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GeoPolicy: EGU science for policy: what’s coming up in 2021?

January 15, 2021
GeoPolicy: EGU science for policy: what’s coming up in 2021?
Credit: European Parliament. Distributed via Flickr

There were a lot of big changes to the EGU’s science for policy programme in 2020 with many of our activities, such as the annual science for policy event and science-policy pairing scheme, moving online. But 2021 promises to be an even bigger year with a greater number of opportunities to engage and activities becoming even more accessible! So, if you haven’t engaged with science for policy befor ...[Read More]

What was the best Division blog post in 2020: vote for your favourite!

January 6, 2021
What was the best Division blog post in 2020: vote for your favourite!

The past 12 months have seen an impressive 540 posts published across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, as well as the network and division blogs. The EGU Division bloggers in particular have been hard at work producing new informative, fun and interesting blog posts for our members both inside their Division, but also across EGU as a whole! Ocean Sciences Division joined the EGU blogging family &# ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Proposed cuts to EU science funding could slow future research and innovation

October 23, 2020
GeoPolicy: Proposed cuts to EU science funding could slow future research and innovation
State of the Union 2015. Credit: Martin Schulz. Distributed via Flickr

As a European scientific union with over 20,000 members, the EGU is well positioned to provide feedback on the current and future state of research and innovation funding in Europe. The recent cuts to the EU’s 2021-2027 research budget from European Parliament’s initial proposal of €120 billion to the current proposal of €81 billion (at 2018 prices), will not only affect researchers througho ...[Read More]