T19: all year-round funding for network members’ training
3rd December 2018
All-year round training opportunities for network members Recognising that training opportunities appear all year round, not just when a training funding application window is open, for the whole of 2019 we are inviting applications from network members who see an existing training course…
Vector & 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…
Fully 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…
Pump-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…
Improving 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…
Cacao 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…
Plant 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,…
Apply 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.…
Making a difference: Masters student reflects on work experience placement
27th September 2018
For five weeks during summer 2018, the CONNECTED network team was joined by volunteer final year student, Katie Stevens, a final year Masters student at the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, who undertook a voluntary work experience placement. The network team…
Supporting the CONNECTED network team
20th August 2018
CONNECTED was delighted to host 16 year-old UK work experience student Zoe Anderson, who recently completed her GCSE studies and is hoping to undertake A level study later in the summer. At the end of a busy week, Zoe wrote a report on…