Science|Business Midweek Newsletter No 107

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Bringing together industry, research and policy

10 Jul 2018

Focus on R&D policy

Failure to appoint White House science adviser ‘very serious’, says EU research chief

Carlos Moedas bemoans erosion of trust in science and fact that truth is now seemingly immaterial. “Politicians lie, people still vote for them, how crazy is that?” he tells the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Toulouse

Despite tensions, US and EU seek to boost science collaboration

US officials meeting counterparts in Brussels on next EU research plan, urge more flexibility to make transatlantic research easier - and ask what ‘associate’ partnership would mean

Academies join forces in fight back against policymakers ignoring scientific evidence

International Science Council unites 180 natural and social sciences organisations ‘to make the voice of science heard by those taking decisions’. One route to increasing influence will be to piggy-back the lobbying might of private sector research

EIB provides €100 million financing for R&D at Spanish automotive group Antolin

Horizon Europe

LIVE BLOG: Reactions to Horizon Europe

Latest: Geographical quotas in Horizon Europe will not bridge the innovation gap, excellence comes first, says ScienceEurope

ERC=Science²

East meets West in music – in Toulouse

ERC researcher Michael Ellison is bringing classical Turkish and Western musicians together at a big scientific conference, to show the intersections between two very different musical traditions.

Featured reports

Innovative Europe? Time for a new EU innovation strategy

The Annual Science|Business Framework conference

Brussels - 05 Jun 2018

Health inequalities: How better use of health data can improve outcomes for all patients

There’s huge variation around Europe in healthcare. Experts convened by Science|Business over the past two years offer explanations – and solutions

Upcoming events

Sharing Patient Outcomes for better Healthcare

A Science|Business Healthy Measures session in the framework of the EuroScience Open Forum 2018

Toulouse - 11 Jul 2018 -

The case for the Science Cloud

A Science|Business Cloud Consultation Group session in the framework of the EuroScience Open Forum 2018

Toulouse - 12 Jul 2018 -

Can Value-based healthcare be implemented in Europe? – How personalised medicine and patient outcomes can help

A Science|Business Healthy Measures Open Conference, 09:30 - 17:30, Barcelona

Barcelona - 19 Sep 2018 -

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Brussels - 25 Sep 2018 -

News byte

In green science, Chinese output soars, US falls, Germany treads water

green-science

In Nature magazine’s index of earth and environmental science publications, annual production from China has been climbing fast since 2012. In fact, other Nature data show the Chinese Academy of Sciences is now the world’s top producer of green science. Read more.