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The future of research: Assessing the impact of Plan S

THE LEUVEN INSTITUTE FOR IRELAND IN EUROPE, LEUVEN, BELGIUM 6TH NOVEMBER 2019 #ImpactPlanS This event is a collaboration between the Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub, KU Leuven Libraries, the Young Academy of Europe and

Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub

www.aecardiffknowledgehub.wales @aecardiff Founded in 1988, Academia Europaea now has more than 4,000 leading scientists and scholars as members, including over 70 Nobel laureates. Promoting research excellence across all fields of scholarship, Academia Europaea exists for public benefit and to highlight the value of scholarship and scientific evidence. In addition to the headquarters in London, AE has a network of Hubs in Barcelona, Bergen, Cardiff, Tbilisi and Wroclaw, as well as an information centre in Graz. The Cardiff Hub opened in 2016 and is hosted by Cardiff University.

KU Leuven Libraries

www.bib.kuleuven.be @KU_Leuven KU Leuven Libraries play a crucial role in the university’s innovative and international research policy through large-scale physical and electronic collections. They maintain unique heritage materials, provide state-of the-art solutions for digitisation, visualisation and information management, and provide research data management and advice on , and Open Scholarship.

Young Academy of Europe

www.yacadeuro.org @yacadeuro Established in 2012, the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) is a pan-European initiative of outstanding young scientists for networking, scientific exchange and policy. The YAE is organised as a bottom-up initiative of a dynamic and innovative group of recognised European young scientists and scholars with outspoken views about science and science policy.

Cardiff University

www.cardiff.ac.uk @cardiffuni Cardiff University is an ambitious and innovative university with a bold and strategic vision, located in a beautiful and thriving capital city. Its world- leading research was ranked 5th amongst UK universities in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework for quality and 2nd for impact. The University provides an educationally outstanding experience for its students.

2 Introduction

I am delighted to chair The future of research: Assessing the impact of Plan S, at the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe. This event is a collaboration between the Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub, KU Leuven Libraries, the Young Academy of Europe and Cardiff University. Coordinated by the AE Cardiff Hub, the event is one in a series of panel discussions on key issues in international research. I very much look forward to hearing the discussions today. I encourage you all to contribute to the debates and hope that you

Professor Theo D’haen MAE benefit from the networking opportunities Professor Emeritus at KU Leuven throughout the day. Please also find time to visit the exhibition stands; my thanks to all the exhibitors for their participation. I would also like to thank the Academia Europaea for their support of this event through their Curien Fund. Finally, I would like to welcome you all to Leuven and hope you enjoy your time here.

Professor Theo D’haen MAE Professor Emeritus KU Leuven

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Please note photographs and recordings will be taken at today’s event for printed and online publicity. If you do not wish to be photographed or recorded, please inform an event organiser. 3 Programme

08:45-09:15 Registration and coffee

09:15-10:15 Opening session: Welcomes and keynote speaker

Welcome by Conference Chair, Professor Theo D’haen MAE, Professor Emeritus, KU Leuven Opening address by Professor Sierd Cloetingh MAE, President, Academia Europaea Opening address by Dr Mangala Srinivas FYAE, Chair, Young Academy of Europe Keynote address: Plan S: from principles to implementation Professor Johan Rooryck MAE, Open Access Champion Q&A session Closing remarks by Conference Chair

10:15-10:45 Refreshment break and exhibition viewing

10:45-11:45 Panel discussion: The impact on early- and mid-career researchers

Introductory remarks by Session Chair, Professor John Creemers, Director, Doctoral School for Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven Plan S for early- and mid-career researchers Gareth O’Neill, Plan S Ambassador Véronique De Herde, Eurodoc representative and contact for Plan S Dr Matthew DiFranco, Chair, Marie Curie Alumni Association Professor Toma Susi FYAE, Vice-Chair, Young Academy of Europe Interactive panel and audience discussion moderated by Session Chair Closing remarks by Session Chair and final comments from the panel

11:45-11:50 5-minute break

11:50-12:50 Panel discussion: The impact on research and research-intensive institutions

Introductory remarks by Session Chair, Professor Joos Vandewalle MAE, Ambassador, KU Leuven Plan S and a roadmap for Open Science Professor Reine Meylaerts, Vice-Rector Research Policy, KU Leuven The potential impact of Plan S from a researcher’s point of view Professor Nora de Leeuw MAE, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Cardiff University How to react to Plan S when your funders have not supported it yet Dr Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Chair, SPARC Europe Board Interactive panel and audience discussion moderated by Session Chair Closing remarks by Session Chair and final comments from the panel

