EU to ‘improve and maximise’ impact of research

Critics fear focus on research impact in next funding programme could lead to a REF-type exercise

Published on
November 10, 2016
Last updated
February 16, 2017
Holly Else
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Braced for impact: one critic with concerns claimed that the European Research Council was a ‘red line’ and that introducing impact there could ‘risk the wrath of the sector’
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