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The EuroScience Open Forum 2022 (ESOF2022) will take place from 13 to 16 July 2022 in Leiden, the Netherlands. Several EUA colleagues will organise and contribute to various sessions during the conference, in both hybrid and online settings.
ESOF was founded in 2004 by EuroScience, the non-profit grassroots organisation of researchers in Europe. The biannual meeting was designed to “offer the scientific community a platform for interdisciplinary and intersectional debate about scientific culture, scientific research and innovation, for and with society”. This year, ESOF will organise its 10th edition with a focus on “Crossing Borders, Engaged Society, Resilient Societies”.
The programme of ESOF2022 of ESOF2022 is available on the conference website and registration for both physical and online participation is now open.
Please find below a list of ESOF2022 sessions organised by or involving EUA.
(all Central European Summer Time)
12 July - 15:00-16:15 | ESOF 2022 MSCA Satellite Event
Leiden
Alexander Hasgall will share his expertise as a speaker in the workshop on “High quality supervision”.
13 July – 11:30-12:30 | Values in research and academic freedom
Venue: Leiden and online
Monika Steinel, EUA Deputy Secretary General, will contribute to this session focused on exploring how academic freedom, and more specifically freedom of scientific research, is being dealt with at EU, national, institutional and individual levels.
14 July – 11:15-12:30 | The Role of Universities in Boosting Innovation through Entrepreneurship
Venue: Cleveringa stage, Kamerlingh Onnes Building (KOG) and online
EUA will organise this session to discuss how universities contribute to enhancing innovation ecosystems through the development of entrepreneurship, and how to strengthen this important role.
The session aims to consolidate the previous work of EUA (including a European-wide survey on universities and innovation) by bringing together different perspectives to discuss how to address university challenges in developing entrepreneurial skills. It will also showcase best practices and reflect on ways forward with a panel of European experts representing different actors, including university leadership, young university graduates and entrepreneurs, businesses and policy-makers.
Stephane Berghmans, EUA Director of Research and Innovation, will contribute to the session and moderate the panel discussion.
14 July – 14.00-15.15 | Research Assessment Reform – What Does Good Look Like?
Venue: Lorentz stage, Kamerlingh Onnes Building (KOG) and online
Stephane Berghmans will contribute to this session focused on discussing the initiative to reform research assessment in Europe, in which EUA plays an active role, with different stakeholders from the European research landscape.
14 July – 14.00-15.15 | Reforming Academic Assessment: The Impact on Early-Stage Researchers and Their Careers
Venue: Online room 2
The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) will organise this session focused on the growing call to change academic assessment to address the whole breadth of academic careers. The issue will be discussed with a panel of European experts who will explore challenges and foreseen changes in academic assessment systems and how to address them. The audience and early career researchers will be asked to interact with the panel to raise some of their hopes and fears. This will generate discussions on how assessment can be reformed to better reflect and enable diverse academic careers.
Alexander Hasgall, Head of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education, will contribute to the session and moderate the panel discussion.
14 July – 15.45-17.00 | The Rights Retention Strategy: Academic freedom and responsibility for researchers
Venue: Online room 6
This session organised by Science Europe will focus on how researchers can effectively use the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) and why it is in the interest of the entire academic community to do so. We will also explore how universities and other research performing organisations can integrate the RRS in their contracts and agreements with employees.
Vinciane Gaillard will represent EUA in this session.
15 July – 16.00-17.00 | European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA)
Venue: Aalmarkt stage (Stadsgehoorzaal)
Stephane Berghmans will co-chair the European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA), a prize-giving ceremony granted every two years by EuroScience to young researchers showing exceptional research achievement and leadership.
15 July – 17.15-19.00 | Academic Freedom Under Pressure
Venue: Main stage (Stadsgehoorzaal)
Stephane Berghmans will take part in this session which will explore the of academic freedom from a variety of perspectives.
16 July – 14:15-15:30 | Science to Impact: Debate on policies and programmes to help scientists to create impact
Stephane Berghmans will join the panel discussion on how universities can promote and support science and scientists to create societal impact. Invited experts will share their experience and perspectives from the organizational level, the national level and the European level.
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Open Science and gender equality are two movements with much in common, so why is a feminist perspective on Open Science yet to emerge? Pastora Martínez Samper tackles the question. "Feminism is the ...
Despite a proliferation of initiatives to promote Open Science, many obstacles persist. Here, Jean-Pierre Finance examines the progress that this movement has made and looks to the next steps, includi ...
For Research Europe, EUA’s Vinciane Gaillard and Stephane Berghmans weigh in on recent efforts to rebalance research assessment and look at how it could bring about a much-needed transformation of p ...
Reforming research assessment is a hot topic, as community-driven momentum now meets national and transnational political support. Here, EUA experts that have been closely involved in drafting a landm ...
Education’s digital transition has allowed students to study and researchers to work remotely throughout the pandemic, however we need to ensure technology is not abused and access is open to all. ...
An unparalleled survey looks at innovation at universities across Europe. EUA expert Stephane Berghmans breaks down the findings, explaining what must be done to boost capacity and build vibrant innov ...
All universities need more autonomy to be innovative, not only those engaged in the European Universities Initiative. EUA expert Anna-Lena Claeys-Kulik writes that limiting flexible collaboration opti ...
How can universities address digital and academic sovereignty through jointly coordinated actions in education, research and research assessment? VSNU’s Darco Jansen outlines the Dutch example, prov ...