12:50-14:00 Lunch and exhibition viewing

4 14:00-15:00 Panel discussion: The impact on learned societies and academies

Introductory remarks by Session Chair, Professor Genoveva Martí MAE, Vice-President, Academia Europaea The ALPSP response to Plan S Wayne Sime, Chief Executive, The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Threats and opportunities for publications Professor Ole Petersen MAE, Vice-President, Academia Europaea Reclaiming traditional roles of academies in the digital age: the opportunity offered by Plan S Professor Luke Drury MAE, ALLEA Board member and Past-President, Royal Irish Academy Interactive panel and audience discussion moderated by Session Chair Closing remarks by Session Chair and final comments from the panel

15:00-15:30 Refreshment break and exhibition viewing

15:30-16:25 Closing session: Where are we going?

Introductory remarks by Session Chair, Hilde van Kiel, Director, KU Leuven Libraries Where is Cambridge University Press going, and what might happen on the way? Matthew Day, Head of Policy & Partnerships, Cambridge University Press Adapting to Plan S: experiences from an open science publisher Hannah Wilson, Associate Publisher, F1000 Platforms Why we needed to launch Plan S and where we go from here Dr Marc Schiltz, President, Interactive panel and audience discussion moderated by Session Chair Closing remarks by Session Chair and final comments from the panel

16:25-16:30 Closing remarks and next steps by Conference Chair, Professor Theo D’Haen MAE

University Library, KU Leuven Storygraaf © Erfgoedlabo Leuven © Erfgoedlabo Storygraaf Biographies

Professor Sierd Cloetingh MAE, President, Academia Europaea Sierd Cloetingh is a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University (). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, the Heidelberg Academy, the Bavarian Academy and the German Academy for Technical Sciences (acatech). He is also an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was elected President of Academia Europaea in July 2014. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the ERC from 2009 to 2015 and Vice- President from 2014 to 2015. He served as President of the Association for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) from 2017 to 2019. In 2006 he was distinguished as Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur for his contributions to science and European scientific cooperation in research and education. In 2014 he was awarded the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Knight) which honours outstanding individuals in science, arts and literature.

Professor John Creemers, Director, Doctoral School for Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven John Creemers holds an MSc degree in Chemistry from the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 1994. He worked as a postdoc at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (USA). Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Human Genetics at KU Leuven. His research interests are protein folding, maturation and sorting in the (regulated) secretory pathway, and in particular, hereditary diseases in which these processes are disturbed. Since 2012, he has also been Director of the doctoral school of Biomedical Sciences, with responsibility for the doctoral training of approximately 1400 PhD researchers. He is currently chair of the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) working group for doctoral schools, executive committee member of the Organisation of PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System, (ORPHEUS), and KU Leuven representative for the League of European Research Universities (LERU) Doctoral Studies Policy Group.

Matthew Day, Head of Open Research Policy & Partnerships, Cambridge University Press Matthew Day has worked in publishing for over 20 years, starting with editorial work on undergraduate textbooks at Garland Publishing, moving to Open Access journals and databases at BioMed Central and then Publishing Group. After a couple of years at a technology company (Wolfram Research), he joined Cambridge University Press where he works on the Press’s policies, community engagement and strategic development in Open Research for academic and journals.

Véronique De Herde, Eurodoc representative and contact for Plan S – @vdeherde82 Véronique De Herde is a PhD candidate in Agronomy at KU Leuven (Belgium). She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary History and a Master’s degree in Bioengineering. Before starting her PhD, she gained professional experience in Belgium, Germany and France. Véronique is Secretariat Coordinator of Eurodoc, the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers. She trained as one of Eurodoc’s Open Science Ambassadors and acts as their contact for Plan S.

6 Professor Nora de Leeuw MAE, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Cardiff University Nora de Leeuw is Pro Vice-Chancellor (International and Europe) at Cardiff University (UK). In this role she is responsible for the University’s international activities, partnerships and collaborative research. Professor de Leeuw is a prominent scientist with an international reputation in the field of computational chemistry of materials and minerals. She has held research and academic positions at the (UK), (UK), Birkbeck College London (UK) and most recently at University College London (UK), where she was a Royal Society Industry Fellow, Director of Research, and founding Director of the EPSRC Industrial Doctorate Centre in Molecular Modelling and Materials Science and the AWE-UCL Centre in Computational Materials Science. Professor de Leeuw has held international professorial appointments at Utrecht University (Netherlands), and Université de Paris-Est (France). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and Member of Academia Europaea.

