Month: May 2018

Researchers in the Netherlands can apply for a visitor’s grant for highly qualified senior researchers from abroad who hold a PhD. With this grant these researchers can stay in the Netherlands for a maximum of four months.

Purpose

A visitor’s grant is intended for the visit of a foreign researcher who makes an important contribution to a ongoing Dutch research project.

The aim of the visitor’s grants is to facilitate the cooperation between Dutch and foreign researchers. This increases the knowledge about Dutch research in other countries and strengthens the expertise at the Dutch research group.

Who can apply

Starting 2017 a researcher (at least post-doc), with a tenured position at one of the Dutch universities, KNAW institutes, NWO institutes, NKI, MPI Nijmegen, researchers from the Dubble Beamline at the ESRF in Grenoble, NCB Naturalis, and the Advanced Research Centre for NanoLithography (ARCNL) can apply for a visitor’s grant.

What to apply for

Subsistence costs are remunerated for a maximum period of four months with a standard payment of:

• 1750 euros per month for an experienced researcher;
• 2000 euros per month for a professor.

International travel costs are reimbursed up to a maximum of:

• 500 euros for researchers from Europe;
• 1500 euros for researchers from outside of Europe.

When to apply

Applications can be submitted up until six months before the start of the visit and until the reserved budget for the programmes Visitor’s Travel Grant, Cooperation Germany – Von Humboldt Stiftung, Cooperation Japan, Cooperation Taiwan and Cooperation China travel and subsistence costs, seminars has been exhausted.

Assessment

Criteria

The following assessment criteria will be used:

• quality of the applicant;
• quality and seniority of the visitor;
• quality and feasibility of the work plan for the work visit in relation to the period requested;
• importance of the work visit for the progress of the ongoing research project;
• knowledge utilisation.

Procedure

The NWO-wide grant committee will assess the applications.

• Visitors Travel Grant | call for proposals PDF, 551 KB

• Visitors Travel Grant | application form Word, 112 KB

WiRe is a fellowship programme for international female postdoctoral researchers collaboratively funded by the DFG(“Research in Germany” campaign) and the WWU’s Equal Opportunity Office [de]. Our WiRe fellowship pays respect to the special needs of women in research, focusing on female Postdocs and Professors. WiRe considers different aspects that are crucial for the compatibility of life and work for women in research in order to strengthen them in their acadamic career persistence and advancement.

Our fellowships offer the opportunity to get to know the WWU within a self-chosen timeframe of 1 to 6 month, exploring research and development possibilities as well as the city itself and its facilities for accompanying family members. Funding, support structures, mentoring and workshops give an insight of future possibilities for top female scientists in Münster. In return, we expect our interntional fellows to help us create further awareness of the excellent and family-friendly research possibilities at the WWU.

• Postdoctoral fellowships for female researchers: Apply Now!

  Programme

  Join the WWU within a self-chosen timeframe of 1 to 6 months, explore our excellent research and development possibilities as well as the city itself and its facilities for accompanying family members. In return, we expect you to help us create further awareness of the excellent and family-friendly research possibilities at the WWU.

  • excellent international female Postdocs or Professors
  • special focus on STEM-related fields (1st call: apply until May 15th), open to all subjects from 2nd call (apply until June 15th or September 30th) on
  • develop ideas of how to spread word of your research project and experience at WWU
  • involvement of a professor at WWU

  What we offer:

  • fellowship of 2000 €/ per month
  • for a period of 1 up to 6 months
  • 500 € child care / family bonus per month possible
  • additional funding for conference participation and printing costs available
  • excellent research and career development opportunities
  • full access to the support structures of our Welcome Centre
  • access to all of the WWU’s communication channels and networks
  • workshops and mentoring
  • become part of our Research Alumni Programme and make use of its opportunities

  Fellowship conditions:

  • research project or idea of a research project in cooperation with a professor of WWU
  • which can be executed during 1 – 6 months with a presentable result
  • develop a strategy of how to spread word of your research/work/results/experience at WWU
  • bring your family

  How to apply:

  • Application form
  • Letter of recommendation / intent of WWU professor
  • CV (including your publication list with a maximum of 5 titles)

  Please send the completed application form and the letter of intent of your supervisor at the WWU to: wire AT wwu.de.

