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Euroscience Open Consultation on Horizon 2020
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A letter of support concerning the situation of the Turkish Academy of Science
It has been brought to our attention that the independence of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) is in serious jeopardy due to recent declarations by the Turkish Government...
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See response to Euroscience from the Association of Aegean Academics in response to the situation of TUBA:
A Euroscience Statement on
the proposed EU Green Paper for a Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation 190511
In this document, Euroscience presents its views on the EC Green Paper on the Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation. The EC has organised a consultation and Euroscience welcomes this involvement of the community at large. We find it important to respond as a grassroots organisation with a membership across 40 European countries.
The EC poses 27 wide ranging questions. Euroscience has chosen to respond by addressing a number of specific issues, which in our view are at the heart of the discussion. A principled discussion on the essence of EU policies and instruments should be had with the community.
Summary - STATEMENT green paper 190511 - PDF (168.64 Kb)
The Complete Statement:
(Euroscience is quoted on page 9)
EU Green paper consultation summary analysis - PDF (561.55 Kb)
A Euroscience Statement on
the threat of budget cuts in science in Europe
Across the European Union and the wider Europe, governments are engaged in cutting public expenditure and we are entering an unprecedented period of austerity. Thus, public support for research is now at risk in a manner not seen before and just at the time when Europe faces new challenges from the rising new economies, especially in Asia, and when threats to our quality of life from climate change, demographic change and energy, food and resource availability and sustainability are becoming evermore threatening and urgent. This undermines the EU Lisbon process, to create a leading knowledge-based economy which must remain as the aim of governments and societies across Europe.
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Euroscience’s contribution to the Commission’s working document:
Consultation on the future “EU 2020” strategy
An efficient, effective and well-resourced ERA is an indispensible part of the EU 2020 vision. The way forward is a research partnership between the EU and the Member States which maximizes synergy with other policy areas especially innovation and education. The aim is to achieve a genuine European Knowledge Area, underpinned by a world-class knowledge infrastructure, in which all actors benefit from the free circulation of people, knowledge and technology. To ensure that all countries contribute to the goals of European research it is necessary to develop science to good standards throughout. The EU 2020 vision should be adapted to the different European countries’ starting points and their different national specificities so as to promote growth for all.
To download the complete document, please click on the link; EU 2020 strategy - DOC (27.00 Kb)
Euroscience Position on:
Organisation - Review of the European Research Council’s Structures and Mechanisms
Following
the Commission’s decision of 11 March 2009 (C(2009) 1871) to create “a
panel of independent experts for the review of the structures and
mechanisms of the ERC” 23 July 2009
Please download the document here:EUROSCIENCE STATEMENT on ERC Review report - PDF (89.01 Kb)
You can read the Commissioner Janez Potočnik answer to Euroscience's statment by downloading the scanned letter here:
Answer to ERC statement Janez Potocnik - PDF (367.13 Kb)
Statement from Euroscience on the EU budget
Discussions at the European Council, 15 and 16 December 2005.
The Lisbon objectives, agreed by the European Council in 2000 aimed at establishing the EU as the World’s leading knowledge-based economy by 2010. Already the Mid term Review led by former Dutch Prime Minister, Wim Kok, has shown that not only is the EU failing in its approach to meet this objective but also it has falling behind in the schedule necessary to attain the Lisbon goals in the given timescale.
Support for research and development is the key to achieving the Lisbon objectives and demands that national governments increase their support for research and also give their support to the overall research activity of the Union, as expressed through the Framework Programme.
The proposal from the European Commission for the Seventh Framework Programme provides an important step to achieving the goals of the Lisbon process. The proposal, setting out priorities for a seven year programme at a total value of €72 billion, introduces vital new initiatives for Europe, of which the one to establish a European Research Council (ERC) is the most significant. This will encourage excellence in European research, which can ensure European leadership in research for the future. This, together with investment in research infrastructure and the support for the younger generation of researchers, are vital for Europe’s future.
Euroscience, a “grassroots” association of researchers, science journalists, decision-makers and other interested in research with members in 40 European countries, welcomes the emphasis on research in the UK Presidency budget proposal and urges Heads of Government to honour the pledges which they themselves gave in Lisbon and the obligations which they undertook, to ensure that the EU budget settlement recognises the importance of the research and accords the full budget to the Seventh Framework Programme, and especially those elements addressing the ERC, research infrastructures and the younger generation of researchers.
Professor Jean-Patrick Connerade, President of Euroscience, said “I strongly urge the Heads of Government to remember their obligations from Lisbon and to ensure that the research budget is protected within the overall financial perspectives of the Union. The UK Presidency has recognised the priority of research to the future of the Union and I sincerely hope that other Heads of Government will be equally supportive. The EU faces very major challenges in the years ahead and research is one area from which we start from a reasonable base. Our economic well being depends on this investment in research and development both for the present and the future. I strongly urge the Heads of Government to come to agreement at this meeting on the EU’s budget which must have, as its priority, honouring the Lisbon obligations and ensuring a strong investment in research”.
New - The European Research Area: New perspectives
Euroscience's response to the European Commission's green paper:
Euroscience Response - EC green paper on ERA - PDF (98.83 Kb)