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researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Consultants say societal challenges and stretched funds call for “slim, agile and targeted” next versionThe EU’s next research and innovation programme should be “slim, agile and targeted”, a report for the European Parliament has recommended—acknowledging that its suggestions could well prove unpopular.
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5 days ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Image: Aleramo, via Getty ImagesFirst 10-year budgets announced, along with Global Talent Fund to attract researchers to the UKThe government’s industrial strategy has set out plans to focus the UK’s research and development system on “long-term economic growth”.
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1 week ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Arma 2025: Exeter research managers caution against relying on traditional subsidies from teachingUniversity of Exeter research managers have revealed how they lowered research costs, amid a squeeze on traditional subsidies from teaching income. Speaking at the Association of Research Managers and Administrators conference in Edinburgh on 19 June, Steve Popham, assistant director of research finance at Exeter, discussed the university’s efforts to recover research costs.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Arma 2025: Edinburgh Futures Institute leader suggests curiosity-led research has reached “high-water mark” Structural and systemic changes in research are needed to foster the interdisciplinary collaboration that can tackle the “great global challenges” of today, according to a leader in the field.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
How the Down’s Syndrome Research Foundation UK supports research despite not running regular callsMostly in Funding Insight we cover organisations that support research with regular funding calls. We tend to omit the many smaller organisations who champion research with non-pecuniary support or via one-off funding for pilot studies.
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1 week ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Arma 2025: “You cannot do research without us, but often we feel invisible,” says chairThe chair of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators has told members “you are not alone” as they face job anxiety, amid the continuing crisis in university finances. Lorna Wilson, who is also director of research development and operations at Durham University, was speaking in a keynote session at Arma’s annual conference, which is taking place in Edinburgh with more than 750 delegates.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones |Craig Nicholson
Christian Ehler, who led push for legislation, calls for dedicated legal actIncluding scientific freedom in the European Research Area Act being prepared by the European Commission will not provide sufficient legal protection, prominent MEPs have warned. “The ERA Act might become obsolete. The freedom of scientific research is much more fundamental,” MEP Christian Ehler, who led the European Parliament’s push for the EU to protect scientific freedom, told Research Professional News.
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researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Image: Frances Jones for Research Professional News Claire Morel, head of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions unit, says MSCA pilot “is not perfect”The EU’s new scheme for attracting and retaining researchers, Choose Europe, could grow beyond what has so far been announced, a European Commission official has suggested.
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1 week ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Arma 2025: Former civil servant says universities can lead “strategic thinking” for regional authoritiesThe increased political focus on devolution is a “significant opportunity” for universities, according to a former civil servant.
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2 weeks ago | 
researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones
Fresh priorities will draw funding while impact of university finances crisis continues, experts cautionThe four-year, £86 billion R&D budget settlement announced by the government ahead of the spending review may not dispel pressures for blue-skies research, as new priorities draw in funding and the university funding crisis continues, experts have cautioned.