  Deadlines for applications:

  15.05.2018 / 15.06.2018 / 30.09.2018/

• Notice: Preference will be given to projects ending before march 2019
• What we want:

The scholarships are available to candidates, not older than 22 years old who wish to pursue undergraduate studies in one of the following programmes:

(1) Faculty of Communication Networks and Security (CNS);
(2) Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE);
(3) Faculty of Information Systems, Visualization, Multimedia and Animation (ISVMA);
(4) Faculty of Information and Communication Science (ICS)
(5) Study Program of Digital Business Informatics (DBI)
(6) Faculty of Applied IT, Machine Intelligence and Robotics (AITMIR) and
(7) Study Program of E-Government, E-Business and E-Culture.

One full scholarship will be awarded to a candidate from each of the eligible countries: USA, the Organization of American States (OAS), France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, China, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Mongolia, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Cyprus, Spain, Armenia, Belarus, Thailand, Israel, Jordan, Georgia, Romania, and Greece.

The scholarship provides for:
•    full tuition fees;
•    visa and residence permit fees
•    return air fare from the applicant’s home country;
•    accommodation and food (full board) at the University’s dorm “Nikola Karev” in Ohrid, the Republic of Macedonia for 10 months per year, as well as for the months of July and august if the student does not return  home;
•    a monthly allowance of 5,000 MKD (approximately 82 EUR) for 9 months per year;
•    primary healthcare insurance

The deadline for submission of applications is July 31, 2018

Application procedure
All prospective students should note that the application process will be open until 31.07.2018. All students must send their hard copy applications and documents to the address of the Ministry of Education and Science below.

Required documents
To complete the application, the candidates are required to provide electronic copies from the following original documents:

•    Application Form
•    Official high school diploma or certificate (where applicable);
•    Official transcripts;
•    Proof of English proficiency. All students whose first language is not English are required to provide evidence that their spoken and written command of the English language is appropriate for the programme they are applying.

The required evidence may take the form of either:

1.    Substantial education (minimum 15 months) conducted in English and undertaken no more than two years prior to the date of enrolment
2.    Acceptable English language qualification or test result. The qualification or test results must have been awarded no more than two years prior to the proposed date of enrolment.

Accepted results are:
-Grade C or better in English Language at GCSE / GCEO
– Grade C or better in English First Language at IGCSE
-Grade B or better in English Second Language at IGCSE
-An overall band of 6.5 or better in IELTS
-A score of 550 or better in the paper-based TOEFL (213 for computer-based, 80for internet-based)
-Subscores of 550 or better in Critical Reading and 550 or better in Writing in SAT
-Grade 4 or better in the Higher Level English Language (B Syllabus); or grade 5 or better in the Standard Level English Language (B Syllabus); or grade 4 or better in the Higher or Standard Level English Language (A1 or A2 Syllabus); or grade 4 or better in the Standard Level English – Text and Performance; or grade 4 or better in the Standard Level English – Literature and Performance (A1 syllabus) at International Baccalaureate

•    Official document certifying the candidate has no criminal convictions and is not under criminal investigation at the moment of application certified with Apostle Stamp. Candidates should note that with the exception to some countries, these are two separate documents;
•    Official general medical report, including medical tests for HIV and Hepatitis C;
•    An electronic copy of the Passport which must be valid for the next 4 calendar years;
•    In addition, as part of the application, the candidates are required to summit contact details from two academic professors/teachers, who will provide letters of recommendation for the candidate. The candidates are advised to notify the professors ahead of time, in order for the references to be submitted within the application deadline. Both letters are confidential. In case they are sent as hard copy documents, they must be sent in a sealed envelope, signed by the originator of the reference across the seal.

All submitted documents must be in English or certified translations in English.

