The Royal Society offers, through the International Exchanges Programme, several grants for research mobility in the UK in the field of natural sciences and related fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics. The aim of the Programme is to stimulate new collaborations between UK scientists and scientists of other nationalities, therefore existing collaborations will not be funded. ELIGIBILITY […]
Month: February 2021
In the Webometrics edition for January 2021, the International University of Sarajevo (IUS) is the first-ranked private university in BiH, and the third-ranked in relation to all other universities in country. Also, IUS is in 1117th place in the competition of 5774 European universities that are included in Webometrics’s ranking […]
A researcher from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) has proposed a new explanation for the Arctic’s rapid warming. In his recent paper in Geosciences, he suggests that the warming could have been triggered by a series of great earthquakes. Global warming is one of the pressing issues faced by civilization. It is widely believed to be caused […]
The University of Granada dates back as far as the Middle Ages with the founding of the Madrasah Yusufiyya in 1349 by Yusuf I, the Sultan of Granada. The Madrasah Yusufiyya was a type of Arabic University where subjects such as medicine, calculus, astronomy, geometry, and logic were taught. With […]
OVERVIEW The undergraduate degree course in Philosophy will allow students to attain: • a general knowledge of the corpus of philosophy in all of its theoretical and historical aspects; • the capacity to formulate argumentation on morals and applied ethics and to make evaluations in the area of case studies […]
The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore) joins the Manifesto for Inclusive University, an initiative following the commitments laid down by the United Nations General Assembly through the Global Compact on Refugees, under which the Universities undertake to promote the access of refugees to university education and research, and […]
The University of Catania is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a population of over 60,000 students, it is the main university in Sicily. Following the Italian higher education […]
Since the coronavirus pandemic began more than a year ago, only one antiviral drug, remdesivir, has been approved in the United States for treatment of COVID-19, but it barely works and is toxic to the liver. After conducting a one-of-a-kind screen of drugs already approved or in the approval process […]
Just as pressing a guitar string produces a higher pitch, sending laser light through a material can shift it to higher energies and higher frequencies. Now scientists have discovered how to use this phenomenon to explore quantum materials in a new and much more detailed way. Topological insulators are one […]
The University of Tirana was established by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Albania, No. 207, dated 30.05.1957 as the “State University of Tirana”. It was composed of six faculties. The beginnings of higher education in Albania go back to 1946 when the first Biennial […]
