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.

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PARTNER SEARCH FOR EU FUNDED PROJECT

Proposal abstract
 

The objective of this project is the realization of a secure, flexible and dynamic mechanism using risk-based methodologies, capable of responding to threats and vulnerabilities and to adapt dynamically to the changes in the operating conditions, business processes or use practices, through the management of the entire vulnerability life cycle.
Besides the technological aspect, the project will give adequate attention to usability and availability aspects, and will thus involve multi-disciplinary research activities, experiments or demonstrations in realistic, complex and scalable sceneries and contexts
Thanks to the VMS, organizations will be able to measure, in a faster and more accurate way, the level of risk connected to ES device and ICT infrastructure.
Using the VMS, the organization will make ES more secure, reliable and resistant to attacks and operative malfunctioning, improving Security, Privacy and Dependability (SPD)


Risk management will be performed through the following logical steps:
1. determination of objectives, alternatives and constraints;
2. evaluation of alternatives, identification and resolution of risks eg., developing a prototype to validate the requirements;
development and testing of the next level of the product: evolutionary model, if the risks involving the user interface are dominant; cascade model, if the greater risk is represented by the integrability of the system; transformational model, if security is the most important issue;
3. Planning of the next phase, deciding whether to continue with another cycle of the spiral or not.

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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.:

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Bidding opens on 2011 €780M information technology funding

The European Commission has announced the largest annual budget in 25 years of backing information technology research, opening the bidding for 2011 funding of €780 million at ICT 2010, the biennial showcase of the fruits of its investment in the field, held in Brussels this week.

More is to come, since the Commission has committed to increasing the ICT research budget by a further 20 per cent each year up to the end of Framework Programme 7 in 2013. And speaking at the opening of the conference Neelie Kroes, head of the Digital Agenda, told the 6,000 delegates she will make “a very strong case for even stronger levels of support,” in FP8.

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Innovation Emergency

The European Commission is calling for a ‘collaboration revolution’ to get the public and private sectors working together, as the main plank of its new plan to promote innovation and so create jobs, solve the grand challenges and build an innovation culture to rival that in the US.

The focus for doing this will be European Innovation Partnerships, (EIP) each focused on a specific grand challenge, with concrete goals, driven by a board that will be chaired by one or more commissioners, with ministers from national governments, MEPs, and people from industry, academe and the public sector. Along with acting on the supply side to develop and introduce new products and services, EIPs will be able to act to bring down regulatory barriers, and so smooth the path to market and adoption.

The first partnership, due to get off the ground in 2011, has the objective of extending the health span of EU citizens by an average of two years by 2020. “This will reduce the strains on health budgets and open up new markets,” said Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for research, innovation and science, unveiling the project as a centerpiece of the Innovation Union, one of seven initiatives the Commission is launching as part of its Europe 2020 economic strategy.

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EU aims to make data access and planning a part of research funding

The European Commission, now planning its next big cycle of research funding, is considering giving greater importance to the way researchers manage, share, store and gain access to scientific data.  

EU Vice President Neelie Kroes said, “We need to ensure that every future [research] project funded by the EU has a clear plan on how to manage the data it generates. Such plans should foster openness and economies of scale, so that data can be re-used many times rather than duplicated.”

With plans for the next big Framework research programme FP8 now being drafted, Kroes said, “We should all should strive to make real progress towards open access to the scientific data produced within the EU’s framework programme research projects.” 

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SUSTAINABLE SURFACE TRANSPORT

DEADLINE: 2 December 2010

BENEFICIARIES:

For SME targeted Collaborative Projects the minimum conditions to participate are: at least independent legal entities, each of which is established in a Member State or Associated Country, and no 2 of which are established in the same Member State or Associated Country.

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

Ensuring the safety of Nanotechnology: 

New methods for measuring, detection and identification of nanoparticles in products and/or in the environment

Cross-cutting and enabling R&D: 

Tools and methodologies for imaging structures and composition at the nanometre scale

Enabling Research and Development: 

Research and innovation for advanced multifunctional ceramic materials

Integration of technologies for industrial applications: 

Advanced textiles for the energy and environmental protection markets

For further information, please contact infonetwork@igcsas.it