Candidates should submit their application together with all supporting documents to the following address:

Ministry for Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia
Sv. KiriliI Metodij Street, No.54
1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia

Additional information:

•    The selection process will be implemented by a five-member committee appointed by the Minister for Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia;
•    Successful applicants will sign a contract with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia. The contract will stipulate that the scholarship provides funds for the first academic year and subsequently for the rest of duration of the undergraduate studies, provided that the student ends the first year of studies with satisfactory success rate;
•    The students are encouraged to return to their home country after the completion of their studies;
•    Official language of the programmes is English and courses are held by distinguished local and international lecturers;
•    Programme Outline and Course Overview are included in the annexes of this Call and are available on the website of the University of Information Science and Technology “St Paul the Apostle”: http://www.uist.edu.mk/Academics/Bachelors;
•    Additional information regarding the University and the programmes is available on the website of the University of Information Science and Technology “Saint Paul the Apostle”: http://www.uist.edu.mk.
•    General information about the City of Ohrid, the UNSECO protected city that hosts the University can be found at: http://www.exploringmacedonia.com, www.ohrid.com.mk, www.ohrid.gov.mk.

Contact
For all additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Anastasija Trajkovska, on e-mail: anastasija.trajkovska@mon.gov.mk.

Le ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche scientifique est destinataire d’une offre de trois bourses d’études  de troisième cycle, au profit des ressortissants des Etats-parties au Protocole de Kyoto sur les changements climatiques émanant de ministère de l’environnement, du développement durable et du changement climatique de Malte au niveau de l’Université de Malte pour l’année universitaire 2018/2019.

Appel à projet à destination des doctorants et chercheurs scientifiques
Date limite d’envoi des candidatures > 30 juin 2018

Appel à projet

Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains lance un appel à candidatures à l’adresse des doctorants et des chercheurs scientifiques qui souhaiteraient développer un projet en rapport avec leur activité de recherche, tout en s’immergeant dans un environnement artistique.

Cet appel s’inscrit dans le prolongement des initiatives engagées depuis une dizaine d’années par Le Fresnoy en vue de rapprocher artistes et scientifiques (accompagnement technologique des projets des artistes étudiants par des laboratoires de recherche ; constitution d’un groupe de recherche et création mixte art / science ; exposition au Palais de Tokyo, colloque au Collège de France sur le thème « Le rêve des formes »).

Il est attendu un projet de nature scientifique, ou, dont les enjeux intéressent la science. Le candidat participera au cursus proposé aux artistes étudiants et bénéficiera pour son projet des mêmes moyens de production que ces derniers.

Calendrier

Date limite d’envoi des candidatures > 30 juin 2018

Jury et communication des résultats > 6 juillet 2018 :

Programme et calendrier de travail pendant la période de l’année universitaire (à préciser par le candidat) > octobre 2018 – juin 2019

Appel à projet

Aim

Our aim is to establish and to cultivate fruitful collaborations between the Weizenbaum Institute and researchers around the globe, thus  helping to position it as a leading research institution world-wide. For our visiting scholars, the Weizenbaum Institute offers an inspiring multi-disciplinary research environment with access to other leading research institutions.

Submission of Applications

Researchers are asked to submit their applications addressed to the specific research group with which they would like to be associated. A list of research groups currently offering fellowships is provided in section V below.

Applications for fellowships may be submitted over the course of the whole year.

Please indicate in your application the months in 2018, 2019, or 2020, which you would like to spend at the Weizenbaum Institute. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a publications list, a two-page project description, information about previous work, and your planned working program for the duration of your research stay. Projects resulting in publications are highly encouraged.

Selection criteria

The researcher’s visit and proposed work should be related to one of the specific areas of focus of the Weizenbaum Institute’s research  groups; the period of residence is intended to facilitate and prepare interdisciplinary collaboration, and to result in publication. Applications should define target outcomes clearly (e.g., publications, grant proposals, etc.). The applicant’s curriculum vitae and the fit of the proposed project to the overall research program and aims of the Weizenbaum Institute will be crucial for consideration.

