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German Research Foundation to fund Collaborative Research Center 1349 at Freie Universität Berlin for four more years Since 2019 Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1349 "Fluorine-Specific Interactions" has been working on understanding and controlling the complex interactions that can emanate from fluorinated units in molecules and materials.

4.3 million people take on an unpaid caring role every year Research from the Centre for Care, at the University of Sheffield, highlights the large number of people transitioning in and out of caring roles every year.

Three Imperial academics have won ERC Starting Grants to pursue their 'ambitious research ideas'. The grants - worth up to €1.5million euros each over five years - are awarded to emerging science talent through the Horizon Europe programme to launch their own projects and form teams.

The European Space Agency has chosen 17 new astronaut candidates from more than 22 500 applicants from across its Member States.

Thomas Vogl, research group leader at MedUni Vienna's Center for Cancer Research, has received a "Starting Grant" from the European Research Council (ERC) with funding of €1.65 million for five years.

Dutch Railways (NS) employees may have come into contact with chromium-6 between 1970 and 2020. It is not known exactly how often or how much this happened.

European Research Council to provide social psychologist Verena Klein with funding for her research project on the gray zones of sexuality The European Research Council (ERC) is funding a new research project led by the psychologist Verena Klein through an ERC Starting Grant.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its Starting Grants. Among this year's recipients are literary scholar Núria Codina Solà, engineer Benjamin Gorissen, bioscience engineer Koenraad Van Meerbeek, and chemical engineer Xing Yang.

Employers and employees have celebrated #LivingWageWeek in Wales by marking Cardiff's journey towards becoming a Living Wage City.

New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.

Beginning this year, employees at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland's largest private employer, will receive two extra paid holidays to make it a six-day paid winter break, part of the university's new commitment to flexible work arrangements.

New research shows how targeted sport for employability programmes in under-served communities are playing a key role in the face of the cost-of-living crisis.

Motorcyclists delivering hot food who pick up jobs through digital platforms are more likely to be in a collision where their bike is damaged or someone is injured than those directly employed by restaurants, finds research by UCL. Freelance delivery riders are also more likely to report that time pressure from their employer means they are more likely to speed (56% versus 39%) or ride through red lights (21% versus 12%).

Bernd Raffelhüschen from the University of Freiburg presents the "SKL Glücksatlas 2022" ("SKL Happiness Atlas 2022") Freiburg, Nov 08, 2022 Life satisfaction in Germany has increased only slightly after last year's Corona-related low, and new crises are putting the brakes on the recovery.

In het ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2021 zijn de fiscale en sociale gevolgen van thuiswerken door grensarbeiders in het thuiswerkdossier nader bekeken.

The ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2021 took a closer look at the tax and social security implications of homeworking by cross-border workers in the homeworking dossier.

The mission is moving forward as previously announced, and NASA will incorporate recommendations from the board to ensure its success.

Digital Credentials Consortium's new report explores barriers to adoption. Academic digital credentials - the cryptographically verifiable assertion that an individual holds a degree, certificate, or other credential - have been available for the better part of a decade.

The covid pandemic brought pressure to bear on many things. Neurology professor Karin Faber and assistant professor of Healthcare Management Daan Westra look back on a turbulent time.

Resilience is a fascinating word. According to the Oxford Dictionary , it is "the ability of people or things to recover quickly after something unpleasant".