ASRT: 14th Scientific Contest

29 April 2014

The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology is pleased to announce its 14th Scientific Contest.
Detailed information are included within attached file and the following links: Contest Information.PDF

www.asrt.sci.org

TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme for Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa

28 January 2014

The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers from sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) with the opportunity to make a "Cooperation Visit" to an institute in Germany of no more than 3 months.

Under this programme, researchers are assisted in making a "Cooperation Visit" to an institute in Germany. Such visits will have a duration of no more than three (3) months and must be undertaken within 12 months of the award.

The aim of the visit is to discuss research collaboration with German scientists, possibly including some preliminary experiments, with the ultimate goal of developing longer-term collaboration, perhaps through other Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, or German Research Foundation) programmes. TWAS will cover visa, health insurance and travel expenses, while DFG will provide subsistence costs for the stay in Germany. The administration and financial operation of TWAS is undertaken by UNESCO in accordance with an agreement signed by the two organizations.

Deadline: 31 March each year.
Successful applicants will be informed 3 months after this deadline.

For detailed information about the programme, eligibility and the application form, please check the attached document, or visit: http://twas.ictp.it/prog/exchange/res-collab/twas-dfg

Call for applications: Future Earth Engagement Committee

19 January 2014

The Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability invite applications for the Future Earth Engagement Committee.

Future Earth is a 10-year international research programme that will provide critical knowledge required for societies to face the challenges posed by global environmental change and to identify opportunities for transformations towards global sustainability. Future Earth brings together thousands of scientists of all disciplines, natural and social, as well as engineering, the humanities and law.

The Future Earth Engagement Committee is a strategic advisory group whose primary purpose is to foster in-depth and innovative interactions between science and society to address global environmental change and transform towards global sustainability. The Engagement Committee will provide strategic advice from a user perspective on Future Earth research, engagement and other activities, and will develop high-level engagement with stakeholders including policy-makers, business and civil society .

For detailed information and application form, please visit: http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/call-for-applications-for-future-earth-‎engagement-committee

GERSS Autumn Call 2013/14

08 September 2013

GERSS - GERMAN EGYPTIAN RESEARCH SHORT TERM SCHOLARSHIPS
Autumn Call 1 September till 15 October
Spring Call 15 February till 31 March The German Egyptian Research Short term Scholarship GERSS is a program jointLy funded by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and the German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn (DAAD) in order to finance short term scholarships for young Egyptian scientists to travel to Germany. The target groups of the program are researchers enrolled in MSc, PhD programs and young Post-Doctoral candidates. The scholarships may be awarded for a period from three to six months.

The scholarship shall enable advanced graduate students and young scientists to pursue part of their master's, doctoral or post-doctoral research in a specific research project at German universities, archives, libraries or research institutes

There are two calls for applications annually, namely the Spring call From 15 February till 31 March and the Autumn call 1 September till 15 October.

For more information: http://cairo.daad.de/en/

For inquiries, please contact
Ms. Heba Afifi
Email: gerss@daadcairo.org
Phone +20 2 2735 27 26, +20 2 2735 27 26

Sawris Cultural Award for the year 2013

09 July 2013

Each year since 2005, the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development has presented awards for excellence to Egyptian authors, screen writers and playwrights with the aim of activating the literary movement in Egypt, encouraging the artistic creativity of its writers and improving the chances of the emergence of new talents.

The competition places great emphasis on developing Egyptian new authors and promoting indigenous literature. It is also dedicated to providing a forum for the screenwriters to display their talents in a bid to support the development and growth of the Egyptian film industry.

The newly-added category of best playwriting aims to help playwrights to get their work out into the theatre world.

For detailed information, kindly visit: www.sawirisfoundation.org

UNILEAD Egypt Training Program 2013/2014

09 May 2013

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the DAAD Branch Office in Cairo and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany are jointly organising an intensive Higher Education Management Training Course UNILEAD (University Leadership and Management), bringing together the topics Project Management and Strategic Management including Leadership with individual and practice-oriented change projects of each participant from Egypt.

Please check the attachment for detailed information.

