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Dades de la participació catalana a les convocatòries de l'European Research Council (ERC)
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With Horizon Europe, the Commission reaffirms its commitment to gender equality in research and innovation. The legal base sets gender equality as a crosscutting priority and introduces strengthened provisions. In particular, integrating the gender dimension into research and innovation content is a requirement. Gender equality plans will also gradually become part of the eligibility criteria for public bodies, research organisations and higher education establishments applying to the programme. Specific funding will be dedicated to gender and intersectional research, developing inclusive gender equality policies in support of the new European Research Area, and empowering women innovators.

The present report is a follow-up study that delves deeper into the role of IPRs by analysing  a large representative sample of over 127 000 European firms in order to compare the economic performance of firms that own IPRs with those that do not.
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La Agencia SINC publica una nueva edición de su Anuario en el que se recopilan las noticias, entrevistas y reportajes científicos más relevantes que la agencia ha publicado a lo largo de 2020. Muchas de estas noticias le resultarán conocidas al lector, pues han logrado llegar a las portadas de los medios más importantes del país.

Nou web del programa Dona i Ciència de la Institució CERCA.

Estudio del Observatorio Mujeres, Ciencia e Innovación (OMCI) que tiene por objetivo general conocer la situación de las jóvenes investigadoras en España en los sectores público y privado.

Este documento refleja el acuerdo de la sociedad civil sobre el papel de la ciencia y la innovación en España, y está firmado por varias de las organizaciones españolas más representativas de la ciencia, la universidad, la empresa y los sindicatos. El texto contiene medidas para aumentar los recursos, reforzar el papel de las agencias financiadoras y atraer y retener talento.

Science, technology and innovation (STI) have played a key role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented socio-economic crisis it has triggered. This paper explores how the pandemic affected STI in 2020, including how STI was mobilised to provide vaccines, treatments and innovative (often digital) solutions to address “social distancing”. The paper also reviews the quick and agile STI policy responses implemented across countries to stimulate research and innovation activities to find solutions to the pandemic. Moreover, the paper covers STI policies that targeted universities, research centres, innovative businesses and entrepreneurs most affected by the crisis. It also raises key debates on the effectiveness of such policies. Follow-up work will leverage more and better data to improve this early assessment of the impacts of the crisis and STI policy responses.

Despite a shortage of skills in most of the technological fields driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, women still account for only 28% of engineering graduates and 40% of graduates in computer science and informatics, according to the forthcoming UNESCO Science Report, whose chapter on gender in science, entitled To be Smart the Digital Revolution will Need to be Inclusive, is published on 11 February to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science.