International Cooperation

European Science Foundation -LESC RESEARCH NETWORKING PROGRAMMES – CALLS FOR SCIENCE MEETINGS AND TRAVEL GRANTS



A number of Calls for Science Meetings, Short Visit Grants and Exchange Grants are now open within some of the ESF-LESC Research Networking Programmes, as follows:



Behavioural Ecology of Insect Parasitoids – from Theoretical Approaches to Field Application (BEPAR)

http://www.esf.org/bepar/



Open Call for Short Visits and Exchange Grants:

No fixed deadline - applications are assessed every two months.



Integrating Population Genetics and Conservation Biology: Merging Theoretical, Experimental and Applied Approaches (ConGen)

http://www.esf.org/congen



Call for Short Visit Grants:

No fixed deadline – applications are assessed every two months



Frontiers of Functional Genomics (FFG)

http://www.esf.org/ffg



Call for Science Meetings to be held in 2008:

Deadline for application: 2 May 2008, 5pm CET



Call for Short Visit and Exchange Grants to be held in 2008:

Deadline for application: 2 May 2008, 5pm CET

The 3rd ESF Conference on Functional Genomics & Disease, will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, on 1-4 October 2008.
See http://www.esffg2008.org for further details.

Functional Dynamics in Complex Chemical and Biological Systems (FUNCDYN)

http://www.esf.org/funcdyn



Open Call for Short Visit and Exchange Grants:

Deadlines for application: 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 December



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ESF-LESC RESEARCH NETWORKING PROGRAMMES – SCIENCE MEETINGS



Body-size and ecosystem dynamics: Integrating pure and applied approaches from aquatic and terrestrial ecology to support an ecosystem approach (SIZEMIC)



SIZEMIC´s 1st workshop, Trophic dynamics in ecosystems: feeding interactions, species identity and body size, will take place in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 5-7 April 2008.

See http://www.sizemic.org/ for further details and the application form.

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EuroBioForum 2008 - Call for Expressions of Interest Now Open



Members of the life sciences research and funding communities are invited to submit Expressions of Interest for life science research themes that demand a coordinated European approach for their financing and implementation. Following a selection by the International Steering Committee, six prioritised research themes addressing future life science challenges will be presented and discussed by researchers, funding organisations and other stakeholders at the annual EuroBioForum conference to define, develop and coordinate future research programmes. The next EuroBioForum will be held in Strasbourg, France on 18-19 September 2008.



The Call for Expressions of Interest is available in pdf version at www.esf.org/eurobiofund/eoi.

Deadline: 6 February 2008 at 17.00 CET



See www.esf.org/eurobiofund for further details, or contact Dr. Wouter Spek at wspek@esf.org or Dr. Fiona Kernan at fkernan@esf.org.





EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION - UNIT FORLIFE, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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Tel.: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 00
Fax.: +33 (0)3 88 37 05 32
E-mail: lesc@esf.org

www.esf.org/lesc




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Mgr. Iveta Hemanovska
ESF contact

Slovak Academy of Sciences
Department of International Cooperation
Stefanikova 49
814 38 Bratislava
Slovak Republic

Tel.: + 421 2 5751 0136
Fax: + 421 2 5751 0602
e-mail: hermanovska@up.upsav.sk

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