Recently, a group of 15-year-old students from a girls’ secondary school in the Palestinian Authority audited the construction of a swimming pool in their town. Part of a competition organised by Integrity Action, a civil society organisation, the girls chose to do this because the local government had decided to build a male-only pool and they felt it was not meant for the whole community. More...

On June 8, the Center for Innovation and Technology of the Polytechnical University of Catalunya (CIT UPC) will host a workshop on 'Improving technology transfer in Europe', within the framework of the Science2Society (S2S) project. The objective of the event is to provide a space for debate and exchanging experiences in technology transfer, through the pilot projects that are being developed in S2S. More...

On 16 May, at a key moment in the definition of the EU policies supporting research and innovation, the University of Pisa signed an agreement for the constitution  of Tour4Eu  (Tuscan Organisation of Universities and Research for Europe). This non-profit association subject to Belgian law, which brings together the Tuscan region and the seven Tuscan universities (University of Pisa, University of Florence, University of Siena, University for Foreigners of Siena, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), promotes the interests of the Tuscan system for research within the EU, potentiating internationalization and encouraging European project planning. More...

EQAR is pleased to announce the launch of DEQAR, the Database of External Quality Assurance Results, which aims to support transparency of quality of European higher education and how it is managed. More...

The School of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will host the International Educational Seminar on Roads, Bridges and Tunnels (ISRBT2018) in Thessaloniki, from 9 to 15 November 2018. More...

The online registration for the ELIA Biennial Conference in Rotterdam is officially open. The conference will take place from 21-24 November 2018 and is hosted by Codarts University of the Arts and Willem de Kooning Academy/Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. More...

The International Conference on Data Science, E-learning and Information Systems 2018 (Data'18) will take place in Ayre Gran Hotel Colón Madrid, Spain, 1-2 October, 2018. Data'18 conference is co-sponsored by the UDIMA Universidad a Distancia de Madrid.
The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied data science and engineering, e-learning and information systems' subjects. Data'18 conference serves as good platforms for our members and the entire data engineering and IS community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. More...

According to Scholars at Risk, the international network for the protection of at-risk researchers, Dr Djalali is critically ill in custody. The researcher, who lives in Sweden, was arrested while attending a conference in Tehran and sentenced to death on a charge of "corruption on earth" (ifsad fil-arz) in October of last year. In February 2018, Iran's highest court rejected an application to review the death sentence. More...

The Joint Research Centre invites national parliaments, regional bodies and local authorities to express their interest in a new pilot project: 'Science meets Parliaments / Science meets Regions'. The project will support events bringing together scientists, policymakers and citizens to explore locally-relevant issues with the help of scientific evidence. More...