December Research Science and Knowledge

Read the articles selected in December 2016

A contribution to the Horizon 2020 mid-term review

Eua has launched a consultation on Horizon 2020, at its first phase of revision in 2017, concerning, in particular, the sufficiency and sustainability of funding. What turns out is the inadequacy of funding, that endangers not only the ambitious objectives of the Framework Programme but also European universities.

Unione europea: nominato il comitato di alto livello per la scienza e la tecnologia

by Luigi Moscarelli

Source: http://www.rivistauniversitas.it/, 12 December

The European Commission has appointed the twelve members of the High-Level Group on Maximising the Impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes officiated by Pascal Lemy, that will take care of the mid-term assessment of Horizon 2020 Programme.

OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2016

Source: http://www.oecd.org

Economic growth, inequalities, aging societies, climate change, health challenges require innovation. On the other hand, emerging technologies carry several risks and uncertainties. Public science has a central role to play, but the public spending on R&D is unlikely to increase, and public funding of universities is lowering.

Mobility Scoreboard: Higher Education Background Report

by the European Commission /EACEA/Eurydice 2016

Source: Times Higher Education, 20 Dicembre

This report presents in five thematic areas the principal issues that obstruct students mobility, following the European Commissions Communication “Youth on the Move” that proposed to monitor progress in the free movement of students, researchers, and trainees in an aggregate scoreboard.

Did the Nobel committee get the physics wrong?

by Adrian Cho

Source: Science, 14 December

After a leading physicist, the citation in 12 words for the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics is wrong, where it says that the existence of neutrinos’ mass is proved by their oscillations, whereas the neutrinos’ oscillations and changes of flavor are possible just because they aren’t a well-defined mass.

The most innovative universities: an alternative approach to ranking

by Robert Tijssen & Alfredo Yegros

Source: Times Higher Education, 3 December

Innovative universities, frontrunning in the industry-oriented segment of the “third mission”, are the result of the individual and commercial qualities of its research, discovery- as well as industry- oriented, and of their correlated spin-off companies.

Consulta l’articolo:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/most-innovative-universities-alternative-approach-ranking

Gurib’s vision for science and innovation in Africa

by Brendan O’Malley

Source: University World News, 2 December

Ameenah Gurib, the first elected woman President of Mauritius, is a biodiversity scientist with leadership experiences of higher education and research in Africa, committed to transforming its country and the African continent through science and through the talent of its most important resource: the youth.

Singapore tops latest OECD PISA global education survey

Source: http://www.oecd.org/, 6 December

The scientific breakthroughs of the last years haven’t driven to correspondent advancements in scholastic performances. In spite of a general spending increase for education, only 1 of 10 students in the OECD countries have the best results in sciences and 1 of 5 falls short of baseline skills.

L’étude de l’OCDE, une “pièce à conviction” pour pointer les forces et faiblesses des systèmes scolaires

Source: Le Monde, 7 December

The untarnished and tested PISA methodology, which photographs the skills in lecture, math, and science of students, doesn’t represent them in their whole sphere of abilities and doesn’t represent what they’ve learned from school, but the practical attitudes of the only 15-year-olds, who are not all scholarized in the world.

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VI Indagine ADI su Dottorato e Post-Doc

Source: http://www.rivistauniversitas.it/, 15 November

In Italy, Ph.D.s don’t provide a grant for all, even if incompatible with a job. Introduced to start an academic career, today the Ph.D. is a formation tool with more general potentialities.

The architecture of Erasmus+: further streamlining and simplification welcome

Source: http://www.eua.be/, 25 November

Erasmus+, which implemented the former Lifelong Learning Programme through programmes centralized in three pillars, the Key Actions, has reached a positive feedback in EUA’s membership consultation, but it’s important to continue the simplification of administrative procedures for applicants and institutions.

Science Europe position statement

Source: http://www.scienceeurope.org/, 10 November

Decision makers and research organizations use complex information systems to evaluate research activities, but research and knowledge processes are always changing, so information systems should follow a series of legal and ethical principles relevant for data handling.

Teaching strategies for instructional quality

by Noémie le Donné, Pablo Fraser & Guillaume Bousquet

Source: http://www.oecd.org/, 23 November

This paper focuses on educational strategies used by the mathematics teacher in eight countries, using information from the TALIS-PISA databases. Active learning and cognitive activation produce the best performances compared to teacher-directed instruction, but every school and country has an own “teaching culture”.

Europe’s first Mars rover gets funding-despite crash of test craft

by Elisabeth Gibney

Source: Nature, 2 December

The European Space Agency will joint with the Russian space agency Roscosmos a mission on Mars that will be launched in 2020. Despite the failure in October of Schiaparelli, ESA member States agreed to fund ExoMars2020 for an amount of €436 million to discover signs of ancient life.

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