* STARS@UNIPD 2023 call is now open!
The STARS@UNIPD 2023 call for proposals is now open for the fourth edition. The Programme aims at funding 30-month individual research projects, promoted by Principal Investigators (PIs) of any age and nationality, who wish to pursue research at one of the Departments of our University. It features 3 funding schemes:
- Starting Grant: for early-career PIs, also external to Unipd, who want to develop their research activity and establish their own team (PhD defense: 0-5 years prior to 1 January 2023);
- Consolidator Grant: for PIs who are already conducting research at Unipd and are consolidating their own research team and/or their own independent research (PhD defense: 5-10 years prior to 1 January 2023);
- Wild Card Grant: for PIs who submitted a proposal in an ERC 2021 and 2022 call for proposals, indicated Unipd as Host Institution, obtained a final mark of  “A” but were not funded due to budget limits.

Call deadline: 28/02/2023 h13:00 (Italian time)
Link: https://www.unipd.it/stars2023
Contact: talent.stars@unipd.it

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* Call for proposals opening - Doctoral Programme MSCA-COFUND "UNIPhD. Training the next-generation talents" (A.Y. 2023/2024)
A new Call for proposals "UNIPhD - Eight century legacy of multidisciplinary research and training for the next-generation talents” will be launched on 6 December 2022. The Doctoral Programme is co-funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action COFUND (Horizon 2020) and by the Veneto Region.
Following the first edition of the call (Academic year 2022/23) which has selected 39 international Fellows, the second call (Academic year 2023/24) offers 11 Fellowships to excellent Early Stage Researchers  willing to present a research project in one of the 10 PhD Courses involved.

Call opening: 06/12/2022
Call deadline: 31/01/2023
Link: https://uniphd.eu/
Contact: msca.cofund@unipd.it

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* New Call Uni-Impresa 2022
The UNI-IMPRESA 2022 call is open, for the funding of activities aimed at the development of relations with the business world and the transfer of knowledge between academia and business. Funding up to 515,000 euros on two funding lines is dedicated to co-finance university structures that will present joint research projects with private and public partners.

Call deadline: 15/03/2023 h13:00 (Italian time)
Link: https://www.unipd.it/uni-impresa
Moodle (SSO access): https://www.unipd.it/Moodle/uni-impresa
Contact: uni.impresa@unipd.it

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* C-Lab Veneto - 6th edition 
The call to participate in the 6th edition of C-Lab Veneto is open for application and will start in March 2023. It will be a unique opportunity for all young people who want to enhance their CV with the Open Badge, i.e. the digital attestation of disciplinary knowledge, personal skills and technical competences acquired during the C-Lab course.

Call deadline: 26/01/2023 h13:00 (Italian time)
Link: https://www.unipd.it/clabveneto
Contact: clabveneto.padova@unipd.it

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* EMBO Young Investigators call
The European Molecular Biology Organization - EMBO call for Young Investigators will open in January 2023. The programme is aimed at researchers who have been working as "group leader" for a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 4 years in a laboratory based in one of the EMBC Member States (or Associated/Cooperation Agreement States). Researchers must have an excellent research track record and publications in scientific journals, of which at least one as senior author, as part of the research carried out in their own laboratory. The lab must be independent and the research activities shall be self-sufficiently funded.
The winners will have the opportunity to join the international network of EMBO Young Investigators, Installation Grants and Global Investigators and will receive, over 4 years, a grant of 15,000 euros aimed at supporting networking activities and access to training initiatives and of tutoring, also extended to the members of the laboratory.

Call opening: January 2023

Call deadline: April 2023 (pre-applications)
Link: https://www.embo.org/young-investigator-programme/
Contact: individual.grants@unipd.it

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* Imminent Translated's Research Center - Language technology innovators Grant
Imminent Translated's Research Center funds linguistic research and the best initiatives that promote technology and creativity for international communication. Every year it allocates up to 100,000 euros to finance innovative projects with the aim of making our multilingual world more accessible.
Five original research projects are awarded with a contribution of 20,000 euros each, to explore the most advanced frontiers in the world of language services. The 5 topics covered by the call are the following: Language economics, Linguistic data, Machine learning algorithms for translation, Human-computer interaction, Neuroscience of language.
The call is aimed at startuppers, researchers, university laboratories, organizations and companies, from anywhere in the world. A commission of leading industry experts will evaluate the proposals.

Call deadline: 28/02/2023
Link: https://imminent.translated.com/apply-for-your-grants
Contact: imminent@translated.com

Contact: collaborative.grants@unipd.it

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The webinar is organized by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises of the European Commission, and offers an overview of the IP landscape both during and after the implementation of an H2020/HEU project. The most common planning errors will be analyzed and some practical advice will be provided, in order to obtain the best results from an H2020/HEU project.

Link: https:/ec.europa.eu/news-events/webinar-Impact

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