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23.11.2020

It is important that #ResearchAssessment processes are transparent for both applicants & reviewers. What good practice examples exist in the research community? Discover the full thread (1/4)

18.11.2020

High Level Workshop on ERA Addresses Post-COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience

The 2020 edition of the annual High Level Workshop on ERA explored how research and innovation can contribute to the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and to societal resilience, in the context of an evolving research culture.

12.11.2020

‘Tough fight’ ends in last-minute cash injection for Horizon Europe

Science Europe's Secretary General, Lidia Borrell-Damián, joins other stakeholders to explain what the new Horizon Europe budget conclusion really means for European R&I.

10.11.2020

Budget cuts could see Europe lose its next generation of researchers

Cuts to the EU research budget could mean Europe loses out on an entire generation of researchers, warned Lidia Borrell-Damián, and compromises the future of research itself.

22.10.2020

Scientists welcome German push on academic freedom

In the context of academic freedom and the Bonn Declaration, Marc Schiltz, Science Europe President, is quoted in Science|Business highlighting the struggles that researchers face today even within the European Union

22.10.2020

"Horizon Europe: If we mess this up we are putting our future at stake!"

Together with LERU, EUA, EARTO, and the Vice-Presidents of the European Research Council (ERC), we join MEP Christian Ehler from the EEP Group in his call to match the Green & Digital goals with a budget fit for this age.

21.10.2020

EU research ministers sign declaration on academic freedom

Science Europe President Marc Schiltz stresses to Research Professional in the context of the Bonn declaration that “academic freedom is of utmost importance for democratic societies to continue building Europe’s resilience.”

20.10.2020

The Freedom of Scientific Research – A Key Principle of the Success and Sustainability of the European Research Area

Science Europe welcomes the adoption of the Bonn Declaration on ‘Freedom of Scientific Research’ at today’s Ministerial Conference on the European Research Area (ERA) in Bonn.

16.10.2020

Response to the EDPB Consultation on the concepts of controller and processor in the GDPR

In its response to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Science Europe welcomes the detailed guidance on identifying whether controllership is joint or separate within a given collaboration and identifying an appropriate legal form to establish an agreement. However further clarification through the EDPB Guidelines would be helpful for public research organisations.

My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.

Emmanuelle Charpentier, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020

01.10.2020

‘Symbolic’ €200m research shift fails to lift budget gloom

“The negotiations are going to be tough,” highlights Lidia Borrell-Damián, Science Europe Secretary General, to Research Professional in an article on the 2021-27 EU budget.