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Germany emerges as top research destination – European Research Council (ERC) awards Consolidator Grants 2019

The European Research Council (ERC) recently awarded its Consolidator Grants for 2019 to 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe.
Call for Applications
PhD Program in Global Biogeochemistry and related Earth System Sciences at IMPRS-gBGC

Applications are invited for the International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC) PhD program specializing in global biogeochemistry and related Earth System Sciences, offered in cooperation with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
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Doctoral Positions in Economic Sociology, Political Economy, and Organization Studies at IMPRS-SPCE

The International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), jointly conducted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), the Department of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, invites excellent candidates to apply for its doctoral program.
Call for Proposals: Cooperation on Climate Change and Polar Research between Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the European Union (EU) under ‘HORIZON 2020’

Researchers and innovators from universities and research organisations from India can team up with European partners in the calls for proposals published by the European Commission (EC) under its Research and Innovation programme ‘Horizon 2020’ (2014-2020).
Call for applications: PhD Positions/Scholarships in Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (FSGS) as well as the Cluster of Excellence 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin are calling for applications for the following scholarships and research assistant positions:
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Call for Applications
College for Life Sciences

The College for Life Sciences is a unique program of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, to promote excellent early-career postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences and medicine.
Call for Applications – Integrated Masters and PhD Program at CEPLAS Graduate School

CEPLAS (The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences) Graduate School at the University of Cologne has recently announced the call for applications for an integrated Masters and PhD program for a senior bachelor’s student or recent B.Sc. graduate in plant sciences, biology or related disciplines. The CEPLAS Graduate School offers a PhD graduate programme targeting students with a Bachelor’s degree (not higher). The CEPLAS Graduate School programme starts annually in October and is fully funded.