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Rebuilding an Impoverished Region
When Mujib Kamawal’s family fled to Pakistan from their native Afghanistan, they left a lush, vibrant region. When they returned for a visit years later, the Kama district was a wasteland. They knew they had to help
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Alumni Profile
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Intern Turns Hobby into Career Focus
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Alumni Profile
Feature about a Linfield alumnus or alumna. In this issue, José Gaitán \u2773: Mentor\u27s Help Offers Hope
No \u27Feet Up\u27 for These Retirees
Forget the rocking chairs. That’s not what three Linfield employees have in mind as they retire June 30
Alumni Profile
Feature about a Linfield alumnus or alumna. In this issue, Susan Hyde ’00: No Cheating: Hyde Studies International Elections
Touching Lives in the Classroom
As a young man growing up in Seattle, Wash., Daniel O’Leary ‘86 set his sights on medical school
Student Dynamo Accepts Challenge
Chipo Dendere ’08 completed an internship at the Carter Center last summer. That is just one achievement of this exceptional student who serves as student body president
A post-Brexit agreement for research and innovation Outcomes from a simulated negotiation process. Bruegel Special Report 28 January 2020
The UK will leave the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Negotiators and commentators have spent more than three
years discussing the terms on which the UK will withdraw,
but comparatively little attention has been paid to the future
relationship between the UK and the EU after Brexit at a
sectoral level. Withdrawing is merely the first stage of the
process, and the UK and the EU will soon begin to think
about negotiating a new relationship and decide which
issues to prioritise.
Research and innovation is one of the key areas in which
the UK and the EU will need to establish a post-Brexit
relationship. Over the past two decades, the UK and the
EU have been at the forefront of that enterprise through
the development of the European Research Area (ERA).
Together, European nations have created a world-leading
research base. Six of the world’s top twenty universities are
in the ERA, and Europe produces a third of the world’s
scientific publications with just 7% of the global population.
A new post-Brexit relationship on research and innovation
will need to be negotiated to ensure we sustain and
grow this valuable and mutually beneficial partnership.
Research and innovation are critical to achieving lasting
competitiveness and economic development, especially
with the dominance of the USA and the rising challenge
of China in this field. An early agreement providing for
cooperation on research and innovation would reflect the
economic and social importance of research and innovation
to the people of the UK and the EU.
This report sets out what the Wellcome Trust and Bruegel
have learned from a project to simulate a negotiation
process between the UK and EU to create a post-Brexit
research and innovation agreement. Our negotiating
scenario assumed that the UK had left the EU with a
withdrawal agreement, and that the negotiation was
taking place during a ‘standstill’ transition period.
Our exercise demonstrated that it is possible to reach
agreement among experts on the terms of an EU-UK
research and innovation deal. However, the project also
revealed that some elements of an agreement may be
harder to negotiate than expected. A shared purpose and
belief in the importance of research and innovation is not
enough to see a deal come to fruition. It is also necessary
to overcome a number of political and technical challenges
that are spelled out in this report. The process must
start now to ensure an agreement is reached as soon as
possible. We hope that this report will provide inspiration
and guidance for that process
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