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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.

We have co-signed and fully support a statement by Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament & Rapporteur for Horizon Europe) calling upon EU Heads of State and Government to match green and digital goals with a budget fit for this age.

Our Board of Directors has appointed new Chairs for our Task Force Competitive Funding and Task Force Human Resources and a new Co-Chair for our Task Force Open Science. They will take office as of 1 January 2021.

Our association welcomes the renewed impetus for the European Research Area (ERA) and with a new position provides concrete recommendations on how to further reinforce the ERA.

Our association welcomes the continuous efforts to achieve the European Education Area (EEA) by 2025 and offers concrete recommendations on how to make it even more dynamic and excellence-driven.

Universities have been striving to innovate the way they work individually in the past decade. The pandemic might teach us to transform together at a larger scale than ever before, writes Mihnea Costoiu (Rector of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest).