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SUMMARY:Science co-operation beyond Brexit
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DESCRIPTION:The 2019 Jevons Lecture in Science Policy given by Robert-Jan
  Smits\, Open Access Envoy of the European Commission.\n\nThe event will
  take place on Thursday 28 March 2019\, 5.30pm with a drinks reception a
 fterwards.\n\nAbstract:\n\nCooperation in science is THE success story o
 f the European project.\n\nThanks to the Framework Programmes and flagsh
 ip initiatives such as the European Research Council\, each year\, thous
 ands of scientists from across Europe and beyond work together in partne
 rship to extend the frontiers of knowledge and find solutions for the gr
 and societal challenges.\n\nCooperation has also been enhanced through t
 he creation of the European Research Area\, but in other areas cooperati
 on is increasingly put to the test. The values on which the European Uni
 on was founded are endangered and not just from within.\n\nThis calls fo
 r a special responsibility of the science community in Europe to speak o
 ut and lead by example\, to make it clear that science cannot flourish w
 ithout these values and that Europe’s scientists are proud to represent 
 these values.\n\nAbout the 2019 Jevons Lecturer\, Robert-Jan Smits:\n\nR
 obert-Jan Smits is the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission and 
 the architect of Plan S\, which aims to ensure that all publicly funded 
 scientific publications are available in Open Access by 2020.\n\nFrom 20
 10-2018 he was the Director-General of DG Research and Innovation at the
  European Commission\, responsible for defining and implementing EU poli
 cy and programmes in the field of research and innovation.\n\nHe was one
  of the main architects of Horizon 2020\, the 80 billion Euro programme 
 for science and innovation (2014-2020) and also played a key role in dev
 eloping the successor programme\, Horizon Europe\, for which the EC has 
 made a 100 billion Euro proposal.\n\nHe was also instrumental in the dev
 elopment of the European Research Council and a whole range of other ini
 tiatives. He has received several recognitions and awards for his contri
 bution to European science and innovation\, including an honorary degree
  from the University of Edinburgh\, a lifetime achievement award from Eu
 roScience\, the Academy Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
  and Sciences\, the Excellence in Global Science award in South Africa\,
  the Medal of Honour from KU Leuven and the Gold Medal from Academia Eur
 opaea.\n\nHe was one of Nature magazine's 'Ten people who mattered this 
 year' in 2018 and recently received the Spark innovator award.\n\nHe was
  born in The Netherlands and has degrees from Utrecht University in The 
 Netherlands\, Institut Universitaire d'Hautes Etudes Internationales in 
 Switzerland and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in the USA.\n\nAb
 out the Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture\n\nThe Fred Jevons Science Po
 licy Lecture commemorates the founding professor of ‘Liberal Studies in 
 Science’ at Manchester. Manchester has long been a major centre for soci
 al\, economic and historical studies of science and technology\, a histo
 ry consolidated by the establishment of a Department of Liberal Studies 
 in Science in the 1960s. That scholarly tradition is today maintained by
  the University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science\, Tech
 nology and Medicine and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research\, wh
 ich collectively constitute one of the world’s major centres of expertis
 e in the social\, historical\, economic and political analysis of scienc
 e and technology.\n\nFred Jevons was born in Austria in 1929\, and came 
 to the UK as a child refugee from the Holocaust. Originally a biochemist
  Fred was appointed to the first Chair of Liberal Studies in Science in 
 1966\, an initiative to produce rounded science graduates better equippe
 d to win leadership roles in government\, industry and academia\, promot
 ed by leading Manchester science professors. Jevons enthusiastically too
 k up this challenge\, building a department and a curriculum from scratc
 h. Jevons left Manchester in 1976 to become the founding Vice-Chancellor
  of Deakin University\, but returned to Manchester during 1992 as a Simo
 n visiting Fellow. He died in September 2012. His works include Wealth f
 rom Knowledge (1972)\, a landmark in the empirical study of technologica
 l innovation and the roles of science within it\, and Science Observed (
 1973).\n\nPrevious lectures have been given by Professor Arie Rip\, Prof
 essor Dominique Pestre\, Lord Willetts and Professor Jon Agar.
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LOCATION:Alliance Manchester Business School\, Booth Street West\, \, Man
 chester\, M15 6PB
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