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European Inventor Award 2024: seven winners from Europe and the world

Six Europeans and one Japanese were honoured in different categories at the European Inventor Award 2024, held in Malta on 09/07/2024 and organised by the European Patent Office (EPO). The winners of the six categories are as follows: • Industry: Fiorenzo Dioni and Richard Oberle, Italian and…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Research Performing Organisation (RPO), …
• Article # 331821
• Published on 11/07/24 at 16:33
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ERC Proof of concept 2024: the highest number of winners from English institutions

Of the 100 winners in the first wave of the ERC's Proof of Concept programme for 2024, 15 are attached to an English institution, followed by the Netherlands (14 grants) and Italy (12), according to the results published on 11/07/2024. France, Germany and Spain are in fourth place out of 17…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, European commission, Research Performing Organisation (RPO), …
• Article # 331781
• Published on 11/07/24 at 11:58
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Irish Universities Associations calling on government to "deliver on funding commitments" (IUA)

"This autumn’s Budget is the last opportunity for the current government to deliver on its Funding the Future commitments", says the Irish Universities Association (IUA), the Irish Rectors' conference, on 04/07/2024. "The €307 M funding shortfall identified by the government in May 2022 has…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , State, …
• Article # 331648
• Published on 10/07/24 at 14:00
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FP10: "Make pan-European collaborative research the cornerstone of FP10" (Earto, European RTOs)

"We urge the EU Institutions to significantly increase the current budget in view of FP10 and to make pan-European collaborative research the cornerstone of FP10, answering industrial needs by excellence", states Earto, the European association of RTOs, and its research and industrial partners in…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Advocacy groups , Research and Technology Organisations (RTO) , Funding, …
• Article # 331611
• Published on 10/07/24 at 10:44
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UK General elections: a new Labour government and a new programme to "rebuild education systems"

The 2024 UK General elections led to the demission of Rishi Sunak's government and the nomination of Labour leader Keir Starmer and a new cabinet, including Bridget Phillipson as Education Secretary and Peter Kyle as Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary, on 05/07/2024. The Labour Party…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , State, …
• Article # 331397
• Published on 09/07/24 at 16:12
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🚨 [Agenda] HEIs conferences and events in Europe from 08/07/2024

Conexus alliance, G7 of Higher Education and Research ministers,... these institutions host events from 08/07/2024. News Tank's agenda purpose is to provide an overview of the events taking place in the higher education, research and innovation ecosystem in Europe. We focus on: • events…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , …
• Article # 331328
• Published on 08/07/24 at 11:19
• Updated on08/07/24 at 15:52
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The challenge of implementing research assessment in Europe (EUA-CDE annual meeting)

"Since its creation in 2022, Coara has aimed to reform research assessment in Europe through its core commitments to guide its implementation in different countries", says Pastora Martinez Samper, Commissioner for International Action at the Open University of Catalonia (Spain) and co-chair of the…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Advocacy groups , State, …
• Article # 330325
• Published on 08/07/24 at 11:00
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Swiss association to EU programmes: calls opened to Switzerland as "a sign of goodwill" (I. Ivanova)

"In the context of ongoing negotiations on a broad package of measures, which include Switzerland’s association to EU programmes such as Horizon Europe, the Commission decided to open calls for Swiss entities to apply as beneficiaries", declares Iliana Ivanova, European Commissioner for…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, European commission, Research Performing Organisation (RPO), …
• Article # 331176
• Published on 05/07/24 at 15:40
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New Dutch government to make major cuts to education and research budget and limit foreign students

Dutch universities sent a letter to the Parliament "stating that budget cuts could cost 1,200 academic jobs. Today, we read that it could even cost us up to 5,000 jobs. In doing so, we are actually putting the Netherlands' knowledge position at a disadvantage", says the party leader of Volt…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Research Performing Organisation (RPO), State, Universities, …
• Article # 331013
• Published on 04/07/24 at 17:42
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Canada’s association to the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe signed

“We warmly welcome today’s association of Canada to Pillar II of Horizon Europe, the European Union’s framework programme for research and innovation. This is an important milestone in the long-standing strategic partnership between the European Union and Canada", declare Commission President…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, European commission, State, …
• Article # 330886
• Published on 04/07/24 at 11:34