The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities

Europe is challenged to its core, through migration flows, social and economic inequalities, and BREXIT. How can new initiatives like Open Science and Open Innovation boost European research, industry, and social welfare? How can we ensure that European collaboration can be enhanced despite current challenges? And what is the contribution Universities, and researchers, can make to addressing some of Europe’s fundamental problems?

The Guild Policy Labs will engage our leading researchers with policy-makers, to discuss key challenges for European research policy, and to explore further how university research can help in the response to Europe’s economic, political and cultural challenges. We will be offering Policy Labs on:

A Vision for Europe?

'The long tail of Science'

Big Data

Research as a social and political good

Reflecting on key themes explored in this series, the Inaugural Guild Forum will present a number of propositions about the value of research and the importance of universities, and how funding mechanisms can be enhanced to help address Europe's fundamental problems