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EURAXESS Network Webinar - Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Competences for Staff
Why Join This Webinar?
Cultural Awareness & Intercultural Skills With cultural diversity growing at universities and research institutions, staff can gain valuable insights by looking at the “Welcome to Leipzig” initiative and intercultural trainings. Looking at German, and other cultures, communication patterns.
Best Practices for Internationalisation Learn about the “Certificate International for Employees” from RWTH Aachen, a programme that prepares staff for the challenges of internationalisation, especially in the fields of technology and administration.
Networking & Knowledge Exchange Engage with experts and peers from across the Euraxess network. Open discussions for participants to share and learn from one another.
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Meet Dr Letizia Gionfrida, Lecturer in Computer Vision and Head of Vision in Human Robotics Lab at King's College London. Plus recent Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow.
Read about her work with context-aware wearable robots and how these will lead to a more inclusive and accessible society. Plus learn from her international experiences.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchanges 2024 call is open. €99.5 million is available to fund around 90 projects promoting cooperation around the globe in research and innovation. The call promotes innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas.
Secondments are the main method to foster cooperation among organisations participating in Staff Exchanges. Selected projects exchange and train researchers and innovators, as well as administrative, technical or managerial staff involved in research activities. Participants go abroad for up to 12 months. Consortia must consist of at least 3 organisations from 3 different countries. The scheme is part of Horizon Europe. Information day on 15 November.
Open to PhD and early career researchers worldwide. The British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025. Create international collaborations in environmental arts and humanities to tackle climate change.
The UK government Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published a paper setting out the UK's initial position on FP10: the successor to Horizon Europe. Read the UK Position Paper on the 10th EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme.
UKRI’s Peer Review Statement & New Policy on AI Tools
Keep informed and read UK Research & Innovation's (UKRI) position statement document on their next steps on peer review.
As well as UKRI's launch of a new policy on the use of generative AI tools. A must read which addresses the changing nature of research and the protection of applicants’ ideas.
UK Research Office (UKRO), acting as the UK National Contact Point for the European Research Council (ERC), is organising an Information Webinar on the 2025 ERC Consolidator Grant call in the UK. For researchers based in, or moving to, the UK, and the research support staff, who are interested in submitting a proposal to the 2025 ERC Consolidator Grant call. Over €2.7 billion in ERC grants will be available for 2025.
REA Prize - EU Award for Gender Equality Champions
European Research Executive Agency (REA) EU Award for Gender Equality Champions. Open to universities, higher education institutions, and other research performing organisations (public or private). Each winner will receive a trophy and a €100,000 prize.
There are 3 prize categories:
1. Sustainable Gender Equality Champions: Recognizing organisations with a long-term, high-achieving GEP.
2. Newcomer Gender Equality Champions: Celebrating organisations that have recently implemented their first GEP with notable progress.
3. Inclusive Gender Equality Champions: Honoring organisations with innovative GEPs addressing multiple social categories and showing concrete results.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Sandpit: AI decision support for national security and defence. Apply to attend a five-day interactive interdisciplinary sandpit to develop projects on decision support using artificial intelligence (AI), for national security and defence applications. Participants selected to attend must do so for all online and in-person days. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and 1 to 24 months, are provided to cover the cost of the expenses arising from a defined research project. Open to postdoctoral scholars (or equivalent) who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
The UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is holding the Festival of Social Science to celebrate the vital role of social science in understanding our world. One of the themes will be our digital lives, exploring the relationship between humans and digital technology. There are events designed for a range of audiences, from children to professionals. There will be hundreds of free events across the UK and also online.
UK-based researchers and innovators across all sectors - access dedicated help from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) experts on Horizon Europe. Learn about Horizon Europe opportunities and understand how to access funding from the world's largest research funding pot. With a budget of €93.5 billion, from 2021 to 2027.
EURAXESS UK is a British Council managed portal which aids researchers in their career development, supporting researchers moving to, and from, the UK. In addition to providing useful information and resources, the EURAXESS portal features a free funding database and job search tool. If you have any feedback on the newsletter or want to make suggestions about content that you would like to see, please let us know. Please contact Oonagh Collins from the Euraxess UK team, at EuraxessUK@britishcouncil.org.
