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#OpenCall | 👉 EMBRC Italy has launched its first call for proposals ➡️ To celebrate its new website and renewed service catalogue ➡️ EMBRC’s Italian node has launched a transnational call for proposals ➡️ The node will fund high quality research projects that need access to marine ecosystems ➡️ Funding will cover access to services, ecosystems, experimental facilities and technology platforms for individual researchers ➡️ One economy-class round trip (up to 400€) will also be covered as well as a per diem (max 100€) for accommodation and meals for up to 28 days Submissions will be accepted from: 👉 Researchers or students from academic institutions, NGOs or registered companies based in the EU 👉 Applying for work/study from a different institution than their own 👉 Who submits an innovative project proposal through the ARIA portal as the sole applicant. 🪼 EMBRC is the only research infrastructure in biology and ecology for marine sciences. We work with partners to accelerate knowledge of marine biodiversity through ocean exploration and research. Through our network of marine sites across Europe, we provide access to ecosystems, organisms, resources, services, and facilities to help researchers from academia and industry study the ocean and develop innovative solutions to issues. ⌛Last day to apply: 15th April 🔗 Info & to apply: https://lnkd.in/eGQXvr9q EMBRC Spain EMBRC France EMBRC Greece Sorbonne Université Universiteit Gent Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) | University of Oslo Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)

Register to the #euconexus Research Conference EENVIRO before 15th May! This year's conference is specially interesting for the students and researchers that have a strong interest in environmental protection, sustainable aquaculture and microorganisms as biocontrol/bioindicator agents (I include myself into this cathegory🙋♀️). A longer list of topics will of course be presented, so visit the link to figure it out! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXhA4iuK

Join us! Applications are now open for a #PhD with us on #BlueCarbon #policy in southeast Asia! #Poverty and #ClimateChange are inextricably linked, so they must be tackled together. Nature-based solutions could achieve this, and blue carbon – the storage of carbon by coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests – is a favoured candidate. However, blue carbon policy remains hindered by an inadequate natural science base, community hesitancy and slow political mobilisation. This PhD will address these knowledge gaps to define the potential of, and pathway to implementation for, blue carbon policy in southeast Asia, with a particular focus on #Cambodia and #Vietnam. The PhD will integrate #quantitative and #qualitative data, such as habitat distributions, climate change impact projections, participatory 3-dimensional modelling, willingness-to-pay surveys and policy analyses. This PhD is fully-funded by Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council and part of a 45 million SEK funding program on #Sustainability and #Resilience. It is expected that the PhD candidate will undertake significant periods of fieldwork in Cambodia and Vietnam (and perhaps southeast Asia more widely) during the PhD. The PhD will benefit from a multidisciplinary supervisory team including myself, Camilla Sandström & Nick Kamenos at Umeå University, plus colleagues at Thuy Loi University, University of Khanh Hoa and the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam), and the Mekong River Commission Secretariat (Cambodia). The deadline for applications is 30 April 2024. More information on the necessary qualifications / experience, job specification and the application process are available here: https://lnkd.in/dB_6Z9sf Any questions, don't heistate to get in touch! #SustainableDevelopment #mangrove #seagrass #CommunityEngagement #EnvironmentalPolicy Umeå Marine Sciences Centre Teknik och naturvetenskap vid Umeå universitet

Reminder: abstracts are due in one week! Get yours submitted soon!

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 #𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐮𝐦! 📣 DTU - Technical University of Denmark, is an international technical university founded in 1829. 💡 It is recognized worldwide as a leading university in the areas of the technical and natural sciences, renowned for its business-oriented approach, its focus on sustainability, and its amazing study environment. DTU’s axiom is that technology is created through the synergy of research, education, innovation, and scientific advice by innovative researchers. 🧑💻 Within this scope, DTU Aqua’s mission is to conduct research, provide advice, educate at the university level, and contribute to innovation in the sustainable exploitation and management of aquatic resources. 🌊 👉 Learn more about DTU: https://lnkd.in/d4Hx7WVq - https://lnkd.in/diKuPsgD #fisheriestechnologies #fisheriesmonitoring #futurefisheries #HorizonEurope #ResearchImpactEU

Meet Sebastian Møller Rasmussen, he is a PhD researcher in the Centre for Absolute Sustainability. "...After finishing my undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering at DTU - Technical University of Denmark, I decided to try out working in the public sector and worked as a climate and environment advisor in the Brøndby Municipality. Although I enjoyed working with the real-life applications of my education, I realized that I still had a desire to contribute more to the complex issue of sustainability, which led me to pursue a #PhD at DTU..." "...Most #LCAs (and #AESAs) conducted today consist of aggregated impacts, without considering WHEN or WHERE the #emissions that caused the impact happened. This approach might be sufficient for #climatechange or other global and persistent issues, but in the ever developing and complex world we live in, this is unlikely to be the case. For example, countries have different wet and dry seasons, which affect nutrient flow in soil, in turn affecting the impacts that fertilizer use will have depending on the time it is used. Excluding these spatial-temporal dimensions may lead to incorrect impacts and potentially irreversible effects..."   "...With this as a basis, my PhD aims to look at how to conduct AESAs on dynamic systems, i.e. systems for which #behaviorchange over time. By the end of the PhD I hope to have developed a method that can be used in different case study applications..." #AESA #DynamicLCA #DynamicSystems #LCA #Temporal #planetaryboundaries DTU Sustain DTU Compute DTU - Technical University of Denmark

