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UK Office for Life Sciences: Steve Bates appointed new Executive Chair

Steve Bates is appointed Executive Chair of the British Office for Life Sciences "to help champion research and innovation and the use of technology to transform health and grow the UK economy", says the UK government on 22/07/2025. "The Office for Life Sciences (OLS) will report directly to…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, Research Performing Organisation (RPO), …
• Article # 407377
• Published on 31/07/25 at 17:26
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Horizon Europe: partial suspension of Israel’s participation by excluding entities from EIC Accelerator

The European Commission proposes to partially suspend Israel’s participation in Horizon Europe by excluding Israeli entities from EIC Accelerator-funded activities, which support start-ups and small businesses developing technologies with potential dual-use applications such as cybersecurity…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Council, European commission, …
• Article # 407119
• Published on 29/07/25 at 11:54
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Business schools: Policy shifts are undermining international student mobility (AACSB survey)

"Institutions impacted by recent policy changes anticipate an average 16% drop in international student enrollment for the 2025-26 academic year. Meanwhile, schools in countries without such restrictions expect enrollment to increase by as much as 10%, highlighting how national policy environments…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Business schools, State, …
• Article # 406933
• Published on 25/07/25 at 18:00
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Innovation Scoreboard 2025: Switzerland tops the Summary innovation index; Sweden is the EU leader

Switzerland tops the Summary innovation index in 2025, as it has done since 2010, according to the 2025 edition of the Innovation Scoreboard, published by the European Commission on 15/07/2025. The country score is 139.8 % (calculated for the eight years between 2018 and 2025 compared to the…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, European commission, Research and Technology Organisations (RTO) , …
• Article # 406789
• Published on 25/07/25 at 15:38
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Columbia University to pay $221 M to the U.S. government to settle federal feud and restore funding

"Columbia University has reached an agreement with the United States government to resolve multiple federal agency investigations into alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws. As part of the resolution, Columbia will pay a $200 M settlement over three years to the federal…
Domain(s): Politics, Institutions
• Category(ies): Essentials Institutions, Essentials Politics, State, …
• Article # 406717
• Published on 24/07/25 at 17:00
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Improving diversity in U.S. universities: Targeting individual bias "hasn't been working" (F. Dobbin)

"It's clear that trying to target individual bias and make that the problem hasn't been working to improve diversity. But unfortunately, those are the practices that all of the universities have, and the things that do work are relatively rare", says Frank Dobbin, Professor of sociology at Harvard…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Universities, Careers, …
• Article # 405670
• Published on 24/07/25 at 15:24
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UK: £2 Bn Investment to expand AI research and compute capacity

The British Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are launching a compute roadmap, with potential benefits including quicker health diagnoses, smarter energy supplies, tackling climate change, and improved public service delivery, announces UKRI on…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Research Funding Organisation (RFO), Research Performing Organisation (RPO), …
• Article # 406467
• Published on 23/07/25 at 17:10
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Donald Trump administration withdrawing the U.S. from Unesco (Department of State)

"The United States informed Director-General Audrey Azoulay of the United States’ decision to withdraw from Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). Continued involvement in Unesco is not in the national interest of the United States", announces the American…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, State, Policy, …
• Article # 406485
• Published on 22/07/25 at 17:08
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Ukraine : €20 M of EIC funding available for 40 deep-tech start-ups and SMEs projects

The EIC (European Innovation Council) announces that €20 M of funding will be made available for Ukrainian deep-tech start-ups and SMEs as part of ongoing efforts to reinforce Ukraine’s innovation capacity amid Russia’s military invasion, states the Council on 17/07/2025. Eligible companies…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, Companies, European commission, …
• Article # 406450
• Published on 22/07/25 at 15:55
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Horizon Europe 2028-2034: The new features planned by the European Commission in the MFF proposal

The European Commission is granting €31.5 Bn to the ERC (+97%), €10 Bn to the MSCA (+54%), and €34.5 Bn (+245%) to the EIC as part of its proposal for Horizon Europe 2028-2034 in the MFF, a European Commission official tells News Tank on 18/07/2025. He notes that the doubling of budget in…
Domain(s): Politics
• Category(ies): Essentials Politics, European commission, Funding, …
• Article # 406227
• Published on 21/07/25 at 18:02