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As the EU faces mounting pressures and looks across its funding schemes to help address them, it is vital that the next framework programme is not pulled in different directions, but instead remains focussed where it will undoubtedly have the most impact: cutting-edge science and technology and research & innovation talent.

The news that Commission vice president Margrethe Vestager will temporarily take over the innovation and research portfolio following the departure of commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been met with mixed feelings, with one of the leading voices for research Christian Ehler MEP, saying that having Vestager in charge is not “very reassuring”

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EU members ‘must step up’ for European Universities The Council of the European Union, comprising ministers of EU member states, has called on European governments and higher education systems to support the European Universities Initiative (EUI) and make it a central to building a European Education Area by 2025. The ministers have urged more cooperation between education authorities, higher education institutions and stakeholders to remove obstacles to European level cooperation. In thi...

Why have Israeli scientists won so many ERC grants? On 22 April a delegation from the European Union visited Israel to celebrate 25 years of research and innovation (R&I) collaboration. The event, attended by European ambassadors, Israeli government officials and R&I stakeholders, marked a quarter century of growing R&I ties that started when Israel became associated to the Fourth EU Framework Programme for Research in 1996. “Since then, about 5,000 research contracts [have been] signed as a ...

How to succeed in the European Universities Initiative The European Union has published European Universities Factsheets giving comparative information on the 41 European Universities Initiative (EUI) alliances currently in operation and making themselves ready for the mid-term review of the EUI later in 2021. At the call of the two first rounds of the EUI it was explicitly stated by the EU Commission that the selected alliances are to serve as role models for “the path towards the EHEA [Eur...

Is European Universities Initiative helping to build EHEA? The European Universities Initiative has released new energy both for the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), according to a new analysis. The activities now underway in the European university alliances, notably the legal side of establishing common degrees and cultural factors like the stronger influence of the student movements in the northern part of Europe, will determine the way forward, says the study ...