AURES II is a continuation of a project that aims to develop design tools to improve renewable energy auctions in EU countries. auctions for RES (Renewable Energy Sources) are a market mechanism used to sell assets in cases where the auctioneer has no way of knowing the market price of a particular asset beforehand. such…
few top positions in academia are occupied by women and women still experience slow career progression. in all research institutions, gender imbalances still exist and are largely tolerated. to tackle this problem, it is important to set concrete goals and take measures at individual, cultural and structural levels. LeTSGEPs (Leading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans…
the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation funds basic research in biomedicine and agriculture. its purpose is to fund laboratories, professorships, and fellowships for young researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where it is based, and at Italian research institutions. through the Career Development Awards program, it supports researchers in training for a laboratory in Italy. formicablu…
the European project FEDORA (fedora-project.eu), aims to improve the quality of science teaching in high schools across Europe. the project owes its name to one of Italo Calvino’s “invisible cities” FEDORA evoking the role of the imagination in devising new worlds. we cannot continue to orient ourselves in society through the complexity of the present…
the NEWSERA project investigates the potential of citizen science as a tool to better communicate science, given its increasing spread in Europe and the world. the citizen science approach establishes the involvement of non-experts in scientific research and a relationship with different stakeholders: citizen science project leaders, citizens, scientists, policy makers, companies, data journalists, and…
the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency of improving science journalism in order to achieve outstanding science communication, however, there are currently no shared standards for evaluating good scientific journalism. to bridge the gap the EU project ENJOI (ENgagement and JOurnalism Innovation for Outstanding Open Science Communication) is co-creating and selecting a set of standards, principles,…
