The Institute of Contemporary History (USD) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic is seeking for participants, if possible primarily from the Visegrad countries, interested in topics raised within the scientific agenda of the project Environmental histories of the Visegrad countries: Cold War and the environmental sciences funded by the Visegrad Fund. As a follow-up of the Prague workshop held on 23-25 March 2012, a workshop and a meeting of working group will be organised in Brno (or in Prague – to be confirmed later) on 15 June 2012.

The Referat Genderforschung at the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Department for Biochemistry and Cell Biology invites to the Workshop *„Epigenetics, Society & Gender“. Invited are also young researchers and students.

Created by Euroscience, ESOF -- Euroscience Open Forum -- is the
biennial pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and
innovation. The ESOF2012 will bring together over 5,000 scientists to address all of the current major global scientific challenges, including Energy, Climate Change, Food and Health.

Various organisations offer travel grants to help young researchers who wish to attend ESOF2012.

The Committee of the Regions of the European Union (CoR) is organising an annual doctoral thesis competition on local and regional authorities in the European Union.

Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzity sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave organizuje doktorandskú konferenciu, na ktorej by rada privítala doktorandov/ek aj z príbuzných odborov.

Institut výzkumu inkluzivního vzdělávání PdF MU nabízí pracovní místo pro akademického/akademickou pracovníka/pracovnici s titulem Ph.D. Jedná se o zaměstnání v rámci projektu Masarykovy univerzity „Zaměstnejte postdoky", v němž dostal Institut výzkumu inkluzivního vzdělávání PdF MU  možnost zaměstnat jednoho/jednu pracovníka/pracovnici. Uchazeči/ky musí získat doktorát mimo Masarykovu univerzitu, a to v období mezi březnem 2008 - červnem 2012.

The UACES Student Forum is organising its Thirteenth Annual Conference, on 18-19 June 2012 at the Kent Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) and The Institute for European Studies (IES-VUB) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This two day conference aims to provide a friendly environment in which postgraduate students can gain experience of presenting research and develop contacts with other researchers in their field.

The primary focus of the R&D Journal is to enable full disciplinary pluralism by publishing articles in sociology, humanities, economics, law, public administration, management, political science, communication and other related fields.Therefore R&D Journal introduces new themes in the field of social sciences and welcomes theoretical as well as quantitative and qualitative empirical and applicative contributions from well-established researchers as well as young prospective authors.

The NYU Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy (AHC) invites for the 5th Graduate Student Conference on Political Economy. The organisers particularly welcome proposals that examine various important, theoretical, and policy problems such as the design of governing institutions, the development and distribution of human capital, and the means by which fundamental policy is-sues can be resolved or advanced through the promotion of efficient and effective solutions that are sensitive to the political, economic, and social realities.

The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University; The Posthumanities Network: Next Genderation and InterGender - Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies invite for the 3rd annual New Materialisms-conference “Entanglements of New Materialisms”. 2-day event invites critical discussants (day one), panels, art, and paper presentations (day 2) by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.