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   Kick-off Meeting of the AcademiaNet-Club in Vienna

   19.10.18 | For the first time, the AcademiaNet Club in Vienna brought together excellent female academics to network

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   Two AcademiaNet members backed to bring research findings to the market

   11.10.18 | In a second round, the European Research Council has awarded top-up funding to fifty ERC grant holders via its Proof of Concept Grants, to explore the commercial or societal potential of their ERC-funded frontier research results. The grants are part of the EU's research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020.

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   What the Nobels are — and aren’t — doing to encourage diversity

   01.10.18 | The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough.

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   Say "Yes" to Democracy

   25.09.18 | Interview with AcademiaNet member Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff

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   Tais Gorkhover wins LCLS Young Investigator Award for pioneering novel X-ray imaging methods

   20.09.18 | The early-career award honours AcademiaNet member and promising leader in X-ray free-electron laser research
   

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   World’s Largest Computing Association Appoints First Woman CEO

   13.09.18 | ACM President Vicki L. Hanson takes top staff position

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   Pulsar discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3-million Breakthrough Prize

   06.09.18 | AcademiaNet member plans to spend prize money — awarded 50 years after the discovery — on increasing diversity in science. A portrait by Nature

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   Plant-based molecules company wins EU’s women innovators prize

   30.08.18 | Dr Gabriella Colucci, the founder of two biotechnology companies that discover new plant-based molecules for industrial use, has won the top award of €100,000 in the 2018 EU Prize for Women Innovators, which was presented at a ceremony in Brussels, Belgium on 21 June.

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   An imperative to communicate

   21.08.18 | As part of a series on »Science Communication« in the European Research Council Magazine, Dame Athene Donald, member of the ERC's Scientific Council, gives her views on the joys of finding your voice and the political impact of doing so. more
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    Nicole Grobert new member of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors

    14.08.18 | AcademiaNet member will advice the EU in the interest of science

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