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Policies & Fundings Update
Policies and Fundings Update
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Getting to Know Europe -- Grants by the EU Commission |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:08 |
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The European Commission is allocating up to €1 million to a program aimed to promote activities and events, within local and regional communities in the United States, to raise awareness of the European Union (EU), its international role, and the value and significance of the EU-US transatlantic partnership.
Around twelve grants of up to €100,000 each will be awarded, with a minimum grant award of €50,000. The Commission contribution will cover up to 75% of total project costs, and applicants must be able to provide at least 25% towards these total project costs. Proposals and projects must be presented by September 13, 2010.
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2010 MAE-MIUR Fundings for Bilateral Scientific and Technological Projects |
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 08:59 |
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Six out of sixty-seven research projects funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the Ministry for the Universities and Research (MIUR) for the bilateral Scientific and Technological Collaboration Executive Programs are US - Italy collaborations.
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Towards Return Mobility -- Regions Taking the Lead |
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Friday, 07 May 2010 09:06 |
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 The NIH International Research Career Transition Program has a distinctive feature -- embedded Return Mobility -- which makes it particularly suitable for countries where the issue of researchers' return is often sidelined. Italy provides a conspicuous example of it. Some Italian regions, Lombardy and Sardinia for example, are now taking steps towards return mobility. Sardinia has most recently established a partnerships with NIH for the International Research Career Transition Program. After postdoctoral research training at NIH, fellows return to funded research positions as independent investigators in Sardinia, at institutions which participate in the program. A similar Lombardy-NIH program is already running.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:18 |
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When Obama released his Strategy for American Innovation, earlier in September, there was no doubt that using prizes and other incentives to generate ideas and promote talent was going to play an important role. The day long meeting which will take place at the White House on April 30th to debate prize archetypes, challenges, and open grantmaking is part of the picture.The meeting, co-sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Domestic Policy Council, and the Case Foundation is addressed to policymakers in more than 25 agencies and departments. With them, important private sector innovators and federal government innovators from DARPA, NASA, and the Department of Education, will debate the multiple ways in which the recent “renaissance” of prizes can effectively mobilize new talent and capital, and promote public and private partnerships as well. A report by Mckinsey & Company – “And the Winner is…” frames the recent renaissance of prizes, its power and pitfalls, shedding light on behavioral economics literature, surveys, and case studies of effective prizes and awards.
- Frey, Bruno S. and Neckermann, Susanne (2009) "Abundant but Neglected: Awards as Incentives," The Economists' Voice: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2, Article 1. DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1378 Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol6/iss2/art1
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Google, Google on the Wall…. |
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Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:55 |
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
Brothers Grimm, “Snow White”
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Google, Google on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? -- The question here has to do with meritocracy rather than beauty and the "them all" being scrutinized are members of the NIH panels working with the Italian Ministry of Health in the peer review process regarding Italian researchers under forty. The facts gathered through Google by Ernesto Carafoli have set off pointed criticism for the composition of the NIH panels involved, broadly echoed by the Italian press. Still, marks Carafoli, neither the lack of experience of a few reviewers, nor the need to revise some of the results, should discredit what the Ministry of health has accomplished.
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 03:11 |
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 A conspicuous article in the WSJ Health Care Report identifies Italy’s Lombardy Region as “one of Europe's most efficient health-care systems.” Lombardy‘s experiment with “competitive care” -- within the region, public and private hospitals can equally compete for patients and state funds -- produced striking results and overall improvement of the Lombardy’s health system. Given the possibility of "Regional migration" to seek medical care, Lombardy, as marked in the WSJ article, is a most sought after destination while other regions pay the bills. All that said, praise for Lombardy’s “competitive care” comes with a footnote, and not an irrelevant one for Italy’s North / South divide.
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 08:51 |
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 "Our youth's creativity is a crucial national asset that we must value and promote, another Made-in-Italy product" declared Youth Minister Giorgia Meloni who, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, presented in Rome "The Government of Youth," a Fact sheet listing the Italian government's measures in favor of young people. The ministry boosted their numbers for Jobs, Education, Research, Sponsorship of entrepreneurial and innovative projects by under-35.
Meloni also qualified her statement: "Today's youth will be the first one in Italy's history whose future will be worse than that of their fathers and this is why we must work hard to sustain young people's development." |
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