Czechia will kick off its presidency of the Council of the EU on Friday, with plans to improve synergies across research and innovation funding programmes, enhance Europe’s network of strategic research infrastructures and take forward negotiations with member states on the upcoming EU innovation agenda.
The Czech government will kick off its presidency of the Council of the EU on Friday, with plans to improve synergies across research and innovation funding programmes, enhance Europe’s network of strategic research infrastructures and take forward negotiations with member states on the upcoming EU innovation agenda.
Big research labs are set to make a permanent feature of ‘needs must’ operational changes forced on them by the COVID-19 pandemic, as they take stock of lessons learned over the past year.
Jan Hrušák, chair the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) expects big labs will fine tune remote access schemes and allow more researchers to send in samples for those projects that do not require their physical presence in the lab.
EU research chief calls for global coordination of research infrastructures 03 Jun 2021 | News
The sophistication, size and costs of research infrastructures are hard for any one country to manage. Whatever Europe’s desire for tech sovereignty, international cooperation is needed to finance and operate them
Jean-Eric Paquet, head of European Commission’s research directorate (DG-RTD). Photo: EU Parliament.
As the EU’s internal tussle on where to draw the line between openness and technology sovereignty continues, global science leaders are this week meeting online, in a bid to open the way for large research infrastructures to get fully engaged in responding to climate change and sustainable economic development.
Canada hosts the world for key research conference
The International Conference on Research Infrastructures will discuss how researchers can collaborate to build bridges to a sustainable world Canada Foundation for Innovation
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OTTAWA, May 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) If there is one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear, it is that when researchers around the world come together to share information and data on a common problem, they can quickly make strides in tackling global emergencies. What is also clear is how important it is for researchers to have access to the state-of-the-art labs and facilities they need to generate that knowledge.