UCLouvain created, through its technology transfer company Sopartec, a new European inter-university fund of €32M. Its ambition? A total fund of €50M. The fund will be named VIVES Inter-University Fund. The fund may invest in spin-offs of five European universities ranked amongst the world’s top: l’UCLouvain and KULeuven (both, BE), l’Université de Paris (FR), Wageningen Universiteit (NL), l’Université […]
Following a proposal by the Rector Francesco Ubertini and by mutual agreement of the board of governors, the directors of Departments, the Campus Presidents, the Administrative and Technical Staff Council and the Student Council, the Academic Senate, at the special session of 12 February 2020, passed the following motion regarding […]
Four out of seven Norwegian recipients of the European Research Council’s (ERC) Starting Grants are from UiO. The ERC announced the awards today. This is very good news! Behind these four prestigious awards lies enormous work put in by our talented younger researchers as well as long-term strategic work from […]
This autumn an invitation to respond to a career tracking survey will be sent to those who completed a master’s degree, a Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy) degree or an early childhood education teacher degree in 2015 or a doctoral degree in 2017. By responding, you help solidify the connection between […]
Two leading academic researchers and a former Pro-Chancellor at the University of Leeds are recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. “What unites them is their strong belief in advancing research and knowledge to benefit the public and the wider community.” PROFESSOR SIMONE BUITENDIJK, VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Cath […]
Changes to Hungarian law that effectively forced the George Soros-backed Central European University (CEU) out of the country are not in line with EU law, the bloc’s highest court has ruled. The judgement, released on Tuesday, said the changes were “incompatible” with EU law and had resulted in Hungary failing […]
The multidisciplinary mentoring programme supports both students’ transition into professional life and researchers’ and other personnel’s career development. The mentors are University’s alumni, and other volunteers who want to share their professional life experience and views, and also their professional network. The main feature of the mentoring programme is the […]
Economic data are quantitative or qualitative measures, which are used to describe a real, past or present economic situation. In the digital age, where everything is just a click away and available immediately, the work of economists becomes even more difficult, given the amount of data to analyse on the […]
VU clinical psychologist Marit Sijbrandij and her research team have received more than six million euros from the European Union for the study “Improving the Preparedness of Health Systems to Reduce Mental Health and Psychosocial Concerns resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The RESPOND project is one of four projects selected […]
Educate young people about collective responsibility and teach social communicative skills to reduce the impact of online bullying. These are just two of the recommendations made in a new report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The report evaluates the Cyberscene project. A collaboration between theatrical […]