“Swiss education, research and innovation will become completely isolated.” Shocked leaders of Swiss universities warn that freezing participation in Horizon2020 and Erasmus+ after the referendum on EU-immigration would be disastrous for higher education, science and the economy.
Selling content is so outdated
The terms ‘green’ and ‘gold’ only obscure the Open Access debate, says Cameron Neylon of PLOS. Instead the focus should be: ‘how open is it?’. And is publishing really about selling content or selling access to readership?
New not always better
Why should medicines be evidence based and medical devices not? Professor Maroeska Rovers helps companies to assess what’s efficient and what’s not. “We might even reduce health care costs.” Meet her at the Hannover Messe in the ‘Glashaus’ of the 2014 Messe-partner The Netherlands!
The Millennials’ bleak fate
Getting a college degree is quite expensive, but not getting a college degree is even more costly, a recent study by PEW Research shows. The increasing income inequality in the U.S. starts early and now already shows at the age of 25.
A Herculean task
A year ago Greece’s position within the EU seemed uncertain and an exit from the euro looked imminent. Now they started to preside the Council of the EU and may start repairing their “weakest link” reputation. What are their goals and plans for HE, science and R&D policies in Europe now?
Calculating the value of NATO
Cooperation among NATO allies might become impossible if the U.S. has the newest technology while European allies keep cutting their defense spending. At Leiden University NATO-boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned for the impact of a growing Atlantic knowledge, R&D and tech divide.
Quit Bugging Me!
Mosquitoes plague summer picnics, but we rarely see them in winter. Arnold van Vliet and colleagues from Wageningen University asks the public to report winter-active mosquitoes and send in samples. “They arrive in everything from envelopes to walnut shells.”