Following on from similar announcements from a number of other funders, NERC has said that the current round of small grants, closing on the 1st September 2011, will be the last. The main reason given for this cutback is to…
ERC Budget Increase: Good News for “Blue Skies” Research
The Times Higher Education reports today that the “blue skies” focused European Research Council will have an annual budget increase of 23% to €1.6bn: Funding for the highly regarded European Research Council, which finances “frontier” research, will rise by 23…
UKRO on the future of Marie Curie Fellowships in Horizon 2020
UKRO (UK Research Office) recently attended a workshop in Brussels on the future of the Marie Curie Actions within the new Horizon 2020 programme (effectively FP8, plus CIP and EIT). Their report is useful reading for anyone with an interest…
Horizon 2020 – New Name for Next EC Framework Programme
The EC recently held a competition to name the next Framework Programme for research funding. The winning name is Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Significantly the EC confirms in its press release that this new…
Framework and the Innovation Union: Notes and Reflections
Earlier this month I attended Research Europe’s Framework and the Innovation Union conference at the International Trade Union Auditorium in Brussels. This was an opportunity to catch up with the latest developments on the European Commission’s plans for research and innovation…
Tweeting #arma11
This week I and a couple of colleagues from Lincoln attended the 2011 Association of Research Managers and Administrators conference in a rather damp but very lively Glasgow. The theme of the conference was “Good Advice in Hard Times” and…