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This week: an increase in basic university funding and a strategy for fundamental research
In depth: A new scheme that will allocate €220 million to encourage 700 young Italian researchers abroad to move back to Italy was launched in August, as part of a €600m programme funded by the EU’s Covid-19 recovery fund.
Full story: Scheme to counter Italian brain drain draws exclusion complaint