ALLEA responded to the European Commission’s public consultation on plants produced by certain new genomic techniques (NGTs). In its response, ALLEA stresses that the 2018 European Court of Justice decision is a major setback for the development of useful new crops.
On 15 June 2022, ALLEA co-organised the online conference ‘The Ukraine Crisis: Responses from the European Higher Education and Research Sectors. The event brought together key stakeholders in Europe to address the impact of the war in Ukraine to the country’s academic and scientific sectors.
ALLEA welcomes the adoption of the Conclusions on Research Assessment and Implementation of Open Science by the Council of the European Union on 10 June. At the same time, ALLEA continues to stress that it matters how we open knowledge, as the push for Open Access publishing has also paved the way for various unethical publishing practices.
Following a meeting of representatives from various scientific institutions on 2 June 2022 at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, a 10-point Action Plan has been unveiled to help Ukrainian science, both during and after the war.
ALLEA launched the call for applications for the European Fund for Displaced Scientists (EFDS). This call pertains to Funding Line 1 of the EFDS, set up to support academic institutions in Europe that are accepting Ukrainian scholars displaced by the war.
The new ALLEA Board was announced during the annual business meeting held as part of the ALLEA General Assembly on 11 May 2022 in Brussels.
