Ex Novo – Science behind the scenes: Recipe for mastering grant writing

Michela Bertero Apr 24, 2020 · 3min read   Ex Novo – Science behind the scenes “Ex Novo – Science behind the scenes” is a series of articles born within ISA’s blog in collaboration with the Collegio Nuovo – Fondazione Sandra e Enea Mattei in Pavia, whose students community is marked...

Are European countries open to Open Science?

Michela Bertero Jan 27, 2020 · 3min read   The European Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) was born almost four years ago when Commissioner Carlos Moedas announced the creation of a group of diverse stakeholders who will provide advice on Open Science to the European Commission. That is how we started...

“Trips” to Brussels

  Angèle Bénard-Sankaran Dec 19, 2019 · 4min read   Part of our mission as ISA project managers is to keep up with the European Commission guidelines for H2020 project management and to stay abreast with novel research funding programs. My first trip to the European Commission in Brussels took...

Why I refused your invitation to review a scientific article submitted in your journal

Angèle Bénard-Sankaran Dec 19, 2019 · 4min read   A few months ago, I received an email from a scientific journal “Infection, Genetics and Evolution” belonging to the by-now infamous publisher group Elsevier. This email contained a personal invitation to review a manuscript within the remit of my scientific expertise,...

Training the next generation of researchers – three perspectives

“… to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.” …is the first objective that appears in the official guidelines of the European Commission (EC),...