After completing my PhD in the Netherlands, I came to Warsaw, Poland, for a postdoc position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since I am a European citizen, securing a visa for myself was not a problem. However, my fiancée is from the United States and it was much more of a fuss to obtain a residence permit for her, mainly because we are not yet married. We were in the process of going through all the paperwork...

I came to Poland with my family to join Prof. Piotr Sułkowski's group at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher for his project "Quantum Fields and Knot Homologies" funded by European Research Council, which aims to tackle fundamental questions that lie at the interface of quantum field theory, string theory and knot theory. As non-EU residents with no knowledge of Polish, we expected to...

The university professor Dr Adel A. (name has been changed for privacy) fled from Syria to Vienna and asked the OeAD / Euraxess for help in applying for a residence permit for researchers. He travelled to Austria with his wife and his little daughter with a visa. His underage son was still in Syria at that time. The OeAD / Euraxess supported the researcher and his family successfully by providing legal consultancy so that within a few hours...

Outline From July 17 th to August 4 th , 2017, the Public Health Laboratory “Ivo de Carneri” (PHL-IdC), on Pemba Island (Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania), will host the course Facing the Challenges of Global Health, an Advanced Residential Course on Poverty-Related and Neglected Tropical Diseases (PR...

Vitae and CHASE are pleased to invite doctoral researchers and early careers researchers from across the Arts and Humanities around the world to respond to a new online survey investigating their experience of professional development. Respondents who complete this 10-minute survey before 11 December 2016 will be eligible to enter a free prize draw to win a £50 Amazon.co.uk voucher. Please circulate widely to colleagues or researchers who might...

The 'Academic Drug Discovery Consortium', created by five prominent American universities, is made up of 140 research centers from all over the world.  Read more about it in the attached article.

University of Navarra CIMA scientists have used gene therapy to develop a vector which corrects the origin and reverses the symptoms of this rare hepatic disease. The research is the cover article of the "Journal of Hepatology", the most prestigious scientific journal in its field.  See the full article attached.  

What was your main reason for coming to Sweden? I participated in an exchange studies program between Luleå University of Technology and Arkhangelsk State Technical University (in my hometown) and, therefore, came to Sweden as an exchange student. What is the best thing about living in Sweden? I like climate as it is exactly the same as I used to have back home and a very high level of comfort in many perspectives. Can you tell me a bit about...

A wide range of organisations involved in research have ‘open’ on their horizons. Governments, policy makers, funders and the public globally have increasing expectations that the outputs of publicly funded research should be available for the public good. The European Commission recommends strengthening of the knowledge-based economy through open science and open innovation. Institutions are focusing effort on open access, institutional...

What is it about? The ‘OTM-R Package’ is a set of practical and useful tools for implementing Open, Transparent and Merit-based recruitment practices in Research Performing Organisations. It includes: • The rationale: Why is OTM-R essential? • The principles and guideline: What a good OTM-R system should look like? • A checklist for institutions as a self-assessment tool: How do the current practices rate? • The toolkit: A step by step guide to...