This seminar will provide an overview of opportunities for research cooperation and mobility projects between Japan and Europe, with a particular focus on funding schemes within the EU's flagship research and innovation Framework Programme, Horizon 2020: The Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF) and European Research Council (ERC) are grants for individual researchers wishing to spend several years in Europe either in a research team that already exists or by creating their own research group. The event offers concrete advice on successful proposal writing and features experience feedback from past awardees. (Lecturer: Dr. Matthieu Py, EURAXESS Japan)

Date　 10:30～17:00 Wed 28th August 2019
Venue：Meeting Room B1F, Research Administration Building [No.61], Main Campus
Target： Anyone from Kyoto University
Language：English（partly in Japanese）
Capacity：50 people

Program

Session 1 （Japanese with English slides）
10:30～12:00
EU's framework programme Horizon 2020 for research collaboration & advantages for Japan-based teams

• Why international cooperation? Why Europe?
• What are the EU's programmes for international research collaboration?
• How to: find calls, find partners, find matching funds
• Support services: EURAXESS, NCP
• Experience feedback from Kyoto University team involved in H2020 project CORTEX (by Prof. Toshihiro Yamamoto, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science) (includes Q&A)

12:00～13:00
Lunch break

Session 2 （English）
13:00～15:00
EU's flagship programmes for individual researchers 1: MSCA-IF, the Cadillac of postdoctoral research stays

• Brief introduction to the programme
• How to prepare a successful research proposal for MSCA-IF
• Experience feedback from Kyoto University awardee Dr. Marta Pina (Department of Zoology)

15:00～15:15
Short break

Session 3 （英語/English）
15:15～16 :45
 EU's flagship programmes for individual researchers 2: ERC Grants, the Million Euro gateway to research independence

• Brief introduction to the programme
• How to prepare a successful research proposal for ERC

16:45～17:00
Final Q&A and closure

Slides from the event are available via the link below

KURA-ERC-summary-jp.pdf​ 　KURA
KURA-MSCA-summary-jp.pdf​　KURA
session1_horizon_overview.pptx　EURAXESS Japan
session1_KURA_intro.pdf​ KURA
session1_toshihiro_yamamoto_cortex_jp.pptx Yamamoto, Toshihiro
session2_marta_pina.pdf​　Dr. Marta Pina, Kyoto U Dept. of Zoology
session2_MSCA 1.pdf​ 　EURAXESS Japan
session2_MSCA 2.pdf　EURAXESS Japan​
session2_takamasa_tsubouchi.pdf​ 　Dr. Takamasa Tsubouchi, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute
session3_ERC.pptx ​　EURAXESS Japan

Registration

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Contact

KURA [ Wittfeld, Sakamoto ]
Ext：16-85763 or 16-85740
E-mail：foreigngrant＊kura.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please replace ＊ with@)