Europe News
University’s academic senate voted against taking part in bilateral research programme amid student urging
Commission is intended to strengthen governance of National Research Plan 2021-27
This week: a national day for universities and promotion of Italian cultural institutions abroad
Student survey shows gender-based violence is rife
Latest
This week: economics and social studies call, new board for evaluation agency, Italy-US AI collaboration
This week: accreditation for arts PhDs, progress on gender equality and the right to protest
President of evaluation agency says researchers will be left without support
This week: Science bodies sign agreement, uproar over sexism in Turin, not-for-profits given funding boost
Women in academia still glued to ‘sticky floor’ holding them back from advancement
This week: knowledge-sharing site revamped, Catholic universities agree research alliance, new physics labs in Trieste
Study shows Italian researchers were the busiest authors
Performance in research and innovation lags behind European neighbours
This week: launching digital education hubs and contributing to a new science campus
Half the country’s doctoral candidates show “clinically relevant” scores for depression, anxiety and stress
This week: innovation seed grants and worries over COP
Study suggests advent of assessment drove “anomalous” national citation patterns
This week: Slovenian links and an airforce mission
As support for dropping quantitative metrics gains steam, researchers are highlighting their benefits
This week: a city for aerospace and a faltering twin transition
Research Professional News talks to first woman elected head of Conference of Italian University Rectors
This week: Polar research and splits over the Israel-Gaza conflict
Next evaluation exercise will allow more research outputs and look at international grants won
Slow-moving Italian Science Fund “will get more efficient at giving money to researchers”
This week: a site for Rome’s Technopole and an evaluator’s European appointment
Leading economies call on academia and industry to prioritise research and global challenges
This week: a rector resigns, green hydrogen funding and Messa’s latest move
Hard to measure outcomes are as important as research and teaching, say leading Italian rectors
This week: professors lose patent privilege and an arrested student is released in Israel
Milan is replacing London in the Unified Patent Court—but its remit is much smaller
This week: science advisers, student housing and mind games
An investigation raising questions over research by Italy’s health minister is struggling to gain traction
Italy’s rectors fear impact of inflation and increasing amount of support earmarked for government priorities
This week: increased university budgets and a fresh round of ERC-style funding
Fears that researchers might change subjects to enhance careers are not substantiated by major study
This week: contract killings and a Bologna postdoc set free
But researchers are not as cold on the right-wing Meloni administration as some expected
Covid-recovery funds of over €740 million will be channelled to researchers in latest Prin initiative