News

• Meet the new Executive Director of the VPHi: Dr Adriano Henney

  Read the interview Adriano has recently released for us.

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• No more Chief Scientific Advisor – what now?

  Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker almost immediately after his election to President of the European Commission brought controversy from many directions one of which was his decision to abolish the position of Chief Scientific Advisor.

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• New Commission 2015 Work Programme

  In December 2014, the European Commission adopted its work programme for 2015.

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• New Presidency of the Council of the EU

  From 1 January 2015 and until June, Latvia holds, for the first time, the 6-month’s rotating Presidency of the Council.

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• Money being taken from H2020 – should researchers be concerned?

  Over the final months of 2014, there was a great deal of worry amongst the scientific community over the budget for Horizon 2020. Such worries were entirely justified. A culture within the European Commission of pushing forward expenses to the following year, of using the budget of tomorrow to pay for the expenses of today led to the inevitable – not having enough money to pay our bills.

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• NHS England Search for Pioneering Healthcare Innovators

  Opportunity for modelling and simulation projects as programme is launched to find experienced innovators in healthcare.

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