Opportunities
Here you will find a collection of all the opportunities submitted by members of the LifeWatch ERIC community.
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The CSC Summer School brings together students and researchers in different disciplines of scientific computing from all over the world. The school consist of lectures and hands-on training on parallel programming, code performance, and other necessary skills for the development of scientific software for supercomputers.
The participants will get a certificate containing a recommendation to your home university to grant you 5 ECTS credits for the school.
Prerequisites
- Basic experience in programming with C, C++, and/or Fortran, and to be familiar with their elementary concepts (e.g. variables, statements, control structures, functions, subroutines, modules/classes)
- Basic skills to operate in a Linux environment
The deadline for early bird registration is 14.03.2025.
Info: https://csc.fi/en/training-calendar/csc-summer-school-in-high-performance-computing-2025/
The 22nd Italian Ornithology Conference will take place from September 8-12, 2025, in Lecce, Italy.
Organised by CISO (Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici), University of Salento, CNR-IRET, LifeWatch Italy and Or.Me, the conference has just opened a call for symposia and round tables proposals.
Symposia and Round Tables proposal details: https://www.lifewatchitaly.eu/en/22-convegno-italiano-di-ornitologia
Submission deadline: 10 February 2025
ESSI2.2 – Powering Environmental Research: Success Stories of Collaboration and Data Sharing Across Disciplines
Convener: Angeliki Adamaki | Co-conveners: Jacco Konijn, Magdalena Brus, Anca Hienola, Marta Gutierrez
Focus: Technical and scientific advancements in data integration, interoperability, and collaboration.
Ideal Contributions: Case studies, tools, and practical solutions showcasing innovations within the ENVRI community.
Click here for more information.Â
The 7th edition of the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity will be held from November 17-20th 2026 (WCMB 2026) in Bruges, Belgium, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). The conference has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Event.
Call for Session Proposals
On 17 December 2024, the call for session proposals has opened. Each session proposal needs to be linked to one of the conference sub-themes. A session may be constructed around a network, project, initiative or a specific, clearly defined scientific topic or question of broad interest within the field of marine biodiversity and in connection with the chosen sub-theme. Sessions can be constructed as presentations only, or a combination of presentations and discussions.
Session proposal details: https://www.wcmb2026.org/call-session
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
Feedback on submissions: 15 May 2025
Online submission form: https://form.vliz.be/en/WCMB2026_Sessions
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Call for Back-to-back meetings
Are you interested in organising a meeting for your marine project, initiative, or community back-to-back with the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2026? VLIZ is offering the possibility to book its meeting rooms in the weeks of 9-13 November and 23-27 November 2026 at the InnovOcean Campus in Ostend, only 30 minutes from Bruges.
Back-to-back meetings details and conditions: https://wcmb2026.org/call-back-back-meeting
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
Feedback on submissions: 15 May 2025
Expression of interest form: https://form.vliz.be/nl/WCMB2026_Meetings
Do you operate a living lab (LL) or a research infrastructure (RI) that is actively contributing to the agroecology transition? Are you interested in connecting with similar initiatives to learn, grow, gain visibility, or cooperate?
The Agroecology Partnership has opened the first wave of membership applications for the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures.
Members of the Network get access to extensive connections with agri-food stakeholders, learning resources and data sharing between living labs and research infrastructures. They also get to cooperate on international projects and participate to the co-creation of process improvements.
Deadline: 28 February 2025
Info: https://www.agroecologypartnership.eu/news/applications1stwave
The DiSTeBA of University of Salento invites applications for a Research Fellow who will contribute to the development of a training framework for research software excellence in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality.
The EVERSE (European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence) project aims to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by five interdisciplinary research communities (ENVRI Community, Life Science RI, ESCAPE, PaNOSC, SSHOC) and their emerging use cases in environmental sciences, life sciences, particle physics and astrophysics, photon and neutron science, and computational linguistics.
Call for applications (IT/EN): https://www.unisalento.it/bandi-concorsi/-/bandi/view/67507252
Deadline: 3 January 2025
CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing 2025
The CSC Summer School brings together students and researchers in different disciplines of scientific computing from all over the world. The school consist of lectures and hands-on training on parallel programming, code performance, and other necessary skills for the development of scientific software for supercomputers.
