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View all the jokes and vote for them here. Voting closes on 14 July 2020. JUST FOR FUN – join the ECR EBNet Online 2020 JOKE Competition! Entries are welcome from everyone – you don’t need to be early career to chip in – but alas, only ECRs can win …
Choose your favourites – view the photos here and vote here. Voting closes 14 July 2020. WIN! WIN! WIN! in the ECR EBNet Online 2020 PHOTO Competition! Top Prize £50 (and certificate). Runner-ups receive £25 (and certificate) plus all images may be used by EBNet in future publicity. We are …
Are you interested in forming a Working Group in EB? EBNet would like to hear from you if you are passionate about your topic and want to get active by forming a Working Group of like-minded people. Whether your deliverables include a topic-specific workshop/forum, putting together a funding bid, work …
Though many of us find ourselves working from home, the bioeconomy continues to develop. Therefore in this difficult period, it is more important than ever to stay informed and make sure we’re best placed to take advantage of new innovations and business announcements. For this reason the NNFCC, the bioeconomy …
Following on from the recent UKRI Circular Economy Centres call, there is now an opportunity to link into the prospective consortia via networking. The Circular Economy Centres programme will support up to five interdisciplinary Centres for up to four years via this £22.5m call (alongside £2.5m of future funding to …
The UKRI-BBSRC Collaborative Training Partnerships (CTP) scheme is a doctoral training programme directed at industrial research challenges and delivered by consortia led by businesses in collaboration with Research Organisations. Its ambition is to build capacity and address strategic skills challenges in the UK bioeconomy[1] at doctoral level and provide candidates …
Apply by 14 Feb 20 Dr Claudio Avignone-Rossa is recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher to work on microbial electrochemical systems for water treatment, in a collaborative project between the Systems Microbiology Group at the University of Surrey and the Department of Water Pollution (National Research Center, Egypt), funded by the British Council through …
14/16 September 2020, University of Nottingham. More here.
This Bioelectrical Engineering Innovation Hub 2020 Workshop will be held at the Radcliffe Conference Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, CV4 7SH on 27-28 April 2020. Fragmented individual studies on a diverse range of biological systems, conducted over the last decade show that electrical forces and electrochemical gradients are fundamental …
Industrial Decarbonising Research and Innovation Centre. A champion appointed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will develop plans for a new centre which will help to achieve the government’s net zero ambitions by addressing challenges to the decarbonisation of the industrial sector. Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, of Heriot-Watt University, will work …
To celebrate and make Women in STEM more visible, Cranfield University is organising the Early Career Women in Water (ECWW20) conference to be held on 17 March 2020. The event will provide a platform for female early career researchers and young water professionals to promote their work and research, thereby …
We are planning to run a FREE high speed hands-on workshop on the latest bioinformatics techniques that are available for the analysis of biological data. We are aware that many of you would like to get some more experience in bioinformatics and data analysis, so we kindly ask you to …
The theme of this year’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s National Conference was ‘There’s no net zero without biogas’. EBNet’s Angie Bywater gave a presentation on how research is working to help achieve this ambition. Also included in this panel session were Dr Keith Simons (SHV Energy), Andy Griffiths (Nestle) …
A number of our outreach volunteers were recognised at this year’s Public Engagement with Research Unit (PERu) awards on 10 Dec this year. Marty Climenhaga, Angie Bywater and Kai Ming Chang were given awards for Outstanding Commitment and Ana Perdomo Marin was awarded Best Social Media Support for building …
The Environmental Biotechnology Network Business Interaction Voucher (BIV) call opens on 6 Jan 2020 and will close on 28 Feb 2020, with successful applicants notified on a date to be confirmed. Application form and guidance is on our funding web page. BIVs enable industry partners to ‘buy’ an academic’s time …