Financial support

The Weizenbaum Institute offers appropriate financial support to visiting fellows. This includes a fellowship provided by one of the seven founding institutions of the Weizenbaum Institute (details are provided below).

The Weizenbaum Institute offers the following fellowship positions (sorted alphabetically by fellowship-providing institution):

Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

We are accepting applications for fellowships in the following research groups:

“Working in highly automated processes” (please send your application to Dr. Florian Butollo, florian.butollo@wzb.eu)

“Democracy and Digitalization” (please send your application to Dr. Thorsten Thiel, thorsten.thiel@wzb.eu)

Democratic societies acquire, implement, and adapt to new technologies; they are in turn shaped and transformed by digitalization. This group examines structural changes in the democratic public sphere, analyses new forms of democratic participation , and studies the scope of human rights in a digital society.

“Quantification and social regulation” (please send your application to Dr. Lena Ulbricht, lena.ulbricht@wzb.eu)

This research group investigates the role of automated information and decision systems (based on technologies such as big data or artificial intelligence) in politics and organizations. Our focus lies on the ways in which these systems impact the resources, logics and procedures applied in the regulation of individual and collective behaviour.

The WZB will make individual decisions about the form of the fellowship contract with these two options: a) the fellow remains a regular employee of their home institution, and WZB will reimburse the costs to the home institution; b) the fellow will receive a WZB employment contract for the project conducted during his/her stay.

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Applications for fellowships beginning November 2018 are open in the following research groups:

“Digitalization and Public Safety” (please send your application to Richard Huber richard.huber@fokus.fraunhofer.de)

“Digitalization and Science” (please send your application to Dr. Jens Klessmann jens.klessmann@fokus.fraunhofer.de)

Fraunhofer FOKUS is seeking researchers with expertise in relevant technologies or relevant, related topics in the social sciences or psychology. Beginning late in 2018 affords us the opportunity to embed a fellow from four to six weeks in 2018 and the same duration early in 2019. The goal of the fellowships is to pursue intense research collaboration aiming at joint publications in high-profile venues.

For more information on the individual projects and details concerning the conditions for the fellowship, please contact the person to whom you will submit your application, corresponding to the research group in which you are interested.

Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)

The FU fellow receives a scholarship for the stay at the Weizenbaum Institute. We are accepting applications from junior and senior researchers for the following research groups:

“Digital Citizenship” (please send your application to Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé, p.porten-chee@fu-berlin.de)

Many forms of political action beyond voting are spreading in the online world. Nevertheless we know very little about whether or how openness for alternative forms of political engagement may change what people expect from democracy and how they assess it. As a member of our research team, you will join us in studying emerging citizen norms under conditions of digitization and how these norms affect individual political participation and expression of opinion under turbulent conditions (e.g., hate speech, incivility).

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin)

The HU Berlin offers fellowship contracts in form of scholarships. We are accepting applications for the following research groups:

“Data as a means of payment”

This research group focuses on the conditions under which a market model could be applied appropriately in cases where personal data is exchanged in lieu of more conventional forms of payment. One of our central questions, in this context, is how tradition al rules of contract law should be applied, and perhaps adjusted, in order to preserve the desired operation of the law and the functioning of digital markets.

“Shifts in norm setting”

“Trust in distributed environments”

The two above research groups — “Shifts in norm setting” and “Trust in distributed environments” — investigate significant changes in governance mechanisms in the context of the Internet and digitalization. As focus shifts from national parliaments to international agreements, multilateral conventions, and also technical configurations, standards like “privacy by design” in the field of data protection as well as in other regulatory contexts are expected to become increasingly important. Smart contracts and fully decentralized consensus mechanisms — for instance, based on blockchains — open up a new field of automation and a novel basis for financial mechanisms and legal agreements.

Dr. Zohar Efroni, zohar.efroni@rewi.hu-berlin.de, will receive applications for all three of the HU Berlin’s research groups.

