Our high-level conference during the CESAER Annual Meetings in Dresden explored regional visions for global challenges in digital transformation from the three standpoints of technological, societal and political change.

The Board of Directors has appointed Mattias Björnmalm as new Secretary General of CESAER beginning 1 January 2023 and succeeding David Bohmert.

Our Board has adopted two positions to contribute to the debates on infrastructures and synergies.

Our Board appointed Sally Chambers (Ghent University) as our association’s Envoy to the ESFRI Stakeholders Forum succeeding Katharina Eggenberger (ETH Zurich).

On 22 August, our Deputy Secretary General Mattias Björnmalm contributed to the Advanced Talents Day 2022 at RWTH Aachen, speaking on Science Communication and Research Assessment as a Key in Career Planning.

Our Board has appointed the Rector of UPM Guillermo Cisneros as our association’s Envoy to the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Our Board has appointed Justyna Szostak from Gdańsk Tech as Co-Chair of the Task Force Learning & Teaching also to lead the team organising the successor of our Competition Best Idea 2021.

On 14 July, Simone Rehm (Co-Chair of Task Force Openness of Science & Technology) presented at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022

Our Board has appointed the President of Chalmers University of Technology Stefan Bengtsson as our association’s Envoy to the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Our association has recently hosted a workshop which has contributed to the development of a new workbook on analysing institutional conditions and progress indicators around academic assessment and promotion of sustainable research cultures.