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Eu-SPRI Forum call for proposals for Early Career Researcher Conferences (ECC) and Early Career Research Training Schools (ECS) in 2016-2017

Early Career Researcher Conferences (ECC)

ECC gather outstanding early career researchers with established academics for a series of exchanges about on-going and new research in research and innovation policy. Within the SPRI field ECC normally have no narrow theme, rather there are thematically open. Early career researchers can network with one another, across institutions and countries, and with established researchers, and gain critical feedback on their work, as well as experience in critiquing the work of peers.

The Eu-SPRI Forum supports one or two conference per year. An ECC will normally have 25-30 participants. The maximum support for a conference amounts to 15.000 EUR (for organisation and all actual incurred costs for participants once present, not their travel costs).

Submission deadline: 15 January 2016

Early Career Research Training Schools (ECS)

The Eu-SPRI member organisations are invited to submit proposals for Early Career Research Training Schools (ECS) in 2016 and 2017

Their field of research and innovation policy studies is diverse and has homes in different disciplinary areas. Young SPRI researchers need dedicated events to acquire and exchange knowledge in two directions:

• Methods-based schools for acquiring new capabilities

• Topic-based schools.

ECS will be hosted by one or more Eu-SPRI member organisations and will be offered by senior scholars in the field. The Eu-SPRI Forum supports one summer and one winter school per year with some 25 students each. The maximum support for a school to 15.000 EUR (for organisation and all actual incurred costs for participants once present, no travel costs).

Submission deadline:  15 January 2016

Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to Eu-SPRI Forum secretariat: u.m.kemppainen@utwente.nl, by 15 January 2016.

Examples of the formats for ECC and ECS proposals:

Eu-SPRI Forum call for proposals for Early Career Researcher Conferences (ECC) and Early Career Research Training Schools (ECS) in 2016-2017

Early Career Researcher Conferences (ECC)

ECC gather outstanding early career researchers with established academics for a series of exchanges about on-going and new research in research and innovation policy. Within the SPRI field ECC normally have no narrow theme, rather there are thematically open. Early career researchers can network with one another, across institutions and countries, and with established researchers, and gain critical feedback on their work, as well as experience in critiquing the work of peers.
The Eu-SPRI Forum supports one or two conference per year. An ECC will normally have 25-30 participants. The maximum support for a conference amounts to 15.000 EUR (for organisation and all actual incurred costs for participants once present, not their travel costs).
Submission deadline: 15 January 2016

Early Career Research Training Schools (ECS)

The Eu-SPRI member organisations are invited to submit proposals for Early Career Research Training Schools (ECS) in 2016 and 2017

Their field of research and innovation policy studies is diverse and has homes in different disciplinary areas. Young SPRI researchers need dedicated events to acquire and exchange knowledge in two directions:

• Methods-based schools for acquiring new capabilities

• Topic-based schools.

ECS will be hosted by one or more Eu-SPRI member organisations and will be offered by senior scholars in the field. The Eu-SPRI Forum supports one summer and one winter school per year with some 25 students each. The maximum support for a school to 15.000 EUR (for organisation and all actual incurred costs for participants once present, no travel costs).

Submission deadline:  15 January 2016

Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to Eu-SPRI Forum secretariat: u.m.kemppainen@utwente.nl, by 15 January 2016.

Examples of the formats for ECC and ECS proposals:

 

International Conference: « The Transformation of Research in the South : policies and outcomes », 21-22 Jan. 2016

International conference organised by :

How countries support public scientific research has a direct bearing on the capability of researchers to generate scientific knowledge, and of organizations to adapt or apply such knowledge. While many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are characterized by weak scientific capacity, there are signs of change in how governments support research and promote science.

In this dynamic context, some evident signs of change include the emergence of new or restructured organizations to steer public research or promote innovation; new programmatic directions within such organizations; increased funding dedicated to research in academic settings; and, new domestic and international partnerships seeking to expand participation in and application of research. A multiplicity of organizations and funding sources have appeared, creating a complex web where resources circulate with knowledge in ways that are reshaping research systems in the South.

