European funds for researchers

Marie Curie for international outgoing fellowships for career development (IOF)

Deadline: 16th August 2012

The project is expected to include a coherent research programme for the total duration of the contract, of which an initial outgoing phase, of between one and two years, is to be spent in a distinct legal entity in an other third country (partner organisation) and a mandatory re/integration phase of one year within the contracting organisation (return host organisation) in a Member State or an associated country.

European financial support for long term professional career integration projects

Deadlines:6th March 2012 AND 18th September 2012

This action consists of financial support for long term professional career integration projects in a host organisation of a Member State or associated country.

The financial support aims to provide the researcher with the best possible conditions for establishing herself/himself in a long term research career. For selected projects, a grant agreement is issued with the integration host organisation, which will commit itself to ensure an effective and lasting professional integration of the researcher for a period of at least the same duration as the project.

The integration host organisation must provide the researcher with an employment contract with a remuneration package of at least the same level to that offered to equivalently qualified researchers at the same institution. Evidence that the researcher will be integrated in the host organisation on this basis for a longer term will be positively taken into account during evaluation. Projects will be selected on the basis of a proposal submitted by an eligible researcher in liaison with a host organisation.

OBJECTIVES:

European funds for research

European funds for the Resarchers' Night 2012
Deadline: 10th January 2012

Objective of the action
This action aims to bring the researchers closer to the public at large, so enhancing their role in the mainstream of society. .

Projects and participants: The Researchers' NIGHT will take place on Friday 28th September 2012, and will be the next occasion for a European wide public and media event for the promotion of research careers. It is intended to ensure as large a geographical coverage as possible, involving the maximum number of Member States and associated countries.
Participants can be any legal entity in the Member States and associated countries, and/or if relevant, constituting a partnership at regional, national or international level. Preference should be given to those projects within which a regional, local or national financial involvement exists (without excluding those requesting 100% funding).
Activities organised will have to be focused on the public at large, and be organised with researchers being actively involved and directly in contact with the public. .

European Union Contribution, Rates and Evaluation Criteria:

Europen funds for research: Space

European funds for R&D in the Space sector

Deadline: 23rd November 2011

Main areas of intervention:

Space-based applications at the service of European Society / Preoperational validation of GMES services and products

• Testing and validating the intelligence-driven and high time-critical scenarios of the CONOPS
• Testing and validating the low time-critical components of the CONOPS
• GMES Security
• Support to emergency response management
• Preparing takeup of GMES Sentinel data

Space-based applications at the service of European Society / Support to the coordinated provision of observation data

• Research and development for In-situ component
• GMES Climate Change – Coordination of Earth observation data validation for reanalysis
• GMES Climate Change – Data archiving and exchange
• Consolidation of user requirements for GMES

Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology / Research to support space science and exploration

• Exploitation of science and exploration data

Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology / Research to support space transportation and key Technologies

• Key technologies enabling observations in and from space
• Key technologies for in-space activities

Cross-cutting activities / SME specific research

• Bringing terrestrial SME-research into the space domain

Cross-cutting activities/ Studies and events in support of European Space Policy

• Studies and events in support of European Space Policy
• Research agenda definitions and research activity road-maps for a European Research framework programme (workshop activities)
• New emerging research needs - reduction of vulnerability of space infrastructure

For detailed information on specific topics contact us.

Researchers' Night 2011

The Researchers' Night is a Europe-wide event bringing together the public at large and researchers once a year on the fourth Friday of September. This year it takes place on 23 September in over 800 venues of 320 European cities in 32 countries.

During the Researchers' Night you will have the chance to discover research facilities that are usually not open to public (laboratories, research centres, museum collections ), to use the most recent technologies and instruments with the guidance of scientists, to participate in experiments, competitions and quizzes, to watch demonstrations and simulations, to exchange ideas and to party with the researchers.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/researchersnight/

European Carrier integration grants

Support for training and career development of researchers

Deadline: 6th Semptember 2011

Beneficiaries

This action addresses experienced researcher  (in possession of a doctoral degree (PhD) or have at least four years research experience)

The application is made jointly by a researcher and a host organisation.

Applicant host organisations must be active in research and located in a Member State or associated country.

Mobility Conditions

At the relevant deadline for submission of proposals, the researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of his/her host organisation for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to this deadline.

Projects must be for a period of between 24 and 48 months (full-time equivalent).

 

Objectives

The action is intended to improve considerably the prospects for the permanent integration of researchers who are taking up, for the first time, a stable post in mEurope. This action should also allow the transfer of knowledge they have acquired prior to the CIG, as well as to the development of lasting cooperation with the research and/or industrial environment of the country from which they have moved. This action has a particular emphasis on countering European 'brain drain' to other third countries.

