News

• European Innovation Scoreboard 2017

  On 20 June 2017, the 2017 edition of the Scoreboard was presented. The new scoreboard reveals that EU innovation performance continues to increase, especially due to improvements in human resources, the innovation-friendly environment, own-resource investments and attractive research systems.

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• The Future and Emerging Technologies Advisory Group elects new co-chairs

  On 15 June 2017, the Future and Emerging Technologies Advisory Group has chosen two new co-chairs for the next two years. Professors Clivia Sotomayor and Dermot Diamond will replace Professor Jerzy Langer as former chair of the advisory group.

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• EU-China Summit: New flagship initiatives in research and innovation

  On 2 June 2017, the EU and China decided on a new package of flagship initiatives to boost their cooperation in research and innovation.

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• The United States is still first in science, but China is rising fast as funding stalls everywhere

  According to an analysis published on 15 June 2017, American dominance in biomedical research is shrinking, as international collaboration becomes ever more prominent.

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• Multidisciplinary European Research Networks are key to FP9

  On 15 June 2017, the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) published its position paper, highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary, bottom-up, open and inclusive networks, pleading for sufficient funding post Horizon 2020.

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• EU sets out the groundwork for an ambitious plan to interconnect Europe’s science outputs

  At a meeting on 13 June 2017, EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas called on governments and researchers to back the creation of a European Open Science Cloud and give scientists ready access to data stores across Europe.

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