Every year the Marc de Montalembert Foundation offers a grant of 7000 Euros to a young Mediterranean for a project linked to the knowledge of the cultures of the Mediterranean region. Applications are open between 1 October 2008 to 31 December 2008.

Further information may be obtained from the website or from Giulia Sacchi.
 

Stanford University, California, USA
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Faculty Research Fellowship Program
Call for Applications: 2009-2010
Deadline: October 15, 2008

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University invites applications for residential fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010. Applications will be considered from tenured and tenure-track faculty, and postdoctoral scholars from the U.S. and foreign universities. Candidates may apply as individuals or as small groups.  

Fellowships are offered in a number of interdisciplinary areas, including:

• Gendered Innovations in Knowledge. While much has been written on women in science and engineering, especially the difficulty of recruiting and retaining women in these areas, the challenge now is to integrate the insights of gender studies into scientific theory and practice. We welcome research proposals that address how gender analysis, when turned to science and engineering, can profoundly enhance human knowledge. The key questions are: How has gender analysis sparked creativity by opening new questions for future research? How can employing gender as a tool of analysis lead to new knowledge? To better understand what we are looking for, see Londa Schiebinger, Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Has Feminism Changed Science? (Harvard University Press, 1999), part III, or Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28 (2003):859-922 on "Feminism Inside the Sciences."
• Gender in the Physical Sciences, and Math
• Gender in Engineering and Computer Science
• Gender in Environmental Sciences
• Gender in the Life Sciences and Bio-technology
• Gender-specific Medical Research and Women's Health
• Clustering in Scientific Subfields. Women tend to cluster in particular sciences, such as the life sciences, and in particular subfields of science or engineering (for example, there are many more women in civil than in electrical engineering). We welcome applications that investigate what it is about particular fields that attract or repel women.
• Title IX in Science and Engineering. Title IX applies to all areas of federally-funded education, including science and engineering. Researchers working on the use of Title IX, in particular identifying criteria for assessing institutional compliance with Title IX, in the sciences are invited to apply.
• Women in "Big Science".
• Work culture and work-life balance in professional life, especially in the sciences.
• Division of Household Labor. It is well known that women tend to undertake more household labor than men in heterosexual relationships, even when they work in full-time paid employment. We are interested in new approaches to these issues, rather than a restatement of existing conclusions.

Fellows must be in residence at the Clayman Institute for the duration of their fellowship. Fellowship stipends range from $36,000 for postdoctoral scholars to $60,000 for senior faculty. Applications for one, two or three quarters will be considered.

Complete applications are to be received in our office by 4:00pm (PST) on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. To apply and for further information, please visit the Clayman Institute website.

Jane M. Gruba-Chevalier
Program Manager
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Serra House
589 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA  94305-8640
Tel:    650-723-1994
Fax:    650-725-0374

The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities, at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world, for breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Through this open and competitive Call for Proposals, they are soliciting best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations. Full program guidelines are detailed at the 2008 Innovation Research Program Request for Proposals.

Detailed descriptions of the Research Topics in the 2008 RFP can be downloaded from here.

The University of Ferrara offers to international students several Ph.D. positions, seven of them with fellowships.

The successful applicants will start their activity on January 1st, 2009. Winners of the fellowships will receive about 820 Euro net per month and will be entitled to have a free room at the Residential College of IUSSFerrara 1391. Additional places without fellowship are foreseen.

For international students, admission to doctoral programs and special fellowships is based on qualifications and letters of recommendation.
The application has to be addressed to:  
Rettore dell'Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Ufficio Postlaurea
Via Scienze 41/b
44100
Ferrara

The following material has to be sent together with the application:
1. A photocopy of an identity document
2. Certification of the University degree, including titles of the courses and marks obtained in the examinations.
3. At least two recommendation letters.
4. Curriculum vitae.
5. Any other document which can be useful for evaluating the attitude of the candidate to the research activity.
All documents, unless written in English or Italian, are to be translated into one of the above languages.
Application and the attached documents must reach the University of Ferrara on or before July 11, 2008. Decisions will be taken at the end of July.

For more detailed information on the admission procedure, the official announcement, the downloadable application form and the deadlines, please refer to the official site.

For information about the doctoral programs which are available at the University of Ferrara, please consult the website.

Each year the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union offers 130 in-service training posts, 85 of them receive a grant.

Applications for 2009 can be posted online as from 2 June to 1 September 2008.

For more details kindly check the website or send an email. 

