La bulgara Mariya Gabriel è la nuova commissaria europea per Innovazione e Gioventù: si occuperà di educazione, ricerca, innovazione, cultura e sport

10 settembre 2019 Mariya Gabriel (Bulgaria, biografia da Wikipedia) è stata nominata per il portafoglio “Innovazione e gioventù” nella prossima Commissione europea, come ha dichiarato nell’odierna conferenza stampa il presidente eletto Ursula von der Leyen. La sua responsabilità sarà di dare una “nuova prospettiva alle giovani generazioni” ha affermato Von der Leyen. Nella lettera di…

Nobel laureates and business leaders unite to urge for investment in EU research and innovation

https://www.ert.eu/document/nobel-laureates-and-business-leaders-unite-urge-investment-eu-research-and-innovation European firms are at their best and most competitive when our continent’s higher education and research institutions are at their most innovative. That is why the leaders of Europe’s biggest employers are clear that an ambitious programme of funding must be a priority for the EU budget as it seeks to deliver broad-based growth,…

Leading research universities in central Europe reject geographic funds allocation in Horizon Europe

Fonte: Science Business University heads disagree with Romanian MEP’s proposal that geographic evaluation criteria in the EU 2021 – 2027 research programme could fix EU’s research innovation divide. Excellence is what counts, they say By Florin Zubascu   A delegation of CE7 and LERU universities at a meeting in Warsaw. Photo: Veerle Van Kerckhove, LERU A group…

Proposta shock per la ricerca europea: eccellenza non più l’unico criterio di giudizio

Un recente articolo a firma del prof. Kurt Deketelaere, segretario generale della “Lega Europea delle Università di Ricerca ” (LERU, https://www.leru.org/about-leru), pubblicato nei giorni scorsi su Research Europe (https://www.leru.org/files/News/Horror-over-plans-to-shake-up-ERC-rules.pdf), punta il dito su una proposta forse provocatoria, certamente dirompente, avanzata in sede di discussione nel Parlamento Europeo (PE) del nuovo (2021-2027) programma quadro per la…

Nuclear research if there’s no Brexit deal

Fonte: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Nuclear research if there’s no Brexit deal A scenario in which the UK leaves the EU without agreement (a ‘no deal’ scenario) remains unlikely given the mutual interests of the UK and the EU in securing a negotiated outcome. Negotiations are progressing well and both we and the EU continue…

What’s on the Horizon for the ERC?

Fonte: European Research Council 9 July 2018 Horizon Europe, an ambitious 100 billion EUR research and innovation programme for 2021 to 2027 was recently proposed by the European Commission. To see what this will mean for the ERC, we interviewed Carlos Moedas, the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation. Why do we need a revised…

Horizon Europe – the next research and innovation framework programme

https://ec.europa.eu/info/designing-next-research-and-innovation-framework-programme/what-shapes-next-framework-programme_en The Commission’s proposal for Horizon Europe The Commission has published its proposal for Horizon Europe, an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme that will succeed Horizon 2020. The proposal was made as part of the EU’s proposal for the next EU long-term budget, the multiannual financial framework (MFF). Various building blocks were taken into account…