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We are looking for a Student or Graduate Assistant (20 hours/month) starting 15 April 2026. In this role, you will support our team in building and shaping ECAS as a successful cooperation hub for academic exchange between Lower Saxonian and Scottish higher education institutions by maintaining and further developing its online presence. Your Profile Your Tasks What we offer The Leuphana University is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering […]
27. – 28. November 2025 | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) By Judith Crämer & Christoph Kleineberg Day 1 – Moving Forward with Enthusiasm On 27 November 2025, the Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum was ceremonially opened at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). Representatives from academia, politics and research institutions from Lower Saxony […]
Hanover/Lüneburg/Edinburgh, 21st November 2025 The European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS), recently relocated to the International Center of Leuphana University Lüneburg (Leuphana), is being developed into a central hub for scientific cooperation between Lower Saxony and Scotland. This transformation is supported by funding from zukunft.niedersachsen, the joint funding programme of the Lower Saxonian Ministry of […]
Lüneburg, 23 July 2025 As the United Kingdom and Germany embark on a renewed era of partnership through the recently signed Treaty on Friendship and Bilateral Cooperation, special attention is being paid to a notable example of regional collaboration: the Lower Saxony – Scotland Research and Innovation Scheme. The initiative is listed first among several regional cooperation examples in the […]
Part II: Cooperation Across Borders for Future Change Continuing the momentum of the Memorandum of Understanding signed earlier, the Lower Saxonian delegation, led by State Secretary Prof. Joachim Schachtner alongside Prof. Anne H. Anderson, Vice President of the RSE, engaged in a series of high-level meetings in Scotland to introduce the new funding scheme and […]
Part I: A Memorandum of Understanding to Act Scotland, United Kingdom In February 2025, a significant step towards international academic collaboration was achieved with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). This agreement underscores a mutual commitment […]
We are pleased to announce two forthcoming information sessions dedicated to the Lower Saxony – Scotland Research and Innovation Scheme – a prestigious funding initiative designed to strengthen academic collaboration between researchers in Lower Saxony and Scotland. The scheme, structured into two distinct streams, supports both emerging and established partnerships, promoting and enabling cross-border research […]
Announcement of Open Calls The Lower Saxony – Scotland Research and Innovation Scheme officially launches today, reinforcing the commitment to long-term academic collaboration between Lower Saxony and Scotland. This landmark initiative, supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) together with the Volkswagen Foundation and in […]
With profound sadness, the members of ECAS mourn the passing of Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte, our Academic Director, in the early hours of 22 November 2024. Professor Terhechte was the visionary mind behind ECAS, playing an instrumental role in its creation and development. It was his leadership and dedication that secured the collaboration between […]
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) together with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), have announced a new call for proposals for international and high-impact bilateral research in the arts and humanities sector. It supports cutting-edge, cross-border research deepening the understanding of human culture, history, and society. Researchers from Germany and the UK […]
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Robert Burns
