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The Science Europe General Assembly has elected a new Governing Board for the period 2023–2025, including a new Presidency.

In the lead up to the 2023 High Level Workshop on ERA, Science Europe is launching our campaign 'Talking Science: Fostering International Collaboration' to showcase the activities of Science Europe Member Organisations related to international scientific collaboration with Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. These initiatives take into account core principles like academic freedom, integrity, and reciprocity.

Following the success of the ‘Global Summit on Diamond Open Access’, that took place on 23-27 October in Toluca, Mexico, a concluding statement has now been ratified and released outlining the collective way forward for Diamond Open Access.

Science Europe expresses its strong support for the Polish National Science Centre (NCN).

Science Europe supports the European Parliament’s budget proposal for Horizon Europe and calls on the Council to reverse the cuts it proposed for the year 2024.

Science Europe welcomes the new agreement of association of the United Kingdom to the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

Science Europe is looking for a highly motivated Communications Manager to create, implement, and oversee communications activities that promote the association.

Science Europe is looking for an Administrative Assistant to join its team in Brussels. The Assistant will support the smooth running of the Association, providing support to general administrative and maintenance office tasks and assistance to preparing and hosting events and meetings.

Science Europe welcomes the launch or renewal of national open science strategies in several European countries.

Science Europe congratulates ALLEA on the update of its European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.

Science Europe and the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine in the USA (NASEM) collaborated on a series of workshops on 'Preserving and Developing Ukraine's Human Capital in Research, Education, and Innovation'.

The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) held its first General Assembly on 23 June. It provided updates on the association, activities in the coming months, and news on the call for Working Groups and National Chapters.

Science Europe participated in a High-level Summit and International Scientific Symposium organised by the Human Frontier Science Programme Organisation (HFSPO) on 27–29 June 2023, in partnership with UNESCO and other research institutions including ANR, CNRS, EMBL, ERC and the International Science Council (ISC).

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council took place in The Hague from 29 May to 2 June. The event, co-hosted by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), brought together the world’s leading research funding agencies to discuss Rewarding and Recognising Scientists as well as Climate Change Research.

Science Europe's 2022 Annual Report highlights the most important achievements of 2022 on Science Europe’s priority topics, including research culture, research assessment, open science, EU framework programmes, the green and digital transition, and science communication.