Co-design and co-creation research in Greece
Stories of scientific discovery and success tend to focus on individuals and their achievements; but success in science is a "team sport". Read more [...]
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Science and society: an inextricable link
Basic scientific research gives rise to technological applications which shape modern society. Funding towards curiosity-driven science should be continuous and not in the hands of political and economical powers. Science and ethics have to keep the same pace for a sustainable future. Read more [...]
Science: More than meets the eye
What do you think of when you hear the term “science”? White lab coats? Microscopes and Bunsen burners? STEM? While all of these relate to science, perhaps its most basic feature is observational evidence. Afterall, Read more [...]
“Metaphysical” persistence of degradation of Natural Sciences in the Greek educational system
Greek educational system is downgrading Natural Sciences as a whole against any scientific and pedagogical argumentation and international practice. Read more [...]
Science under siege
“you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say”
Tyrion III, A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
In the first days since Trump took office as 45th president of the United Read more [...]
Hacking Bureaucracy
Welcome to our special issue of EuroScientist on hacking bureaucracy! Bureaucracy is spreading like the plague. It has now pervaded every aspect of scientists' lives; often to the point of choking the hardiest of investigators. Yet, technology has evolved so much so that it now offers simple solutions to cut trough the paperwork and make the scientific process more efficient, more collaborative and altogether smarter. Now, the time is right to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by technology and raise to the challenge of removing the hindrances brought by bureaucracy. Read more [...]
What do Croatia’s election results mean for its neglected science?
In the second Croatia’s election in the past year – following the collapse of an inefficient coalition plagued by corruption allegations – they have once again elected no single majority. Read more [...]
Street protests yield victory for Serbia’s scientists
Serbia's scientists have won the first round in their fight to save research in their country, where science funding and policy have been inadequate.
Following a street protest involving over 3,000 scientists in Belgrade on 2 July, the science and Read more [...]
Serbian scientists decry systematic plagiarism, predatory publishing
An open letter to the Serbian science ministry – coinciding with the new government’s first 100 days in office – and an accompanying petition signed by 850 scientists so far, makes for pretty dim reading on the state of research ethics in Serbia. Read more [...]
Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina pledges to revolutionise its “unsatisfactory” science
Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in the highly ethnically and politically divided Bosnia and Herzegovina, has a new science strategy, complete with an action plan to internationalise its currently dismal science, link it to industry and boost funding Read more [...]
Serbia’s court says Vojvodina’s right to make its own science decisions is unconstitutional
In what some have called a throwback to the time when strongman Slobodan Milošević was president of Serbia, the Serbian constitutional court has this month (10 July) struck down a lot of a 2009 law that had granted Vojvodina, the country's northern Read more [...]
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