Science is Wonderful – 2024 call for projects

The call for MSCA projects to take part in the Science is Wonderful! science fair was published.

The 2024 edition will take place in-person in Brussels on 25 and 26 April 2024. The 2024 science fair will offer excellent science engagement activities developed by researchers and projects supported by MSCA, primarily addressed to teachers and pupils.

We are calling on MSCA projects, fellows and alumni to present their research to approximately 5 000 young visitors over the two days. Applications have to be submitted by or involve at least one MSCA fellow or alum. Selected projects will be able to send two people to the fair, including one MSCA fellow/alum and another (MSCA) colleague, team member, coordinator or supervisor of their project.

The deadline for applications is 16 October 2023.

The full call is published on our website: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/showcase-your-research-at-science-is-wonderful-2024

Applications can be submitted through the dedicated form: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/ScienceisWonderfulFair2024

For any questions about the application process, please feel free to contact EAC-MSCA-SIW@ec.europa.eu

GMP2023 award

It is our pleasure to announce that Mahenina’s and Kai’s work on “Shape control tools for periodic Bézier curves” won the Best Paper award at the Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) 2023. Congratulations to both!

Shahroz wins 2023 ASME CIE best dissertation award

Shahroz’s PhD dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2023 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers & Information in Engineering (CIE) Best Dissertation Award.

Congratulations to Shahroz and his advisor, Panagiotis Kaklis!

Shahroz wins Images of Research award!

Dr Shahroz Khan (U. STrathclyde) has received first place in the Images of Research awards in the category of Technology Transformer! This award was received for the graphical abstract of his ShipHullGAN paper and was presented by the University of Strathclyde’s Vice Chancellor, Sir Jim McDonald.
Congratulations Shahroz!

GRAPES at I4MS event in Budapest

Tor Dokken will present a poster showcasing GRAPES and the results obtained so far by our ESRs at the I4MS event ‘European leadership and digital game-changers of the manufacturing industry’ in Budapest, on 19th of October 2022. Many thanks to the fellows that contributed their results and to Georg Muntingh for compiling them to a poster!

European Researchers’ Night – 30 September 2022

This year’s European Researchers’ Night will take place on Friday 30 September 2022 in 25 countries.

The aims of the event are to bring researchers closer to the general public and to increase public awareness of research and innovation activities with a view to supporting the public recognition of research and innovation activities, to creating an understanding of the impact of researchers’ work on citizens’ daily lives and to encouraging young people to embark on research careers.

The event is therefore particularly aimed at young people and their families.

The organisers of these events always seek the involvement of researchers funded by H2020 and Horizon Europe, including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA).

The participation of the GRAPES fellows in the event is therefore strongly encouraged. The link European Researchers’ Night includes the websites of each organisers that the fellow can contact directly and offer his/her participation.

New Partner Organization Co-Design Lab @ UC Berkeley

We are very hapy to welcome to GRAPES the Cognition and Computation in Design (Co-Design) Lab (https://codesign.berkeley.edu/) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University California Berkeley! The Co-Design Lab, led by Prof. Kosa Goucher-Lambert has just joined our Project as a Partner Organization.