by Inés Teresa-Palacio

The University of Southampton is one of the top 15 research universities in the UK and is ranked among the top 1% of universities in the world (2012 QS World University Rankings). It is a founder member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading research universities in the UK and is part of the Worldwide Universities Network, engaging in collaboration and exchange agreements with some of the world’s leading universities. The University of Southampton has around 22,000 students of which over 5,000 are international from more than 130 different countries. It has eight faculties covering a wide range of subject areas: from humanities, art and social sciences, to biology, chemistry, electronics and computer science, engineering, health sciences, medicine, mathematics, oceanography, environmental sciences, optoelectronics, physics and astronomy.

The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President. The award consists of a cheque for 5000 Euro together with an award certificate. The selected fellow will be invited to the ERCIM meetings in autumn. A short article about the winner, together with the list of all candidates nominated, will be published in ERCIM News.

The final round of the successful “ABCDE” programme co-funded by the EC Marie Curie Actions is open. For this round, the fellowships are of 12-month duration to be spent in one ERCIM member institute. Topics cover most disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics and applicants can also propose their own research agenda. The deadline for applications is 30 April 2013.