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)

We are accepting applications from junior and senior researchers for the following research groups:

“Responsibility and the Internet of things” (please send your application to Dr. Stefan Ullrich, stefan.ullrich@tu-berlin.de)

The Internet of things (IoT) is both a lucrative market and a security nightmare. This project seeks to identify and map IoT devices, as well as policies and best practices used in developing such highly interconnected and ubiquitous IT systems. Ideally, as a member of  our team, your focus will be on designing case scenarios of interdisciplinary use and on consequent policymaking regulations for various IoT apparatuses and tools.

“Criticality of software-based systems” (please send your application to Dr. Diana Serbanescu, diana-alina.serbanescu@tu-berlin.de)

As society’s reliance on autonomous, intelligent, and critical software systems increases, new strategies must be found to ensure not only that traditional quality engineering aspects such as safety, efficiency, reliability and securityare preserved, but also that the ethics of human-machine interactions and the sociopolitical implications they trigger are appropriately addressed. With this scope in mind, as a member of our research team, you will join us in scrutinizing critical software systems of the future and investigating their ethical dimensions and the new challenges they pose.

The fellowship includes the use of Weizenbaum Institute facilities and a grant to compensate for expenses incurred regarding travel and accommodation. The duration of a fellowship may vary from one to three months; it is possible to split a fellowship into several visits.

University of Potsdam (UP)

We are accepting fellowship applications from junior (post-doc level) and senior researchers (e.g. assistant, associate, full, emeritus professors) for the following research groups:

“Digital technologies and well-being” (please send your application to Annika Baumann, annibaumann@uni-potsdam.de)

Social media, smartphone applications, wearables and other emerging technologies are transforming the society we live in today. These technologies change the way we develop relationships, communicate with one another, work, and spend our leisure time. Because such platforms increasingly permeate our daily routines, stakeholders have begun to raise issues about the meaning and long-term  consequences of the changes they are bringing about. Proponents express strong optimism, linking the use of these technologies to significant benefits individually and socially; opponents raise the specter of increased risk and negative consequences like information overload, addiction, growing envy, decreased attention span, and loss of privacy. In light of this controversy, as a member of our  research team, you will join us in exploring the impact of these digital technologies, especially social media, on individual well-being in a broader sense.

“Digital integration” (please send your application to Prof. Dr. Hanna Krasnova, krasnova@uni-potsdam.de)

Social inclusion, a central component of any democratic society, has emerged as a particularly critical issue in the face of recent ongoing refugee crises. A sudden wave of migration has raised a number of challenges including operational ones such as expedient and unbureaucratic registration, provision of medical support, transportation and housing; as well as more strategic challenges such as equal access to education, employment, and housing, to name just three. Given the IT-savviness of so many of the refugees at present, social media and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) could become powerful tools in supporting integration processes. Up to now, however, the role of digital technology in supporting social inclusion is a research question that has hardly been investigated. As a member of our research team, you will join us in exploring the possibilities and potentials, as we seek to gain further insights into the role of ICT in social integration processes.

“Education and training in the digital society” (please send your application to Dr. Gergana Vladova, gergana.vladova@wi.uni-potsdam.de)

Digital technologies increasingly place new demands on education, vocation, and the required competences of employees worldwide. At the same time, the long-term implications of these developments remain unclear. In light of the ongoing transformations, there is a growing need to consider what kinds of knowledge, education, and competence will be crucial for members of the workforce in the new digital age, and how this vital information can be effectively communicated. Indeed, how can schools integrate digital education in to the classroom effectively? How do we design digital-competence training? What approaches can be taken to counteract the devaluation of occupational skills of some employee groups in order to ensure their long-term workforce integration? As a member of our research team, you will join us in exploring these and other challenges at the intersection of education and digital technologies.

For more information regarding the conditions of the research fellowship, please contact the person to whom you will submit your application (corresponding to the research group in which you are interested). The duration of a fellowship may vary from one to three months; it is also possible to split a fellowship into several visits.