 Presentations :

Panel 1: RESEARCH POLICY FRAMEWORKS

  • Arvanitis, Hanafi et Currie-Alder : « Research policy in Arab countries:  international cooperation,  competitive calls, and career  incentives »
  • Mari?a Balarin, Grade, Peru? Miguel Vera & Natalia Pe?res – Fundacio?n Aru, Bolivia Fernando Masi, Bele?n Servi?n & Ignacio Gonza?les – CADEP, Paraguay
  • Nguyen Thi Thu Oanh and Michael Braun,  Vietnamese German University, Vietnam
  • Solange_Martinez, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina
  • Mouton_Johann, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • Daniel Villavicencio, Posgrado en Economia y Gestión de la Innovación, UAM-­ Xochimilco, Mexico

Panel 2: STRENGTHENING ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Panel 3: ASSESSING RESEARCH PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT

Panel 4: EXPANDING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH

Panel 5: TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION IN RESEARCH

 

Contacts :

 

For more information:

 

 

(CALL FOR PAPERS)

 

Eu-SPRI Forum PhD Circulation Award| Call for proposals for doctoral researchers

Eu-SPRI Forum PhD Circulation Award| Call for proposals for doctoral researchers

Fourteenth submission deadline: 11 November 2015

EU-SPRI Forum  invites PhD researchers to apply for the next round of PhD circulation. This call is open to doctoral researchers in their second year of PhD thesis or beyond
(and early stage researchers, who have completed their PhD within the past 12 months, in exceptional circumstances).

Topic Areas supported

This mobility call is restricted to research topics relating to science, technology and innovation policy including studies of science, technological innovation processes and entrepreneurship which may have relevance for policy.

How to apply

1. You must first discuss your proposed visit with a potential supervisor at your chosen host institution. Both the ‘PhD Home’ institute and ‘PhD Host’ institute must be members of the Eu-SPRI Forum Network. You must confirm that they are prepared to accept you if your proposal is selected.

2. Send the following documents to siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk:

  • A completed application form (download from Eu-SPRI Forum web site). This does not need to be signed by all parties at application stage.
  • A Curriculum Vitae
  • Letter / email of support from Host Supervisor
  • Letter / email of support from Home Supervisor
  • 1 other academic reference

3. Your application will be evaluated by a committee from the Eu-SPRI Forum Training Group.  You will be informed of the outcome when a decision has been made (within 1 month).

Application guidelines

  • The proposed location should be in a different “national system” so that the PhD researcher experiences a different institutional environment.  An application to move, for example, within the Netherlands would not be accepted.
  • Length of circulation visit should be at least 3 months.
  • In the Letter of Intent, be as specific as possible about what you intend to do at your host institute.  Detail why you wish to visit that particular institute; how it will contribute to your research; what you hope to achieve.
  • Prepare your proposal thoroughly, look at the criteria for selection, and make a good case. The awards are competitive, and you need to present yourself well.  Have a specific objective of the stay.  This could be to work on an area of theory with experts, or to undertake fieldwork in a different country, for example.  Think about the potential benefits which may arise in the longer term.  Make sure you put in sufficient material to convince the reviewers
  • Ensure that the place you want to visit is a good match for you and your work, and make sure that the researcher(s) you want to work with will actually be there and are willing to host you.  Making preliminary enquiries about practical arrangements is also a good idea. However, if someone at another institution has agreed in principle to accept you, your proposal may still be subject to a request for further revision or rejected.
  • Ask someone (perhaps your supervisor) to review your proposal before you submit it.
  • Your research must be relevant to the Eu-SPRI Forum Network.  For more information see web site.
  • Both the ‘PhD Home’ institute and ‘PhD Host’ institute must be members of the Eu-SPRI Forum Network.  Therefore, you may only apply to institutes that are ‘PhD Hosts’ within Eu-SPRI Forum Network.  See web site.
  • The criteria for evaluating proposals are:- Quality of the candidate
    – Quality of the PhD project
    –  Relevance of the project to Eu-SPRI
    – Expected benefits of stay for host institution
    – Expected benefits of stay for research career and PhD studies – Balance of student flows

Further details

  • Eu-SPRI will award a lump sum of 2,000 Euros per candidate (for travel expenses and accommodation).
  • If the application is successful, the letter of Intent must then be signed by all parties who must agree to the terms outlined in it.
  • On completion of the circulation  an evaluation report must be provided to the Eu-SPRI network, which will be placed on the website.

