promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

Research grant Fraunhofer Attract (Stuttgart, Germany)

Application deadline: Tue 31 Oct 2023

English Version:

The acoustics department of Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) in Stuttgart is looking for a PhD scientist to establish a new research group in the field of multimodal comfort assessment and sensor technology as part of the Fraunhofer funding program "Attract". In addition to profound knowledge in acoustics, competences in the fields of machine learning, big data or soundscape are helpful.

Are you interested in setting up your own business area at Fraunhofer IBP? Then take a look at our program page to see how the Attract program is structured and whether you meet the requirements. If you are interested, contact us informally by e-mail to peter.brandstaett@ibp.fraunhofer.de by October 31, 2023 with a short paragraph of maximum 2000 characters about yourself and the business area you would like to establish with us. The Attract application will be submitted together with you. If approved, you will have access to a total of 2.5 million euros in funding over 5 years.

We look forward to hearing your ideas.

German Version:

Die Akustik-Abteilung des Fraunhofer IBP (Stuttgart) sucht eine*n promovierte*n Wissenschaftler*in zum Aufbau einer neuen Arbeitsgruppe im Bereich multimodale Komfortbewertung und Sensorik im Rahmen des Fraunhofer-Förderprogramms „Attract“. Dabei können neben fundierten Akustik-Kenntnissen Kompetenzen aus den Bereichen Machine Learning, Big Data oder Soundscape hilfreich sein.

Sie haben Lust, Ihr eigenes Geschäftsfeld am Fraunhofer IBP aufzubauen? Dann prüfen auf der Programm-Seite wie das Attract-Programm aufgebaut ist, ob Sie die Anforderungen erfüllen und melden Sie sich bis zum 31. Oktober 2023 formlos per Mail an peter.brandstaett@ibp.fraunhofer.de mit einem kurzen, maximal 2000 Zeichen langen Absatz über sich und das Geschäftsfeld, das Sie bei uns aufbauen wollen. Die Attract-Antragsstellung erfolgt bei Auswahl mit Ihnen gemeinsam. Insgesamt stehen Ihnen bei Bewilligung 2,5 Millionen Euro Förderung über 5 Jahre zur Verfügung.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Ideen.

The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is a non-profit entity established in 1992 that includes in its membership societies predominantly in European countries interested in to promote development and progress of acoustics in its different aspects, its technologies and applications. EAA gathers 33 societies of acoustics and serves more than 9000 individual members all over Europe. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is an Affiliate Member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and of Initiative of Science in Europe (ISE).

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