• Posted 03-Oct-2019

Erasmus+: EU boosts participation of African students and staff in 2019

The EU has invested an additional €17.6 million to support over 8,500 newly selected African students and staff to participate in Erasmus+ in 2019. This increase in Erasmus+ funding is one more step towards the commitment announced by President Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union speech in September 2018 to have supported 35,000 African students and researchers by 2020.

  • Posted 03-Oct-2019

BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE AWARDED TO BLACK HOLE IMAGE TEAM

Known as the “Oscar of Science,” the 2020 Breakthrough Prize, was awarded on the 5th of September to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global scientific collaboration that captured the first-ever image of a black hole.

  • Posted 03-Oct-2019

AI can help us fight climate change. But it has an energy problem, too

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help us fight climate change – but it also comes at a cost to the planet. To truly benefit from the technology’s climate solutions, we also need a better understanding of AI’s growing carbon footprint, say researchers.

  • Posted 03-Oct-2019

€530 million available to support researchers networking

A call for project proposals to fund consortia to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers is open until 14 January 2020 under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, Innovative Training Networks (ITN).

  • Posted 24-Sep-2019

1700 researchers to take part in 127 Innovative Training Networks

Around 1700 early-stage researchers will be recruited through 127 new projects under the 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN) action.

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