This year's conference will examine the European Commission's continued drive to create a fully liberalised market, which is forcing companies and networks to plan strategically for the future. Competition within the marketplace and the creation of fair, independent regulatory models is equally...

This conference will discuss for the first time in East-Central Europe current obstacles to successful science policy implementation and discrepancies between the status quo and stated goals concerning gender equality and the position of early stage researchers. This will be done through...