March 2019 Research, Science and Knowledge

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The role of universities in regional innovation ecosystems

By Sybille Reichert

In the postindustrial society, the production of knowledge relies on networks that leverage the regional proximity to make converge the multiple perspectives of the different actors of innovation, which is the end of a no linear, but reiterative and cooperative process which implies the pivotal role of the university.

SIGI 2019 Global Report

Source: http://www.oecd.org/

The gender parity contributes to the economic growth in objective terms, and is the result of policies that are translated in laws against the sexual discrimination, although the social and family norms are even more pervasive than the law and condition all the cycle of life of the woman in many cultures.

Low pay, exclusivity requirements and lack of support plague postodocs across Europe

By Chris Woolston

Source: Nature, 22 February

A study reveals wide regional disparities in postdoc’s conditions. In Southern and Eastern Europe are reported a lack of institutional support and a career-development plan, low salaries and contractual limitations for postdoctoral researchers.

How to equip graduates for the future

By Anna Mckie

Source: Times Higher Education, 7 March

In a work world ever more fluid , the future employees are required a flexible range of transferable problem-solving skills, but academic teaching is not ready to the cognitive transformations of the fourth industrial revolution.

54 networks bid to join European universities pilot

By Jan Petter Myclebust

Source: World University News, 7 March

The funding of the project wanted by the President Macron to create networks of European universities where to graduate, and endorsed by the European Commission has been doubled after the enthusiastic presentation of dozen of bids.

Report on the implementation of Council Conclusions of 1 December 2015 on Advancing Gender Equality in the European Research Area

Source: ERA Portal

This report presents what the European countries have made by implementing the ERA Roadmap, at institutional level, in decision making, in gender knowledge and monitoring to implement the ambitious goals set up by the Competitiveness Council on Gender Equality.

Gender equality in R&I: 20 Years of EU activities and still a long way to go

Source: https://eua.eu

The picture of gender equality today is far more complex than twenty years ago. Despite the important advancements in the European average the more and more sophisticated analyses developed in the research sector with the endorsement of the EC show a gap between lower and higher innovators.

Maximising opportunities, minimising risks-meeting the digital challenge for girls and boys

Source: EIGE

This research shows how digitalisation is affecting both young and adult population, offering opportunities to increase gender equality but also bringing risks sexually connotated. Although social media have a transformative power, they can also replicate gender bias and norms.

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Equal Pay International Coalition

Source: oecd.org

Equal Pay International is an ILO organism, which joins the forces of the UN Women, and the OECD, to orient towards gender parity the simple but not easy 2030 Agenda goal of equal pay for work of equal value.

Women who win prizes get less money and prestige

By Yfang Ma, Diego Oliveira, Theresa Woodruff & Brian Uzzi

Source: Nature, 16 January

Women are under-represented in awards for research, but are more awarded for reasons of social and public committment. The awards they receive give less money, fewer chances to promote a career and have less influence on the media.

What matters in research and innovation?

Source: the European Commission

The contribution of the different countries to R&I doesn’t depend only on the demographic or economic size, but also on the public priorities, and so it is also for the distribution of European R&I funds, and the consequent share of responsibility. A stronger R&I needs a development convergence between the European regions.

Doctoral education in Europe today: approaches and institutional structures

Source : https://eua.eu

This report presents the state-of-art of doctoral education in Europe after decades of reforms like the Salzburg Process, to enable universities to take part not only in their research but also in the institutional management of doctoral education to a broader European context.

Scholars divulge their biggest mistakes

By Robert Zaretsky

Source: Times Higher Education, 31 January

The fortune is sprinkled with failures. Our missteps should be included in our CVs, because they point out not only on our weaknesses, but also on the weaknesses of the system where we operate. Six academics tell their biggest mistakes.

What the fourth industrial revolution could mean for education and jobs

By Andreas Schleicher,

Source: oecd.org, 22 January

Education has to take from digitalization all the tools and strenghts, to be a source of democracy rather than of inequalities. Education must change with technology, but we have to run the race with artificial intelligence through our emotional skills and human values.

Has marketisation of higher education reached its limits?

By Juliette Torabian

Source: University World News, 22 February

League tables and rankings even though offering an image of objectivity, transparency and accountability, are the expression of a market-based ideology that has influenced policies in higher education but didn’t transform universities.

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