By Ian Sample. Ban threatened to stop academics influencing government policy on subjects including energy and climate change. More...
27 avril 2016
26 avril 2016
Research Performance Based Funding Systems: a Comparative Assessment
Performance based funding is used by most EU Member States to increase the performance of their public research system. This report analyses the different nature of systems in EU Member States, selected associated and third countries. It aims to inform Member States which are in a process of mutual learning to improve the design of their allocation systems.
• Research Performance based funding systems provide incentives to increase scientific performance and concentrates resources in well performing organisations
• The nature of systems in place differs widely
• The specific features of RPBF assessment designs can generate unintended consequences
• The assessment suggests RPBF as a potential avenue for several Member States
• The choice for specific designs, taking into accounts costs and potential benefits, should take into account the national context. More...
26 avril 2016
EU research must take a global view
LERU emphasizes that EU research must take a global view. To tackle global challenges, European stakeholders must engage with international research institutions. It is clear that all actors involved in R&I policy - governments, research funders, research performers - must urgently take a global approach. More...
26 avril 2016
LERU takes next step towards a Global Council of Research-Intensive University Networks
Upon the invitation of German U15, the association of 15 research universities in Germany, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU), the Group of Eight (Australia), the RU11 Japan, the Russell Group (UK) and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities discussed the challenges for, and the future of, research-intensive universities (RIU). More...
24 avril 2016
The 21st-Century Public Research University
By Ellen Wexler. A report offers suggestions for how public research universities can thrive at a time of declining state support and increasing accountability. Read more...
21 avril 2016
LabCom PHM-FACTORY : soutenir l’innovation en PHM (diagnostic, pronostic, maintenance prédictive)
Sa spécialité : la fabrication de technologies cyber physiques de PHM (Prognostics and Health Management). Le nouveau Laboratoire Commun* PHM-FACTORY inauguré ce mois de mars associe le CRAN (Université de Lorraine/CNRS) à la PME lorraine PREDICT. Soutenu par l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) à hauteur de 300 k€, il vise à développer le PHM, une nouvelle discipline scientifique à l'initiative de la NASA qui porte sur le maintien en conditions opérationnelles optimal de tout système industriel ou objet de services. Voir l'article...
20 avril 2016
Do we still need the National Research Council?
By Ottawa Citizen Editorial Board. One hundred years ago, the National Research Council “rallied the nation’s science and technology resources to counter threats faced by Canadians and their wartime allies,” according to an inspirational blurb on its website. When the First World War ended, that role evolved into research “to solve pressing national challenges.
“Today’s nuclear energy, aerospace, and communication industries can trace their roots to NRC’s war research efforts,” the site boasts. More...
20 avril 2016
No Country for Young Scientists
By Kate Lunau. Canada’s Liberal government rode to power with a loud-and-clear message that it would support this country’s scientists, who felt neglected and even outright antagonized under the previous government of Stephen Harper.
But, six months later, many of Canada’s young scientists say they might have to shut down their labs, abandon their research, and even leave the country for greener pastures, because of what they see as a crisis within the government’s own funding arm—a crisis that predates the Liberals, but has continued under them. More...
20 avril 2016
Canada's Science-Friendly Federal Budget
By . Canada’s new Liberal government laid out a funding roadmap last week (March 22) that includes a huge boost to the country’s federal research agencies and universities. The proposal seeks to add more than $72 million per year to the budgets of Canada’s research granting councils, including $19 million to help cover indirect costs for universities that win federal funding. More...
20 avril 2016
How to spend $2 billion on research really quickly
By . Last month’s budget was full of surprises, one of the least-noted being $2 billion for a “post-secondary institutions strategic investment fund.” The Canadian Press noted that the fund appears nowhere in last fall’s Liberal platform, in the Throne Speech or in ministerial mandate letters. That article inspired vintage snark from Justin Trudeau’s right hand. Now we know details of the program and they’re worth a look. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)