Contacts

La plateforme CorText à l’épreuve de l’analyse de corpus historiques

Les outils de la plateforme CorText ont été mobilisés pour cartographier l’ensemble des discours de l’État de l’Union présentés annuellement par le président américain au Congrès depuis Georges Washington en 1790.

A partir de ce corpus purement textuel, une analyse temporelle originale a permis d’identifier 1917 comme l’année charnière faisant basculer la politique américaine dans une ère résolument moderne. Cette métamorphose peut-être caractérisée plus finement à travers la visualisation des transformations des principales catégories discursives identifiées au cours du temps.

Ce travail a donné lieu à un article publié dans PNAS en collaboration entre Columbia University et le LISIS.

FAO – INRA Researcher-Practitioner Workshop, 23 – 25 June 2015, Bogota, Colombia

This workshop is a joint initiative between the Plant Production and Protection Division (AGP) and the Rural Infrastructures and Agro-industries Division (AGS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). It brings together work being conducted within two synergistic projects:

Beginning in 2013, AGP-AGS-INRA began an international survey of innovations that link sustainable agricultural practices with markets in developing countries with an open, competitive call for case studies. Fifteen case studies from around the world (4 Latin American and Caribbean, 6 African and 5 Asian and Pacific) were developed in 2014. These case studies and the meta-analysis of institutional innovations and how these create linkages between sustainable agriculture and local markets will be published as an Edited Book in 2015.

Beginning in 2015 as a joint project between AGS and INRA, which capitalizes on the work of the first project, is collecting more systematized data of the key components of market construction so to analyze the opportunities and challenges of creating sustainable market linkages. A case study methodology is used to collect data from 6 of the cases on agro-ecology systems that were involved in the first study, three from experiences carried out with the help of Slow Food International and three additional cases that fill in geographic and farming system gaps in the existing range of experiences.

Through these two projects it became apparent that there are a wealth of experiences about sustainable practices and linkages to markets that are occurring under the radar all across the world. This workshop is a way to create visibility for these experiences and to work towards strengthening the already existing work through future collaboration.

Objective:

The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to:

1)      Share experiences  on  how to create diversified markets for sustainable products in developing countries

2)      Identify lessons to initiate a practitioners’ guide on building market linkages for sustainable products;

3)      Identify capacity building and research needs of practitioners.

 

For more information and agenda : Agenda_En

FAO-INRA_Presentation

Agenda_Es

Call for Applications: CRE8TV.EU: PhD and Early Career Researcher Workshop Innovation, Creativity and Competitiveness

CRE8TV.EU: PhD and Early Career Researcher Workshop Innovation, Creativity and Competitiveness, 17-18 September 2015, Manchester, UK

Supported by the European Commission funded FP7 project: “unveiling creativity for innovation in Europe” (CRE8TV.EU), Manchester Business School is pleased to announce a two-day workshop for PhD students and early careers researchers.

The workshop aims at supporting attendees in:

• developing their research projects with a view to publication, especially in (innovation) journals;

• fostering knowledge exchange and networking among fellow researchers working on topics related to innovation and creativity;

• enhancing their ability to receive and deal with developmental feedback on their work along with reviewing and discussing the work of colleagues.

The majority of the time at this two day workshop will be spent discussing papers at an advanced stage of development. Each paper will be introduced by the author, and then discussed by one senior and one junior discussant. Senior discussants who have agreed to participate include:

• Beatrice D’Ippolito (University of York)

• Silvia Massini (The University of Manchester)

• Andrea Mina (University of Cambridge)

• Ammon Salter (University of Bath)

• Jonathan Sapsed (University of Brighton)

• Bruce Tether (The University of Manchester)

Local organisers:

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School.

Further information:

For further information about the CRE8TV.EU Conference for Early Career Researchers will be provided on the CRE8TV.EU website.

 

Call for Applications_CRE8TV.EU Early Careers Workshop_17-18Sep

RISIS – Introductory course on patent databases

In the framework of the RISIS project (http://risis.eu/), an introductory course on patent databases describing the features and potentialities of the Corporate Invention Board (CIB) and Nano patent databases will be organized at the Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée in Paris the 8th and 9th of October 2015.
The course is free of charge; admission is based on the first-come first-serve principle.

