Prof. Marina Rodnina (The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany) was awarded the ERC Advanced Grant. Marina Rodnina explores the workings of ribosomes – the protein factories of living cells. Proteins are involved…
Category: Awards & Prizes
GERMANY: Georg Forster Research Award, nomination deadline 31 October 2018
The Georg Forster Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date to academics of all disciplines whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their…
Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development, apply by 23 May 2018
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious ”Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development” to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas. The award, under…
Anne Applebaum Wins the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize for her Book “Red Famine”
The winner of the 28th annual Lionel Gelber Prize is Anne Applebaum for her book Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, published by Signal/McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House. “Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on…
UKRAINE, Odesa: DENYS ZHADANOV selected to the Forbes “30 Under 30 – Europe – Technology”
DENYS ZHADANOV (Odesa, Ukraine) was selected to the Forbes “30 Under 30 – Europe – Technology” list. Denys Zhadanov is Vice President of Readdle, a company that has built a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps…
FRANCE: Laureates of the LIA competition of students’ projects have been announced
The International Associated Laboratory LIA IDEATE covers R&D and optimization of innovative technologies for the experiments at the particle accelerators and development of accelerator techniques since 2007. On March 7, 2018 the LIA IDEATE organized…
POLAND, Krakow: III International Ukrainian Orthography Competition
From 8 to 9 March 2018, the III International Ukrainian Orthography Competition was held at the Institute of East Slavonic Philology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Representatives from 14 educational institutions from Poland, Serbia,…
PhD Thesis Presentation Contest 2018, apply by 14 May
Our PhD Thesis Presentation Contest aims to promote young scientists and in doing so contribute to increasing the visibility of Ukrainian PhD students abroad and raising the profile of the international academic collaboration with Ukraine.…
Ukrainian-American mathematician VLADIMIR DRINFELD shares the 2018 Wolf Prize for Mathematics
The 2018 Wolf Prize for Mathematics has been awarded to Prof. Alexander Beilinson and Prof. Vladimir Drinfeld, both from the University of Chicago, for their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and mathematical physics.…
Success of Kray Technologies in Agrotech
Kray Technologies, a Ukrainian startup (now based in the US) attended TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2017 and received $600,000 in investments. The company currently has three models of agrodrones, a new cropdusting technology, and is…