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Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation

Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation

Modern innovation policies should target in equal measure both economic competitiveness and societal progress. They should be informed by ambitious, overarching principles-based strategies that enable us to formulate specific political goals, or missions. We also need governance structures that allow for the agile, participatory and inclusive implementation of innovation policy measures. Presenting good examples of such strategies and structures, this study examines what these examples have to offer in terms of lessons learned.

Welcome to Germany-The Country Where Most Academic Careers Expire Soon After They Start - ECHER

Welcome to Germany-The Country Where Most Academic Careers Expire Soon After They Start - ECHER

Germany's academic system is admired all over the world. It is almost entirely publicly funded, while studying at most of its higher education institutions is free of charge. However, the working conditions enjoyed by a vast majority of German academic staff do not seem to live up to the stellar reputation German science has internationally.

Professor Antonio Loprieno Takes over As Chair of SAPEA

Professor Antonio Loprieno Takes over As Chair of SAPEA

New head of Science Advice for Policy by European Academies is the President of ALLEA, and a fellow of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Study Investigates Links Between Personality and Vocal Characteristics

Study Investigates Links Between Personality and Vocal Characteristics

Everyone has at some point been charmed by the sound of a person's voice: but can we believe our ears? What can a voice really reveal about our character?

'Communities Know Best': Climate Solutions in The South Bay Start With Listening | KQED

'Communities Know Best': Climate Solutions in The South Bay Start With Listening | KQED

Leaders in the South Bay are trying out a radical new approach to designing climate solutions.

Sciety Adds Three New Groups Evaluating COVID-19 Preprints

Sciety Adds Three New Groups Evaluating COVID-19 Preprints

Our three new groups have met this challenge by producing high-quality screenings, reviews and summaries of key findings, and Sciety has brought them all together in one convenient and accessible place.

Citizen Initiative Yields New Parliamentary Science Office for Spain

Citizen Initiative Yields New Parliamentary Science Office for Spain

New body will foster evidence-informed decision-making and awareness programmes for the public

Responsible AI for Disaster Risk Management: Working Group Summary

Responsible AI for Disaster Risk Management: Working Group Summary

English Analysis on World about Disaster Management, Protection and Human Rights and Flood; published on 28 Apr 2021 by GFDRR, University of Toronto and 2 other organizations

Applying a Gender Lens to Climate Actions: Why it Matters

Applying a Gender Lens to Climate Actions: Why it Matters

This brief explores the gender-specific effects of climate change and how inequality can exacerbate the impacts of climate-induced disasters.

Science for Policy Podcast | SAPEA

Science for Policy Podcast | SAPEA

How far should we rely on science to make political decisions? What makes a good science advisor -- or a good science advice system? What do we do when the evidence is incomplete or controversial? What happens when science advice goes wrong and how can we fix it?

The Science for Policy podcast, produced by SAPEA, explores these questions and many more in conversation with the politicians, policymakers, academics and science communicators who make science advice happen around the world.

Florida Bans Teaching Critical Race Theory in Schools

Florida Bans Teaching Critical Race Theory in Schools

Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory, continuing the growing charge by Republican lawmakers against schools teaching about systemic racism.

The Black Hole: Finding Hope in the Darkest of Places

The Black Hole: Finding Hope in the Darkest of Places

Professor Heino Falcke discusses how our discovery of the black hole feeds our hunger for looking further, for collaboration, and for hope.

Africa: How the Continent Has Integrated the Notion of Environmental Protection

Africa: How the Continent Has Integrated the Notion of Environmental Protection

The concept of 'the environment' really took hold in Africa in the 1990s. It came to the fore especially in the wake of the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was a global event that gradually made the consideration of environmental issues in development policies a global leitmotif. In Africa, the evolution of the concept of environmental protection will also be marked by the continent's vulnerability to the effects of climate change.

Evidence Snapshot Climate Change

Evidence Snapshot Climate Change

This evidence snapshot represents just the tip of the iceberg of the many studies of climate change that have seen climate change transition from a scientific curiosity to a global environmental, socioeconomic, political, and technological grand challenge.

A Call for Global Oversight of Unproven Stem Cell Therapies

A Call for Global Oversight of Unproven Stem Cell Therapies

The promotion and marketing of unproven stem cell therapies is a global problem that needs a global solution, say experts. The authors of the paper call for the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish an advisory committee on regenerative medicine to tackle this issue and provide guidance for countries around the world.

Scientific Council Adopts New Gender Equality Plan

Scientific Council Adopts New Gender Equality Plan

The ERC Scientific Council adopted the Gender Equality Plan for the duration of the Horizon Europe programme. This is what Barbara Romanowicz, member of the Scientific Council and Chair of its Gender Issues Working Group, said.

The Boundaries of an Infinite Expanse

The Boundaries of an Infinite Expanse

For more than a year now, we've spent more time in virtual spaces than ever before. Mostly involuntarily. What does this do to us? And what opportunities do today's digital solutions offer us?

SHAPE-ID: Final Event & Toolkit Launch

SHAPE-ID: Final Event & Toolkit Launch

Pathways to Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: The SHAPE-ID Toolkit. Join us on 10 June for our final event and the launch of our project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, policymakers, and societal partners make informed decisions about developing and supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research.

A Time Capsule for Future Social Researchers

A Time Capsule for Future Social Researchers

We ask prominent scholars to select a visual artifact of this time that will help future researchers understand the Covid-19 crisis.

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Biomedical Applications with the Appropriate Regulation of Data

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Biomedical Applications with the Appropriate Regulation of Data

The risks associated with poor medical database management are ever heightened in today's global pandemic, as the world struggles with control over COVID-19.

Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy

Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy

Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.