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The Furthermore program is concerned with nonfiction book publishing about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day. Our grants apply to writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding.

We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience; gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production; promises a reasonable shelf life; might not otherwise achieve top quality or even come into being; and represents a contribution without which we would be the poorer. Book proposals to which a university press or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred. In geographical reach we are drawn— but in no way limited— to New York City and to New York State and its Hudson Valley.

For more information, see http://www.furthermore.org.

The Helmholtz International Research School “Energy Scenarios – Construction, Assessment, Impact” invites applications from highly qualified and motivated individuals for

6 Doctoral Scholarships

Scholarship: 1200 €/month; Scholarship excluding additional auxiliary income to commence in April, 2012.

The International Research School in Energy Scenarios is a common institution of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) together with partners from the University of Stuttgart, ISI Fraunhofer Institute and German Aerospace Centre (DLR). The research school provides an internationally unique opportunity to become an outstanding researcher in energy scenario analysis. It provides high quality training for doctoral researchers in a structured, three year’s program. Our researchers will gain comprehensive knowledge of the construction techniques of scenarios, the system boundaries in the energy sector, as well as be able to make in‐depth valuations of energy scenario assessments, and their impacts on decision‐makers, politicians, population etc.

Successful candidates are expected to work in one of the following research projects:

Methods of social context inclusion in energy scenario construction
Responsible Partner:  Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Risk Governance and Sustainable Technology
Development (ZIRN) – University of Stuttgart
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ortwin Renn
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in sociology or political science
Further information: http://www.zirn‐info.de/index‐grk.htm

Perspectives of electricity storages with respect to the integration of high shares of renewable energies into the German supply system
Responsible Partner:  German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Stuttgart
Supervisor: Thomas Pregger and Yvonne Scholz
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in engineering, economics or related disciplines

Dimensionality of energy systems models – influence on the results of energy scenarios
Responsible Partner:  IER – Institute of Energy Economics and the Rationale Use of Energy, University of Stuttgart
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alfred Voß
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in engineering, economics or related disciplines

The perception and reception of energy scenarios by its users: an empirical analysis
Responsible Partner:  Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) – Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in philosophy

The role of global passenger road transport within energy scenarios
Responsible Partner:  Institute for Industrial Production – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolf Fichtner
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in economics, engineering or related disciplines

Long‐term Final Energy Demand Analysis
Responsible Partner: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Wietschel
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in economics, engineering or related disciplines

Application

The deadline for application for up to 2 research projects (please indicate 1st and 2nd choice) is December 16, 2011. We encourage especially women to apply for scientific positions. Handicapped with equal qualifications will be preferred. Short listed candidates will be invited for an oral presentation and interviews in February 2011.

Please submit electronic applications with the customary documentation (letter of motivation including personal research interests (one page), curriculum vitae, graduation documents, grade sheets, other certificates and a letter of recommendation to Dr. Julia Johnsen: julia.johnsen@kit.edu.

Development of a Concept of Operations, System Requirements, System Design and a Test Plan for a Multi-Modal Intelligent Traffic Signal System. Proposals due December 7, 2011.

For more information, see http://www.procurement.virginia.edu/pagerfp or http://www.procurement.virginia.edu/main/publicpostings/rfp/trafficsignalrfp.pdf.

Climate and Environmental Sciences, DOE

Deadline: Sep. 30, 2012

Award amount: $400 million for roughly 200 to 350 awards

The BER science portfolio includes research programs and scientific user facilities that examine complex biological, climatic, and environmental systems across spatial and temporal scales ranging from sub-micron to global, from individual molecules to ecosystems, and from nanoseconds to millennia. BER research explores the inner workings of a wide diversity of microbes and plants to understand how biological systems function, how they interact with each other, and how they can be manipulated to harness their processes and products. By starting with an organism’s DNA, BER-funded scientists seek to understand whole biological systems as the systems respond to and modify their environments. The biological systems that BER scientists investigate span organization scales ranging from individual molecular components such as proteins, multi-component molecular machines, interconnected metabolic and regulatory networks within cells, interactive communities of cells or organisms, and intact ecosystems.

For more information, see http://science.doe.gov/grants/announcements.asp?stat=1.

Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP), NSF

Deadline: Sep. 9, 2012

Award amount: The expected number of awards is 20. Estimated total program funding is $8,000,000. The award ceiling is $750,000. The award floor is $50,000.

The SciSIP program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations.

For more information, see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084.

Short-Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators (K18), NIH

Deadline: Feb. 12, 2012

Award amount: $500,000 for one year (max)

The sponsor provides funding for short term career development awards to allow established, well funded clinician investigators to expand research programs to answer questions relevant to the environmental health sciences, and to provide established environmental health sciences research investigators the tools to expand their efforts to translational research. This FOA will utilize the NIH Career Enhancement Award (K18) mechanism.

For more information, see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-090.html.