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COMPASS has compiled an overview of RRI projects and initiatives carried out in Europe over the course of the past ten years. The COMPASS project directory below contains 130 publicly funded RRI projects in Europe and aims to facilitate the search for RRI projects in Europe. Responsible Innovation COMPASS is an EU-funded project that supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from emerging technology industries to manage their research, development and innovation activities in a responsible and inclusive manner.

The research ecosystem is undergoing rapid and profound change. This transformation is being fueled by a wide range of factors, from advances in technology and funding pressures to political uncertainty and population shifts. In an attempt to understand how these trends might shape the research landscape in the decade ahead, Elsevier joined forces with Ipsos MORI, one of the world’s largest research agencies. Together, they conducted a large-scale, future-scoping and scenario-planning study. Rather than focusing on which topics will be researched 10 years from now, they looked at how that research will be created and exchanged.

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Public-to-Public Partnerships (P2Ps) are research and innovation networks of public organisations like ministries or funding agencies. P2Ps align national strategies and help to overcome fragmentation of public research effort. They include networks supported by the European Commission such as ERA-NETs and Art 185s as well as member state-led Joint Programming Initiatives.

The Transport Research and Innovation (R&I) Achievements Reports provides a comprehensive analysis of transport R&I results and their contribution towards the fulfilment of major European policy goals. The analysis of the 2018 Transport R&I Achievements Report covers the European transport R&I projects completed in 2017. This Report brings forward the transport R&I major achievements and at highlighting their policy relevance.

Advances in AI, robotics and so-called ‘autonomous’ technologies have ushered in a range of increasingly urgent and complex moral questions. Current efforts to find answers to the ethical, societal and legal challenges that they pose and to orient them for the common good represent a patchwork of disparate initiatives. This underlines the need for a collective, wide-ranging and inclusive process of reflection and dialogue, a dialogue that focuses on the values around which we want to organise society and on the role that technologies should play in it. This statement calls for the launch of a process that would pave the way towards a common, internationally recognised ethical and legal framework for the design, production, use and governance of artificial intelligence, robotics, and ‘autonomous’ systems. The statement also proposes a set of fundamental ethical principles, based on the values laid down in the EU Treaties and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, that can guide its development.

ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation promoted by the Catalan Government to help the Catalan R&D system to attain global visibility and recognition. ICREA is an institution without walls. To achieve its goals it works in close cooperation with Catalan universities and research centres by means of long-term agreements that allow ICREA researchers to integrate fully in these institutions. This memoir tries to briefly summarize the activity of ICREA researchers, their research output and some of its social impact.

This Working Paper builds on the scientific discourse on valuation of SSH research as well as SSH-integration in EU framework programmes and aims at summarizing the key findings from the November 2018 Austrian EU Presidency Conference “Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research”. It deals with the topic in three instalments. First, it will discuss recent trends in research funding. Second, it provides a brief historical overview of the efforts of integrating SSH into the EU Research Framework Programme. It then adds some observations about continued challenges in SSH. Finally, it will conclude with some suggestions for SSH scholars, based on the discussions from the conference. In that regard the Working Paper is also a document for further reading for those who have read earlier, shorter texts that were published in preparation of that conference.

This white paper is intended to serve as an educational piece by providing a comprehensive, multistakeholder discussion
on the evolution, current, and anticipated future state of open access medical publishing. It is not meant to serve
as official guidance. The genesis of this white paper originated from an Industry Executive Forum meeting held on
April 30, 2018 in advance of the 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP.

The White Paper covers a variety of key topics related to open access publishing, such as:
- Potential benefits and concerns of Plan S in Europe and its requirement that publications resulting from scientific research funded by public grants must be published in compliant open access journals/platforms by January 1, 2020
- Implications of open access for different stakeholders, including academic authors, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, and not-for-profit funders
- Various stakeholder perspectives on the future of open access

The paper focuses on the role of research-intensive universities in stimulating and supporting initiatives and programmes related to student entrepreneurship, but also on their role as drivers of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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How are OECD countries supporting digital innovation and ensuring that benefits spread across the economy? This paper explores the current landscape of strategies and initiatives implemented in OECD countries to support innovation in the digital age. It identifies common trends and differences in national digital, smart industry and artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. The paper also discusses policy instruments used across OECD to support digital innovation targeting four objectives: First, policies aimed at enhancing digital technology adoption and diffusion, including demonstration facilities for SMEs. Second, initiatives that promote collaborative innovation, including via the creation of digital innovation clusters and knowledge intermediaries. Third, support for research and innovation in key digital technologies, particularly AI (e.g. by establishing testbeds and regulatory sandboxes). Fourth, policies to encourage digital entrepreneurship (e.g. through early-stage business acceleration support).

Reuters’ annual ranking of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and help drive the global economy.

Actualitzada anualment, la base de dades MIAR reuneix informació clau per a la identificació i l'anàlisi de revistes. Aquestes s'agrupen en grans àrees científiques -subdividides al seu torn en camps acadèmics més específics-. El sistema crea una matriu de correspondència entre les revistes, identificades pel seu ISSN i les bases de dades i repertoris que les indexen o inclouen. A més, s'indica el vincle a les webs dels editors i institucions responsables dels repertoris i fonts sempre que es disposa del mateix. MIAR és un instrument de suport per als que han de fer tasques d'avaluació: ara disposen de dades sobre la identificació i la difusió de les revistes on es publiquen els treballs objecte d'avaluació. MIAR inclou més de 40.000 publicacions, per a cadascuna de les quals s'analitza la seva presència a BBDDs i repertoris multidisciplinaris i com a resultat s'obté el seu ICDS.

Sèrie de vídeos que la UPC impulsa amb la col·laboració de professors, investigadors i estudiants per divulgar la ciència i la tecnologia i promoure vocacions STEAM entre els més joves.