The Department of Music at City University London is internationally renowned as a centre of research and teaching excellence in composition (acoustic and electroacoustic), musicology, ethnomusicology, performance, and music technology, receiving the highest possible rating in the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001 (5*).

The Overseas Scholarships in Music: 4 awards; £4,000 each.

These scholarships are open to full-time overseas research students (UK/EU students are ineligible) who begin an MPhil-PhD in Music.

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The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has selected the InnoEnergy consortium to form a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the field of sustainable energy. The InnoEnergy consortium is part of the strategic initiative of the European Commission, to bridge the innovation gap in Europe and secure a competitive European leadership in the sustainable energy sector. Our mission is to:

• Address long term challenges and identify new opportunities for innovation in Europe
• Transfer higher education, research and innovation activities to the business context and their commercial application (create spin-offs, start-ups and SMEs)

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The Institute of Clinical Medicine in Tallinn University of Technology is looking for two Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships and three Doctoral Students.

The Institute of Clinical Medicine (ICM) was established as part of the Technomedicum of Tallinn University of Technology in 2007. The Institute operates as a science-, study- and development establishment in the medicine sphere. Clinical medicine is an area that builds a competence bridge between biomedicine and the clinical manifestation of diseases. Our institute adds the missing expertise to the development of the preferential areas in TUT (such as chemistry- and biotechnology, biomedicine), filling an important link in the “Program for scientific-and developmental actions in chemistry, biotechnology and biomedicine for the period of 2005-2015” (TUT, 2005).

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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, Call for application A.Y. 2010-2011 – non EU citizens Ph.D. Programme in “Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability”

Overview
The Ph.D. Programme in “Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability” is a three-year residential programme characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the subject and by the emphasis placed on current problems defining the protection and promotion of human rights.); it consists in the following curricula (Research Areas):
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