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European participants of the Framework Programme, Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES), visit Academy.

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Mobility by individual researchers has been supported by Marie Curie Actions for some time now, but something similar was needed for research organisations in particular for exchanges outside Europe. Marie Curie’s new International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) established in 2008, fills this gap and is helping European research organisations to set up or strengthen long-term cooperation with other countries, including Australia, through a coordinated staff exchange program.

IRSES project: ACCESS

Under ACCESS: A Complete CEnsus of Star-formation and nuclear activity in the Shapley super-cluster, Professor Mike Dopita, an astrophysicist at the ANU, hosted two Italian collaborators Paola Merluzzi and Gianni Busarello, from the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples. The Italian researchers were in Australia to access a unique piece of equipment, the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS), on the 2.3m telescope of the ANU at Siding Spring Observatory, to probe the effect of environment on the evolution of galaxies in the Shapley Galaxy Supercluster. This project is expected to facilitate the integration of European and Australian expertise in the areas of data reduction and interpretation.

From left: Dr Merluzzi, Prof Dopita , Dr Busarello.

IRSES project: TRANZFOR

Dr Jean-Michel Carnus from the Forest Research Centre of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), recently gave a presentation at the Academy on the IRSES project TRANZFOR "Transferring Research between EU, Australia and New Zealand on Forestry and Climate Change". The Australian partner in this project is CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems. This project aims to strengthen research partnerships through staff exchanges, networking and dissemination activities between Australia, 3 European research organisations and New Zealand with the intent of progressing adaptive responses to critical areas of climate change impacts on forests.

From left: Mr Jean-Francois Desvignes-Hicks (Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation), Dr Jean-Michel Carnus IRSES TRANZFOR project), Ms Heather Dyne and Dr Alex Aitkin (Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research).

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