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📢 Call for Papers 📢 Join us at the Graduate Centre for Europe’s 18th Annual Conference on May 17th 2024, as we explore "Reframing Dystopia: The Future(s) of Europe". Europe's story is one of resilience and evolution, but today, we face unprecedented challenges. From climate change and humanitarian crises to the rise of AI, the path forward seems uncertain. But amidst the chaos, there lies an opportunity to redefine our future. We're seeking submissions from a range of disciplines to reimagine Europe's future. Whether you're exploring utopian visions or critiquing current narratives, we want to hear from you! 🔍 Key Topics: - What does a positive future vision for Europe entail? - How can European integration be future-proofed? - The role of literature, arts, and global developments in shaping Europe's future, and more! 📝 Submit your abstract (300 words max) along with a brief biography (50 words max) to gcfe@contacts.bham.ac.uk by February 16th, 2024. Present virtually or in-person at the University of Birmingham. 👩🎓 Postgraduates and early career researchers are encouraged to apply! Presentations aren't limited to academic papers – diverse perspectives are welcome. Let's come together to envision a brighter future for Europe! 🌟 #CallforPapers #Europe #FutureVision #AcademicConference #GCFE2024

Good to see the Inspireurope+ report on national-level actions. It is frustrating that #SARItaly is still far from having a national programme as in Germany and France, and also that there are so few such programmes in Europe. What is positive is seeing the relatively recent SAR Italy network in the report and the great progress we made through members' finding funding for temporary placements, 92 in two years is impressive! Sadly the need is ever greater :-( #inspireurope #academicfreedom

For one week this April, Kecskemét and John von Neumann University will literally become the centre of the scientific world. The 14th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in Kecskemét has so far attracted more than 390 speakers from 50 countries around the world. Most of the professional participants will arrive from China, but the representation is also strong from Italy, Romania, Japan, the United States of America, Spain, Brazil and Turkey. It is a truly global event, with North and South America, Africa, the Arab world, Europe, Asia, India, Australia and even the Pacific Islands represented. In total, academics from 173 universities around the world will be visiting at John von Neumann University in April 2024 – from 5 of the world's TOP 10 universities and 11 of the TOP 20. The outstanding scientific programme of the year in Kecskemét, the motto of the 14th RSAI World Congress, is "Sustainable regional economic growth: global challenges and new regional development paths". Regional science is a modern spatial science that investigates the role that space plays in a wide variety of economic, social and power-governance processes. It is a basic premise of regional science that no two settlements or regions are alike and that spatial differences are therefore a most natural phenomenon. The economic and social phenomena observed in many regions give rise to territorial disparities. This can be seen in the decisions of households, businesses or even government institutions. Inequalities, the emergence and persistence of underdeveloped regions and the rise of wealthy regions and cities are often the result of long, sustained processes. During the conference, the participants will get to know the sights of the city, experience our hospitality and take part in various cultural activities. They will spread the word about the city and the spirit of its people around the world. By taking an approach that looks at the concrete practical impacts of economic, social science, political and technological change on the ground, the dynamically developing Kecskemét and its region can benefit greatly from the visit of the science experts in April. The international attention and the relationships that will be built will help the city, as a municipality with a unique model of economic cooperation and governance, to achieve social and scientific focus, economic partnerships - and even further investment. Kecskemét, as a rapidly developing Hungarian city and region, can also benefit from hosting prestigious international events in general, but in terms of regional science, the topic has a lot of concrete potential, as regional science has a history of almost eight decades. The RSAI has over 4,000 expert members worldwide, with a network spanning the globe. For more information on the conference, please visit our website at: https://lnkd.in/diPK2UZq

Living the world we live in, and facing the complex and challenging problems of modern societies require better-informed and evidence-based policymaking. How can we do that? That’s the origin and purpose of #Science4Policy. The mutual understanding of #scientists and #policymakers needs to improve in all regions, but we already have some good examples of best practices across Europe.   CSIC is evolving in the right direction. The largest Spanish public-performing research organization, with more than 14k employees distributed among 121 research institutes in the country, is changing from being a “knowledge generator” research institution and is increasingly transforming into a “knowledge synthesizer” one.   If you are interested in these matters, please go, and check the new Guidance Science-Policy Activities coordinated by Science Europe

Accelerating innovation and promoting the digital transformation in the humanities and cultural heritage sectors. H2IOSC is a pioneering project to create a cluster of distributed technological infrastructures across Italy in the humanities and cultural heritage sectors. Through the enhancement and federation of CLARIN-IT, DARIAH-IT, E-RIHS.it, and OPERAS-IT, the four Italian nodes of the European Research Infrastructures committed in the humanities and cultural heritage sectors, H2IOSC will provide researchers, businesses, and citizens with an open and multidisciplinary environment that enables access to advanced tools for conducting innovative and computationally intensive research on complex digital data and objects. Promoting the adoption of open science paradigms, H2IOSC aims to become a national reference model for the development of open and interoperable digital research ecosystems. Through extensive collaborations with universities, libraries, archives, museums, and other research actors, H2IOSC will involve the scientific community directly in its activities, ensuring that their needs are represented. H2IOSC has been funded by the European Union Next Generation EU and the Italian Ministry of University and Research as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). For further details, visit our website:  https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca CLARIN ERIC | DARIAH ERIC | E-RIHS | OPERAS Research Infrastructure

