Past Events

  2.00 – 2.15 Opening speech                      Vanessa Debiais-Sainton,  Head of Higher Education Unit, EC   2.15 – 3.15  Session 1: Empirical evidence on the European University Initiative                  ...

2.00 – 2.15 Welcome & Introduction by                      Emanuela Reale IRCrES, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche                      Thomas Scherngell AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology   2.15 – 3.20  Presentation...

Presenter: Marek Kwiek, University of Poznan   Discussant: Samin Aref, University of Toronto   Abstract The seminar will be focused on new opportunities to study the global academic workforce from the perspective of its changing demographics. The major questions will be: how does the age profile of...

The “Methods in Action Series” course “Interactive Assessment of Information Quality through Visual Analytics” is organized by  Department of Computer Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome and will take place on online platform on 2 May, 5 May and 9 May...

Presenter: Barbara Lancho Barrantes, University of Leeds   Discussant: Ismael Rafols, University of Leiden   Abstract Sustainable Development Goals have recently entered our lives and made us to realise how important they are for the development of our society. With this work, I intend to show the...

The Online Methodological course on Thematic and spatial analysis of technologies using Cortext and RISIS patent database is organized by Université Gustave Eiffel and will take place on online platform on 28-30 March 2022. Deadline for request of participation: 20th of March 2022. Course main objectives: This workshop...

The “Methods in Action Series” course “Matching techniques for treatment effect analysis” is organized by Politecnico di Milano and will take place on online platform on 15 March, 22 March and 24 March 2022. Download ->  LEAFLET OF THE COURSE Download ->  APPLICATION FORM  ...

Presenter: Antonio Zinilli and Giovanni Cerulli, CNR-IRCRES   Discussant: Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton   Abstract We propose a supervised machine learning approach to predict partnership formation between universities. We focus on successful joint R&D projects funded by Horizon 2020 programme in three research domains: Social...

Presenter: Francesco Cappellano, University of Eastern Finland   Discussant: Gaston Heimeriks, Utrecht University     Abstract: The growing interest to address societal challenges is changing research and innovation policy dynamics. However, a challenge-oriented approach requires specific public sector capacities to coordinate and provide directionality while having an...

The “Methods in Action Series” course “Dealing with heteroscedasticity and other issues in regressions about scaling” is organized by USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana and will take place on online platform on 31 January, 3 February and 7 February 2022. Download ->  LEAFLET OF...