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researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: Craig Nicholson for Research Professional NewsInorms 2025: “Strengthen the research system” by influencing policy, research managers and administrators urgedResearch managers and administrators have been encouraged to engage with policymaking to help improve the research landscape. Speakers in a panel session at the congress of the International Network of Research Management Societies in Madrid on 8 May said that such engagement is highly valued by policymakers.
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6 days ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: Craig Nicholson for Research Professional NewsInorms 2025: Adviser insists Commission planning for next EU R&I programme is “very predictable”Research and innovation leaders are overreacting in expressing fears about European Commission planning for the EU’s next R&I programme, an EU research agency project adviser has implied.
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1 week ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: Craig Nicholson for Research Professional NewsInorms 2025: US situation highlights importance of transformational leadership, says NYU integrity directorResearch managers should adopt a transformational leadership style to drive institutional change—but they will need “courage” in doing so, as highlighted by intense pressures on US science—according to a keynote speaker at the congress of the International Network of Research Management Societies.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
The EU R&I programme “is delivering”, the Commission says—so why is it under threat? The verdict is in: Horizon Europe “is delivering”. That’s in the words of Ekaterina Zaharieva, the EU research and innovation commissioner. She was commenting on the interim evaluation of the EU’s 2021-27 R&I programme, which the Commission published at the end of last month.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: Craig Nicholson for Research Professional NewsInorms 2025: Competency and training frameworks touted as important developments needing community’s supportResearch managers and administrators now have a “major anchor point” to use for moving their profession forward, according to speakers at the congress of the International Network of Research Management Societies.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: Craig Nicholson / Research Professional NewsInorms 2025: Tackling climate change and digitisation requires change in research culture, event hearsResearch managers and administrators are needed more than ever to help scholars address global challenges including climate change and digitisation, the 2025 congress of the International Network of Research Management Societies has heard.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: TU/e Politicians should not equate greater competitiveness with “more applied research”, Robert-Jan Smits tells RPNThe EU must not neglect basic research in plans for its future research and innovation funding, former European Commission R&I director-general Robert-Jan Smits has warned.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News This week: defending academic freedom, boosting healthcare equality and inspiring climate change researchIn depth: The presidents of 14 Dutch universities have written to the leaders of the European Commission, setting out their “great concern” that the EU has not yet said whether it is planning for the bloc to have another standalone research and innovation programme.
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1 week ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
Staff and students strike after government announces cuts to fund for coping with inflationProtests against cuts to public funding for higher education are set to continue in the Netherlands, after the latest government budget update outlined more pain for the sector. A national day of action will take place on 10 June, the FNV education and research union said, following the latest round of strikes and protests at universities in April.
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1 week ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson
University presidents tell Commission that R&I programme must not be folded into new competitiveness fundThe presidents of 14 Dutch universities have written to the leaders of the European Commission, setting out their “great concern” that the EU has not yet said whether it is planning for the bloc to have another standalone research and innovation programme.
