Karel Luyben was elected the first President of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association during its first General Assembly on 17 December.

​For the past half-century, collaboration and partnership with other nations in Europe have been ‘built in’ to our political culture; now, Britain faces a voyage into the unknown. What’s really important is that we form a powerful global community for making a difference to lives all over the world, just as CESAER Members have been doing for the last thirty years, writes Max Lu, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey

A highlight of the recent event Openness and commercialisation was a panel of academia and industry experts and representatives brought together to discuss tensions and synergies, and the way forward to balance commercial advantage with open science.

CESAER and UNICA have published a joint open letter to the European Commission and Science Europe, outlining our recommendations on how to advance funding for inter- and transdisciplinary research under competitive national and European funding instruments in the years ahead.

Our Board of Directors has appointed Arlindo Oliveira (former President of Instituto Superior Técnico) as our envoy on the European Research Area (ERA) and the European Education Area (EEA).

Toril Nagelhus Hernes, Vice President of Innovation at NTNU, reflects on how we should boost academia-industry collaboration by ensuring Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse (FAIR) of digital assets.

We have nominated Karel Luyben for election as President of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association. The elections of President and Board of Directors will take place during the first General Assembly of the EOSC Association on 17 December.

Our association welcomes the updated Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 and with a new position provides recommendations on how to fully embrace digitalisation in education and training.

In our continuing efforts to support modern researcher careers, our association has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and are encouraging all our Members to also become signatories

The initiative, launched by two young researchers, urges for the drastic cuts to Horizon Europe to be reversed and has gathered strong support from 75 Members of the European Parliament and over 700 scientists, including several Nobel prize winners.