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Innovation pillar of EU industrial policy
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After the implementation of the 2010 EU industrial strategy and the competitiveness of industry in the European Union, we turn to four pillars for EU industrial policy in the Commission Staff Working document SWD(2012) 297 accompanying the communicat...
Royal Society and DFID launch fund for African research
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A £15.3 million (EUR 19 million) fund to build links between African research laboratories and strengthen their research capacity through mentoring has been launched by the Royal Society (the UK's science academy) and the UK Department for Internati...
Extended book review: “La théorie de l’information” by Aurélien Bellanger
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I first stumbled over “La théorie de l’information” by Aurélien Bellanger – published this summer – in a review by Le Soir about a month ago. It was a sunny Saturday morning, a rare occasion here in Brussels, and I was...
Manslaughter in L’Aquila: How to kill scientific advice
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Like many, I am still in shock that Italian courts have handed out six-year prison sentences to the six seismologists and one official for giving inadequate advice to the residents of L’Aquila days prior to the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that killed...
Horizon 2020: EU funding of hESC research in the balance
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Prof. Aurora Plomer Stem cell research has the potential to bring important advances in our understanding and treatment of crippling diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes, stroke and heart disease. It has also attracted significant investment in a...
Open Access in EU finally on the Horizon?
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The EU is currently developing its €80bn research funding framework for the next seven years. The question on the policy of access to the end result of this research is still being discussed, with the EU potentially complimenting bold initiatives o...
PhD’ing and a tech politics reading tip
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A quick update to tell you that I’ve started a very exciting academic adventure. For the next three years, I will work on the research project Social media and agenda-setting in election campaigns (SAC). As some of you know, I started my PhD at the...
Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating Women's Genius
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Ada Lovelace Day, celebrated every October 16, honors international women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths -women's whose skills are urgently needed for the future of the world. Here we highlight some of these extraordinary...
Transparency in medical research data. 13-11-12 in European Parliament
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Transparency in medical research data and protecting public health Opening up EU clinical trial data for safe and effective medicines The European Parliament is presently considering the Clinical Trials Regulation. http://ec.europa.eu/health/human-us...
Celebrating the 25th year of Society for the Anthropology of Europe: Digitized collection of bulletins…
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click here for the online archive. Related posts: Politics roundup: Gül’s Diyarbakır visit, Kılıçdaroğlu celebrating new year underground… Erkan’s collection of year lists: 2007-2010 a list of digital anthropology projects and...
An interview with Tom Boellstorff and more… an Anthropology roundup..
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Opening our anthropological conversations: An Interview with Tom Boellstorff from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Ryan I had the chance to conduct an email-based interview with Tom Boellstorff during this past mont...
How can we support the use of research in policy and practice across Europe?
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The most common approach to encourage use of academic research is to repackage or communicate it in different ways, but Caroline Kenny finds this strategy largely ineffective. She argues that across Europe, both researchers and policymakers can benef...
Finding tomorrow’s technology – European scientists hit the headlines
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Number of views :403One of my many exciting responsibilities is for Europe’s Future and Emerging Technologies Programme, the billion-euro part of our research programme looking at the big technologies that might shape the coming decades. Many...
Africa-Europe collaboration in establishing new research infrastructures
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The next 'Promoting African – European Research Infrastructure Partnerships' (PAERIP) workshop will be held at the South African House in London’s Trafalgar Square, UK, on October 17, 2012. It will focus on Africa-Europe collaboration in establis...
OPEN ACCESS TO EU FUNDED PUBLISHED RESEARCH RESULTS
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The EU should promote the sharing and dissemination of scientific knowledge. For an open access publishing policy in Horizon 2020 1. If taxpayers pay the research, they should be able to read the results. When European taxpayers pay for the research...
Document: Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility: A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers of the Middle East
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Attempts to undermine professors’ abilities to teach and do research are increasingly directed at scholars who seek to provide a contextualized and critical view of recent international developments and their interaction with US foreign policie...
R4D Peer Exchange on Theories of Change - Videos and resources
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On July 31 2012 we organised a Peer Exchange session on Theories of Change (ToC). The event took place at DFID in London, was organised in the context of the R4D project with our colleagues from CABI and CommsConsult. The aim was to better...
OPEN ACCESS TO EU FUNDED PUBLISHED RESEARCH RESULTS
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The EU should promote the sharing and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Ten reasons for an open access publishing policy in Horizon 2020 1. If taxpayers pay the research, they should be able to read the results. When European taxpayers pay for t...
19 junge Forschertalente auf Kurs in Richtung Flensburg
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19 junge Forschertalente sind auf dem Weg nach Flensburg. Sie nehmen vom 6.-13. September an der jährlichen ECMI-Summerschool mit dem Thema 'Nationale Minderheiten und Grenzregionen' teil. Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European...
19 forskerspirer har kurs mod Flensborg
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19 yngre forskerspirer er på vej til Flensborg. De deltager fra den 6. september i ECMI’s årlige sommerskole om mindretal og grænseregioner. Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European Centre for Minority Issues.
