October 2018 Research, Science and Knowledge

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Learning and teaching in the European Higher Education Area

The Process of Bologna and the EU Modernisation Agenda, aimed at improving the learning goals and teaching have oriented institutional strategies. At the European level, the interventions functional to improving learning outcomes and educational approaches instantiate a political priority.

Why apprenticeships are a “win-win” for companies and employees

By Amar Toor

Source: http://www.oecd.org/ 14 August

Apprenticeships programmes not only fill the skills gap that serves for work, but also help young descents to choose their career path or even their course of study at university, and tear down the walls that separate university from other vocational training.

Europe’s Plan S aims for expansion to US and beyond

By Rachael Pells

Source: Times Higher Education, 16 October

The Plan S for Open Access from the European Commission has landed on the White House, opening a dialogue with the White House representatives on the opportunities that this transition represents for editors and the enormous benefits respect to the most skeptical editors.

The biggest pandemic risk? Viral misinformation

By Heidi J. Larson

Source: Nature, 16 October

More dangerous than ignorance is the “bad science” of those with medical credentials feeding unfunded fears because of commercial or political interests. The letal effects of campaigning against vaccines persist for long time and bring much harm.

Science needs to address the lack of black role models

By Winston Morgan

Source: University World News,12 October

Black science struggles to rank, for a lack of winning models that could encourage the young Africans to choose a scientific career. This reciprocal relation steals resources to society, which could benefit from the decolonization of science.

Salzburg II Recommendations

Source: https://eua.eu/

The Salzburg Principles have paved the way for continuous improvements of doctoral training in Europe, establishing the idea of individuality, independence and flexibility of research. Doctoral education plays a central role in the European Research Area and the European Higher Education Area.

How to find the right place for your PH.D. or postdoc

By Elisabeth Pain

Source: Science, 10 September

The choice of a lab where to take a Ph.D. or postdoc is never to have for granted since it imprints the basis for the own research and career. Furthermore, it’s about a job, to say the place where researchers live, not only doing science but also spending their energies and establishing relationships.

Nobel Prize for the economics of innovation and climate change stirs controversy

di Adrian Cho

Fonte: Science, 8 Ottobre

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, assigned to Paul Romer and William Nordhaus, has acknowledged the value of ideas and knowledge in the technological era, the role of economics as the driver of a sustainable world, and growth as the feedback, though controverted, of climate action.

An academic’s guide to writing well

di Joe Moran

Fonte: Times Higher Education, 4 Ottobre

Some tips to revive academic writing: restoring the role of verbs in the phrase and limiting the use of nouns, prepositions, suffixes, compounds, and subordinate clauses. And, last but not least, loving our own writing, as a gift of rationality and passion.

The future of Education and Skills Education 2030

Source: http://www.oecd.org

This paper provides the vision of a new world through education. The rapid advance of science and knowledge while uncertainty and exposure to risk and crises are increasing needs reflection and anticipation through the development of disciplinary, broad and meta-cognitive skills.

Reasons to step EU investment in Research and Innovation

Source: https://eua.eu/

At the European level, R&I spending not only does produce increased value for tax payer’s money, but also is nurtured as a public good, the key of the fundamental policies from where is growing a new type of research community, and a science diplomacy to tackle the major global challenges.

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Commission Staff Working Document Interim Evaluation of Horizon 2020

Source: European Commission

Horizon 2020, the current EU R&I Framework Programme, reflects, more than the single policies, the position of Europe in the world. It defines in its objectives the challenges to be addressed, leaving to research the task to find the solutions e and raise new questions.

Cancer immunotherapy pioneers win Medecine Nobel

By Gretchen Vogel, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel & Dennis Normile

Source: Science, 1 October

Immunotherapy, switched from experimentation to the cure thanks to the courage of a biotechnological start-up, overcoming the diffidence of the major pharmaceutical companies, owes its results to fundamental research, and this is the message for basic science that the winners intend to transmit.

To overcome decades of mistrust, a workshop aims to train Indigenous researchers to be their own genome experts

By Lizzie Wade

Source: Science, 27 Settembre

A project funded by the National Institute for Health and the NSF wants to change the reciprocal relationship between the Indigenous Indian communities and science, opening research to the Indigenous perspective, and bringing to science a world heritage.

Fears for repositories after EU backs new copyright rules

By David Matthews

Source: Times Higher Education, 24 September

After some academic groups, the exemption from the rule on copyright included in the new European directive misses the goal to protect the purposes of education and research because it requires the authorization of all right holders.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Source: European Commission

The MSCA are events and initiatives organized by the EC within Horizon 2020 to foster research and innovation on the principle of mobility. One of the MSCA is the European Night of Researchers, which intends to improve the awareness of the meaning of science in our everyday life.

Science with and for Society

Source: European Commission

The SWAFS Work Programme 2018-2020 focuses on the interplay of science and society in their evolution. A good and responsible science generates a good society. Research progress today can’t do without being a citizen science and is driven by the urgency to address societal challenges.

Ambitious funding for excellent research

Source: https://eua.eu/

The future Framework Programme intends to keep up with the demand for knowledge from European society and economy, to flourish as a civilization and grow in competitiveness. The next FP should ensure to finance more excellent FP proposals and reduce the participation gap, funding the costs of applications.

Education at a Glance 2018

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

Delivering a high-quality learning environment is the primary investment of a country: as Socrates said, how education starts will determine the entire life of an individuum and a community. Inequalities, whether socioeconomic, ethnic, or cultural, tend to accumulate through the generations.

Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy

By Jop de Vrieze

Source: Science, 18 September

The meta-analysis or systematic review of the scientific debate on a research issue as resulting from the scientific literature is an important tool to making the point of science in a given subject, but without clear and basic rules of method and transparency, it is a weapon for academics with vested interests.

“Journalologists” use scientific methods to study academic publishing. Is their work improving science?

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Source: Science, 19 September

Journalology, rather than a science, is a discipline and a movement, with the aim to restore the scientific publications, especially in the medical field, with method and rigor, in an editorial world increasingly chaotic and predatory.

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