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New EU budget: more funding for education, research and innovation
In the end of June, the EU announced its new budget for 2014-2020. The so-called Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) was announced in the form of a new Communication to the Parliament, this means...
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Research policy, Financing and Performance: Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia in...
by Jelena Branković and Norbert Šabić The recent publication of the Centre for Education Policy deals with current trends and insights from the field of scientific research. The aim behind the study...
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Guest blogger: Humanities in transition. Crisis can wait
This guest entry is written by Zhanna Saidenova, who is a graduate of the Hedda Master Programme in Higher Education. Currently, she works as a research advisor at the Department of Culture Studies...
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U21 rankings of HE systems – some, but not all the usual suspects
Examining most of the rankings, we face the same usual suspects all around – Harvard tops the most, with a number of other US institutions, and Oxbridge usually being represented in the top 10. Despite...
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Open access movement – from advocacy to policy to practice?
Hedda associate and current Hedda blog research editor Mari Elken gives an overview of the recent developments regarding open access in Europe. Discussions around open access and various forms of...
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Data on research activities in Europe
The EU has a new resource page that features updated data (latest update in Nov 2012) on research activities in EU countries, sorted by country. The map includes a list of projects in the countries...
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New patterns in internationalization of science
A few weeks ago, Nature took up the topic of increased and changing internationalization patterns in research. As a part of this, the results from a study examining the internationalization patterns in...
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News: 2013 EUA report on public funding of universities launched
This week, the European University Association (EUA) published a new report on the issue of funding of higher education in Europe in the context of crisis, following up on the previous report from June...
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Looking for funding for your research project? Turn to the public with...
In this post, Hedda’s own Mari Elken examines the idea of “crowdfunding” and its potential for funding research projects. Opening up the Ivory Tower and involving the public in research processes is a...
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Widespread opposition to cuts in EU research budget
Europe has been struggling with financial crisis in recent years. One of the latest initiatives has been the introduction of EFSI – European Fund for Strategic Investments. After being put forward in...
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