Horizon 2020 research programme to start 2014
“Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation” will come into force on 1 January 2014, the European Commission has announced. Horizon 2020 – the name of which was selected by a vote in June this year – will replace the FP7 programme when it finishes at the end of 2013.
For more information, please visit the European Commission website.
2012 EPS Council meeting
The next EPS Council meeting will be held at CERN, on 30-31 March 2012. The event will be a return of sorts for the EPS – coming back to where the society was founded, 44 years earlier, by its first president, Gilberto Bernardini, the then Research Director of CERN.
The venue for the meeting will be the CERN Council Chamber, where the EPS Constitution was first signed, on the 26 September 1968, by eminent representatives from 20 different national societies, academies and groups; along with the initial sixty-two individual members…
Scientific information in the digital age consultation
The European Commission is planning to adopt a communication and recommendation, on the access to, and preservation of, digital scientific information. Input is being sought from interested parties, “to feed into the development of possible policy options to be considered”. The deadline for contributions is 9 September 2011.
The EPS will be replying to this consultation, and welcomes input from its members for the preparation of this response. Comments should be sent to the EPS by no later than 31 August 2011…
100 Years of Cosmic Particles
An international conference, with the theme of ‘100 Years of Cosmic Particles’, will be held during 1-5 May 2012, split between the two locations of Innsbruck University, in Tyrol, and ECHOPHYSICS, in Poellau, Styria.
The event, which is being jointly organized by Innsbruck University, ECHOPHYSICS and the Poellau Victor. F. Hess Society will form part of the worldwide celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Victor Francis Hess’ discovery of cosmic radiation.
The first part of the event, held in Innsbruck on 1-2 May, will focus on the knowledge gained, and advances made, in the 100…
First European Gender Summit
The first European Gender Summit is being held in the SQUARE – Brussels Meeting Centre on 8-9 November 2011. The summit will provide an arena for the discussion of how gender is viewed in the culture of research and innovation, and what potential changes could be made in this field.
The summit will also see the publishing of the Public Consultation on the Future of Gender and Innovation in Europe – which is hoped will create a better understanding of how Europe might benefit from a more effective mainstreaming of the gender dimension in research, innovation and scientific systems…
HEPD elects new chair and secretary
The EPS High Energy Physics Division [HEPD] Board has elected Paris Sphicas, of the University of Athens, Greece, and CERN, Switzerland as the board’s next chair. Thomas Lohse, of Humbolt University, Berlin, is also being welcomed as the incoming secretary.
The HEPD would like to express its warmest thanks to the outgoing chair, Fabio Zwirner, for his hard work and dedication.
EC announces 7 billion Euro boost for 2012 R&D
A 7 billion Euro boost for research and innovation for 2012 has been announced by the European Commission (EC) last month. The funding package – which will be the ECs largest yet – is anticipated to promote both growth and new jobs.
“Today, Europe is again showing its commitment to putting research and innovation at the top of the political agenda for growth and jobs,” said Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who announced the new funding boost. “EU-wide competition for these funds will bring Europe’s best researchers and innovators together to tackle the biggest issues of our time, such as energy, food security, climate change and our ageing population.” …
