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On my personal blog: “Launching The Registries of Good Practice Project” https://lnkd.in/eFSyDsv6

🙏 Thank you to the European Commission and to the ERA-LEARN for listening to our concerns and comments related to the administrative burdens in preparation, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the #EUPartnerships and for organisation of such an important thematic workshop. It was a great opportunity to further discuss with colleagues from the Partnership Knowledge Hub and representatives of European Partnerships from national authorities, industry and academia the outcomes of the survey on these burdens and how to tackle them in current #HorizonEU and future Framework Programmes #FP10, with an important input from Ewa Kocinska-Lange, Director of the NCBR Office in Brussels. What are the greatest burdens? 🔹 in reference to the preparations – we have highlighted the access to information, complexity of requirements and need for a dedicated funding for the preparation of the co-funded partnership (like preparation of SRIA and writing the final proposal to the EC) 🔹 as for the implementation, the greatest challenge is the need to comply with different rules at national and European level and large in-kind contribution from the institutions involved and managing synergies with other programmes 🔹 in terms of the monitoring: we would mention troublesome reporting requirements also due to multiple streams of funding being used (like national and EU). 🤞 Fingers crossed for the improvements and looking forward to further discussion also on the impact of the European Partnerships on the national R&I systems! Marnix Surgeon, Paul Webb, Stéphanie LE BERRE, Margit Noll, Benedetta Trignani, Judy Martin, sonia muñoz blanc, Marion Jamard

Sisvel President Mattia Fogliacco moderated a plenary today at #IPBCGlobal entitled Europe's Tectonic Shift. The session's panellists were: Lyse Brillouet of Orange; Naoise Gaffney of GH Research; Dr. Sophie Pasquier of Philips; and Richard Vary of Bird & Bird. It's a common criticism of these kinds of session - and a fair one to an extent - that it's basically all about preaching to the converted. Everyone on the panel broadly agrees and so does everyone in the audience. Nothing is achieved. But here's the thing: these panellists know what they are talking about; they are in the market, they understand how it works; they can identify bottlenecks, flaws and problems, as well as opportunities. When they say there are very serious issues with the SEP licensing regulation, for example, the smart thing is to listen to them rather than to shut them out, as has happened up to now. These people share the Commission's objectives - transparency, efficiency and predictability in SEP licensing - but they are deeply concerned about the legislation's proposed solutions. SMEs are likely to be exposed to more, not lower, overheads and costs as a result of it; there will probably be suits at the CJEU about denial of property rights and access to justice; the ability to find agile, flexible market solutions to specific challenges is likely to be hindered; extended uncertainty that hampers dealmaking is almost certain; the EUIPO could well be overextended; and so on. If you fear all these things and more are likely to be the result of implementing the regulation in its current form, you are duty bound to scream it from the rooftops relentlessly in the hope that at some point someone who matters will finally start to hear. Yes, it's frustrating that a lot of industry events do tend to be repetitive, but the alternative is silence. And silence is a dereliction of duty. Richard Vary put it best. Europe is at a fork in the road, he said. The choice is either to follow a path in which a tried and tested system is interpreted and improved by the UPC, so ensuring ongoing European leadership in the FRAND/SEP world; or to take the other route with an unamended regulation, in which case the baton of leadership will pass to the likes of India, China and even the UK. The Commission and EU member states need to confront that reality. It cannot be wished away.

Call for Papers - 2025 Fred Riggs Symposium on "Comparative Approaches to Digital Transformation: Balancing Public Service Values Across Cultural Contexts" by the Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA) of ASPA. In conjunction with the ASPA Annual Conference theme "Not Robots Yet: Keeping Public Servants in Public Service," the SICA Fred Riggs Symposium Committee invites proposals for the 2025 Symposium which will bring together experts worldwide to critically discuss key issues facing comparative public administration. As digital technologies reshape public administration systems globally, this symposium examines how different countries, administrative systems and communities navigate the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in governance. We seek proposals that offer comparative perspectives that contribute to understanding how public servants worldwide integrate core public service values while adapting to technology-driven changes. Read more here

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🆔🇳🇱 7 Mio Euro Funding Available: NWO (Dutch Research Council) opens the KIC call ‘Digital Identities – a foundation for trust in the digital world’. The call falls under the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (KIA) Digitization, of which Topsector ICT is the lead party. The call aims to improve digital trust by means of -#digitalidentities for (legal) persons and objects. Digital identities consist of data stored on computer systems about a person, organization, application or object. Researchers can submit interdisciplinary initiatives and applications that they have drawn up together with fellow researchers from other scientific fields, relevant social organisations and companies. A total of 7 million euros is available and a minimum of 600,000 and a maximum of 3,200,000 euros can be requested for an application. A private contribution of at least 20% (in cash or in kind) is requested per project. The deadline for submitting initiatives is Thursday 14 November 2024 before 2 p.m. and the deadline for submitting applications is Tuesday 8 April 2025 before 2 p.m. NWO https://lnkd.in/ehSGQkNe

It's been quite a start for me at Civitates as since day one I have been working on completing the strategy review of the Tech and Democracy sub-fund. With the T&D Working Group - also thanks to the great prep work of Nick Martlew and Peter Bihr - we have tried to build a more ambitious and challenging roadmap. In the next four years, the Tech and Democracy sub-fund will support organisations and initiatives that contribute to the enforcement of tech regulations with a special focus on their impact on democracy. We have defined three objectives: 1️⃣ Expose the direct harms of technology to democracy in order to hold Big Tech to account and address the misuse of technology by public and private actors; 2️⃣ Develop and promote solutions, alternatives, and positive narratives to counter the dominant model of Big Tech and to make technology safer, trusted and human-centered; 3️⃣ Address the challenges and opportunities of tech regulation enforcement at national level especially through the establishment and the coordination of coalitions or networks. As you can imagine, this is a broad framework that requires more investments, tries to cover the longer term and consider the everchanging field of democracy. We will share more details on immediate priorities through our calls for proposal, our communication channels and introducing new ways to reach to us and flag import at and impactful work. I'm very happy if you want to share feedbacks or criticisms to this framework and suggest priorities and opportunities (and yes, I'll also reach out to many of you whose expertise and experience I value greatly). I think it's essential for funders initiatives to define clear strategic directions but it's even more important to keep listening and have room to adjust and improve as a strategy should follow the field and not the other way around. 🔗STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 2024-2028: https://lnkd.in/dK3ukQ-R