PARTNER SEARCH FOR EU PROJECT IN THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY SECTOR

BENEFICIARIES: 

All applicants must be legal entities, whether public or private, established in the territory of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Croatia.

 DEADLINE: MAY 12^Th, 2011

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

PMI, research centres, universities and all size companies that work in the following fields:

• BIOBUILDING
• SMART GRID FOR ENERGY COSUMPTION CONTROL
• ELECTRIC ENERGY PRODUCTION

For further information about the project please contact infonetwork@igcsas.it

European Research Council Grants

The film portrays seven young and bright researchers that have received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant. This documentary film reveals their personalities uncovering their research universe and ambitions. The research they strive for can be carried out with the financial support of ERC grants. The European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding body set up to support investigator-driven and excellent frontier research. Every year the ERC selects and supports the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers, both Europeans and non Europeans, by the means of calls for proposals funded by the Seventh EU Research Framework Programme (FP7). Since its setting up in 2007, the ERC has supported more than 800 research projects, led either by top scientists ("ERC Advanced grants") or by younger, emerging research leaders ("ERC Starting grants").

SENIOR RESEARCHERS GRANT- PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING

DEADLINE:9 February 2011

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

• Mathematics: all areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
• Fundamental constituents of matter: particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
• Condensed matter physics: structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences
• Physical and analytical chemical sciences: analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
• Materials and synthesis: materials synthesis, structure-properties relations, functional and advanced materials, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
• Computer science and informatics: informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
• Systems and communication engineering: electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
• Products and processes engineering: product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy systems, material engineering
• Universe sciences: astro-physics/chemistry/biology; solar system; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, planetary systems, cosmology, space science, instrumentation
• Earth system science: physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management

Applicants for the  ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years.

Minimum number of participants: At least 1 independent legal entity established in one of the Member States, or one of the associated countries.

SENIOR RESEARCHERS GRANT- SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

DEADLINE: 6 April 2011

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

• Individuals, institutions and markets: economics, finance and management
• Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour: sociology, social anthropology, political science, law, communication, social studies of science and technology
• The Human Mind and its complexity: cognition, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and education
• Cultures and cultural production: literature, visual and performing arts, music, cultural and comparative studies
• The study of the human past: archaeology, history and memory. 
• Environment, space and population: environmental studies, demography, social geography, urban and regional studies

Applicants for the  ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years.

Minimum number of participants: At least 1 independent legal entity established in one of the Member States, or one of the associated countries. 

 

SENIOR RESEARCHERS GRANTS - LIFE SCIENCES

DEADLINE: MARCH 10th 2011

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION: 


Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry: molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, biochemistry of signal transduction 


Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: genetics, population genetics, molecular genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, biological modelling and simulation, systems biology,  genetic epidemiology 


Cellular and Developmental Biology: cell biology, cell physiology, signal transduction, organogenesis, developmental genetics, pattern formation in plants and animals 


Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology: organ physiology, pathophysiology, endocrinology, metabolism, ageing, regeneration, tumorigenesis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome 


Neurosciences and neural disorders: neurobiology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, neuroimaging, systems neuroscience, neurological disorders, psychiatry 


Immunity and infection: immunobiology, aetiology of immune disorders, microbiology, virology, parasitology, global and other infectious diseases, population dynamics of infectious diseases, veterinary medicine 


Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health: aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of disease, public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical medicine, regenerative medicine, medical ethics 


Evolutionary, population and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, animal behaviour, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography, marine biology, ecotoxicology, prokaryotic biology 


Applied life sciences and biotechnology: agricultural, animal, fishery, forestry and food sciences; biotechnology, chemical biology, genetic engineering, synthetic biology, industrial biosciences; environmental biotechnology and remediation;

The European Research Council (ERC) is particularly keen to encourage excellent proposals which involve the establishment of a new research activity in the EU or the associated countries by a Principal Investigator who is moving from a third country into the EU or the associated countries.

Applicants for the  ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years.

European Research Council (ERC) starting grant holder wins Nobel physics prize

A recipient of one of the European Research Council’s (ERC) first grants, Konstantin Novoselov, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on graphene, a new carbon material that is expected to have widespread application in electronics and photonics. 

Novoselov, who was awarded his ERC Starting Grant in 2007, becomes one of the youngest Nobel Prize winners, at the age of 36. The prize was awarded jointly to Novoselov and his fellow Russian Andre Geim, with whom he carried out the research at Manchester University. Geim has been funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the past ten years, most recently being awarded a £5 million grant in October 2009.

more at:http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/

To learn more about ERC grants write to us.

New milestone for ERC project as driverless vehicle reaches China

After a 13,000 kilometre, three month journey through Europe and Asia, unmanned vans powered by green energy and funded by the European Research Council have crossed the Chinese border.

