Application deadline: 25 September 2024 – 17.00 CET The European Innovation Council (EIC) and European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and are launching the 2025 edition of the European Prize for Women Innovators. This joint initiative celebrates the outstanding achievements of women entrepreneurs driving positive change for people and the planet through their innovative […] The post Call for the 2025 European Prize for Women Innovators appeared first on European Platform of Women Scientists EPWS ..read more

At regular intervals, EPWS interviews an Institutional Promoter about some crucial questions. In this section, European Institutional Promoters are concerned with gender equality goals in science and research. In this series of interviews, we wish to shine a light on selected noteworthy institutional efforts to propose, adopt, and implement equality and diversity initiatives for gender equality in research –  and the gender dimension in a science context. On the EPWS website, portraits of institutional promoters alternate with those of distinguished women scientists and research policy-ma ..read more

  The 2024 networking event of the WFWS was organized by Women In Science Without Borders and Traces&Dreams, in collaboration with Fondazione Musica per Roma / Festival delle Scienze, and it took place in Rome, Italy, 19 April 2024. According to the event title "Envisioning Tomorrow – Science for the SDGs and New Partnerships for Sustainable Futures”, focus was the role of the scientific community – and in particular of women scientists – in facing the challenges to foster peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future, according to the United Nations ..read more

Job Title11 MSCA Postdoctoral fellows in Artificial Intelligence Closing Date: 21 May 2024 Job description LEAD AI (Bergen research and training program for future AI leaders across the disciplines) is a career and mobility fellowship programme for training 19 postdoctoral research fellows in Artificial Intelligence, managed by the University of Bergen (UiB). The research opportunities range from basic AI research for the relevant disciplines to more applied research in the natural sciences and medicine, and issues such as the interaction between AI, people and society with legal and ethical ..read more

Job Title12 full-time PhD positions in the MSCA Doctoral Network TReND (Translational Research Network in Motor Disorder Rehabilitation) Closing Date: 02.06.2024 Job description Our research group in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy offers an excellent research environment for the translation of basic neuroscience findings into clinical research paradigms and new interventions. Laboratory management tasks are varied and include the development of specialized software solutions for experimental paradigms and analysis and evaluation of experimental data, such as EEG, ECG, EMG, EDA, EOG, re ..read more

  Job Title12 full-time PhD positions in the MSCA Doctoral Network TReND (Translational Research Network in Motor Disorder Rehabilitation) Closing Date:  03.05.2024 Job description We offer 12 full-time PhD positions across different network partners of TReND (Translational Research Network in Motor Disorder Rehabilitation: Advancing understanding of variability in motor control and learning, to enhance clinical practice). All positions are expected to start between September and November 2024. The link below will lead you to the published vacancy at University of Münster. To know mo ..read more

  Job TitleFull Professor and Chair of the Soil Geography and Landscape group Closing Date: April 22, 2024. Job description Wageningen University is recruiting an inspiring professor and chair holder to lead the Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles Group. The Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles Group focuses on the design and evaluation of theory-based interventions to foster healthy lifestyles and in particular food consumption. The Group aims to understand the drivers of healthy consumption and lifestyles among individuals and groups, and how smartly designed intervention strategies (also ..read more

  Job TitleFull Professor and Chair of the Soil Geography and Landscape group Closing Date: April 22, 2024. Job description The Soil Geography and Landscape chair group of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has an outstanding reputation in scientific research and education in the area of soil geography, landscape and earth surface dynamics. A vacancy has become available for a full professor and chair of the Soil Geography and Landscape (SGL) chair group. To know more: https://www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/full-professor-and-chair-of-the-soil-geography-and-landscape-group.htm   &nb ..read more

  Job TitleResearch Assistant position (f/m/d) (Ref. 24/01) at WIAS Berlin, Germany Closing Date: 20.05.2024 Job description The professorship represents the field of “Aerodynamics” in teaching and research. This includes in particular the analysis, design and optimization of aircraft and spacecraft, taking into account the specific challenges of compressible, unsteady flows, including flow-structure interaction. The professorship is intended to provide a link between fundamental approaches and modern interdisciplinary simulation and design methods and to further develop both experimenta ..read more

  On March 27, the EPWS President Lucia Martinelli participated with a presentation in the webinar “Digital Revolution. With or with out Her?” organized by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Committee and the University Women of Europe – UWE, and moderated by Anne Bergheim-Nègre (UWE President). The webinar focused the gender bias in various aspects of the artificial intelligence, including the voice and images technology, and the role of women scientist in a field of science, which will have important impact on our personal lives an ..read more