A few dates related to Erkan’s life in the next weeks….
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A few dates. 1 September. Deadline for the article for Ethnologie Française. Probably I will ask for an extension (!) 5-9 September. Attending ‘Careers Beyond Borders seminar’, Manchester, UK. Of course, if i get the UK visa on time:)...
Organizing your personal research library and compiling bibliographies: I was an EndNote refusenik, but now I’m a Mendeley convert
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A key aspect of scholarship is how you create a personal research library, find and access your sources when needed, and cite them accurately and comprehensively. Patrick Dunleavy explains how the (relatively new) software Mendeley has transformed hi...
Book Review: Think-Tanks, Social Democracy and Social Policy
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The question of how a policy is made or why things simply stay the same in politics has long occupied the minds of political observers. This book explores the way in which very particular political actors made a difference to … Continue reading...
Invest in brains, not buildings, to raise scientific output and impact
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Which is more valuable to the creation of scientific knowledge, high quality scientists or first-class facilities? Fabian Waldinger looks at the dramatic effects of the Nazi expulsion of Jewish scientists and the Allied bombing of university building...
Anthro roundup: “Anthropological Field Research in the Internet Age, “Facebook anthropology…
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Anthropological Field Research in the Internet Age from Ethnography.com by Tony Another classic question in the age of the internet: How do indigenous peoples feel about anthropology graduate students doing fieldwork? Mark Dawson first reported his...
Mapping European economic-policy think tanks
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This post is a kind of personal, but public, list of "enriched" bookmarks of European think tanks I stumble upon. It could keep growing in the future if I find other relevant think tanks.I have divided the list in two fields according to this basic d...
Ankete destek olalım beyler, bayanlar:) “Türkiye’de Sosyal Kimlikler
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Anket burada Merhaba, Araştırmamıza ilgi gösterdiğiniz için teşekkür ederiz. Anketi tamamlayanlar arasında çekilecek kurayla 5 kişiye 25′er liralık D&R hediye çeki verilecektir. Çekilişe katılmak istiyorsanız anketin sonund...
How to set up a Union of Excellence for European research
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Among the nine proposals of enhanced cooperations drafted in this post of mine, I have briefly talked about a "Union of Excellence", now I am going to give more details about it.Very selective criteria for choosing the institutes to be admi...
Top-flight German business prof faces severe accusations of academic misconduct
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One of the most successful German business professors is currently facing awkward questions about his scientific conduct. Ulrich Lichtenthaler, who is affiliated with the University of Mannheim, has come under suspicion of inflating his publication r...
No to creationism in schools!
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From the British Humanist Association: Free School due to open in September 2012 will ‘teach creation as a scientific theory’ TAKE ACTION! Write to your MP and to Michael Gove to oppose the plans, and encourage your friends, family and colleagues...
Wissenschaft
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We found ourselves at a dinner table this evening with two very distinguished academics, historian Jonathan Steinberg and musicologist and dance historian Marion Kant, with specializations in, among other subjects, matters Germanic. Steinberg last ye...
Higgs ahoy!
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By Les Hearn The Higgs boson particle seems to have been discovered! But what is the Higgs and why was it predicted? For every field, a boson The current explanation of matter and space, the Standard Model, developed in the 1960s, is one of the...
How secrecy in medical research harms our health
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By David Hammerstein, Senior Advisor on intellectual property for the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue in Brussels. Medical research data remain shrouded in secrecy. As a result the data is distorted and misrepresented by pharmaceutical companies laun...
Opening up medical research data for our health
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“They swallowed our story, hook, line and sinker”, wrote in an e-mail the research and development director of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer after having successfully presented the new arthritis drug Celebrex, concealing the secondary effects...
"Albert Einstein's famous 1905 paper on relativity was not peer reviewed"
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Australian palaeoclimatologist and - climate realist - Bob Carter explains why the "gold standard" of peer reviewed climate science is not what people like R.K. Pachauri pretend it is: Peer review is a technique of quality control...
Launching Migration Centre
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After many cold days with rain in Brussels, I was welcomed by the sun in Florence today. It is unfortunately not yet time for vacation, but the launching of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute (MPC in Eurocrat language),...
The European Innovation Partnership on Water
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In 2010, the EU 2020 flagship initiative for an Innovation (link) proposed the launch of a number of potential European Innovation Partnership as a mean to bring together actors and resources around common targets in order to address major societal c...
Innovation within tradition: a plan for Europe
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What’s the place of values in the innovation strategy of the European Union? Reading the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative you won’t find an answer except for the usual mantra: “We need more growth, more jobs and to keep an eye on sustai...
Book Review: Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography
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Catherine Hezser finds that John A. Hall’s biography of one of the most prominent social anthropologists of our time provides fascinating reading on issues and debates which are still of utmost importance. Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual B...
