Prof Rolf Tarrach, EUA President, says “countries should learn from ERC how to do evaluation of researchers” - not only focusing on publications and impact factors, but looking at real merits, including by interviewing candidates. #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF 🇪🇺

This is our message in a bottle for you: the most expensive water in the world is the water we do not have #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF

🤔 Curious to see what #H2020 projects are up to? Check out our Twitter list of >850 projects & 👀 for yourself! Managing a project account & not on this list? Retweet this & we'll add you too ✅ ↪️ https://t.co/6sCLU50FlH #ResearchImpactEU🇪🇺 #FF #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF

“In the latest ERC calls, the success rates for women were a bit higher than for men” reports ERC President J-P Bourguignon and highlights ERC’s efforts to counteract unconscious bias and strive for gender balance. #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF

.@EU_ScienceHub scientist Greet Maenhout kicks off our climate reporting panel with indisputable data on climate change #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF

R. Griessler & R. Braun @ #ESOF2018: need to ensure funds for #citizenscience projects in the next research framework program, #EUatESOF #ToulouseScience2018

"Sans raisonnement, sans la méthode de doute, sans la mise en cause des hypothèses, on ne peut pas établir les faits". Le Président ERC Jean-Pierre Bourguignon sur l'importance de la méthode scientifique dans le monde d'aujourd'hui https://t.co/pB3pFFxqRX #EUatESOF

The new and old #SAMGroup_EU meet up at #ESOF2018 today! #EUatESOF

#ESOF2018 in full swing. Next up at 17.00: Debate on a more sustainable career system for European researchers. Amongst the speakers: ERC President Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. #EUatESOF

The European project has benefitted citizens from all walks of life in every corner of our continent in countless ways - including development of research thanks to EU’s ambition, writes the ERC President https://t.co/iB1egrDcDY 🇪🇺#ESOF2018 #EUatESOF

Greet Maenhout: "desertification is not happening around deserts, it is happening around cities" #climate #reporting #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF

ERC grantee Bernadett Weinzierl @univienna has developed tools to observe aerosols, tiny particles in the air that are important to the global climate system but yet not fully understood. She speaks @ESOF_eu at 10.15 🇪🇺#EUatESOF https://t.co/krAptSOxtd

For evidence to take its proper place in policymaking we need new competences (for scientists and policymakers alike), new tools, new policy processes and appropriate institutional set-up. @DavidMair4 #ESOF18 #EUatESOF

Science is not carried out by governments. Science is the product of the hard work of scientists. Human beings are the true owners of the results of science. ⇢ https://t.co/V2MVEeJDII #ESOF2018 #EUatESOF #HorizonEU #OpenScience

"Results obtained from my ERC project were instrumental in my fast promotion to Professor in 2013 at the age of 36": @EvaHeviaGroup speaks at 17 at #ESOF2018 about how 🇪🇺EU grants have supported her career as a young researcher https://t.co/aF9eKgEIgr #EUatESOF

If you want to have influence on policy you have to invest in finding out who is taking the policy decisions in your field, scope the regulatory area, build your neetwork. @DavidMair4 @SenseScienceEU #EUatESOF #ESOF2018

Soon at #ESOF2018: ERC grantee Elena Martínez engineers intestinal organoids to open new research avenues in gut diseases 🇪🇺#EUfunded #EUatESOF https://t.co/uQ7xzsHv16

World café @ #ESOF2018: how to include #citizens in the next agenda of research framework program, and #engage in evaluation and peer review of projects, #EUatESOF #ToulouseScience2018

#ESOF2018 #EUatESOF Eoin White: “If we have a lot of non-utilised food waste, that means we are being inefficient.” #Agrimax technology is proving we can use food-waste to produce functional foods, active packaging, biodegradable materials, fertilisers and biofuels.

.@BenJacksonone: "mainstream media has moved away from science; we have to find a way to connect with them again" #ESOF2018 "EUatESOF