Dear Colleagues/scientists across Europe, During the last six months, you signed the European petition “They have chosen Ignorance”. Today, we think that an ideal occasion has arisen to make our protest more visible – we propose to read it at the Bologna Ministerial Conference, which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, on the 14th […]
Accounting and working with budget numbers isn’t always that boring as it appears to be, especially if it’s spiced up with marketing. Presentation matters and can make reality more shining (or more gloomy) than it actually is. A good example is the debate on the budget of Horizon 2020 as compared to the previous framework […]
Decades of sort-sighted politics have taken a huge toll on the French system of Higher Education and Research (HER). According to OECD, France was 7th in the world in 1995 for its research effort compared to its GNP, and 15th in 2011. In 2011, France was also 14th for the ratio researchers/population. Despite the international […]