The participants will get a certificate containing a recommendation to your home university to grant you 5 ECTS credits for the school.
Prerequisites
- Basic experience in programming with C, C++, and/or Fortran, and to be familiar with their elementary concepts (e.g. variables, statements, control structures, functions, subroutines, modules/classes)
- Basic skills to operate in a Linux environment
The deadline for early bird registration is 14.03.2025.
Info: https://csc.fi/en/training-calendar/csc-summer-school-in-high-performance-computing-2025/
22nd Italian Ornithology Conference – Call for Symposia and Round Tables proposals
The 22nd Italian Ornithology Conference will take place from September 8-12, 2025, in Lecce, Italy.
Organised by CISO (Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici), University of Salento, CNR-IRET, LifeWatch Italy and Or.Me, the conference has just opened a call for symposia and round tables proposals.
Symposia and Round Tables proposal details: https://www.lifewatchitaly.eu/en/22-convegno-italiano-di-ornitologia
Submission deadline: 10 February 2025
ENVRI at EGU 2025: Join Us in Vienna!
ESSI2.2 – Powering Environmental Research: Success Stories of Collaboration and Data Sharing Across Disciplines
Convener: Angeliki Adamaki | Co-conveners: Jacco Konijn, Magdalena Brus, Anca Hienola, Marta Gutierrez
Focus: Technical and scientific advancements in data integration, interoperability, and collaboration.
Ideal Contributions: Case studies, tools, and practical solutions showcasing innovations within the ENVRI community.
Click here for more information.Â
World Conference on Marine Biodiversity - Call for Session Proposals and Back-to-back meetings
The 7th edition of the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity will be held from November 17-20th 2026 (WCMB 2026) in Bruges, Belgium, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). The conference has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Event.
Call for Session Proposals
On 17 December 2024, the call for session proposals has opened. Each session proposal needs to be linked to one of the conference sub-themes. A session may be constructed around a network, project, initiative or a specific, clearly defined scientific topic or question of broad interest within the field of marine biodiversity and in connection with the chosen sub-theme. Sessions can be constructed as presentations only, or a combination of presentations and discussions.
Session proposal details: https://www.wcmb2026.org/call-session
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
Feedback on submissions: 15 May 2025
Online submission form: https://form.vliz.be/en/WCMB2026_Sessions
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Call for Back-to-back meetings
Are you interested in organising a meeting for your marine project, initiative, or community back-to-back with the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2026? VLIZ is offering the possibility to book its meeting rooms in the weeks of 9-13 November and 23-27 November 2026 at the InnovOcean Campus in Ostend, only 30 minutes from Bruges.
Back-to-back meetings details and conditions: https://wcmb2026.org/call-back-back-meeting
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
Feedback on submissions: 15 May 2025
Expression of interest form: https://form.vliz.be/nl/WCMB2026_Meetings
European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures: 1st wave of applications
Do you operate a living lab (LL) or a research infrastructure (RI) that is actively contributing to the agroecology transition? Are you interested in connecting with similar initiatives to learn, grow, gain visibility, or cooperate?
The Agroecology Partnership has opened the first wave of membership applications for the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures.
Members of the Network get access to extensive connections with agri-food stakeholders, learning resources and data sharing between living labs and research infrastructures. They also get to cooperate on international projects and participate to the co-creation of process improvements.
Deadline: 28 February 2025
Info: https://www.agroecologypartnership.eu/news/applications1stwave
Research fellowship at DiSTeBA / University of Salento - EVERSE project
The DiSTeBA of University of Salento invites applications for a Research Fellow who will contribute to the development of a training framework for research software excellence in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality.
The EVERSE (European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence) project aims to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by five interdisciplinary research communities (ENVRI Community, Life Science RI, ESCAPE, PaNOSC, SSHOC) and their emerging use cases in environmental sciences, life sciences, particle physics and astrophysics, photon and neutron science, and computational linguistics.
Call for applications (IT/EN): https://www.unisalento.it/bandi-concorsi/-/bandi/view/67507252
Deadline: 3 January 2025