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There are increased discussions around open access and open science in journals, but what do these terms really mean? Here we try to dissect its meaning for early career scientists and professionals.
The annual European Research and Innovation Days bring together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.
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.
Professor Heino Falcke discusses how our discovery of the black hole feeds our hunger for looking further, for collaboration, and for hope.
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.
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.
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.
What happens if a government prioritises pecuniary returns in Higher Education?
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?
The responsibility for better culture lies with the workplace itself. Reporting on burnout and the future of work, this article explores lasting shifts in workplace culture.
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.
Starting with the classics, this unique shop is converting existing cars into all-electric road warriors.
We ask prominent scholars to select a visual artifact of this time that will help future researchers understand the Covid-19 crisis.
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.
We need a sustainable model of scientific publishing that is beneficial to scientists, universities, and the public.
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.
Implementing changes to promote a fairer distribution of funding is necessary to improve career prospects and to drive excellence in scientific research.
As the pandemic worsened in the United Kingdom during spring 2020, political disputes turned in a strange direction. The UK government started to claim that the UK’s Covid-19 statistics could not be compared with any other country.
Prof. Liselotte Højgaard shares her first impressions as a new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC) and explains what makes the ERC so important for long-term frontier research.
Virtual Conference: Academia in times of crises.
After watching this short film on how much data private companies are able to gather about you (data that we willingly give them in some cases), you might be forgiven for thinking that, never mind some far flung future, we are living in a full-on dystopia right now.
Helping scientists communicate: The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows.
When is the right time to restart on-campus events for prospective students in the UK; and if they were invited, would they want to come and what kind of experience would they want?
Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you. Who can apply? Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants - called Principal Investigators (PI) - are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. The Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
Just look at who is really in control.
Private affluence is individuals gaining things for themselves – possessions, nice homes and experiences, trampolines. Public affluence is money spent lavishly on things that are shared – libraries, parks, buses, playgrounds.
Knowledge Exchange, a cooperative partnership of six national research-supporting organisations in Europe, has explored the development of an Openness Profile during an 18-month research evaluation of Open Science.
