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Until the end of 2025, YUFE will be piloting and implementing the YUFE DIOSI Model for Doctoral Learning. Want to learn more? Explore the YUFE Alliance Pilot! 👇 #UAntwerp #LetsShapeTheFuture

Fascinating conversations around development issues: where should solutions come from? What has been the past and present relationship of Aid and Development : what is the future of this relationship? Role of Brics? Radical critical thinking and power analysis in development studies: still work to do...

Please connect with me if you have any questions after the NCURA: National Council of University Research Administrators Annual Meeting!

Excited to spread the science for policy message in Rome. On the agenda, among others: a parliamentary hearing of JRC’s Director General and a public event at Europa experience/Spazio Sassoli with the participation of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Ministero Istruzione, Universita' e Ricerca e prof. Benanti. Solutions to today’s complex challenges need to be based on scientific evidence. This is what we do at the Joint Research Center! EU Science, Research and Innovation

We need to keep the conversation going about how universities across Canada help to drive and diversify our regional economies, particularly those in smaller urban centres. Federal investments in research, scholarship and creativity create quick wins for faculty and students, as well as local businesses, industry, and communities. #researchinvestment #postsecondaryeducation #Canadianresearch

Why fund blue sky research?  Full text: https://lnkd.in/dpvjQS-Y Recently, Krishna spoke at the panel discussion at a meeting of the European Research Council in Bergen (https://lnkd.in/dc7TytRe -timestamp: 2.25.30). A central topic was ‘why fund frontier research’ or blue sky research. This is research that does not promise specific outcomes but explores new frontiers. There were reasons put forth by attendees which were of great value, and she proposes 3 more: To remain in touch with the ability of human beings. – Human beings first skied to the North and South poles with a single primary intention - to prove that we can. The inherent ability of human beings to challenge themselves, beat their odds and to redefine their capabilities is one major aspect that delineates the human species from the rest. However, we as a species need to continuously validate these extraordinary abilities in order to remain in touch and in practice. Otherwise, these abilities rust, and we even forget about them. We need to continue reminding ourselves and validating for ourselves that WE CAN. We can discover, we can invent, we can learn, we can know, we can challenge, we can overcome, and we can excel. To facilitate the productive and constructive engagement of intellectual human capital – Being talented and having the capacity to excel is both a supreme asset but it can also be dangerous. Even more so when compounded with courage and appetite for risk. Our society can risk neglecting people with talent and courage, and in the best case they will also forget about it and live an ordinary life. But what’s worse is if they use these assets for destructive causes and are engaged on other malicious channels to unleash their abilities. If further disgruntled with society, they have the potential to wreak havoc. Human society has a lot to gain, and a lot to lose depending on if governments and institutions can recognize such people, and choose to invest in them and creative endeavors of their liking. This is true even if no new knowledge is created and no societal impact is seen in short or long term. For the sake of excellence itself – It is in the nature of some individuals that they ‘excel for the sake of excellence itself’, irrespective of what job they do and what role they play. These people take pride in their work and want to contribute their best and go as far as possible. That streak of excellence is a celebration of itself, a means to its own end. In the most prosperous and peaceful days, it provides a testimony to humans’ existence. And in the bleakest times, it provides a principle for survival and a beacon of hope. Striving for excellence provides a larger artistic canvas to a society with such a streak and opens up the possibilities for what they can paint. Perhaps it’s just the romantic in me, but blue sky research makes our skies bluer on cloudy days and gives it a more vividly blue color on clear days!

Did you know the European Commission launched the European Research Area Platform? The European Research Area (ERA) was launched in 2000 with the aim of creating a single market for research and innovation fostering free movement of researchers, scientific knowledge and innovation, and fostering a more competitive European industry. The European Research Area platform provides space for researchers, innovators, citizens, and policymakers to connect, collaborate, and access the latest information, data and resources related to the European Research Area. Higher education and research are so much linked to each other, therefore another instrument for use at the service of students, academic staff and beyond... https://lnkd.in/dZue_nDn

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Our latest Research Magazine clearly demonstrate the contribution of our research towards the UN SDGs - changing our tomorrow!

#KoreanHistoryToday: With a mandate to train advanced scientists and engineers, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science is founded in 1971. This public research university is renamed in 1981 as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).