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Starting in March 2016, European university students will be able to access a unique set of opportunities to enrich their space science and engineering education: the ESA Academy

Videos of lectures on Astrobiology made within the frame of the Rencontres Exobiologiques pour Doctorants (RED’16) that was co-organized with the Erasmus + Strategic Parner “European Astrobiology Campus” a

We are pleased to announce that we have a winner of the EANA logo competition.

The PhD student will be strongly involved in the setup and development of a timeresolved Raman spectrometer at IMPMC starting in the end of 2016. This equipment will be unique as it will allow bulk analyses (≈mm3) at distance in a Martian chamber (similarly to how SuperCam will operate on Mars) as well as analyses at the microscale (≈μm3) including Raman mapping.

Season greetings from the Chair of the COST Action.

Applications are invited for a PhD student position at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Geneva to start as soon as possible.

The successful candidate will be member of the research group led by Dr. Marc Audard in the field of star and planet formation. The PhD student will work on a project to study the episodic accretion phenomenon in star and planet formation using observational data (proprietary and archival), by modelling them using thermochemical codes, and by comparing with theoretical models developped at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna, Austria (Dr. Eduard Vorobyov and Prof. Manuel Guedel).

EANA is opening a competition for its new logo. Everyone is allowed to participate.

The winner is invited to come to the EANA 2016 conference and obtains a travel grant.

Please send your logo idea by e-mail to eana-web@eana-net.eu. The deadline is 31 December 2015.

An 18-months postdoctoral position is offered at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne of Paris, under the supervision of Profs. A. Marco Saitta and Fabio Pietrucci.

The project, focused on advanced ab initio free-energy methods (metadynamics and beyond) to model the synthesis of fundamental biochemical bricks under realistic prebiotic conditions, will develop within a larger research consortium. This includes the experimental groups of Profs. M.-C. Maurel (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle), J.-F. Lambert and T. Georgelin (Chemistry Department of UPMC), and F. Guyot (Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie), all in Paris. The fellowship, funded by the Sorbonne Excellence Cluster "MATISSE" (MATerials, InterfaceS, Surfaces, Environment), should start in 2016, at the earliest convenience.

The RIVER of TIME is an exhibition that retraces the major stages of the history of our planet since the formation of the Solar System---4.57 billion of years ago---until the emergence of Homo sapiens---200,000 years ago---through the development and diversification of life on Earth.

Artificial protocellular compartments and lipid vesicles have been used as model systems to understand the origins and requirements for early cells, as well as to design encapsulated reactors for biotechnology. One prominent feature of vesicles is the semi-permeable nature of their membranes, able to support passive diffusion of individual solute species into/out of the compartment, in addition to an osmotic water flow in the opposite direction to the net solute concentration gradient. Crucially, this water flow affects the internal aqueous volume of the vesicle in response to osmotic imbalances, i