Interested participants are kindly requested to send an e-mail to : patricia.laurens@esiee.fr before the 15th of July.

More information on RISIS training activities and upcoming course can be found on the following URL: http://risis.eu/training/

 

Leaflet Patent course

Professional Master’s degree in Digital Innovation Studies (NUMI)

The interdisciplinary laboratory Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS) announces the opening of a new professional Master’s degree in Digital Innovation Studies (NUMI) in the academic year 2015 -2016.

The professional Master’s degree in sociology of « digital worlds » (NUMI) teaches the « digital methods » for human and social sciences. It proposes a learning on sociological analysis in the political, economic and social sectors.

The purpose of this Master’s programme at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM) is to provide skills permitting to analyse the impact of digitisation of our societies. The spread of spheres of digitization, the tracks left online by Internet users and data generated by connected technology, offer to sociology the opportunity to exploit and use the information of a new nature and massive quantity. This master program teaches the digital methods for this operation, meaning the combination of statistical machine learning of artificial intelligence with the qualitative methods of sociology.

The NUMI training is the only one in France to articulate the digital methods with the analytical frameworks of sociology. It benefits from the presence on the site of many digital resources (CorText manager, textObserver / Webobserver, Unitex / Gramlab), developed by professors and researchers interested in the development of social computing. Students will have access to co-working workplaces, like NUMA or Laptop, where they could quickly socialize in the digital world.

NUMI Master’s programme will be conducted under the supervision of:

  • Dominique Cardon, sociologist,  SENSE Orange labs department
  • Bilel Benbouzid, professor and researcher, LISIS

 

For more information on NUMI Master’s programme:

Appel à projets DIM IS2-IT – Allocations doctorales

Dispositif phare de la politique régionale de recherche mis en place en 2005 par la Région Île-de-France, les domaines d’intérêt majeur (DIM) visent à fédérer des réseaux de laboratoires situés en Île-de-France, agissant sur des domaines labellisés ciblés.

Pour la période 2012-2015, 16 DIM ont été labellisés :

  • Agrosciences, écologie des territoires, alimentation
  • Analytics : Les défis analytiques, du concept au système
  • Astrophysique et conditions d’apparition de la vie
  • Biothérapie : Médecine régénérative, cellules souches et transplantation
  • Cancérologie
  • Cardiovasculaire, obésité, rein, diabète
  • Cerveau et pensée (neurosciences, neurologie, psychiatrie, cognition)
  • Des atomes froids aux nanosciences
  • Genre, inégalités, discriminations
  • Groupe d’études sur le travail et la souffrance au travail
  • Innovation, sciences, techniques, société (DIM IS2-IT)
  • Les pathologies infectieuses humaines : mécanismes, risques et impact sociétal
  • Oxydes multifonctionnels
  • Problématiques transversales aux systèmes complexes
  • Réseau de recherche doctoral de mathématiques de l’Ile-de-France
  • Réseau francilien de recherche sur le développement soutenable

Vous trouverez de plus amples informations sur les DIM sur le site internet de la Région Île-de-France.

La majorité des appel à projets émis par les DIM sont lancés conjointement le 15 décembre 2014. Cette coordination a pour objectif de permettre aux porteurs de projets d’identifier le DIM le plus à même de supporter leur projet. En contre partie, un même projet ne peut être déposé qu’à un seul DIM.

Pour les projets à l’interface entre plusieurs DIM, nous vous invitons à prendre connaissance de leurs axes thématiques respectifs afin d’identifier l’appel à projets qui semble le plus en adéquation avec votre projet. Après dépôt à un DIM, le dossier ne pourra pas être transmis à un autre DIM.

Le DIM IS2-IT lance un appel à projets pour l’attribution d’allocations doctorales financées par la Région Île-de-France, d’une durée maximale de 3 ans.
Pour les modalités de réponse à l’appel à projets, voir le fichier ci-joint.
Les dossiers complets devront être soumis par voie électronique le 31 mai 2015 à minuit.

Les dossiers seront envoyés à l’adresse suivante : DIM_IS2_IT@ifris.org.

Appel à projets 2015 DIM IS2-IT – Allocations doctorales

Formulaire AAP bourses doctorales DIM IS2-IT 2015

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