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10 Apr 2018 JSPS London Call for the Short Term Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers FY2018 (second call)

Applications to JSPS London

Fellowship Start Period: 1st November 2018 to 31st March 2019

Closing Date: Friday 1st June, 2018

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20 Mar 2018 The Call for Nominations of 2018 (34th) International Prize for Biology

The Call for Nominations of 2018 (34th) International Prize for Biology was opened.

The International Prize for Biology is a commemorative prize to celebrate the sixty-year reign of Emperor Showa and his longtime devotion to biological research. It also pays tribute to the present Emperor, His Majesty, Emperor Akihito, who has striven for many years to advance the study of gobioid fish taxonomy while contributing continuously to the developing of this Prize.

Based on nominations gathered from around the world, the Prize is awarded annually to a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to make advance in biological sciences.

The research field of this year’s Prize is “Paleontology.” 


Nominations to: JSPS Tokyo

Closing Date: 20 April 2018

More details on JSPS Tokyo's website: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-biol

21 Dec 2017 FY2018 JSPS London BRIDGE Fellowship Call for Applications

BRIDGE

Closing date: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Visit start period: Between July 2018 to the end of March 2019

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13 Dec 2017 2018 Master’s and Doctoral Programmes at UNU-IAS in Tokyo

2018 Master’s and Doctoral Programmes at UNU-IAS in Tokyo

The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) is now accepting applications for September 2018 admission to our postgraduate degree programmes: the Master of Science in Sustainability and the PhD in Sustainability Science. The application deadlines are 28 February 2018 for the master’s programme, and 27 April 2018 for the doctoral programme. Both programmes start in September 2018.

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For more information, please find it here.

07 Nov 2017 JSPS SUMMER PROGRAMME 2018 FOR MPhil OR PhD STUDENTS

JSPS Summer Programme 2018
Application Deadline: Monday 15th January 2018
Fellowship to take place during fixed period: 12 June to 22 August 2018

Applications should be sent to the British Council Tokyo. Application guidelines and form are available on their website here:
https://www.britishcouncil.jp/en/programmes/higher-education/support-researchers

For any Enquiries please e-mail: science@britishcouncil.or.jp

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13 Oct 2017 JSPS London Call for the Short Term Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers FY2018 (first call)

Applications to JSPS London

Fellowship Start Period: 1st May 2018 to 31st March 2019

Closing Date: Friday 1st December, 2017

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06 Sept 2017 FY2018 Call for the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme

Closing date: Wednesday 8th November, 2017

Time frame for holding events: between June 2018 to the end of February 2019

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23 Aug 2017 Open Faculty Positions at OIST in Okinawa, Japan

The following open postions for faculty members at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.

Chemistry: All areas of chemistry, including chemical biology,
synthetic organic/inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and materials chemistry.

Computer Science: All areas of computer science, including machine learning,
AI, robotics, algorithms, theory, software engineering, graphics, and visualization.

Cell Biology: All areas of cell biology, including cellular signaling, structural biology,
stem cell biology, developmental biology, immunology, neurobiology,
and the biology of cancer and other disease states at the cellular and molecular levels.

For more information, please visit the university's website:

https://groups.oist.jp/facultypositions

20 Jul 2017 FY2018 EPSRC UK-Japan Call in Coordination with the JSPS Core to Core Programme

The EPSRC are seeking expressions of interest by Monday 14th August 2017, for participation of UK groups in the JSPS Core-to-Core Scheme in the area of advanced functional materials. 

The EPSRC will contribute up to £2M for the call as matching funding to that provided by JSPS, funding approximately two collaborations depending on success in the peer review process that will be managed by JSPS. Funds should be used over a 5 year period starting from April 2018 for joint research projects, seminars and researcher exchanges with the aim to create world-class research hubs centred around the UK, Japan and at least one other country.

For more information please go to: https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/coretocorecollab2017/

19 Jul 2017 FY2018 Call for JSPS Invitation Fellowships

There are 3 types of JSPS Invitation Fellowships for mid career to senior level researchers to do collaborative research in Japan:

Long term: for a 2 to 10 month visit

Short Term: for a 2 week to 2 month visit

Short Term (s): for a 1 week to 1 month visit 

Fellowship Start Period: between 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019

Application Deadline: 1 September 2017

*Please send applications to JSPS Tokyo via a host institution. Please be aware the internal deadline set by the host institution to collect applications to forward to JSPS Tokyo will be earlier.


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