Open opportunities

IMPETUS Call for Citizen Science Project

IMPETUS is looking for new and sustainable citizen science projects to support and promote in its latest open call! If you are addressing societal challenges in an innovative way through citizen science, IMPETUS welcomes your initiatives.

The call is open from 10 January to 12 March 2024 for the European Union Prize for Citizen Science and 14 March 2024 for the IMPETUS Accelerator.

With the European Union Prize for Citizen Science, IMPETUS aims to bring outstanding citizen science to the fore, to celebrate the success and diversity of citizen science being carried out across Europe, and to ensure that this fantastic work gets the recognition it deserves.

Could your project benefit from financial support, mentoring and training to take your work to the next level? Then the IMPETUS Accelerator Programme is the perfect choice. 

More information here. 

Winter School GSERM 2024 in Ljubljana 

The Global School in Empirical Research Methods is a world-class programme teaching methodology. We welcome Master's and PhD students, postdocs and professionals from all kinds of study fields who want to enhance their skills in block seminars taught by renowned faculty amongst an international crowd of participants.

The winter school will take place from 8 to 19 January at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business. Use the following links to access information about courses, fees and other useful information regarding GSERM.

Registration is available here.

EUTOPIA-SIF Monthly Fellow Seminar for researchers, educators and practitioners

Within the framework of the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowship Programme we are delighted to invite you to the to the EUTOPIA-SIF Monthly Fellow Seminar. The Seminar will take place on Thursday 11 January 2024, 13:00-14:30 CET.

Participation can be a valuable insight into the international research activities taking place under the umbrella of EUTOPIA. All researchers, educators and practitioners who may be interested in the topics presented are cordially invited to attend.

The will be held on Zoom, on this link.

Event Schedule

13:00 – 13:05   Introduction

13:05 – 13:15   Fellow Presentation

Speaker: Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski (CY Cergy Paris University)

Project Title: Symmetric conformity functions make decision-making processes independent of the distribution of learning strategies

Abstract: Two main procedures characterize the way in which individuals evaluate the qualities of the options in decision-making processes:  they either seek to evaluate their intrinsic qualities (individual learners), or they rely on the opinion of the others (social learners). For the latter, social experiments have suggested that the mathematical form of the probability of adopting  an option, called the conformity function, is symmetric. However, the literature includes models where social learners employ either symmetric or non-symmetric functions. We show that when symmetric conformity functions are considered, the form of the probability distribution of the individual strategies does not matter.

13:15 – 13:20   Q&A

13:20 – 13:40   Fellow Presentation

Speaker: Thomas Bilterys (University of Warwick)

Project Title: Sleep problems in people with chronic pain: Adapting the sleep treatment

Abstract: Both insomnia and chronic pain are very prevalent and highly disabling global health conditions with high societal cost. They frequently co-occur and have a bi-directional relation. Currently, there is little done in clinical practice to address sleep problems in the management of chronic pain. However, previous studies explored the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I, the recommended first-line treatment for insomnia) and show promising results in chronic pain patients but also revealed some limitations. This project aims to investigate the feasibility and effect of an adapted version of CBT-I which also considers the sleep-pain relationship.

13:40 – 13:45   Q&A

13:45 – 14:05   Fellow Presentation

Speaker: Andreana Pastena (University of Warwick)

Project Title: Navigating diversity: A comparative study of students’ experiences in two European universities

Abstract: Due to migration flows, internationalization policies, and mobility programs, universities are becoming spaces of increasing cultural and linguistic diversity. Consequently, individuals have more opportunities to interact with people from diverse backgrounds and engage in multilingual communication. This project explores how ‘local’ and ‘international’ students navigate such spaces. The focus will be on students’ experiences with languages and intercultural peers at two high-quality European universities: one settled in an English monolingual context (UK), the other in a bilingual one (Catalonia). By comparing these two, the study aims to uncover both global and context-specific challenges of internationalized universities.

14:05 – 14:30   Q&A

Call for a proposal for the EUTOPIA Connected Community of Students and Academic Staff of partner universities

You are invited to propose a new EUTOPIA Connected Community. We have developed 40 Connected Communities over the last four years, which are still operational, and we aim to establish more in the coming years. 

Connected Learning and Research Communities aim to enable a different learning and research experience by involving staff, students and external stakeholders in a participatory and co-creative process. More specifically, participation in a connected community enhances:

• international exposure for learning and research,
• insight into developments in higher education and research,
• the possibility of (trans)national calls and funding,
• recognition of international efforts for staff and students.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 January 2024. For more please write to 

More information can be found here. 

EUTOPIA opportunity for junior researchers: DurAMat call is now open!

DurAMat is the game-changer that will engender long-lasting performance properties of Additive Manufactured products used in severe exposure environments. DurAMat research will i) develop AM components from different alloy families sustainably, ii) enable AM as preferred repair method for defunct metallic products and iii) enable AM for metal functionalisation. DurAMat’s research combines experimental research with multiscale modelling and machine learning (ML) methods.

DurAMat fills important knowledge gaps and will innovate AM metals and coatings, technologies, services, and several computational models (multiscale and Machine Learning). DurAMat is coordinated at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB by Prof. Iris De Graeve, Prof. Herman Terryn, Dr. Reynier Revilla and Dr. Fatma Demir.

The consortium consists of 6 Universities, 2 Research Centres and 5 Industrial Companies from 6 European Countries. It will train 11 doctoral candidates in a holistic approach, encompassing cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge transfer, teaching activities, and cultivating interpersonal and transferable skills.

We are looking for students with a Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences, Materials, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, or Computational science.

The research projects will start April 2024 in a large international network and with unique mobility in Europe. We encourage EU students that wish to venture into other European opportunities and non-EU students, of all nationalities, that wish to explore Europe, to apply.

There are 11 PhD positions open, so find out more about the individual projects and the recruitment program on DurAMat website.
 

VUB is coordinating the project, NOVA, UG, UW, TUD are project partners, students from all EUTOPIA partners and beyond can apply.

Click here to find out more information and register.

Early Career Researchers’ (ECR) Sustainability Training School (STS) 2.0

The Early Career Researcher Sustainability Training School – Global (ECR STS Global) 2.0 will be held on 15-19 April 2024 at the University of Warwick, the Scarman Conference Centre. The Training School builds on its last year’s success - ECR STS 1.0 held in June 2023.

We are inviting prospective participants to submit an extended abstract of their research (max 1,000 words) and a brief cover letter to   by 5 January 2024. If selected, participants will be asked to prepare a 10-minute presentation for the STS. Successful candidates will be notified by the end of January and invited to attend a presentation training pre-session in advance of the STS commencement. Accommodation, subsistence and training costs regarding STS will be covered for all participants by the organisers.

More information here. 

Read more here: STS_2024_Call for papers