Updated daily at www.ResearchProfessional.com 9 February 2017 EU strategic investment fund under fire for few results – p4,5 Brexit Where to now? – p7-8, 13 Innovation Output-based payment trial to cut Horizon 2020 audit burden – p5 Science advice panel struggles to find feet Scientific Advice Mechanism’s second loss is chairman The chairman of The high-level group at the by Eleni Courea
[email protected] Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism has become the second of seven members to quit within from a consortium called Science Advice for Policy by two months—raising questions about the SAM’s likely European Academies (Sapea), which was only formed effectiveness. last month. It has five members: Academia Europaea, Henrik Wegener, a food scientist, is leaving the SAM the European Academies Science Advisory Council, All to become rector of the University of Copenhagen. In European Academies, EURO-Case, and the Federation December, meteorologist Julia Slingo also left when of European Academies of Medicine. she retired from her full-time job at the UK Met Office. “The first year was to some extent a proof-of-con- Chairing the high-level group will pass to Rolf-Dieter cept year,” Wegener says. “As that comes to an end Heuer, former director of Cern. The deputy chairwoman we enter the more important second phase, where will be Pearl Dykstra, a sociologist at Erasmus University, the academies and societies become part of the Rotterdam; and Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick mechanism. So the full potential of the mechanism Institute in London, joins the group.