The expedition started on July 20 in Italy, with the goal of reaching the World Expo in Shanghai on 28 October, where a demonstration will take place at the European Union/Belgian Pavilion.

The Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge is part of a research project on autonomous driving funded mainly by the ERC, which aims to improve road safety.

“We have now covered more than two thirds of the route. When it comes to the technology of the vehicles it went smoothly all-in-all,” said lead researcher Alberto Broggi, of Parma University’s Vislab. “We are happy about the test and the great amount of data we are acquiring for further processing at the end of the trip. We had to intervene manually only on limited occasions, for example in the traffic jams of Moscow, when passing a toll station or in case of really adverse weather.”

The convoy, which includes back-up vehicles, has travelled about 6,500 km in 80 days and passed the border between Kazakhstan and China. The rest of the trip will take an estimated 17 days, through varied Chinese landscape, including the Gobi Desert.:

More: http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/ebulletins/showissue.php3?page=/548/6635/20117&rec=0

Interested in ERC grants for individual researchers? Write to us!

RESEARCHERS’ GRANT FUNDS

The European Research Council (ERC) funds every year excellent research projects in any scientific discipline aiming at broadening the scientific and technological knowledge ("frontier research"). Top researchers of any nationality and  from anywhere in the world can apply, as long as  their ERC project will be carried out in a public or private institution based in Europe ( EU Member State  or Associated Country ). The grants are for up to 5 years.

KEY POINTS:

• All fields of research are eligible
  
• All researchers are eligible: from any country in the world, regardless of nationality, type of institution, or age 
  
  
  
  Two types of ERC grants:

• Starting Grants, for the best researchers with 2 to 10 years of experience after their PhD;
  
• Advanced Grants, for top research leaders, with at least 10 years of experience and significant research achievements
  

• Attractive long-term funding: each project can receive up to 2 Million € (for Starting Grants) or up to 3.5 Million € (for Advanced Grants), for up to 5 years
  
• Principal Investigators and their research team are supported: no trans-national partnerships nor consortia are required
  

 

The ERC has yearly calls for proposals covering all scientific fields: Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical Science and Engineering

For further information and news, contact us at infonetwork@igcsas.it

Physical Sciences and Engineering Senior Grant

If you are a senior researcher and your research project is dealing with:

-Mathematical foundations;

-Fundamental constituents of matter;

-Condensed matter physics;

-Physical and analytical chemical sciences;

-Materials and synthesis;

-Computer science and informatics;

-Systems and communication engineering;

-Products and processes engineering;

-Universe sciences;

-Earth system science

you can beneficiate of up to 3.5 Million/euro!

Projects with an interdisciplinary nature are strongly encouraged.

DEADLINE: February 24^th, 2010

Please contact us for further information: email: infonetwork@igcsas.it – Tel. +39 011 6606561

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Social Sciences and Humanities Senior Grant

If you are a senior researcher and your research project is dealing with:

- Individuals, institutions and markets;
- Institutions, values, beliefs and behavior;
-Environment and society;

-The Human Mind and its complexity;
- Cultures and cultural production;
-The study of the human past

You can beneficiate of up to 3.5 Million/euro!

Projects with an interdisciplinary nature are strongly encouraged.

DEADLINE: April 7th, 2010.

For further information, please contact us : email: infonetwork@igcsas.it – Tel. +39 011 6606561

 

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Life Sciences Senior Grant Funds

If you are a senior researcher and your project is dealing with:

- Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry;
- Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology;
- Cellular and Developmental Biology;
- Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology;
- Neurosciences and neural disorders;
- Immunity and infection;
- Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health;
- Evolutionary, population and environmental biology;
- Applied life sciences and biotechnology.

You can beneficiate of up to 3.5 Million/euro!

Projects with an interdisciplinary nature are strongly encouraged

DEADLINE: March 17th, 2010.

For further information, please contact us: email: infonetwork@igcsas.it – Tel. +39 011 6606561

Se sei un ricercatore ed il tuo progetto riguarda:

-       Biologia molecolare e strutturale e biochimica;

-    Genetica, genomica, bioinformatica e biologia dei sistemi;

-   Biologia cellulare e dello sviluppo;

-     Fisiologia, patofisiologia ed endocrinologia;

-   Neuroscienze e disturbi nervosi;

- Immunità e infezioni;

-     Strumenti diagnostici, terapie e salute pubblica;

-       Biologia evolutiva, della popolazione e ambientale;

-      Scienze naturali applicate e biotecnologie.

Potrai beneficiare di fondi fino ad un massimo di  3.5 Milioni di euro!

Verrano incoraggiati progetti di ricerca in ambito interdisciplinare 

SCADENZA: 17 Marzo 2010

Per ulteriori informazioni contattaci: email: infonetwork@igcsas.it 
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