Deadline- 20 December 2012
Countries/Region- All Countries
The NCCR (National Centre of Competence in Research) Climate, Switzerland’s Centre of Excellence in Climate and Climate Impact Research invites young scientists for 12th International NCCR Climate Summer School 2013 in Grindelwald, Switzerland. The Summer School will focus on the theme “From Climate Reconstructions to Climate Predictions”.
The specific topics to be addressed include–
- Climate variability of the past two millennia and the next century
- Calibrating proxies, modeling past climate, data – model comparison, detection and attribution
- Rapid climate change and feedbacks, tipping points
- Decadal predictability: theory and processes
Eligibility Criteria–
- Eligible for participation in the NCCR Climate Summer Schools are young researchers, i.e. persons being in a Ph.D. programme or doing a postdoc typically in their first, second or third year. Not eligible are Master students, senior postdocs, researchers holding a permanent research position and persons from outside academia. Participation as e hearer in the NCCR Climate Summer School (i.e. without presenting a poster) is not possible.
- Usually organization have significantly more applications than places in the NCCR Climate Summer School. Please understand that, for this reason, some applicants must be rejected, even if they have their own funding. The competitive selection of participants is based on their CV, publication record, and research topic related to the Summer School themes.
Application Procedure-
- Participation in the NCCR Climate Summer School is liable to the registration fee (1200 CHF). The registration fee includes half board accommodation, excursion and teaching material. Travel to and from Grindelwald are not included in the registration fee.
- Special regulations apply for members of the NCCR Climate (please refer to this list), for members of the Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, and for members of the C2SM, ETH Zurich: Participation in the NCCR Climate Summer School is free of charge, and travel expenses are reimbursed through the research project or group the participant is affiliated to. If the number of applications from NCCR Climate, OCCR and C2SM exceeds the number of available places, the students are selected based on the following criteria: (1) Relevance of the students’s research focus with respect to the topic of the Summer School. (2) Academic age and total number of participations in the NCCR Climate Summer Schools (typically, students can participate three times during their PhD and Postdoctoral studies)
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