This week in Europe in brief: Quotas needed for Horizon 2020 advisory groups; £88m investment in Extremely Large Telescope; Nuclear researchers fear funding shortage; Microsoft faces €561m fine; Fire destroys Naples science complex.
Quotas needed for Horizon 2020 advisory groups
The British Academy has recommended that quotas be introduced for representatives of social sciences and humanities within Horizon 2020’s advisory groups and programme committees. Individual quotas should be allocated to each area, as both cover a large range of disciplines and cannot substitute for each other, the academy says. The suggestions were presented in a roadmap for embedding social sciences and humanities in Horizon 2020, published by All European Academies, a federation of national academies of sciences and humanities.
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