Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Nesta is offering a grant programme that provides funding and project management support to researchers and programme delivery organizations interested in undertaking randomized controlled trials that relate to innovation and high-growth entrepreneurship. Closing date of applications: Monday 24th February 2014, 5pm. More information HERE.
“la Caixa” Foundation is opening a new grant call [Spanish version] for Spanish students starting next academic course 2014-2015 and finally defending their PhD thesis in a Spanish University awarded with the Ministry of Education’s Pathway to Excellence. It must be pointed out that our Doctoral program in Economics is one of only a small number of programs in the whole of Spain with this distinction. Hence, Spanish students interested on…
The IVth Time Series Econometrics Workshop will be held in Zaragoza (Spain) during April 3rd-4th, 2014. The Workshop wishes to bring together academics and non-academic professional practitioners working in Time Series Econometrics, both in theoretical and applied dimensions. Interested people may consult the web page http://timeseries.unizar.es/ in order to send the abstracts of their papers. The deadline is February 20th, 2014.
The 7th Workshop on Gender Economics, co-sponsored by FEDEA and COSME, will take place on May 22-23, 2014 at FEDEA, Madrid, Spain. This workshop aims to provide junior and senior researchers with a forum for presenting and discussing research in gender economics. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Please, submit your full paper online through the following LINK before February 14th 2014. More information HERE.
Next February 10th and 11th the Sharing Knowledge Assets Interregionally Cohesive Neigborhoods (SEARCH) Project, led by AQR research group, Final Academic Conference will take place at the Events Room of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed, C/ Girona 20, Barcelona). You can check out the CONFERENCE PROGRAM and te get MORE INFORMATION about SEARCH Project.
The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) organizes the Conference “La llei de reforma de l’administració local”. The event will be held at the Aula Magna in the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona on February the 10th from 9.00 to 14:00. You can find more information HERE.
PhD Programme in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence is focused to talented students that would like to continue building an academic career. Briefly, the EUI programme offers excellent opportunities for talented young economists. All EU-students admitted to the programme are awarded full financial support. A special grant programme funded by the EUI itself has been set up to finance a limited number of successful non-European candidates…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is now accepting project proposals for the fifth funding period of its international research programme “Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies” (SEEK). Topics to be funded: 1) Innovation, firm creation and new technologies. 2) Energy and the environment. 3) Inclusive labour markets. 4) European Fiscal and Banking Union. Deadline for submission: January 31st, 2014. More information HERE. Submission guidelines are available at http://seek.zew.eu.
Next January 30th (9.30am), at Cibernàrium –first floor of MediaTIC building at Barcelona (C/Roc Boronat, 117)– there will be an informative session on the new European Research Council (ERC) program, as a part of the new RDI European Union funding scheme, Horizon 2020. The session will be led by Carmen Garcia Fernández, Scientific Officer de l’European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) and Esther Rodríguez, National Contact Point (NCP) of the…
The Symposium R&D on Energy in Barcelona, on January 28th 2014, will bring together high ranking researchers in the field of energy economics. The energy sector is facing major challenges in most of its activities and segments. The main challenges are related to the mitigation of climate change and increasing efficiency, and fostering innovation is crucial to meeting these challenges. More information HERE.