Insects don’t have time to laze about – that’s probably why we say someone is “as busy as a bee”. But would an overfed and underactive bug find itself putting on weight like we do? We put this question to insect expert Erlend Sild. The short answer is a hypothetical yes, explains Sild, CEO and […]
Research Fellow in the Australian Department of Economics
Offer Description The Department is research active and performs teaching and research in the areas of economics, econometrics and actuarial studies. It provides high quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and undertakes high quality research. The Research Fellow will be expected to manage the Experimental Economics Laboratory, conduct their own independent research and teach […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Exploiting renewable energy for shipping
Expected Outcome Project outputs and results are expected to contribute concretely to the following expected outcomes as marked (“*”) whilst supporting the overall medium and longer term objectives: Renewable energy assistance is commercially viable and deployed at scale in commercial shipping and maritime operations, significantly contributing to making waterborne transport climate neutral. In the medium […]
HORIZON EUROPE: EU Prize for Women Innovators
Scope The opportunities created by novel technologies and disruptive innovations promise to deliver the fair and sustainable recovery Europe needs. But Europe risks missing out on these opportunities if half its population is overlooked as a source of innovation and creative talent. The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. In doing so, the […]
Commission suspends cross-border cooperation and transnational cooperation with Russia and Belarus
Following the Russian military aggression against Ukraine and in line with the Commission’s decision to fully implement all EU restrictive measures, the Commission has suspended the cooperation with Russia and its ally Belarus in the European Neighbourhood Instrument cross-border cooperation programmes (ENI CBC) as well as in the Interreg Baltic Sea region programme. This means, among others, that no […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Centres of Excellence for supporting supercomputing applications for Science and Innovation
Expected Outcome Advancing the transition towards exascale capabilities by developing or scaling up existing parallel codes, resulting into effective applications to solve scientific, industrial or societal challenges and addressing the needs of the user communities. Scope The Centres of Excellence (CoE) address scientific and industrial applications and user communities that run world leading codes or […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Global governance for a world in transition
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to the both of following expected outcomes: Support the European Union’s role in leading the transformation and defence of multilateralism by identifying and analysing policy avenues for a more robust, democratic and effective global governance. Develop policy recommendations, institutional frames, toolboxes, narratives and methodologies for supporting action towards transnational democracy. […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Politics and the impact of online social networks and new media
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Understand the changes wrought on democratic processes by new technologies. Produce evidence-based recommendations to address the opportunities and challenges for political behaviour and democratic engagement presented by social platforms and new media. Enhance capacities for digital citizenship. Scope Social media and other internet-based […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to both of the following expected outcomes: Achieve a better understanding of gendered power relations across the social and economic spheres, taking into account intersections between gender and other social categories such as ethnicity, social origin, disability and sexual orientation, and the cumulative effects of multiple forms of discrimination and […]