PASCAL: Apply now!
PASCAL (The Pan-African Soil Challenge) is founded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project focusses at a secure and sustainable food production for the African continent as one of the most stringent global challenges. Apply here for HPC training, hackathon, and the side programme
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Blog: A Bridge to Africa
For one week in autumn 2018 young scientists from Africa will meet geoscientists from Geoverbund ABC/J in Accra, to get in contact with the latest methods of modeling and simulation with supercomputers. The vision: Soil Research can support a secure and sustainable food production for Africa – and a week together could be the first step. This project diary will report regularly how the bridge building advances.
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ABC/J Support Programmes
Seed Funding for multilocational research projects, ABC/J Young Academics Award for outstanding interdisciplinary research, student scholarships for participation in our ABC/J Excursion or ABC/J Summer Schools, no additional costs for students enroling in modules at all of the affiliated courses of the ABC/J partner universities. The support programmes of Geoverbund ABC/J are diverse.
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ABC/J-Summer Festival 2018: Register now!
The ABC/J-Summer Festival will take place on June 29 at Forschungszentrum Jülich. This year's highlights: The award ceremony of the Geoverbund ABC/J Young Academics Award 2018 and key speaker Dr. Insa Thiele-Eich - finalist of the German campaign "Die Astronautin". All Geoverbund ABC/J members are cordially invited! We kindly ask for prior registration.
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5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018
The title "Dynamics in an Unequal World" of this international conference, the biggest dedicated to economic geography, is based on the premise that the world is far away from being flat. Worldwide we see uneven developments in which regions and countries rise while other fall. Date & location: 24–28 July 2018, University of Cologne. Calls for Abstracts/Sessions & registration will be announced in 2017. The Conference is supported by Geoverbund ABC/J.
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High-Performance Scientific Computing
Research accompanied by the Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems includes questions regarding modelling of water-, energy- and turn-over-cycles throughout ground water systems, the land surface and the atmosphere. Furthermore it deals with the fusion of monitoring models due to data assimilation and inversion methods.
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Studying within Geoverbund ABC/J
The diversity and complementarity of the range of courses provided under the umbrella of Geoverbund ABC/J offers many opportunities for the students´ individual profile formation. The students in the ABC/J region also benefit from reduced administrative barriers and are enabled to switch between the cooperating institutes without being charged additional study fees.
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Something to pass on?!
Do you have any news that you would like to promote in the ABC/J region or an open position to be filled as soon as possible? We support you in the distribution of your announcements via the information channels of Geoverbund ABC/J. All you have to do: Write us!
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