GERSS Spring Call 2013

17 February 2013

GERSS - German Egyptian Research Short Term Scholarships

Spring Call: 15 February till 31 March
Autumn Call: 1 September till 15 October

The German Egyptian Research Short term Scholarship GERSS is a program jointly funded by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and the German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn (DAAD) in order to finance short term scholarships for young Egyptian scientists to travel to Germany. The target groups of the program are researchers enrolled in MSc, PhD programs and young Post-Doctoral candidates. The scholarships may be awarded for a period from three to six months.

The scholarship shall enable advanced graduate students and young scientists to pursue part of their master?s, doctoral or post-doctoral research in a specific research project at German universities, archives, libraries or research institutes. There are two calls for applications annually, namely the spring call (15 Feb. 2013- 31 Mar. 2013) and the autumn call (01 Sept. 2013- 15 Oct. 2013)

For more information, please check the GERSS info sheet available on the DAAD http://cairo.daad.de/en/

For inquiries, please contact:
Ms. Heba Afifi
Email: gerss@daadcairo.org
Phone: 0020 22735 27 26/ 0020 22735 27 26

TWAS-ARO Young Affiliates, 2013-2017

10 February 2013

Every year, each of the five TWAS Regional Offices selects up to five scientists to be 'TWAS Young Affiliates' for a period of five years.

During their tenure, Affiliates are invited to participate in TWAS general meetings and conferences.

This program, which began in 2007, seeks to identify the best young scientists in each region of the developing world and provide them with opportunities to network with one another, and with TWAS Fellows, as well as attend international conferences and other events for young scientists.

The appointments are made for a period of five years (covering five TWAS General Meetings).

Please find below TWAS Young Affiliates eligibility criteria:

1. Less than 40 years old by January 2013.
2.Native of a developing country from the Arab Region.
3. Has at least 10 international publications in peer-reviewed journals.
4.Has lived and worked in a developing country for at least the past three years.

Nominations will only be accepted and valid from:

1. Members of TWAS-ARO http://www.bibalex.org/twasaro/members/list.htm
2.Science academies, national research councils, universities, scientific institutions and individual scientists from the Arab region.

A signed and stamped official nomination letter should be sent along with the nomination form (signed and dated by Nominator), with the CV and the list of publications to the address and email shown in the Application Form attached.

For TWAS Young Affiliates and kindly check the attached document below

You are kindly requested to send TWAS-ARO your nominations, in addition to the complete nomination form (signed and dated by the nominator) and your candidate's full curriculum vita including the full list of publications to the following emails: israa.elfayoumi@bibalex.org, cc: twas.aro@bibalex.org; before
1 April 2013.

Mailing Address:
TWAS Arab Regional Office (TWAS-ARO)
Center for Special Studies and Programs (CSSP)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Chatby 21526, Alexandria, Egypt
Attention: Ms. Israa Elfayoumi

TWAS Regional Prize 2013: Call for Nomination

10 February 2013

This year’s theme is Public Understanding and Popularization of Science

TWAS Regional Prizes 2013 will be awarded in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to popularize science, and have developed new strategies that serve the popularization of science and technology in developing countries.

Each TWAS Regional Prize winner will receive a USD 3,000 cash award.

All five regional winners of the prize will be announced during the next TWAS General Meeting. This year’s meeting, the 13th General Conference and 24rd General Meeting, will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013.

Eligibility Criteria
Candidates for a TWAS-ARO Prize must be scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least ten years. They must meet at least one of the following qualifications:

• Scientific research achievement of outstanding significance for the development of scientific thought.
• Outstanding contribution to the application of Science and Technology to industry or to human well-being in a developing country.

The nominations will only be accepted and valid from:
1. Members of TWAS-ARO (www.bibalex.org/twasaro/members/list.htm)
2. Science Academies, National Research Councils, Universities, Scientific Institutions from the Arab Region (a signed, stamped official nomination letter should be sent along with the nomination form, CV and list of publications to both emails or address shown below).

Note: Self nominations are not allowed.

Nominations

•  TWAS is inviting nominations from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.
• The  nomination form must clearly state the contribution the candidate has made to the development of the particular field of science for which the prize would be awarded.
• The nominee's CV and her/his complete list of publications are also required.
•  Nominations of women scientists are particularly encouraged. 
• Nominations for the 2013 Prize must be submitted to the address shown below before
  15 April 2013.

Kindly send TWAS-ARO your nominations, the complete nomination form signed and dated by the nominator and your candidate's full CV including the full list of publications to israa.elfayoumi@bibalex.org, cc: twas.aro@bibalex.org; before 15 April 2013.

