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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”
/PRNewswire/ -- Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organizations, today announced the launch of Unit4 Marketplace, a new...
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 this context, they suggest exploring the need for and feasibility of joint European degrees within the ...
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 part of Israeli participation and more than 6,000 participants and about 1,000 SMEs [small and mediu...