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The George Institute for International Health in London has been commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to track funding into product development for tropical neglected diseases and they are currently in the process of identifying key groups who can participate in the survey.

The Insitute wishes to contact tropical neglected disease funders and research institutions in Malta. 

For more information please contact:
Dr  Hiwot Haile-Selassie
Research Associate
The George Institute for International Health
Honorary Research Fellow London School of Hygiene & Tropical
London International Development Centre
36 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 203 073 8324
Click here to send an email.

Greek Summer School
– Introduction to Conservation Biology:
a summer international school to promote conservation science
Papingo, Greece 31 August to 7 September 2008
 
Are you an undergraduate student?
Are you concerned about nature conservation? 

The Education Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology -  European Section in collaboration with the University of Ioannina and the Center of  Biological and Cultural Diversity invites you to an exciting journey  in the world of wild nature and scientific knowledge in the heart of  Vikos-Aoos National Park, in Greece.
 
Examples of the 10 main lecture topics:
Biodiversity value and loss: is conservation biology the answer?
Designing protected areas: theory and practice
Conserving biota in a changing climate
Conservation policy: the nature conservation and society interface in  cultural landscapes
 
During the field sessions Greek conservation biologists will guide you  to discover bear traces, Balkan chamois, rare endemic flowers,  songbirds, raptors, butterflies, bats, as well as the local  architecture and tradition.
 
For further information click here.   
Registration is open until 25 June 2008 

Outstanding female researchers from fields of Medicine and natural sciences are welcome to apply to the EU-funded project ‘Encouragement to Advance – Training Seminars for Women Scientists’. The project offers a four-day training on appointment procedures that addresses female Post-Docs who aim to enter a senior position at a University. The appointment procedure training for professorships specialises on Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, though applications are welcome from researchers of all EU-27 countries. Requests to the projected grant budget are especially welcome from Eastern European countries.

The seminar covers international appointment procedures; presentation of a trial lecture or ones academic profile, the interview with the search committee, examination of application documents, and the development of career strategies and career objectives. Furthermore each seminar reviews how to get involved in the 7th European research framework programme and offers a good opportunity for interdisciplinary and international networking among all participants.

Grants will be awarded to applicants in certain cases of outstanding qualification and compliance to the projects selection criteria. The planned grants cover the regular participation fee of 250 Euro as well as travel expenses up to 550 Euro. Irrespective of reason or sum of the requested grant, applicants are not legally entitled to be awarded.

For more information about the project and the registration procedure please visit www.cews.org or contact the project coordinator anke.lipinsky@cews.org.

Contact:
Anke Lipinsky
GESIS – Social Science Information Center
Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS)
Dreizehnmorgenweg 40-42
53175 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: +49-228-228 15 28
Fax: +49-228-228 15 50
www.gesis.org

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Four Ph.D. positions are available in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, as part two Strategic Research Clusters, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI): the Solid State Pharmaceuticals Cluster (SSPC) and the Irish Drug Delivery Research Network (IDDRN).

The SSPC is a consortium of leading Irish universities (UL, TCD, UCD, NUIG and UCC) and industry partners. The research question addressed by the cluster is the mechanisms whereby pharmaceutical solids can be produced with predefined characteristics. The objective is to rationally design solid-state pharmaceutical materials in the required physical and chemical forms to meet the demands of advanced formulation and drug delivery systems.

The projects to be carried out in Trinity College Dublin as part of the SSPC are:
Project 1: The effect of processing on the solid-state form of selected sulphonamides and their sodium salts, alone and as drug–excipient composites.
Project 2: The effect of physical and solid-state form of selected sulphonamides and their sodium salts on bulk powder flowability and mixing.

The IDDRN involves collaboration between University College Dublin (UCD), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Cork (UCC) and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) and is supported by Genzyme Ireland, Sigmoid Biotechnologies, and Warwick Effect Polymers (UK).  The group will focus on improved methods of delivery of peptides and nucleic acids.

The projects to be carried out in Trinity College Dublin as part of the IDDRN are:
Project 1: Development of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and salmon calcitonin (sCT) microparticles for pulmonary delivery
Project 2: Development and characterisation of nanoparticulate systems for oral and pulmonary peptide delivery

Qualification Requirements
Applicants should have a degree (first class honours or second class honours, first division) in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science or related discipline and should have an aptitude/strong interest in pharmaceutics research.

Application Details
Interested applicants should, in the first instance, send their CV to Dr. Anne Marie Healy at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin 2 or by e-mail to: healyam@tcd.ie.