The Knowledge Triangle: Shaping the Future of Europe

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…