The Commission proposed to mobilise €77 million from the agricultural reserve to support farmers from the fruit, vegetables and wine sectors of Austria, Czechia, Poland who have recently suffered from adverse climatic events of unprecedented magnitude, as well as Portuguese wine producers who face serious market disturbances. The Commission’s proposals, accepted by Member States, allocate […]
Life+ Nature Guardians’ project from Spain and Portugal receives LIFE 2024 Citizen Award
During EU Green Week, the Commission announced the winners of this year’s LIFE Awards. The LIFE Awards recognise the most innovative, inspiring and effective projects funded by the EU’s LIFE Programme in three categories: nature protection, circular economy and quality of life, and climate action. Selected from LIFE projects across the EU, this year’s winners […]
Scientific Research Grant in the field of Electrical Engineering in Portugal
INESC TEC is accepting applications to award 2 Scientific Research grants in the field of electrical engineering. Duties of the position The appointee will be expected to prepare a review of the state of the art on the use of sensors for complex robotic systems in the area of maritime robotics; contribute to the processing […]
Decline in EU livestock population in 2023
In 2023, the EU‘s livestock populations were lower than a year earlier. Compared with 2022, the pig and bovine populations decreased by 1%, while sheep declined by 3%, and goats by 5%. In 2023, the EU had 133 million pigs, 74 million bovine animals, 58 million sheep, and 11 million goats. This information comes from provisional data […]
Research fellow at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Portugal.
The Nanostructured Materials Group is involved in investigating fundamental phenomena and dynamics at the atomic scale. They are looking for a qualified Research Fellow to join their team in the synthesis and characterisation of layered materials for energy storage and conversion under the Twinning Project on Functional Layered Materials for Advanced Applications (Funlayers) under the […]
Open research fellowship for a Master Student
The Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-Iscte)of Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is accepting applications for a research fellowship for a Master’s student under the protocol established between CIES-Iscte and OberCom – Observatório da Comunicação. Work plan: Participation in activities to analyse social networks and data relevant to the area of communication within the […]
Up to €1.7bn of EIB finance for new solar power plants in Spain, Italy and Portugal
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved framework financing of up to €1.7 billion for Solaria to support the construction of some 120 photovoltaic power plants. Mostly located in Spain, as well as Italy and Portugal, they will have a total capacity of approximately 5.6 GW and will produce an estimated 9.29 TWh a year. […]
Scientific Software Engineer Position in Portugal
As part of an externally funded project with members of the Cogitate Consortium, we are seeking to hire a Data Scientist or Scientific Software Engineer, ideally, one with a background in research data management (RDM), FAIR data, and database administration, who will contribute to establishing the data architecture infrastructure for open and reusable data, generate experimental […]
Research Grant for Masters or Integrated Masters students in Portugal
A call for applications is now open for the attribution of four (4) fellowships within the scope of the Collaboration Agreement signed on October 11, 2018 between the University of Minho and the companies Proef and dstelecom (Proef-dstelecom/IB-S Chair), for Master’s or Integrated Master’s students, for a period of 6 months renewable up to a […]