EU policy makers often fail to consider the specific nature of higher education, research and innovation in legislation aimed to shape Europe’s digital transformation. EUA expert Bregt Saenen explai ...
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the European University Association, Andrée Sursock analyses two decades of transformation and renewal in Europe’s higher education landscape, and charts ...
The important upsurge in statements of support for academic freedom at the intergovernmental level in Europe points to the urgent need for meaningful implementation. Civil society and higher education ...
Change is in the air. The Covid-19 crisis has turned our lives upside down, but well before this happened there was already a palpable feeling that today’s challenges are changing society in unpredi ...
UNESCO’s Global Open Science Partnership is well-timed in promoting a much-needed global dialogue on Open Science. EUA expert Bregt Saenen discusses the initiative, its evolving backdrop and why it ...
The Covid-19 crisis led to major push towards Open Access, which is now well on its way to becoming a global reality. EUA Board member Patrick Lévy looks at this key moment in the movement’s histor ...
Providing students with the skills for multidisciplinary collaboration and entrepreneurship supports social impact. The Tampere Universities community promotes this endeavour through multidisciplinary ...
EUA President Michael Murphy assesses the challenges and opportunities brought by the coronavirus pandemic to Europe’s universities, in particular in relation to funding, digital tools, Open Science ...
Research assessment practices are becoming more accurate, transparent and responsible. This is partly due to the sharp increase in external evaluations of universities that lead to internal evaluation ...
Europe must connect its ambition of being a digital leader with initiatives already happening at its universities, says EUA Secretary General Amanda Crowfoot in an editorial in The Parliament Magazine ...
The Swedish Bibsam Consortium is taking a leading role in the transition to Open Access and aims to switch from “read-and-publish” agreements to “pure publish” deals after 2024. This next gene ...
While Europe discusses its data strategy, the digital transformation must be on the radar of universities. Digital skills, the infrastructure and support for “FAIR” research data management, and t ...
Open Access publishing needs new business models for universities and disciplines that want to support Open Access but are short on resources. Martin Paul Eve explains how the Open Library of Humaniti ...
Scholarly publishing is at a crossroads between commercial vendors and community-driven services. Eloy Rodrigues from the University of Minho makes the case that more research-centric, dissemination-o ...
The Open University of Catalonia is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The university’s DORA Working Group explains how by becoming a signatory, the universi ...
The transition to Open Science and Open Access is gaining momentum in Europe, making it a shared responsibility for universities and their main partners to review how they incentivise and reward resea ...
Universities together with business partners are the motors of regional development. As EUA’s Lidia Borrell-Damian and Thomas Jorgensen explain, by fostering the link between education, research and ...
Jean Chambaz, president of Sorbonne University, talks with EUA about the importance of innovation capacity, funding and ecosystems.You have presided over an important merger of University Pierre and M ...
Alexandros Papaderos of the Technical University of Munich talks with EUA about the importance of co-creation, the two types of research and university missions.Co-creation between universities, stude ...
Innovation is increasingly important for universities – as it is for society. Universities are one of the strands of the so-called “triple helix”, providing impactful research to sustain competi ...
The increased focus on innovation as a key driver for our societies is influencing every single university mission. As project-based learning and co-creation in research move into the mainstream of un ...
A stronger EU industrial policy is in the cards, including more investments in innovation, writes EUA Rolf Tarrach for The Parliament Magazine.A stronger EU industrial policy is in the cards, includin ...
Since the beginning of time scientific research has been based on exchanges between peers: personal letters, books, articles in specialised journals. But the last 70 years have seen a burst in this se ...
The European University Association (EUA) and its Expert Group on ‘Science 2.0/Open Science’ are supporting universities in Europe in the transition to Open Science. Here, Lidia Borrell-Damián, D ...
The Staff development for learning and teaching at European universities (STAFF-DEV) project aims to analyse how staff development and academic assessment are conducted at European higher education in ...
To address the challenges that the transition of institutional publishing activities towards full Open Access (OA) and Open Science (OS) still faces, DIAMAS will deliver an aligned, high-quality, and ...
Making data FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable – is becoming more and more the standard expectation for European research projects. ...
“Yebo! Development of the Internationalization of PhD Studies in South-Africa” (2017-20) is an Erasmus+ funded project focused on further developing the internationalisation of doctoral education ...
The FRINDOC project was managed by a consortium of six partners, coordinated by EUA, and consisting of the University of Hong Kong, Stellenbosch University, Imperial College London, the University of ...
Europe’s universities are increasingly developing partnerships in their research and innovation missions, embracing the “Open Innovation model” of university-business collaboration and seeking t ...
European universities advance sustainability in numerous ways, and have done so for many decades. The European University Association’s vision for 2030 – Universities without walls – states tha ...
There is increasing momentum to address academic careers and assessment, both in the academic sector and among policy makers. ...
The European Research Area (ERA) reflects the European Commission and EU member states’ ambition to create a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology across the EU. It was f ...
The missions and work of universities in Europe and elsewhere are underpinned by a number of fundamental values. EUA as an Association strongly believes in and works towards upholding these. The Asso ...
Innovation is a key strategic priority for universities. It draws on their research and education missions as well as their role as an honest broker at the nexus of different sectors and communities. ...
Open Science is a shared responsibility, and a successful transition will require a concerted effort from key stakeholders. EUA takes a comprehensive view of the transition to Open Science and works t ...
At the meeting point between higher education and research and in support of early career researchers, doctoral education plays a key role in addressing the key challenges that research currently face ...
