Mr Smits goes to

Brussels

Enthusiastic welcome for new European research chief.

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The European Commission 'europa' website contains a page from which various research policy papers and monitoring reports can be found. Click here or copy and paste the following link into your browser:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=reports

 

Call for Expressions of Interest for the EARMA-NCURA International Research Management Fellowship Programme.

The 15th Annual Conference of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) will take place at the University of Copenhagen from 24th - 27th June 2009.

The latest version of ‘Link’, the regular EARMA publication, was issued in December 2008. It can be downloaded from the members' section of the website.

In June 2008, during the 14th EARMA Annual Conference in Barcelona, a question and answer session took place regarding the above Fellowship Programme and its future implementation.

We are delighted to announce that the 15th EARMA Annual Conference will take place at the University of Copenhagen, between 24th and 27th

Following our successful Annual Conference in Paris earlier this year, we distributed a questionnaire to all 200 delegates who attended.  We received over 60 replies which provided us with some valuable feedback concerning the venue, presentations, registration, accommodation and social events. We are now issuing a call to members to provide ideas for the leading theme of the 2007 EARMA Conference, and the detailed topics you would like to see addressed within parallel, keynote, or interactive workshop sessions.  Please complete the following form and return it by e-mail to

EARMA members can receive a discount of 50 euros on the following FP7-related training events organised by BlueBell & Yellow Research:

 

The European Commission has launched a study to assess the remunerations of researchers in the public and business enterprise sectors in the European Union and countries Associated to the Community RTD Framework programme. In this context, a researcher is considered as any person who devotes at least 50% of her/his time in order to carry out research activities.  This study aims at obtaining a better understanding of the key elements of a researchers career, with a view of improving the attractiveness of Europe for researchers.