Professor Luke Drury MAE, ALLEA Board member and Past-President, Royal Irish Academy – @Luke_Drury Astrophysicist Luke Drury was born in Dublin and studied Pure Mathematics and Experimental Physics in Trinity College Dublin before going on to study his PhD at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (UK). He then worked for seven years in Heidelberg at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics before returning to Dublin as Senior Professor in the School of Cosmic Physics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies where he is now an Emeritus Professor. He was President of the RIA from 2011 to 2014 and is currently a Board Member of ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

Professor Theo D’haen MAE, Professor Emeritus, KU Leuven Theo D’haen is Emeritus Professor (English and Comparative Literature) at the Universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Leiden (Netherlands). He held the Erasmus Chair at Harvard (USA), and guest professorships at the Sorbonne (France), University of Vienna (), Tsinghua University (China), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), the University of Sichuan (China), and the University of the Dutch Antilles (Curaçao). He was awarded the Dr.h.c. by the University of Bucharest (Romania). He is Past-President of FILLM (International Federation for Modern Languages and Literature) and a trustee and Board Member of Academia Europaea. He has published extensively on (post) modernism, (post) colonialism, American, European and world literature.

Dr Matthew DiFranco, Chair, Marie Curie Alumni Association – @mdifranc Matthew DiFranco has over 13 years’ experience in medical imaging and machine learning research, including projects in digital pathology, medical device design and characterisation, radiology and nuclear medicine image analysis, and pre-clinical imaging. As a computer scientist in the Zimmer Lab at the University of Vienna Department of Neurobiology (Austria), he currently works on visualisation and multimodal sensory/behavioural analysis of C. elegans nematodes using computer vision, machine learning and data science techniques. As Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association, he is also actively involved in advocacy for science and research in society. MCAA fosters networking and career development for researchers at different stages of their careers and is also active in European science policy initiatives, in particular in promoting and advocating for the wide adoption of Open Science and for sustainable research careers.

Dr Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Chair, SPARC Europe Board (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) – @ignasi Ignasi Labastida i Juan holds a PhD in Physics. He is the Head of the Research Unit at the University of Barcelona’s Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI), where he also leads the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge. He is currently chairing the Board of SPARC Europe and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Info and Open Access Policy Group at the LERU (League of European Research Universities). He is the co-author of the LERU Roadmap for Research Data and the LERU Roadmap on Open Science. He is a member of several working groups on Open Science in Spain and Catalonia.

7 Professor Genoveva Martí MAE, Vice-President, Academia Europaea Genoveva Martí was born in Barcelona in 1956. She obtained her BA and her PhD at Stanford University (USA) in 1989. She was Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA), Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside (USA), and Reader at the London School of Economics (UK). Since 2002 she is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. Elected to the Academia Europaea in 2009, she was the first Academic Director of the Barcelona Knowledge Hub. She is presently a Vice-President of the Academia Europaea. Martí is a philosopher, primarily interested in the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. This area of research is connected to research areas in Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Psychology.

Professor Reine Meylaerts, Vice-Rector Research Policy, KU Leuven Reine Meylaerts is Full Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, where she teaches courses on European Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation and Plurilingualism in Literature. She is currently (2017-2021) Vice-Rector of Research Policy at KU Leuven. Her current research interests concern translation policy, intercultural mediation and transfer in multilingual cultures, past and present. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on these topics. She was Director of CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies) from 2006 to 2014 and is now a board member. She was also review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (2011-2017). She was coordinator of the FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN project TIME: Translation research training: an integrated and intersectoral model for Europe (2011-2014). She is former Secretary General (2004-2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) and Chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee of EST.

Gareth O’Neill, Plan S Ambassador – @gtoneill Gareth O’Neill is a doctoral candidate in Linguistics at Leiden University (Netherlands). He has represented researchers in the Netherlands and across Europe for many years. He is an expert on Open Science for the Dutch Government and the . He is an Ambassador for Plan S to cOAlition S. He is also a member of the H2020 Advisory Group on Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions. He was Past-President of the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc). He is mainly interested in theoretical and structural linguistics as well as Open Science with a focus on Open Access and FAIR Data and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Professor Ole Petersen MAE, Vice-President, Academia Europaea – @aecardiff Ole Petersen is Professor of Physiology in the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University (UK). As one of the world’s prominent physiologists, he leads a research group on disease of the pancreas. Petersen was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000, Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2010 and gave the Leopoldina Lecture in 2012. He received the Nordic Insulin Foundation’s Jacobaeus Prize (1994), the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Purkynĕ Medal (2003) and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 for ‘Services to Science’. In 2017, he was elected Honorary Member of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive & Metabolic Diseases. More recently, he received the American Physiological Society’s Walter B Cannon Memorial Award. Professor Petersen is Vice-President of Academia Europaea and Director of the AE Cardiff Knowledge Hub. He has been appointed Chief Editor of American Physiological Society’s Open Access flagship journal ‘Function’ to be launched 2020.

