====English below==== 日-ＥＵ戦略的高等教育連携支援: 国際共同修士課程プログラム 日本の最低１つの大学と、異なる３つのエラスムスプラスプログラム申請可能国の最低３つの大学がコンソーシアムを構成し、高度に統合された国際共同修士課程プログラム（ジョイント・ディグリー、ダブル・ディグリー等）を構築し、実施する事業を対象とします。当該事業は、大学、教員間の国際的な連携のもとで、学生の海外留学及び受入を通じ、実施することとします 選定件数 ３～４件 程度。ただし、 申請の状況等により予算の範囲内で調整することがあります。 補助期間 最大５年間。ただし、国の財政事情等によりこれを必ず保証するものではありません。なお、ＥＵ側の補助事業期間は最大６年間（ただし、初年度を準備期間とした場合に限る。）であるため、事業に参加する日本の大学は補助事業期間後の２０２４年４月以降の資金については、大学において確保する必要があります。 プログラムの規模 補助金基準額：年間３千８百万円...

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) support research training and career development focused on innovation skills. The programme funds worldwide and cross-sector mobility that implements excellent research in any field (a "bottom-up" approach). Through various streams, MSCAs support researcher mobility at different stages of their career: International Training Network (ITN) for PhD studies (for Japanese candidates mostly through...

The European Research Council's (ERC) mission is to encourage the highest quality of research in Europe and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence through competitive funding. Being 'bottom-up' in nature, the ERC approach allows researchers to identify new opportunities and directions in any field of research, rather than being led by priorities set by politicians. It is a highly...

The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation launches the "EU-Japan Technology Transfer Helpdesk", a new service aimed at supporting EU and Japanese research organizations, companies and individuals in their steps to search for technologies and understand the mechanics of tech transfer transactions, as well as bridging the knowledge gap about current available technologies from both Japan and the EU. The service, operational from February 15th...

Michiru is a researcher in practical philosophy currently based at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (TINT). His field, the philosophy of economics, is a sub-discipline of the philosophy of sciences that addresses questions ranging from causality in macroeconomics to the ethics of behavioral economic policy. He is currently working on methodological problems that arise at the boundaries of...

Marian is a Slovakian citizen who followed an undergraduate and graduate cursus in Physical Chemistry at the Comenius University in Bratislava, where he also obtained his PhD degree in 2011. Until 2015, he was an associate researcher to the Slovak Academy of Sciences’ Department of Hydrosilicates, before mving to his current position at Yamaguchi University. Marian participated in the EURAXESS Survey of European Researchers in Japan, closed in...

The Varna Free University (VFU) in Bulgaria is looking for additional partners in a HORIZON 2020 project proposal called SMARTMat: System of sustainable development of smart durable cost-effective structural materials. The main idea of SMARTmat proposal is to create software for an adequate choice of concrete mix design and/or primary protection considering environmental and anthropogenic impacts according to construction region, existed widely...

The University of Ghent is looking for innovative projects in the broad domain of healthcare applications to enter an award competition organised by the PRoF chair, held by prof. dr. R. Peleman. The laureates of this competition will be invited for the award ceremony chaired by former President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, during an international symposium in Ghent. ​ The competition accepts all innovations created in the...

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Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Finland and Singapore lead the 2016 rankings in the Global Innovation Index, released on August 15 by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This year China joins the ranks of the world's 25 most-innovative economies which is the first time a middle-income country has joined the highly developed economies that have historically...