The Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts (RISE) group published its book ‘Europe’s Future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World’ on 15 May 2017. The volume was presented to Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, at a workshop in Brussels hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies. Prof. Luc Soete serves as Coordinator of the RISE group. Congratulating the group, Commissioner Moedas said: ”This publication is an immense ach...
Continuing our drive to ensure research is both understood and applied globally, we travelled to Ghana for the second round of our science reporting workshop ‘Reach & Turn’. Along with our sister institute UNU-INRA and the UN Info Centre Accra we led two days of learning and debate with around 50 researchers, communications officers, and journalists from five mainly West African countries (Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo and Rwanda). For some this was a real innovation: the first time they had sha...