Antonio Loprieno is the new president of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

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Antonio Loprieno, Professor of History of Institutions and former Rector of the University of Basel, was appointed as Maurice Campagna’s successor on 1 May 2018.

At their meeting on 18 October 2017, the delegates of Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences elected Professor Antonio Loprieno to be the next president of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.  In addition to this role, Professor Loprieno was elected in 2017 as the next President of ALLEA and will assume this position on 17 May during the ALLEA General Assembly in Sofia at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

“The primary function of the Academies is to build bridges between science and society. As President, I aim to increase dialogue with the public and to shape how science is integrated into the social discourse,” said the new president of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences in a public statement.

Antonio Loprieno studied Egyptology, linguistics and Semitic studies at the University of Turin in Italy. In the 1980s, he taught at various European universities, including the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Perugia in Italy. From 1989–2000, he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at the University of California in Los Angeles. He then worked at the University of Basel, first as Professor from 2000–2006 and then as Rector. In addition, he served as President of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) from 2008–2015.

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The future partnership between UK and EU countries after Brexit

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Participants of the meeting at the Royal Society Chicheley Hall, January 2018

On 29-30 January 2018, representatives of European research academies convened at the Royal Society at Chicheley Hall to discuss the potential of future partnerships and collaboration between UK and EU academies after Brexit. ALLEA was represented in the meeting by its President, Professor Günter Stock. One result from this meeting was the statement “An ambitious and close future partnership between the UK and Europe. A Future Partnership Project”. The document sets out a shared commitment to an ambitious and close future partnership between the UK and other European countries.

The statement demonstrates the commitment of research communities across the wider European Research Area to a future partnership between the UK and the EU that enables excellent research and innovation to flourish across Europe, actively supports collaboration and cooperation, and avoids introducing barriers to them. ALLEA, jointly with other organisations, wants to ensure that UK and EU researchers continue to work closely together to their mutual benefit and that of the wider global community.

This statement is part of the Royal Society and Welcome Trust “Future Partnership Project”, which explores what an ambitious and close UK-EU partnership on research and innovation could look like in practice.

You may read the statement in here. This statement remains an ongoing document; further signatories from the scientific research community are welcome. Please contact science.policy@royalsociety.org if you would like to add your or your institution’s support.