The Ministry of Education, University and Research has launched the “Research Pact“, a strategy articulated in ten points to encourage investment in research, consolidating collaboration between universities, institutions of artistic, musical and high education. coreutica, public research institutions and companies to promote the recovery of the Italian economy. In the document, the commitment to increase […]
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ISTAT recently published the “Research and Development in Italy” report for the two-year period 2017-2019. It is estimated that in 2017 intra-muros R&D expenditure in all institutional sectors (companies, public institutions, private non-profit institutions and universities) amounts to almost € 23.8 billion. The private sector spends € 15.2 billion on intra-muros R&D, almost all of
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More than 9000 representatives of the scientific and academic world have joined the petition to ask that the new Commissioner Mariya Gabriel’s portfolio be renamed “Education, Research, Innovation and Youth” The request is opposed to the decision of the European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen to imply the dimension of education and research in
A selected group of experts has published a collection of 101 ideas dedicated to the future of research in Europe, organizing 17 events in 16 European capitals in order to get the right inspiration. The project originated from a previous report Rise “Europe’s future: Open innovation, open science, open to the world” published in May
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The first phase of the research started in the second half of the Nineties, from a collaboration between the University of Brescia and the Italghisa of Bagnolo that at the time was working in ferroalloys. The analyzes involved the company’s workers, but also the population of the country. The study aimed to identify the effects
The proportion of women researchers in the EU remains low, according to data presented in the “SHE FIGURES 2018” report by the European Commission. In 2015, women represented only 33.4 per cent of researchers in EU’s 28 member states. This proportion hasn’t changed much since 2012, when women represented 33 per cent of researchers. Latvia
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2019 could be a watershed year for efforts to open up access to scientific research, according to Robert-Jan Smits, the creator of a radical plan to tear down scholarly journal paywalls. The Plan S initiative launched in September 2018 calls for free access to all scientific papers at the point of publication. It has received
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