Keeping European research open and secure: making research security work in practice

About the event

Can European research stay open and secure at the same time?

Research security is moving rapidly from policy development towards implementation. Across Europe, governments, funders and research organisations are developing new approaches to risk assessment, due diligence, institutional support and decision-making. The challenge is to keep these measures proportionate, so that academic freedom, openness and international collaboration are protected.

This online event, organised by INSPIRING ERA in collaboration with ALLEA, will explore how research security is being approached in practice. Through short presentations, practical examples and a panel discussion, it will bring together perspectives from across Europe on key implementation challenges, and consider what is needed to make research security effective, proportionate and workable.

The event is part of INSPIRING ERA’s series of online events supporting the implementation of the European Research Area Policy Agenda.

Programme

• Welcome

• The European policy context
Mirko van Muijen, Policy Officer, International Cooperation, European Commission, DG RTD

• Framing research security: key questions and challenges
Andrew James, Professor of Innovation Management & Policy, University of Manchester, UK

• From principles to practice: three European approaches

• Spain’s national approach to research security: Gabriel Manuel Martín García, FECYT Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology
• Institutional resilience at Charles University and the Czech RISC Platform: from policy to everyday practice: Valérie Hůrská, Counter Foreign Interference Manager, Charles University, Czechia
• Integrating research security into research funding decisions: the Flanders approach: Gregory Absillis, Science Policy Officer International Affairs, FWO Research Foundation Flanders

• Panel discussion: Making research security work in practice
The panel will bring together different perspectives to explore practical implementation challenges, lessons emerging across Europe, and the support and capabilities researchers and institutions may need in the future.

• Moderator: Daniel Kaiser, Deputy Director, ALLEA
• Mirko van Muijen, Policy Officer, International Cooperation, European Commission, DG RTD
• Tommy Shih, Visiting Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Director of the Forum for Responsible Internationalization and Research Security; Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden
• Job Sommer, Advisor at the Dutch National Contact Point for Knowledge Security, Netherlands

• Close

More information

Full details: https://www.inspiring-era.eu/event/keeping-european-research-open-and-secure-making-research-security-work-in-practice/