Power up the voice of the scientific crowd!
17 Apr 2013
Association Euroscience asks for help to stimulate the debate around research in Europe. Austerity has taken its toll and disturbed research cycles across Europe. Particularly affected are scientists from Southern Europe. Find out first-hand how scientists confronted to austerity deal with it in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal, in a new Special Issue of the Euroscientist, the journal of Euroscience. This issue analyses the situation of how many of scientists were forced to emigrate, and there are also the stories of those who decided to stay. You will hear from researchers sharing their experience of navigating the troubled waters of recession, when it comes to maintaining a seemingly steady research career path.
European science journalists in the Czech Academy
11 Apr 2013
Academic bulletin headed by Editor-in-chief Marina Hužvárová (the Czech EUSJA representative) organized the EUSJA General Assembly, which was held in Prague on March 13–17, 2013. A group of journalists from 22 European countries visited the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and also the Lysolaje Campus for two-day Study Trip. During the first day they were shown around the Academy of Sciences Library and were given a lecture of popularization activities in the Centre of Administration and Operations of ASCR. The tour was closed with an evening concert in the beautiful setting of the Czech Museum of Music. The next day journalists led by the President of the EUSJA Barbara Drillsma (Great Britain) were welcomed at the Institute of Geology (IG) by the President of the ASCR Jiří Drahoš and the IG director Pavel Bosák. After the opening session they visited the institute and also the Laboratory of Optical Fibers of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics. During the afternoon, the group continued to explore the Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB) and Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals (ICPF), where two guided tours were arranged. After the overview of the institute’s research activities by the director of ICPF Miroslav Punčochář, they visited laboratories of basic and applied research.
Calls for proposals in the framework of Marie Curie research fellowships
4 Apr 2013
The European Commission has published 4 Calls for proposals for the year 2013 in the framework of Marie Curie research fellowships (Programme People of the FP7). These fellowships are aimed at post-doctoral researchers, to continue their research at an international level. The fellowships amount is attractive: €87 500 per year for researchers with more than 10 years of experience or €58 500 per year for researchers with a shorter experience. The deadline for the submission of applications is August 14th, 2013.
Discovering the nano-world with bright laser beams of extreme ultraviolet light
21 Mar 2013
Institute of Physics ASCR invites you to a seminar Discovering the nano-world with bright laser beams of extreme ultraviolet light by Carmen S. Menoni of Colorado State University on April 17th, 2013 at 15:00. Prof. Menoni is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America. She has served the IEEE Photonics Society as Member of the Board of Governors, Vice-President for Publications and presently is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Photonics Journal.
Sweeping the Dust from a Cosmic Lobster
20 Feb 2013
A new image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a surprising new light. It was taken as part of a VISTA survey that is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy’s structure and explain how it formed.
President Václav Klaus reappointed Jiří Drahoš as a head of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
19 Feb 2013
Physical chemist Jiří Drahoš has been heading the AS CR since 2009. Last December, the Academy Assembly – the highest body of the AS CR responsible for the foremost priority decisions related to the institution, re-elected Professor Jiří Drahoš by a secret ballot as the new candidate for the presidency for the period 2013–2017. Jiří Drahoš said he would like to change the funding of science and was planning to establish a forum for the cooperation of academics and industrialists.
ERC Advanced Grant for Eduard Feireisl
18 Feb 2013
Eduard Feireisl's ERC Advanced Grant proposal "MATHEF – Mathematical Thermodynamics of Fluids" has been selected for funding in the period 2013–2018. A great success of the Czech mathematics as this is the first ERC Advanced Grant for mathematics in the Czech Republic and the only one assigned to a Czech scientist this year. Eduard Feireisl was the chair of the Scientific Committee of the 6th European Congress of Mathematics in Kraków, 2012, and is also the chair of the Scientific Committee of Equadiff 13 in Praha, 2013. A call for a PhD. student to work in the grant is open; for details see the http://www.math.cas.cz/.
Great interest from ERC grantees in hosting early-career top US talent
18 Feb 2013
The recent initiative between the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and European Research Council (ERC) has been taken a step further since last summer. The agreement, which provides opportunities for early-career NSF researchers to join ERC-funded teams in Europe, seems to resonate with ERC grantees; just over 760 already showed great interest in hosting talent from the US.
ERC funds 60 innovative projects to bring 'blue sky' research towards market
14 Feb 2013
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the outcome of the latest round of its top-up funding scheme 'Proof of Concept'. Worth up to €150,000 each, these grants provide funding for researchers, who are already ERC grantees, to bridge the gap between their research and marketable innovation. In this call, a total of 60 grants have now been awarded, of which the final 27 were made public today. The first 33 grants were announced in September 2012.
The Application of Next Generation Sequencing
11 Feb 2013
Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology in České Budějovice, organizes the 2nd Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis in Plants. It will take place on February 13–15, 2013. More information here.