Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced the winners of its 2015 Award for International Scientifc Cooperation. Two European Researchers got the award: Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus from Germany and John Roger Speakman from the UK. John Kutzbach from the US also got the award. The Award for International Scientific Cooperation honors foregin experts who have made outstanding contributions in international science and technology cooperation...

Deadline: 1 March 2016Open to: PhD degree students registered solely in a surveying/geomatics academic programmeScholarship: up to 4,000 EUR The FIG Foundation , the International Federation of Surveryors, will be providing scholarships to PhD students for applicants from low-income, lower-middle or upper-middle income economy. This international organization is representing the interests of surveyors worldwide. It is a federation of the...

The 2015 Nature Index supplement dedicated to China reveals that the country's output of high-quality science continues to grow - a trend that shows no signs of slowing. With data from three sequential years (2012-2014), the Nature Index has become a powerful tool to explore emerging trends in research. In Nature Index 2015 China the data highlight the contribution of particular Chinese cities to the country's scientific ascension.You can read...

CfP for EU-China/Asia Relations at the 46th UACES Annual Conference  London, 5-7 September 2016After celebrating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in 2015, the relations between the European Union and China enters a new chapter, based on three important pillars of dialogue: strategic partnership, economic and trade; and people to people exchange. The UACES Collaborative Research Network on EU-China relations has...

On Tuesday, 26 January 2016, the 11th Shanghai Social Studies Colloquium will welcome Jonathan WOETZEL, Director of McKinsey Global Institute and his colleague, Senior Fellow Jeongmin SEONG. They will be addressing innovation research in China. RSVP to assistant.shanghai@essca.fr    

Attached is a new information brochure for interested non-European particpants (including Chinese) in the Erasmus+ programme.It explains how students, doctoral candidates and staff from higher education institutions all over the world can apply for a grant or scholarship to come to study or teach in Europe.Almost EUR 16.5 billion will cover the programme as awhole for the period 2014-2020. More than 17% of thiswill be dedicated to the four...

NSFC published its call under the NSFC-ERC implementing arrangement at its website: Access here.Scale of fund: 30,000 RMB max per project, for international travel (flight economy class) of Chinese researchers' visit to Europe. Daily allowance and cost of research in Europe for Chinese researchers will be paid by EU's project teams.Project duration: 1 September 2016 - 28 January 2018. Applicants should start visiting research in EU by February...

  "There is nothing we don't have that we need from you," Chinese emperor Qianlong  asserted to George Macartney, the first envoy of Britain to China, in the 1790's. Dr Manuel Pérez-García (Renmin University) will now asses why this statement became invalid, within the framework of an ERC project "GECEM: Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille (1680-1840)".   On...

  Dear colleagues, In the last newsletter of 2015, you can find a lot of information about the European Research Council, Europe's top funding institution: The EU Insight focuses on the ERC's funding activities and analysis of its key facts, patterns and trends. In our "Meet the Researcher" interview, Prof Vincent Gaffney, an ERC Advanced Grantee in Archaeology based in the UK, talks about his research uncovering Europe's "lost lands", and gives...

Network Newsletter Since the launch of this publication, the EURAXESS Links NetworkNewsletter has made it its focus to provide its readership with news regardingthe latest happenings in science and research policy news, both as this newspertains to Europe and the various locations outside of Europe where Linksmaintains a presence. Many changes await EURAXESS Links as the initiative moves into the NewYear, all aimed at improving the experience of...