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🚨 [Agenda] HEIs conferences and events in Europe from 30/06/2025

DFG, Joint Research Centre, Neth-ER,... these institutions host events from 30/06/2025. News Tank’s agenda aims to provide an overview of the events taking place in Europe’s higher education, research and innovation ecosystem. We focus on: • events taking place in Brussels or related to…

Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 403665
• Published on 30/06/25 at 11:54

Science diplomacy: "Universities are instrumental in building Europe's connections" (J. M. Mueller, DGRI)

"Science, technology and innovation are playing an increasingly important role in international relations, and have repercussions on economic growth, economic security, military security, and are increasingly linked to many geopolitical aspects", states Jean-Christophe Mauduit, Associate Professor…

Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 402679
• Published on 27/06/25 at 09:00

"Students in exile are still students": Global University Academy's first action for refugees in Jordan

"We created the Global University Academy for refugees and migrant students because students in exile are still students. They are not unnamed bodies, migrating, or biologically reduced bodies. They are people with lives and careers, and helping them is our mission", declares Frédéric Worms…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Advocacy groups , Research Performing Organisation (RPO), …
• Article # 402061
• Published on 26/06/25 at 16:54

European Commission's plan for the funding of European universities alliances in the next MFF

The European Commission wants to keep Erasmus+ as the main funding source for European universities alliances in the next MFF, News Tank learns on 25/06/2025. As part of the same application, the alliances could also be authorised to submit optional projects to other sources of funding. Research…

Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, European commission, …
• Article # 403103
• Published on 26/06/25 at 12:43

Exclusive Rice University (U.S.) will join the Venice International University; "Raising our academic impact"

"Rice University (U.S.) will join the Venice International University, a 30-year-old institution on San Servolo (Italy). We are joining 24 of the world’s best universities as a VIU partner", announces Caroline Levander, Professor and Vice President for Global Strategy at Rice University in…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Research Performing Organisation (RPO), Universities, …
• Article # 402310
• Published on 25/06/25 at 17:36

EFMD welcoming 29 new members during 2025 General Assemblies

"Following the latest EFMD Membership Review Committee, we are proud to welcome 29 new institutions into the EFMD community, 26 business schools and three corporate organisations. The ratification of the new members took place during the recent 2025 EFMD & EFMD Global Network General Assemblies…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Advocacy groups , Business schools, …
• Article # 403047
• Published on 25/06/25 at 17:20

Civica Global Forum: Main takeaways on how universities provide solutions to global challenges

The Civica Global Forum, organised by Civica, the European University of Social Sciences, at IE University (Madrid, Spain) on 06 and 07/05/2025, highlighted that "in these uncertain times, universities must demonstrate their full value to society, as engines of knowledge, innovation and defenders…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Universities, Erasmus+, …
• Article # 402649
• Published on 25/06/25 at 08:00

Nature: Adoption of transparent peer review for new research articles

"After a successful pilot phase, Nature is adopting the transparent peer review process, reinforcing knowledge sharing and the principles of open science", says Springer Nature Group on 23/06/2025. "As of 16/06/2025, all primary research articles submitted to Nature and accepted for publication…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Advocacy groups , Companies, …
• Article # 402926
• Published on 24/06/25 at 14:40

2025 EU Prize for Citizen Science: 100,000€ distributed among three winners

The project "Heroines" receives the Grand 2025 EU Prize for Citizen Science "for the impressive inclusion of Roma women in the process of empowering their emancipation in Serbia, by developing a community mapping tool to gather rarely shared oral stories and co-produce knowledge difficult to…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, European commission, Funding, …
• Article # 402871
• Published on 24/06/25 at 14:00

Call from 17 European organisations to "refrain from introducing directionality into the MSCA"

17 European organisations, led by the universities associations Coimbra Group and Yerun, and EU-Life, the association of research centres in the life sciences, "call on the European Commission and member states to refrain from introducing directionality into the MSCA. This proposed shift is not…

Domain(s): Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Advocacy groups , European commission, …
• Article # 402847
• Published on 24/06/25 at 10:54