La promotion de la mobilité des chercheurs est l’une des priorités d’action de l’Institut Français de Finlande. Les programmes de mobilité proposés par l’Institut visent à concourir au fonctionnement de l’espace européen de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (EER) et à développer la coopération scientifique et universitaire entre la France et la Finlande.
Les appels à projets pour les programmes de mobilité de chercheurs SAMPO, EEPOS et KAKSIN pour 2016 sont ouverts du 19 octobre au 5 décembre 2015.
Les résultats seront annoncés le 8 janvier 2016.
– Le programme SAMPO vise à fournir aux chercheurs français la possibilité de découvrir l’état de la recherche en Finlande dans leur domaine et de nouer de nouvelles collaborations de recherche et d’enseignement.
– Le programme EEPOS donne l’opportunité aux chercheurs finlandais d’explorer leur propre domaine de recherche en France, de découvrir le monde de la recherche française, de rencontrer et discuter avec des collègues de nouvelles possibilités de coopération ou de renforcer des liens existants avec la France.
– Le programme KAKSIN vise à favoriser la mobilité des doctorants inscrits dans la préparation d’un doctorat en cotutelle internationale entre deux établissements d’enseignement supérieur français et finlandais.

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This paper provides a comparative analysis of the development of the UK and Italian university research funding systems with a special focus on Peer Review-Based Research Assessment (PRBRA) and its cost. Much of the debate surrounding the value of performance-based allocation systems hinges on the disadvantages versus the benefits of their implementation, and there is very little evidence on either their absolute cost or their cost relative to other allocation systems. Our objective is to fill this gap, collating the best possible estimates of the costs of alternative research funding methods to inform the ongoing policy debate. First, we compare funding in the UK and Italy during the period 2005–2012 and analyze the development of performance-based allocation in the two systems. Second, based on public reports and documents collected from universities, we discuss the public agency and university costs of RAE2008 and REF2014 and provide some estimates for VQR2012. We find that RAE2008 costs accounted for less than 1% of the total performance allocation in the related period while the VQR2012 efficiency ratio is estimated at around 2.5%. Finally, we compare the costs and efficiency ratios of PRBRA with metrics-based assessment and Research Council allocations and show that costs increase going from metrics to PRBRA to Research Council allocation.

We’re excited to announce that today marks the release a new free-to-download eBook resource, co-written by Scholastica and Altmetric: The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics.
As scholarly workflows and academic communication patterns evolve to meet the needs of today’s digital researcher, a huge shift in the way we think about and identify indicators of broader impacts is taking place.
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Chief Policy Officer, dr. Katrien Maes, wrote an opinion piece about it for University World News. More...

A group of prominent international linguists want to make the access to their scientific results less dependent of expensive commercial publishers. This unique initiative starts under the name LingOA.

Editorial staffs of various scientific journals in linguistics say good-bye to their present publisher and soon publish their articles at very low costs and make them accessible for the whole society. With this initiative the linguists try to move other journals to the direction of affordable open access.

More information about LingOA. More...

Today, during a breakfast briefing at the European Parliament hosted by MEP Julia Reda, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) presented what universities need from the upcoming EU copyright reform.

A timely event, after the watered-down EP report on the implementation of the “InfoSoc Directive” (Directive 2001/29/EC) that was adopted in June 2015 by the European Parliament. More...