Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News
This week: climate modelling, research infrastructures, academic freedom and more
Academic freedom
A report for the European Parliament has urged the EU to assess stronger policy options for defending academic freedom in its research and innovation programme. Options it outlines include setting up a monitoring system that could lead to underperforming institutions losing eligibility for funding; requiring applicants to set out an academic freedom plan for their project; or requiring host institutions to have plans in place. The report does not recommend any particular course of action, instead saying that “each policy option should be assessed for its impacts and perverse side effects”.
This article on Research Professional News is only available to Research Professional or Pivot-RP users.
Research Professional users can log in and view the article via this link
Pivot-RP users can log in and view the article via this link.