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Craig Nicholson

@clanicholson.bsky.social

Senior editor at Research Professional News, mainly editing European research, innovation and higher education policy news

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 2d ago

MEPs have written to the European Commission to express concerns about what they suggested are design flaws in a consultation on funding public-public and public-private partnerships under the EU’s next research and innovation programme: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

MEPs criticise design of European partnerships consultation - Research Professional News

Design of call for views on EU R&I programme’s joint funding schemes blasted as “inappropriate”

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 3d ago

Funders are grappling with major shifts in research funding, assessment and publishing, according to the head of the Dutch Research Council (NWO), who told us about its work on a plan for how to respond to these factors and others www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

NWO head: research funders are grappling with big changes - Research Professional News

Dutch Research Council president Marcel Levi tells RPN how the funder is planning to adapt

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 7d ago

Free-to-read: If funding is meant to support transformative ideas, some uncertainty is not a problem, writes Anete Vingre from Technopolis, based on an evaluation of the Austrian Science Fund 1000 Ideas programme www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Failure is an option: funding risky research can foster innovation - Research Professional News

Unconventional funding scheme for high-risk research, including lottery element, offers wider lessons, says Anete Vingre

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 7d ago

Free-to-read opinion: Europe should read a potentially transformative new US science plan not as a blueprint to imitate, but as an invitation to reflect on what kind of research ecosystem it wants to build, says Kurt Deketelaere www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

The White House’s science vision is no blueprint for Europe - Research Professional News

Individual talents need the ecosystem of strong research universities to flourish, says Kurt Deketelaere

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 7d ago

Research leaders have broadly welcomed moves by funders to allow use of AI to support evaluation processes, while cautioning about AI “influencing scientific assessment” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

AI use to aid grant evaluation ‘must not shape scientific decisions’ - Research Professional News

Cross-Europe spread of AI in funders’ support functions brings cautious welcome, alongside warnings for future

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · last wk.

A commitment to strengthen conditions for research and innovation will help inform the EU’s upcoming policymaking around competitiveness, a new draft work programme for a government high-level group has indicated www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

EU governments set to address biotech and economic security - Research Professional News

Draft work programme for expert group highlights need to strengthen conditions for research and innovation

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Environmental sustainability should be a “strategic priority” in the EU’s next research and innovation programme, according to @scienceeurope.org, a group of major research funding and performing organisations www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Environment should be ‘strategic priority’ in FP10, say funders - Research Professional News

Science Europe association calls for alignment of sustainability and research excellence, plus dedicated funding

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 2w ago

For Europe to compete globally, knowledge must move as freely around the EU as goods, services, people and capital, the EU commissioner for research and innovation has emphasised www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Knowledge must move freely, says EU research commissioner - Research Professional News

Ekaterina Zaharieva outlines ministerial discussions on how to remove barriers to researcher and knowledge flows

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Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: STFC’s true cost overrun revealed as nearly £700m. Figure calls into question transparency from UKRI leadership amid cuts to science facilities. STFC had told its staff it had to reduce spending by £162 million. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

STFC’s true cost overrun revealed as nearly £700m - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Figure calls into question transparency from UKRI leadership amid cuts to science facilities

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Craig Nicholson@clanicholson.bsky.social · 2w ago

The EU Science Diplomacy Alliance has boosted its member and partner numbers by 50 per cent, saying the achievement “reflects the growing relevance of science diplomacy”: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Alliance influx ‘reflects growing relevance of science diplomacy’ - Research Professional News

EU Science Diplomacy Alliance adds 26 members and partners, aiming for “sustainable, inclusive community”

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