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✍ New blog series: “Forging Connections: Public Engagement in Europe and Beyond”. A LERU group of experts has launched a blog series that will provide a platform for diverse voices in the current landscape of public engagement. It showcases public engagement communities from a number of LERU member universities and aims to ignite conversations around how this can be embedded in meaningful and practical ways. 💬 You can now read the first blog post, with Sarah Barnes (UCL) discussing the terms Public Engagement, Co-production and Citizen Science and what differentiates them. Universiteit van Amsterdam - Universitat de Barcelona - University of Cambridge - University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet) - Trinity College Dublin - The University of Edinburgh - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Université de Genève - Universität Heidelberg - University of Helsinki - Universiteit Leiden - KU Leuven - Imperial College London - UCL - Lund University - Università degli Studi di Milano - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - University of Oxford - Sorbonne Université - Université Paris-Saclay - Université de Strasbourg - Universiteit Utrecht - ETH Zürich - University of Zurich #PublicEngagement #CitizenScience

🥳 ERC Proof of Concept grants for LERU member researchers! The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of the final round of their 2024 Proof of Concept grant competition. Almost 20% of the grants were awarded to researchers from LERU member universities. Congratulations to all for this great achievement! Each grant is worth €150.000 and helps ERC grantees to bridge the gap between the results of their research and the early phases of its commercialisation. The 25 winning projects from LERU members cover a variety of topics, going from inclusive artificial intelligence to optimizing music-based rehabilitation for post-stroke aphasia. 👉 https://lnkd.in/d6nd-T58 #ERCPoC #AI #EUfunded🇪🇺 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet), Trinity College Dublin, University of Helsinki, Universiteit Leiden, Imperial College London, UCL, Università degli Studi di Milano, Sorbonne Universités, Universiteit Utrecht

Hm, keynote speech by UVDL in Davos today about the future development of the EU : 0 times the word "universities" 0 times the word "research" 4 times the word "innovation" This is quite different from her July 2024 policy guidelines and the Letta, Draghi and Heitor reports which make a plea for putting research & innovation in the center of EU policy making ... https://lnkd.in/eVjfECdj League of European Research Universities (LERU)

🌍 Dual-Use Technologies: Europe’s Future in Your Hands Emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing hold immense potential but require proper regulations and funding. The third Road to the Polish Presidency report highlights how regulatory harmonization and international collaboration can support their growth.  💡 Key recommendations:   - Harmonizing export controls at the EU level.   - Creating flexible regulations for emerging technologies.   - A funding model combining public and private sector collaboration.   Find out how you can help build an innovative Europe!   👉 [Download the report here]   https://lnkd.in/dEN8CGx8 Thank you for your contribution and commitment: Tom Dallas McSorley NATO DIANA, Jonas Cederlöf European Commission, David Antunes European Defence Agency, Matteo Molé European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), Marietta Gieroń, Marcin Mazur POLSA Polska Agencja Kosmiczna | Polish Space Agency, Izabela Albrycht NATO DIANA Centrum Cyberbezpieczeństwa AGH, Krzysztof Sierański – Fundacja Instytut Bezpieczeństwa Informacji, Claire Gray League of European Research Universities (LERU), Jana Novohradska, Aleksandra Wójtowicz, Wojciech Burian, PhD, MBA Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz, Przemysław Wywiał, Adam Szczukocki Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, Jędrzejczak Łukasz & Mariusz Ustyjańczuk Deloitte.

✍ LERU and YERUN - Young European Research Universities received response to open letter from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. At the end of October 2024, LERU and YERUN wrote an open letter to EC President von der Leyen, sharing their insights and recommendations on the new approach to the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (#MFF) and the future of EU R&I funding. The response to that letter, which you can read below, sounds promising. We are particularly glad to read that the EU's commitment to R&I remains unwavering, and that R&I will be a top priority in the upcoming MFF and Framework Programme (#FP10). Read the full letter 👇 .

Sejourne on CID (26/02 !), competitiveness compass, overregulation, etc 👇: https://lnkd.in/ezN9gNGp League of European Research Universities (LERU)

Great news for our League of European Research Universities (LERU) partners University of Zurich, ETH Zürich, University of Geneva, for all Swiss-based researchers, and essentially for the entire European scientific community and the European research agenda that can only develop to its full potential with the close involvement of the scientific powerhouses in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Happy Holidays! 🎄 The LERU Office wishes you a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025!

📰 LERU's December newsletter is out! Discover: 🔸the third episode of #LERUtalks,  🔸LERU’s view on recent EU developments, 🔸recent LERU publications, 🔸an interview with Sari Lindblom (University of Helsinki) about innovation and research going hand-in-hand, and much more! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d97RvN-a

Congratulations to Prof. Wilco Hazeleger with his appointment as new Rector of Universiteit Utrecht.    We’re looking forward to a continued excellent cooperation! 👉 https://lnkd.in/dDvHU2FB