King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) has joined the Geoservices-4-Sustainability (GeoS4S) project funded by the European Commission's Erasmas+ Programme. This three-year, one million Euro project brings together geospatial experts from four European, three Thai and three Chinese universities to develop a set of course modules focusing on new spatial technologies and applications. When completed, the GeoS4S teaching...

On 8 March 2016, International Women's Day is being celebrated around the world. Gender equality is a cornerstone of the European Union and applies to all European policies including research and innovation. The Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 was published in December 2015, and is a follow-up and prolongation of the Commission Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015. It sets the framework for the Commisison's...

The Academy of Sciences Malaysia, French MOFAID-UNESCO of Jakarta, the French Embassy in Malaysia, the University Malaya, and the Malaysia France University Centre are pleased to invite submission of abstracts for BIO/ICT-Asia 2016 Workshop to be held on 30-31 May 2016 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BIO/ICT-Asia workshop offers four plenary sessions consisting of panel discussions on the four following themes: Biomass and Renewable En-ergies,...

Every 10 years the OECD Blue Sky Forum engages the policy community, data users and providers into an open dialogue to review and develop its long-term agenda on science, technology and innovation (STI) data and indicators. This event is known as the "OECD Blue Sky Forum", an open and unconstrained discussion on evidence gaps in science and innovation and on initiatives the international community can take to address data needs in this area....

  The European Commission is launching a call for proposals to provide early-stage support to European SME and Start-Ups in recruiting up to 90 post-doctoral research associates to explore innovative business ideas.  For details please see the attachment and click this link.    

  EXPERTS scholarship projects funded by the European Commission targeted at citizens of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The EXPERTS Partnership includes 7 European and 13 South and South-East Asian (SSEA) Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from 12 Asian countries. The EXPERTS projects are coordinated by the University of Goettingen, Germany...

  As of the new year, our way to provide you with information has changed: 1) You will not have to go through lengthy monthly newsletters anymore; 2) We will have a shorter newsletter every three months, with more tailored content; 3) All the information previously contained in the newsletter will now be appearing online on our new portal; 4) Once the new EURAXESS portal will be deployed later this year, you will have access to many new, user-...

  As a staff member you can start your mobility period at any time during the life-duration of the project (last possible start date 10/06/2017). All fields of study are open for this project! http://www.lotus.ugent.be/ Lotus Unlimited is an Erasmus Mundus Action Two Partnership (EMA2) of European and South-East Asian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and Associations aiming at fostering mutual enrichment and better understanding between the...

Article taken from Horizon Magazin at: http://horizon-magazine.eu/article/gravitational-waves-detected-scientis...   The research paper, published on 11 February in Physical Review Letters, was co-signed by nine EU-funded researchers, who are working in the gravitational research environment thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie training programme called GraWIToN. 'I am delighted that EU research funding has once again supported an exciting...

  Horizon 2020 (ICT Work Programme) Call ICT-39-2016-2017 This call will invite innovation actions proposals from international partnerships! CALL Horizon 2020 H2020 website Pillar: Industrial Leadership Work Programme Year: H2020-2016-2017 Work Programme Part: Information and Communication Technologies TOPIC: International partnership building in low and middle income countries Topic identifier: ICT-39-2016-2017 Publication date: 14 October...