8 Professor Johan Rooryck MAE, Open Access Champion, cOAlition S Johan Rooryck is a researcher, journal editor, and committed advocate of Open Access publishing. He is Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University (Netherlands), where his main research interests lie in the interaction between morphology, syntax, and semantics, and in the relation between language and core knowledge systems. He has over 20 years’ experience as an editor, first as the Executive Editor of Lingua () and since 2015 as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Fair Open Access journal Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. He is President of the Quality Open Access Market (QOAM), founding member and President of the Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA), founding member of Mathematics in Open Access (MathOA) and Psychology in Open Access (PsyOA), founding member and President of Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA), and Member of the Academia Europaea.

Dr Marc Schiltz, President, Science Europe Marc Schiltz has been active in research and higher education for more than 25 years and has held research and faculty positions in several European countries. He received a PhD in Crystallography (Physics) from the University of Paris-Sud (France) and an Executive MBA from INSEAD (France). He has been leading the National Research Fund (FNR) since 2011 and brings a strong dedication to building a world-class research system that will generate long-term societal and economic impact for the country. Since 2017, he has been President of Science Europe, the Brussels-based association of all major European public research funding and research performing organisations, representing a combined annual investment in research of nearly 20bn EUR in 27 countries. In this role, he has been setting the European agenda to foster Open Science and has been one of the architects of Plan S that was devised to make immediate Open Access to research publications a reality.

Rector Professor Luc Sels, Rector KU Leuven (Welcome reception speaker) – @LucSels Luc Sels has been Rector of KU Leuven (Belgium) since 2017. In his capacity as Rector he is, amongst other positions, a member of the Rectors’ Assembly of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the Rectors’ Advisory Group of the Coimbra Group and the Board of the Flemish Inter- University Council (VLIR). Luc Sels joined the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven in 1996 as an Assistant Professor, became Full Professor in 2004, was elected Dean in 2008 and was re-elected for a second four-year mandate in 2013. Since 2013, he has served as Advisor to the Rector for Integration at KU Leuven. Luc Sels is involved in the Department of Work and Organisation Studies and in the Leuven Economics of Education Research Centre (LEER) of KU Leuven. He is also Honorary Professor of Cardiff University and Research Fellow at the Vlerick Business School.

Wayne Sime, Chief Executive, The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Having joined the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) as Interim Chief Executive in October 2018, Wayne Sime was delighted to secure the Chief Executive position on a permanent basis in May 2019. Previously, he was a Director of Library Services for the Royal Society of Medicine. He has also worked within the NHS and financial sector. He has been a Chartered Librarian since 2001 and became a Fellow of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals) in 2009. He has a BSc in Economics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University, UK).

9 Dr Mangala Srinivas, Chair, Young Academy of Europe – @mangalasrinivas Mangala Srinivas started her career in research at the National University of Singapore (Singapore), before completing her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). She is currently an Assistant Professor (Group Leader) at the Department of Tumour Immunology, at the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen (Netherlands). Her work focuses on agents for in vivo imaging. Mangala’s early work helped establish the field of19 F MRI for quantitative in vivo cell tracking, including the first paper on the topic. She won the Dutch Venture Challenge in 2015 for her ideas on cell tracking. She is an Associate Editor for the journal European Review. In addition to her academic career, Mangala works for GE Healthcare in the Strategy, Search and Evaluation team, where she helps identify and evaluate emerging technologies in the fields of imaging and cell therapies. She was elected Chair of the Young Academy of Europe in 2018.

