{"id":26491,"date":"2016-05-27T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etag.ee\/en\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2016-05-27T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:01:16","slug":"science-europe-press-relaease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/news\/science-europe-press-relaease\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Europe Press Release on Interdisciplinarity and Issues concerning Women in Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"classic-editor\">Today, on 27th May Science Europe joins research councils from across the world in addressing interdisciplinarity and issues concerning women in research.<\/p>\n<p>Science Europe will debate global approaches to interdisciplinarity and the equality and status of women in research with leaders of research organisations from across the world at the Global Research Council (GRC) 2016 Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The GRC promotes international research collaboration and impact by providing a unique global forum for research councils around the world to share best practice and data, and discuss research funding policy issues. The long-term objective of the GRC is to foster multi-lateral research and collaboration across continents to benefit both developing and developed nations.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 heads of research councils and expert observers attend this year\u2019s meeting on 26 and 27 May in New Delhi, which is jointly hosted by the Indian Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and Research Councils UK (RCUK).<\/p>\n<p>Participants have discussed and endorsed a Statement of Principles on Interdisciplinarity and a Statement of Principles and Action Promoting Equality and Status of Women in Research at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Philip Nelson, Chair of RCUK, said: \u201cAdopting these Statements as a global community is the foundation of greater alignment and capacity building across research funding agencies worldwide and demonstrates the value of the GRC in providing a forum for sharing best practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s discussions are inspiring\u201d said Professor Michael Matlosz, President of Science Europe. \u201cBoth topics allow us, as GRC Participants, to reflect not only on our respective roles as funders, performers, knowledge providers and possibly employers, but also the value of our collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The adopted statements will be made available soon after the meeting ends at www.globalresearchcouncil.org<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p>About Science Europe<br \/>\nScience Europe is an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations in 27 countries, established in 2011 to promote the collective interest of its members and to foster collaboration between them. For more information, see www.scienceeurope.org<\/p>\n<p>For further information, send a mail to: communications@scienceeurope.org<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on 27th May Science Europe joins research councils from across the world in addressing interdisciplinarity and issues concerning women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}