The sixth RISIS Research Seminar will take place on 10 February from 12:30 am to 2:00 pm (CET) and will focus on Institutional barriers to participation in EU framework programs: contrasting the Swiss and UK cases with a presentation of Marco Cavallaro, USI Università della Svizzera Italiana. Dr. Luke Georghiou, University of Manchester, is involved as a discussant. The aim of this study was to examine how institutional barriers arising from policy decisions influence the…
What kind of contribution provides researchers to society? Which is the impact of science on citizens' daily lives? The European Researchers' Night, funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA), is a Europe-wide public event that brings researchers closer to the public. It's a special night that this year takes place on Friday, 27 November when the work of European researchers comes closer to the citizens. The RISIS project participates in Finestre sulla Ricerca…
While debates on the accessibility of the United Kingdom (UK) and non-EU countries to Horizon Europe are still ongoing, a research conducted by Marco Cavallaro and Benedetto Lepori (USI, Università della Svizzera Italiana) entitled Institutional barriers to participation in EU Framework Programs. Contrasting the Swiss and UK cases estimates the effects of access restrictions and uncertainty on the participation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in H2020. In the paper which is going to be published…
Integration between scientific communities within the European Research Area (ERA) is supposed to tackle the societal grand challenges and generate a growing social and economic impact. Research funding schemes like the ‘joint Research and Development (R&D) programmes’ - such as ERA-Net programmes, Joint Programming Initiatives, Joint Technology Initiatives - established through multilateral agreement between research organizations from different countries, are examples of how European integration can be pursued. In order to monitor and analyse the…
