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T19: all year-round funding for network members’ training
3rd December 2018
A Christmas and New Year gift to network members The CONNECTED Training Voucher scheme proved popular during its first call. There will be further calls, offering similar opportunities to organise funded lab visits, work shadowing and workshops. Further details of dates will follow……
Read moreTraining Voucher successful applications
22nd November 2018
You can now read the list of those who successfully applied for one of our Training Vouchers during the first round of the scheme. Network members were invited to apply to a CONNECTED scheme allowing early career researchers from any country to seek…
Read moreVector & virus diagnostics course, Kenya, March 2019
19th November 2018
Early career researchers have a golden opportunity to apply for full funding to attend a five-day introductory level vector and virus diagnostics course in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2019, which is being run by CONNECTED in association with Biosciences eastern and central Africa…
Read moreFully funded places available for bioinformatics course, starting Jan 2019
12th November 2018
Bioinformatics training opportunity CONNECTED is pleased to open a new training opportunity to network members: We will fully fund a small number of places on a bioinformatics course in Sweden. It starts on 21 January 2019, so the application window is a small…
Read morePump-prime funding call #2 now open
22nd October 2018
The second CONNECTED PPF call is now open, with the Expression of Interest (EoI) stage, which closes on 18 November 2018. Amongst CONNECTED’s key objectives is enabling members to successfully apply for research funding. To achieve this, we are providing pump-prime funding (PPF) for…
Read moreSpreading the word about the CONNECTED network
15th October 2018
With hundreds of members joining the network, successful funding calls, conferences and training events, CONNECTED is thriving … and we are looking for ways to grow further and wider. There are lots of ways that members can further contribute to the network: for…
Read moreImproving food security through collaborative partnerships
4th October 2018
In a new blog post for The Cabot Institute, CONNECTED network member Joshua Raymond Muhumuza explores vital issues surrounding global food and nutrition security, with a particular focus on Africa. The article discusses how scientists globally are increasingly coming together in collaborative partnerships to…
Read moreCacao Swollen Shoot Virus workshop learns about CONNECTED
3rd October 2018
Delegates at a Cacao Swollen Shoot Virus (CSSV) workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, became the latest group of conference attendees to be introduced to the CONNECTED network. The September event brought together a number of CCSV experts to try to establish the sampling…
Read morePlant disease monitoring using social media
1st October 2018
A report has been published outlining a successful disease-monitoring campaign that was run on social media channel Twitter. Twitter was used to monitor corn and soybean diseases in the USA during 2016 and 2017 as part of a campaign to involve crop scouts,…
Read moreApply now for CONNECTED Training Vouchers worth up to £3,000
1st October 2018
Opportunities for lab visits, work shadowing, courses / workshops Applications are now invited from CONNECTED network members for a new scheme which allows early career researchers (ECRs) from any country to apply for a funded training visit, up to the value of £3,000.…
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