On 23 September 2022, more than 80 UK organisations raised an SDG flag to show their support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This September marks seven years since the world embraced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, also known as...
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has triumphed in two of three categories at the first-ever TrackImpact.org Global Project Competition. The competition recognises some of the exceptional societal, economic, environmental and cultural impact delivered by...
Today the European University Association (EUA) announced the publication of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment paper. The document makes public the final 8th July agreement at a Stakeholder Assembly of more than 350 organisations across 40+ countries...
Original text by Alex Smith, Senior Marketing Strategist at Vertigo Ventures UK researchers have lost out on 115 grants – which had previously been approved through the €95.5 billion Horizon Europe programme – amidst the ongoing tensions between the UK and...
On the 20th June 2022, New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) agreed in principle to the recommendations made by the PBRF Sector Reference Group (SRG) around changing the research definitions and design of Evidence Portfolios for the upcoming national...
Earlier today, the 6,781 Impact Case Studies (ICS) that had been submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 were published by UKRI. 78.9% of these were deemed to be of 4* (world leading) or 3* (internationally excellent) quality, which is hugely...
Original text by Alex Smith, Senior Marketing Strategist at Vertigo Ventures On Wednesday 8th June 2022, the ERC (European Research Council) notified 143 UK researchers that the grants they had secured through the Horizon Europe programme were to be terminated. This...
The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings will be released in one month’s time (April 26-28) at the THE Innovation and Impact Summit 2022. Our founder & CEO, Laura Tucker, along with Duncan Ross – Chief Data Officer of THE and M’hamed el Aisati...
The pandemic may often be seen as the obvious driver for recent declines in research collaboration, but it has in fact masked a series of fundamental challenges to international co-operation caused by the wider economic, social and political climate of the modern...
In the first part of our series in which we meet various members of the Vertigo Ventures team, we speak to Robert Mansion, one of the company’s earliest developers who has a wealth of experience with the ImpactTracker™ product, our flagship solution for capturing,...
In many ways, charities can be seen as exemplars when it comes to considering models for SDG success. “Unlike the corporate model, charities have the expressed and infallible aim of providing care. They are not laboured with the requirement to return shareholder value...
Vertigo Ventures (VV) is exhibiting as a partner at this year’s AESIS Impact of Science Conference, hosted from Cape Town, South Africa. The annual event takes place in 2021 from Wednesday 23rd June to Friday 25th June and focuses on the Transformative Power of...
