ontheuniversity.com » 2009 » August » 31 http://ontheuniversity.com An international Conference, a scholarly Journal, a book Series, and an online knowledge Community. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:41:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Knowledge Triangle: Shaping the Future of Europe http://ontheuniversity.com/2009/08/31/the-knowledge-triangle-shaping-the-future-of-europe/ http://ontheuniversity.com/2009/08/31/the-knowledge-triangle-shaping-the-future-of-europe/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:03:31 +0000 emily http://ontheuniversity.mu.commongroundpublishing.com/?p=2082

Jan Petter Myklebust from University World News reports…

The Swedish Presidency of the European Union has organised a major conference starting this week and titled The Knowledge Triangle: Shaping the future of Europe. Ministers from Sweden, Finland and the UK, together with high-ranking EU Commission officers including two commissioners and 350 university presidents, researchers, students and policy-makers and some high level industry leaders will meet in the university town of Gothenburg.

The conference is a follow-up of the “Lund declaration” from the EU Presidency conference in July – New Worlds: New Solutions – which called for “grand challenges” in European research during the coming decade.

The Lund declaration has been a success with regard to agenda-setting for research concentration. But most observers are asking how the Swedes are going to implement their grand visions. More…

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