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Open Data Day 2019 Mini-grant Scheme

Open Data Day 2019 Mini-grant Scheme

Open Data Day is the yearly event where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they needed to be great for their communities, mini-grants for the people organizing Open Data Day events will be provided.

Research Funding Bodies: Review of Good Practice in Organisational Design and Governance

Research Funding Bodies: Review of Good Practice in Organisational Design and Governance

This study presents a review of international evidence on best practice in organisational design of research and innovation funding bodies.

Models Highlight Inherent Inefficiencies of Scientific Funding Competitions

Models Highlight Inherent Inefficiencies of Scientific Funding Competitions

Scientists waste substantial time writing grant proposals, potentially squandering much of the scientific value of funding programs. This Meta-Research Article shows that, unfortunately, grant-proposal competitions are inevitably inefficient when the number of awards is small, but efficiency can be restored by awarding funds through a modified lottery, or by weighting past research success more heavily in funding decisions.

Commission Frees 'Seal of Excellence' Research Projects from State Aid Unfair Competition Rules

Commission Frees 'Seal of Excellence' Research Projects from State Aid Unfair Competition Rules

The change is intended to enable researchers to access structural funds for projects reviewers say are excellent, but which don’t make the cut for Horizon Europe grants.

Talent Identification at the Limits of Peer Review: an Analysis of the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Process

Talent Identification at the Limits of Peer Review: an Analysis of the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Process

A study evaluating two aspects of the selection process of the top-ranked applicants to the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship program in 2007.

How to Save Space and Stick to the Limit when Writing Research Funding Applications

How to Save Space and Stick to the Limit when Writing Research Funding Applications

Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task.

Women Innovators Prize 2019 Opens for Applications

Women Innovators Prize 2019 Opens for Applications

The European Commission launched today the sixth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize sheds light on the outstanding work of female entrepreneurs who have brought their ideas to market, and aims to inspire the next generation of innovators.

'Don't Allow Horizon Europe to Become Cohesion Europe'

'Don't Allow Horizon Europe to Become Cohesion Europe'

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn appeals to research chiefs Carlos Moedas and Jean-Eric Paquet to keep R&D programme focused on excellence, rather than even spread of winners.

Six Science Bosses Join Forces to Push for More EU Funding for 'excellent' Science

Six Science Bosses Join Forces to Push for More EU Funding for 'excellent' Science

New ‘G6’ group of top French, German, Italian and Spanish institutes aims for more collaboration, and to ‘make sure politicians understand the urgency’ of science investment

Launch of €100 Million Clean Energy Fund with Bill Gates

Launch of €100 Million Clean Energy Fund with Bill Gates

Bill Gates and the European Commission have launched a €100 million investment fund designed to bring radical clean energy technologies more quickly to market in order to promote energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.