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- TÜBİTAK and Indonesia's BRIN select 10 projects under joint 2573 bilateral call
Türkiye's research council and Indonesia's national research agency have completed evaluation of their joint call. Ten Turkish–Indonesian projects led by universities, public institutes and…
- Algeria sets November 2028 start for draft professor promotion evaluation grid
Algeria's higher education ministry has reissued a draft grid for assessing promotion to full professor. It says the grid will apply from the November 2028 session, affecting academics seeking the…
- University of Warsaw publishes CoARA action plan on research assessment for 2026–2031
Poland's University of Warsaw has set out a five-year plan for gradually applying the principles of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) to how it evaluates research.
- Peru's Pronabec extended Beca 18 applications for 6,000 scholarships in 2027 round
Peru's national scholarship agency extended the application deadline for its 2027 Beca 18 call to 18 October. The call offers 6,000 places, and a national selection exam is set for 22 November.
- USI's CCdigitallaw develops rights retention guidelines for Swiss universities
Under a swissuniversities mandate, a USI competence centre is preparing guidance on how Swiss universities can keep research publications openly accessible and help researchers retain their rights.
- Peru's Pronabec plans 20,000 scholarships in 2027, mostly for labour-market priority fields
Peru's national scholarship programme plans to award 20,000 scholarships in 2027. The education minister said 90% will target programmes linked to labour-market needs in sectors such as mining…
- HRK and CEWS project on gender equity in professorial appointments enters survey phase
A joint project by the German Rectors' Conference and CEWS that examines equality measures in professorial appointment procedures moves into intensive data collection this winter semester.
- Federal University of Juiz de Fora to add three evening bachelor's degrees from 2027
UFJF in Brazil will offer new evening bachelor's programmes in Brazilian Sign Language studies, International Relations, and Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, with admission through Sisu…
- ANR pre-announces ERA4Health 2027 call requiring nano-diagnostics to beat existing tests
France's national research agency has signalled a translational call, NanoDiagNCD, for nanotechnology-based diagnostics for non-communicable diseases. Proposals must show measurable gains over…
- Peru's Sunedu meets student federation on ID card delays and campus elections
Peru's university regulator met the national student federation on student ID card issuance, oversight of university compliance and transparent campus elections, and responded to complaints about…
- Chile's CRUCH and Spain's CRUE sign 11 commitments on university cooperation
Chilean and Spanish rectors' bodies have signed a joint declaration of 11 commitments covering training, research and academic mobility, after two days of talks in Tenerife.
- Costa Rican university presses warn over threatened cuts to 2027 FEES funding
Costa Rica's public university presses have issued a statement on possible cuts to FEES 2027, as 2027 funding for state universities is due to be settled this week.
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