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The European Commission has an open call for experts to join its database of independent experts for European research and innovation.

Today the European Research Council (ERC) announces its 2017 grant competitions with a total budget of around €1.8 billion, the highest ever since the ERC's inception in 2007. It is also the record ERC annual funding reserved for young researchers with two to seven years of post-PhD experience (Starting grants).

This report builds on and complements existing products and initiatives on urban adaptation in Europe. It focuses on the state of actions in the field and progress achieved since the first EEA report in 2012, and it considers this analysis in relation to current challenges: Do existing actions lead to attractive, climate-resilient cities and if not, what needs to be changed?

UN-Habitat UNI together with HESI (the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative) are in the process of defining a Sustainable Urban Development action plan for universities.

The action plan aims to orient universities supporting cities in their path towards sustainability and also identify better mechanisms to back effective collaboration between academic resources and urban strategies.

To this end UNI has set up a survey to take stock on existing effective collaborations between cities and universities.

• €2 million award from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND scheme
• Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Programme (WIRL) is a major new initiative to train future generations of Research Leaders in Europe
• WIRL will train 30 international researchers over five years