Visiting scholarship at the world's best universities?

Are you interested? Well, then stay tuned. I will be in Denmark to present an exciting opportunity for visiting scholarship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley in California in 2012. Feel free to drop by when I present these opportunities Monday September 5 in Copenhagen and Wednesday September 7 in Aarhus.

Memorial Glade of Sather Tower, UC Berkeleys centrum. Foto: brainchildvn on Flickr (Licensed under Creative Commons).

Stanford and UC Berkeley: No. 2 and 3 in the world!

This great opportunity is a result of a partnership between Innovation Center Denmark in Silicon Valley and two centres, H-STAR and CITRIS, at the Californian universities, which came in 2nd and 3rd in the most recent Shanghai ranking of the world's best universities.

H-STAR is an interdisciplinary research centre with focus on IT, design and user-driven innovation at Stanford University while CITRIS at University of California focuses on IT in society, health IT, as well as energy and climate research. CITRIS also includes a number of Silicon Valley's largest IT companies, for example Hewlett Packard, IBM, Oracle and Intel.

"Critical importance to career!"

The last few years more than 40 scientists from Danish universities have been on a visiting scholarship in California through the partnership with Stanford and University of California. More than 80 percent of these have indicated that the stay was of "critical importance to their research careers."

Palm Drive, Stanford University. Foto: Stanford.

The small print

Up to 20 visiting scholars are offered a visiting scholarship in a new call published September 5, 2011. The call is open for all PhD students, post docs and researchers at Danish universities and research institutions. Deadline for applications is 5 October 2011. Visiting scholarships are for 3-6 months and will have to take place in 2012.

Sign up here

Please sign up here: ruse@adm.ku.dk for the Copenhagen meeting and here for the Aarhus meeting.

Where to go and when?

Copenhagen meeting: September 5*, 3-4 PM @ COBIS, Ole Maaløesvej 3, 2200 Cph. N.

Aarhus meeting: September 7**, 2-3 PM @ Dale's Café, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 4, 8000 Aarhus C.

• See last year's press release on the same topic
• Also see blog posts from Danish scientists in Silicon Valley (in Danish)