🌍 Just attended and spoke at the Young Königswinter Alumni Conference 2024 at Goethe Institute London, an event that brings together people from business, politics, academia and other sectors from Germany and the UK to foster close relationships, especially post-Brexit. 🌟 The organising committee has put together an incredibly exciting event. Many thanks in particular to Dr. Birgit Bujard and Hannes Christoph Bächle for involving me! The event also came with a particular joy – a session with remarks by Annette Dittert, whose expert reporting from the UK in ARD my whole family has appreciated since a long time. 🚩 My guess is that the panel I’ve been on, chaired by Charles Emmerson, with Irina von Wiese and David Frost (The Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton CMG), provoked discussions indeed. 💡 As someone who has spent a significant amount of time at scientific conferences, this experience was particularly refreshing and enlightening. It made me realise how crucial and fascinating these kinds of multidisciplinary get-togethers are! 🏛 Academia is often fostering a culture where we mingle in particular among colleagues doing the same job, rather than who deal with similar topics but while working in a very different sector. At academic conferences, we (potentially) get the feedback that helps us to improve the papers that we hope to publish eventually. We network with the people who can become co-authors or co-writers of the next funding application. We just don’t get this quite in the same way at multidisciplinary events – but maybe this focus comes at the cost of perhaps sometimes not seeing the bigger picture – or at least, to understand thinking in other sectors. 📚 ❓ The academic community is perhaps not one that incentivises permeating its community boundaries. Some people are able to do it frequently – chapeau! My hunch is that the opportunity cost, both in time and travel budget, often leads us to prioritise scientific gatherings. 🤝 Learning how people in other sectors think about the same problems is just so incredibly enriching – I learned a lot about how the people in other sectors think about the same problems that people in my field work on – spanning from misinformation, and populism, to AI and European integration more generally.

Today I had a pleasure to participate in the round table discussion on #citizenscience organised by INCENTIVE EU H2020 Research Project & TIME4CS. It was clear that citizens are crucial participants in the scientific research especially when it comes to solving our todays and future challenges. The main takeaways from the discussion: 🔻still there is a lot of work to do when it comes to citizen #science, especially towards funding and definition of pivotal projects 🔻mission oriented approach to #citizen science is needed: we need to solve actual challenges that are there (or might be in the future) 🔻in citizen science there are different roles and capabilities that come together: citizens need the guidance of #researchers to produce relevant scientific evidence 🔻don’t forget the citizens: we need to effectively communicate with them, identify our target audience and bring citizen science to the world 🔻last but not least, importance of #sciencecommunication and #knowledge #valorisation European Research Executive Agency (REA)

Meet the 16th ESA Porto Conference Plenary Speakers. Know more about the third plenary on the topic of Transformation. Michael Biggs (University of Oxford) will speak about "How critical social theory has transformed institutions and culture" https://bit.ly/3RozYGt Submit your abstract now!

Would you like to find out what was discussed at the first official day of the 10th International Degrowth Conference and 15th Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics? Then take a look at Part II of my blogpost series: https://lnkd.in/dn9yK6js In this article, I summarise central points that were raised on June 17th 2024 at the opening ceremony in Pontevedra. Those include: 📑 An overview of the conference and its local situatedness in the city of Pontevedra by Mario Pansera 📉 A humorous story of the difficulty of using AI to produce a Degrowth Album Cover by Dan O'Neill 👁 An outlook to the following two Degrowth conferences, taking place in 2025 and 2026 by Brototi Roy and Vincent Liegey 💡 Insights on the risks and dangers of innovations in an era of Colonial Capitalist Expansion discussed by annapurna mamidipudi and Samer Abdelnour ⚡ Key characteristics of ecological economics, degrowth and post-development reflected upon by Giorgos Kallis, Brototi Roy and Joshua Farley Finally I draw some connections to my experience at ECOLISE, by exploring the relevance of the discourse of the conference for the movement of community-led initiatives, and vice versa. 🔁 📌 Stay tuned for the following parts of the series.

’FREE MINDS, BOUNDLESS HORIZONS’ - An open invitation to join a podium discussion and platform for European Scientific Cooperation. Wednesday, May 15th, House of Europe, Korte Vijverberg 5, The Hague. 15:00 – 17:00 Language: English BACKGROUND OF THE EVENT: #Dutch-#Hungarian scientific relations have been remarkable in the past. The European framework has offered excellent opportunities, facilitating hundreds of fruitful projects. To sustain this success into the future, it’s imperative to ensure continued access to the Erasmus and Horizon Europe programs, which are currently not guaranteed for Hungarian students and researchers. (Under the EU decision of December 2022, Hungarian academic organisations, legally operating as public foundations have been excluded from all EU funding programs). Our event aims to put a spotlight on the far-reaching implications of this exclusion, while also serving as a platform to forge meaningful connections and partnerships between Dutch and Hungarian stakeholders. With a lineup of distinguished speakers from some of Hungary’s finest scientific institutions, we will dive into how this decision impacts daily life and explore potential avenues for European collaboration on current projects. Your presence at this event is a unique opportunity to connect, engage, and explore potential projects with international partners. We anticipate your participation and the invaluable insights you will bring to our discussions. The event will be followed by a networking reception. You are more than welcome. Please register in advance. #Europe #scientificcollaboration #Erasmus #Horizon #ERC #science #europeanscientificcooperation #netherlands #hungary #EU #TheHague #HouseofEurope #highereducation