline : 30 April 2016
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 39 of 41 6.2 More research career sites 6.2.1 Other EU Research Career Sites: - Find A Postdoc - Find scholarships in Europe - Find PhDs in Europe - Career.edu - Academic Jobs EU - Euro Science Jobs - European Job Mobility Portal - EuroBrussels - European Southern Observatory (ESO) recruitment portal - CERN job portal - Joint Research Centre external staff recruitment portal Join us on LinkedIn: 6.2.2 Jobs Portals in Member States and Associated Countries - Austrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grants - Belgian Federal Portal for Research and Innovation - Cyprus’ Research Promotion Foundation Database - Danish Ministry of Higher Education - Estonian Research Portal - France PhD portal (FR) - CNRS external examination portal (FR) - DAAD’s Research in Germany Portal (DE) - DAAD Research Fellowships and Grants Portal (DE) - Max Planck Society’s job portal (DE) - Helmoltz Association’s job portal (DE) - Irish Research Council Funding Portal (IE) - Italian National Research Council vacancies (IT) - BBSRC vacancies (UK) - Science and Technology Facilities Council vacancies (UK) - University of Oslo (NO) 7 Events 7.1 Partners events 7.1.1 Call for content: Vitae Connections - Leadership in researcher development Vitae is inviting submissions for contributions to the next event in the Vitae Connections series: Leadership in researcher development, taking place in Glasgow (Scotland) on 28 April 2016. Leadership has been identified as a core area of the professional development of researcher developers (staff developers) and is integral to the Career Framework for Researcher Developers (CFRD). The development of leadership capabilities is vital in fulfilling many responsibilities of excellent researcher development, including being able to apply first-hand knowledge of leadership to the development of researchers as leaders, working with related national and international policy, and through an innovative and strategic approach. Contributing to this event is an opportunity to both showcase and develop leadership in the area of researcher development and submissions are invited to present on one of two themes:
December 2015 | Issue 32| Page 40 of 41 - Leadership in practice: Case studies of developing or demonstrating leadership as a researcher developer, including through the HR Excellence in Research Award - Growing future leadership: Case studies of researcher development provision for leadership, including examples of institutional leadership programmes and innovative ideas for the future Deadline for submissions is Monday 8 February 2016 at 5pm GMT 7.2 Upcoming events Find out more about research events taking place across Europe on CORDIS DATABASE ON RESEARCH EVENTS.
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Science Tour “Research in Germany” 2016 City of the Germany 31 January – 6 February Future 2016 FAUBAI2016 Conference Fortaleza, CE 16-20 April 2016 EURAXESS Links Conference Rio de Janeiro, RJ May 2016 (tbc) ESOF 2016 Manchester, UK 22-27 July 2016 46th World Chemistry Congress São Paulo, SP 9-14 July 2017
⃰Not listed are presentations on EURAXESS Links and European mobility schemes at research institutions held by the country representatives upon invitation across Brazil. If you would like our team to visit your research organisation please email us at: [email protected].
About EURAXESS Links Brazil EURAXESS Links Brazil is a networking tool for European researchers active/seeking activity in Brazil and for Brazilian researchers wishing to collaborate with and/or pursue a career in Europe. EURAXESS Links Brazil provides information about research in Europe, European research policy, opportunities for research funding, for EU-Brazil and international collaboration and for trans-national mobility. Membership is free. Visit us at brazil.euraxess.org and click on the Join the EURAXESS Links Brazil community hyperlink on the right-hand side of the page. EURAXESS Links networks have thus far been launched in North America (USA & Canada) Japan, China, India, the ASEAN hub (encompassing Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam) and Brazil.
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