For hard copies, please use the address below:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Center for Special Studies & Programs (CSSP)
TWAS Arab Regional Office (TWAS-ARO)
Chatby 21526, Alexandria, Egypt
Attention: Ms. Israa Elfayoumi

 

2013 EOL Rubenstein Fellows Program

10 October 2012

Over the past four years the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has grown to become one of the world's largest aggregators of biodiversity information. Now featuring information on over one million taxa, EOL brings together trusted content from 219 scholarly content partners, including 57 current and former Rubenstein Fellows.

This year, EOL is inviting proposals supporting the use of EOL in biological research - it is time to see what the wealth of information in EOL can do.

In preparation for this call, EOL solicited research topics with the potential to illuminate large-scale questions in biology and advance biological research. Eleven specific requests were selected by the EOL curator community as the most promising, tractable, and potentially impactful.

This year's call for proposals is to extract data from the EOL collection and advance the corresponding inquiry in one or several of these "Wishes for Research". These "Big Data" questions have not previously been tractable because the information needed to address them was simply not accessible.

For full details, please visit: http://eol.org/info/rubenstein_2013_competition

Questions can be directed to the Rubenstein Fellows Coordinator at hammockj@si.edu

Bilateral Exchange of Academics (WAP)

09 October 2012

The Bilateral Exchange of Academics program is primarily intended to support the implementation of mutual teaching and research projects between German and Egyptian scientists.

Applications are open to all PhD holders working at Egyptian universities or research institutions, who have a convincing and well-planned research project to be completed during the stay in Germany.
The stays range from 1 to 3 months and cannot be extended.

For more details please refer to the information sheet available on the following DAAD link (Click here)
For inquiries please contact:
Heba Afifi, email: WAP@daadcairo.org

Or call: 02-27384127/ 2 2735 27 26

GESP-Mobility Grant program for German Egyptian research teams

09 October 2012

The German Egyptian Scientific Projects GESP is a fund that supports the exchange of scientific visits between Egyptian and German research teams. This program is co-financed by the Science and Technology Development Fund in Egypt (STDF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Germany.

For Egyptian Scientists:

• The information sheet is available on the Science and Technology Development Fund website www.stdf.org.eg and the DAAD website: http://cairo.daad.de/en
• The online application form is available on the STDF website
• For inquiries please contact Ms. Heba Afifi:gesp@daadcairo.org

For German Scientists

• The call for application and the application forms will be available on the DAAD Website under the following link: http://www.daad.de/ppp
• For inquires please contact Mrs. Arua Husaini, email: husaini@daad.de

TWAS Research and Advanced Training Fellowship: 2012 Call for Applications

17 September 2012

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world,http://twas.ictp.it/ is now accepting applications for the TWAS Research and Advanced Training Fellowship programme.

The fellowships are offered to scientists from developing countries and are tenable at centres of excellence in various developing countries.

Eligible fields include one or more of the following:
agricultural and biological sciences, medical and health sciences, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, space and earth sciences, mathematics and physics.

Please check the attachment for further details.

Click here for the latest information regarding the above programme, including eligibility criteria,guidelines, etc.

Women scientists are especially encouraged to apply.

TWAS Visiting Scientist Programme

05 September 2012

The TWAS Visiting Scientist Programme supports visits of internationally renowned scientists to institutions located in developing countries, especially those located in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

The objective of the programme is to provide institutions and research groups in developing countries, especially those with limited outside contacts, with the opportunity to establish long-term links with world leaders in science and so help develop capacity-building in their country. Under the programme, prospective host institutions can invite internationally renowned experts in areas of science other than mathematics and physics to collaborate in research and training.

The visit should have a minimum stay of two weeks at the host institution. TWAS will cover the cost of the air ticket and will provide an honorarium of USD 500, while the host institution is expected to cover local expenses. Attached below please find the relevant application form.

Scholarship Program offered by the French Institute in Egypt

30 August 2012

Within the framework of cooperation between France and Egypt in the field of scientific research the Department of Scientific Cooperation, Embassy of France, French Institute in Egypt is pleased to announce opening the door to apply for the scholarship program sponsored by the French Institute in Egypt for researchers Egyptians who want to go to a French laboratory to complete part of their scientific.

Attached the scholarship program detailed information