🌟Congratulations to Nazanin Love, our PhD student working on a challenging multidisciplinary research project in RadoNorm .eu! 🌟 Her research focuses on a unique and pressing issue: utilizing radioactive by-products from aluminium and fertilizer production in concrete as a sustainable alternative to traditional cement. This is crucial as cement production accounts for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Nazanin's research is a strong collaboration both within disciplines of our university and with an external partner SCK CEN (the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre). Her results are a true testament to the power of interdisciplinary collaboration. Her work spans various fields, from environmental economics to nuclear technology, marketing, and consumer psychology. By understanding stakeholders' perspectives, including industry and end-users, Nazanin aims to balance the benefits of a lower CO2 footprint and circular economy contributions with the challenges posed by using naturally occurring radioactive materials. Her collaborative approach strengthens her research and highlights the importance of multidisciplinary studies in addressing complex global challenges. 🌍💡 #Research #Sustainability #Multidisciplinary #CircularEconomy #Innovation #EnvironmentalEconomics #NuclearTechnology #MarketAcceptance #PhDJourney #SCKCEN #CMK #NuTec #UHasselt

Our ultimate objective is to use ocean resources on sustainable manner for local economic growth needs, improved livelihoods, entrepreneurship to local needs and generating employment (empowerment of young's) while preserving the health of ocean ecosystems. Participating countries in this proposal are two universities from each country in the south (Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan) in addition to three universities from the EU (France, Italy, and Greece). During the project period (3 years), there will be many activities; including gap analysis, lab installation and field trips for the practical work, capacity building for the staff and students, summer and winter schools, and training in European universities. There will also be an online and face to face seminars and workshops, as well as knowledge dissemination events. Eligibility for admission to the proposed MSc program, candidates of various fields (e.g. marine sciences, geology, geophysics, environmental engineering, coastal zone management, environmental economy, etc.) will be invited.  Expected outcomes are of highly qualified graduates in fields of sustainable blue economy. Thanks to the BLUE-ERA consortium for their significant contribution in the development of exchanges of knowledge, expertise and good practice tools for professional and entrepreneurial integration, employ-ability and professionalization of students will be promoted. The sustainability of the proposed plan will guarantee the continuation of the master’s program far beyond the end of the project. In addition, the interconnection between laboratories and future research collaborations will strengthen the research capacity in the field of blue economy, including the establishment of co-supervised postgraduates and PhD fellows.

I was pleased to receive, recently, from the scientific committee of two international events, the acceptance of two abstracts for presentation in Poster format at the conferences sessions, thus contributing to the dissemination of the knowledge produced from the latest researchs carried out. The first event will be held in New York from September 19 to 21, 2024. Organized by the “Sustainable Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative for the United Nations”, the 12th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) - “Solutions for the future”, provides a forum for academia, government, civil society, UN agencies, and the private sector to come together to share practical solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study developed has a theoretical component, will be presented in the poster session under the Theme 4B, with the thematic area “Mainstreaming climate change and disaster risk reduction in urban and rural planning to achieve the SDGs” and is entitled: Urban climate resilience from the perspective of human ecology conceptualizations: interdependencies and interconnections. #ICSD2024 The second event will take place at the University of Coimbra from October 6 to 11, 2024 and corresponds with the XVIII Iberian Geography Colloquium. This edition will focus on the theme: Societal challenges: the perspective of geography. To be presented in the thematic axis “climate change and sustainable management of natural resources”, the empirical article is entitled: Urban circularity in estuarine brownfield territories in the context of climate change: from the potential for valorization to the (in)adequacy of integrated strategies. Affiliation: CICS.NOVA - Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Nova University Lisbon. NOVA FCSH

Expression of interest – PhD in Deep-sea Fish Evolution Place of work: The PhD project will be carried out at CIIMAR / U. Porto in the Aquatic Ecology and Evolution (AEE) team (https://lnkd.in/drBH7zeU), being the candidate enrolled in a PhD programme of this university. The candidate could have the opportunity to participate on board research vessels in oceanographic campaigns. Abstract: There are 20, 000 marine fish species already known, and at least 20% of them can be found in deep-sea despite the challenging characteristics of this habitat. To get this achievement, they have developed a distinctive set of traits which includes bioluminescence, extraordinary longevity, loss or significant development of sensory organs, extreme feeding and reproductive strategies, and unique life stories. Therefore, deep-sea fish are perfect models to study how environmental conditions shape the genome of organisms during their evolution at different levels; gene gain, gene loss, gene expression. This PhD aims to understand the adaptive and evolutionary phenomena that allowed teleost fish to live in the deep-sea from a molecular perspective and how they are related with the biological traits of these organisms. A better understanding of these processes will be useful for comparative purposes with other organisms, and help us to develop proper management policies in a time when deep-sea faces numerous challenges due to increased human activity that could affect the ecosystem services that the deep-sea provides to humanity; food, climate regulation, pharmaceuticals, waste absorption etc. The candidate enrolled in this PhD project will work in the following topics: 1- study of gene expression in different organisms and tissues. 2- study the evolution of family genes. 3- handle specimens of deep-sea fish species and collect tissues. Requisites: Candidates should be fluent in English, and have a competitive CV (e.g., marks, experience). Candidates should have a strong interest in Evolution, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology. Application: Candidates are requested to apply by e-mail to Dr. David Barros-García (dbarros@ciimar.up.pt), sending a detailed CV and motivation letter. Deadline for expression of interest: 15 February 2023. For more information about the FCT PhD fellowships (https://lnkd.in/deYrc_VT), and/or contact Dr. David Barros-García (dbarros@ciimar.up.pt).