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The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only academic ranking of global universities that assesses the quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, and research performance without relying on surveys and university data submissions.

Aquest informe presenta les dades bàsiques del finançament que els departaments i els òrgans superiors de la Generalitat de Catalunya (GC) han dedicat a l’R+D+i l’any 2023. S’hi mostra un conjunt de dades agregades per a tot el subsector Generalitat de Catalunya, classificades segons diferents conceptes i desagregades per cada departament.

Butlletí mensual sobre recerca, ciència i tecnologia. Recercat fa difusió de la recerca d'excel·lència i la tasca que estan duent a terme universitats, empreses, centres, grups i personal investigador a Catalunya.

Butlletí mensual amb recomanacions i ressenyes de llibres, documents i informes dels àmbits de la gestió i de les polítiques d'universitats i recerca, tant en format paper com electrònic i també de llibres de divulgació científica.

El ecosistema tecnológico en España consolida su expansión y relevancia económica, con un total de 8.580 empresas tecnológicas activas en 2025. Esto representa un aumento del 22% respecto al año anterior (1.552 nuevas compañías tecnológicas). Informe elaborado a partir de los datos de la plataforma Ecosistema Startup, de El Referente.

This policy brief aims to offer a deeper understanding of how R&D investments are structured, financed, and leveraged to enhance Europe’s long-term prosperity. For this purpose, it offers a comprehensive overview of the current R&D investment landscape in the EU, highlighting key trends and challenges as well as the role of both public and private R&D funding in driving innovation. In addition, this brief explores the EU’s progress toward its 3% R&D investment target, alongside key recommendations from the Draghi and Heitor reports on future EU budget for Research and Innovation (R&I).

This report captures the key findings of the Mutual Learning Engagement exercise on Public Engagement in Research and Innovation. It offers policy recommendations and showcases inspiring practices of how public engagement can be embedded into national research and innovation frameworks. It highlights the importance of institutional support, funding mechanisms, impact assessments, and capacity-building efforts in ensuring that PE becomes a core component of research governance. The report also addresses emerging challenges and opportunities for expanding PE across disciplines, institutions, and governance levels, fostering a more participatory and socially responsive European R&I ecosystem.

El Ranking CYD tiene por objetivo ayudar a estudiantes, universidades y empresas a desarrollar sus propias estrategias de evaluación mediante indicadores fiables. Orienta a los estudiantes respecto a dónde estudiar, facilita a los responsables universitarios la toma de decisiones y proporciona información valiosa a las empresas y otros agentes sociales. Para ello, pone especial atención en presentar los resultados de una manera coherente, ordenada y segmentada según los distintos públicos interesados en el desempeño de las universidades.

This report sums up recent developments in neurotechnology, that is, technology that can monitor, measure and modify central nervous system activity . Some devices record information from the brain, and others deliver stimulation to the brain (and some do both). These technologies are rapidly advancing and are likely to have a profound impact on various aspects of society. In the near future, neurotechnology has the potential to revolutionise the way we approach a range of policy areas, from healthcare, education, employment, law enforcement and security, to more obvious areas such as digital technologies and research. The report analyses advances in the technologies for monitoring and stimulating the brain, some of which are incorporated into neurotechnology devices. It acts as a horizon-scan of new and emerging uses of these technologies, and takes these as inputs to pose a range of questions for the consideration of policymakers.

Scientific progress relies on access to prior knowledge, yet costly access to academic literature can hinder researchers, particularly in marginalized positions of academia and developing economies. This paper examines the impact of free or lower-cost access to scientific literature on gender representation in research. Leveraging the staggered adoption of the Hinari program, which provides digital access to health science research, we analyze its effects on women’s participation in research production and academic publishing across more than 600 institutions in 80 countries.