Professor Toma Susi, Vice-Chair, Young Academy of Europe – @MostlyPhysics Born and educated in Helsinki, Toma Susi received his award-winning doctorate in Nanomaterials from Aalto University () in 2011. After moving to Austria for a two-year Austrian Science Fund (FWF) fellowship in 2013, he stayed to lead an FWF stand-alone project. In 2017, Professor Susi received the prized ERC Starting Grant. The five-year grant of 1.5 million euros allowed him to establish a research group in the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna to create a new way to manipulate materials at the atomic level. Professor Susi has worked on materials synthesis, spectroscopy, electron microscopy and modeling, authoring over 50 peer-reviewed articles and reviews mostly on heteroatom-doped graphene and carbon-nanotubes. He has long been an advocate for Open Access publishing and has taken an active role in the recent debates on Plan S. Professor Susi is a Board member of the Young Academy of Europe and its Vice-Chair since 2018.

Professor Joos Vandewalle MAE, Open Science Ambassador, KU Leuven Joos Vandewalle is an electrical engineer and was, until October 2013, Full Professor at the Department Electrical Engineering (ESAT) KU Leuven (Belgium) and Head of Division, with more than 150 researchers. His present tasks include chairing the positioning test for engineering in Flanders, chairing PhD vivas, promoting the role of mathematics and STEM in society and high schools. His research interests are mathematical system theory and its applications in circuit theory, control, signal processing, cryptography and neural networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IET (Institution for Engineering and Technology), and EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) and Member of Academia Europaea. During the years 2017 and 2018, he was President of KVAB, the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He is a member of the Board of Euro-CASE (the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering). He is currently Ambassador for Open Science at KU Leuven.

Hilde Van Kiel, Director, KU Leuven Libraries – @HildeVanKiel Hilde Van Kiel has been Director of the KU Leuven Libraries since April 2014. She had eight years of experience in business at KPMG Tiberghien & Co. She started with the University Library Services, then worked for the Biomedical Sciences and Science and Technology Group where she launched and successfully developed 2Bergen, a group of libraries. In addition, Hilde has been involved for many years with Elektron vzw, the consortium organisation for Flanders, which includes negotiations for large contracts such as Elsevier, Thomson, etc.

Hannah Wilson, Associate Publisher, F1000Research – @HannahLuWilson Hannah Wilson is Associate Publisher at F1000Research. She works across the F1000 platforms, including their flagship platform F1000Research and the growing number of platforms provided for institutions and funders, such as the and Emerald Publishing Group. Prior to joining F1000, she worked for a UK-based research funder and has a background in biomedical publishing.

10 Acknowledgements

A big thank you to all of our exhibitors for their significant contribution to this event:

ALLEA, All European Academies www.allea.org | @ALLEA_academies ALLEA is the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, representing more than 50 academies from over 40 countries in Europe. ALLEA operates at the Academia Europaea Cardiff interface of science, policy and society and speaks Knowledge Hub would like out on behalf of its members to promote science as a to thank KU Leuven and global public good. in particular KU Leuven Libraries for kindly hosting this event. We would The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) especially like to thank www.alpsp.org | @alpsp Professor Theo D’haen MAE Founded in 1972 by 24 societies, ALPSP is an international membership trade body that and Dr Demmy Verbeke for supports and represents not-for-profit organisations and all their help and support. institutions that publish scholarly and professional content. We would also like to With nearly 300 members in 30 countries, membership sincerely thank all of our also includes those that work with these publishers. speakers for participating. Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org | @CUPAcademic We are grateful to the Academia Europaea for Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. Our mission is to unlock generously supporting people’s potential with the best learning and research solutions. Our vision is a world of learning this event through the and research inspired by Cambridge. Cambridge Core is the 2019 Hubert Curien destination for high quality, inspirational academic research, Initiative Fund. with over 1 million journal articles and 32,000+ books.

F1000 www.f1000research.com | @F1000Research F1000Research is an innovative Open Access publishing platform offering rapid publication and open , whilst supporting data deposition and sharing. F1000Research offers bespoke content collections and membership options for institutions looking to further their commitment to open science. F1000 also produces the article recommendation service F1000Prime and F1000Workspace, an award-winning tool for scientists to collect, write and discuss .

Marie Curie Alumni Association www.mariecuriealumni.eu | @Mariecurie_alum The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) is a global network of researchers open to any past or present researchers supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA). The MCAA gathers thousands of members from all disciplines and from all over the world and represents the over 100,000 researchers that have been supported by the MSCA.

Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA) www.sapea.info | @SAPEAnews SAPEA is part of the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism. Together with the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, they provide independent scientific advice to European Commissioners to support their decision-making.

Welsh Higher Education Brussels www.wheb.ac.uk | @_WHEB_ WHEB represents all Welsh Universities and aims to promote the excellent higher education and research activities in Wales. Being based in Brussels enables WHEB to develop and maintain close links with other European stakeholders, institutions and partners.

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