Call for Papers: The Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy
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ECMI and partners call upon interested scholars to participate in a multidisciplinary conference on the challenges of Non-Territorial Autonomy in a world of nation-states. Continue reading →...
More thoughts on the European Innovation Partnership for Agriculture - by Alan Matthews
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The slowdown in total factor productivity growth in agriculture needs to be reversed, but there continues to be a lack of clarity about the Commission’s proposals and what they will mean in practice.
Blogs on European affairs are written by insiders. There is a need for these EU specialists and academics to bring their debates to the digital public.
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What is the state of the blogosphere in Europe? Ronny Patz is an editor at Bloggingportal.eu, which aggregates the content of 904 blogs on European affairs. He argues that most blogs are written by insiders in the EU bubble and … Continue readi...
Innovation is the Key to European Prosperity
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Europe’s prosperity is at risk! European companies, small or big, are falling behind their American, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Canadian and Australian competitors in terms of the innovation. They are less creative and slower to adapt to ever n...
"Open Science And The Econoblogosphere" by Paul Krugman
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Interesting article in the Times about the push for “open science”, bypassing the traditional structure of refereed journals in favor of a sort of fluid, self-policing online community. I can’t and...
Leadership Consulting: Stances on Scholarship
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As the field of leadership consulting continues to proliferate, fringe-elements have developed that risk taking down the credibility of the field itself as well as its more solid practitioners. In this essay, my objective is to make those practitione...
International consortium of NGOs calls for coordinated action on geoengineering research
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"Nations, NGOs and individuals must engage in a wide-ranging dialogue to explore both the potential risks and benefits of solar geoengineering and establish effective governance arrangements for research, according to a new report …" Th...
The hour of the amateur scientist – FTL neutrinos part 2
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So. There have been lots of responses to my last article on the faster than light neutrinos. Some readers have asked me to explain to them the consequences of the measurement being correct. Others have been interested to hear more about the changing...
Ryan Anderson interviews Jason Baird Jackson on anthropology and open access…and an anthropology roundup….
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Anthropology & Open Access: An Interview with Jason Baird Jackson (Part 1 of 3) from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Ryan During the last few weeks I had the chance to conduct an email based interview with Jaso...
Preparations for the first year review
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The European Commission continuously reviews the progress of all EC-funded research projects. As SAIL is one of these projects we are of course also reviewed regularly. Tomorrow is the day for the formal review of the first twelve months of the SA...
Academic blogging and Google’s new search algorithm
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We academics blog to keep our nose in the winds of reality, to make our research or the works of our colleagues visible to the real world. We blog to make academic thoughts accessible for those who are not into meticulous theoretical and methodologic...
How EU science chief helps Israel's war industry
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Ensconced in Brussels, the only controversy Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has been embroiled in over the past few years related to her bloated income. While she has displayed remarkable chutzpah in seeking to draw down both a European commissioner’s salar...
The last one left standing
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Last week East Malling Research kindly invited me to give the annual Amos Memorial Lecture at the research station. My theme was 'Food: Safe, Sustainable, Sufficient?' They videoed the lecture so I will post a link if it becomes available, not that...
EU2020: Innovation Union evaluates RDI in Denmark
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Innovation Union (with key documents), which was launched a year ago, is one of the seven flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The web pages are excellent. You can follow @innovationunion on Tw...
EU2020: Research and development quality in Denmark
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In the blog post EU2020: Denmark aims for high employment we saw that a high employment rate (75 per cent) is a headline target of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, but new reform efforts are needed to put the Euro...
Our video guest: Dominique Ristori, Joint Research Centre
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Dominique Ristori is the general director of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. In our interview, he speaks about the food security conference organised by the JRC and about the value of research and science in food security.
The Annual Activity Reports of the European Commission
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From time to time you stumble over interesting types of documents of the EU institutions, such as the European Parliament Library Briefings. One thing I’ve come across these days are the “Annual Activity Reports” of the different di...
Agreement will catalyse life sciences infrastracture
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This week, ELIXIR has taken a step closer to becomingthe central research infrastructure for life-science information in Europe. Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL...
#UACES2011 in Cambridge: A look at some interesting EU research
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I must say that I very much enjoyed the UACES conference in Cambridge last week, especially some of the finished and ongoing research I was able to witness. Listening to the presentations, discussions and interventions, I’d say some of the peop...
Tell us about your research? Sara Benedí talks to Elise Rietveld
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Sarah Benedí, University of Zaragoza, introduces her PhD research on the effectiveness of non-discrimination directives.
Bruno Frey: More cases of self-plagiarism unveiled
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For several month, Bruno Frey (University of Zurich) has had to defend himself against accusations of self-plagiarism. Now, several other dodgy cases have been revealed by a website named “FreyPlag Wiki”. I took a close look at the cases...
The economics of academic publishing
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Interesting article by George Monbiot on academic publishing. His quote of Deutsche Bank analysis sums it up pretty well:"But an analysis by Deutsche Bank reaches different conclusions. “We believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the...
