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Working Group: Integration and Collaboration in European Science
Activity Report 2000
The strengthening of the co-operation between eastern and western scientists is a crucial subject for the future of the scientific community in Europe. The meeting of the ES Working Group on Integration and Collaboration in European Science was held in Freiburg during the Second Biannual General Assembly of Euroscience. About 20 people from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine took place in discussions on several topics.
Dr. R. Lestienne, a convener of the group, presented activity report of the working group. He mentioned several aspects of the activity of the group after the last General Assembly. The importance of the continuation or even development of the activity on spreading of electronic news between group participants was stressed. Among others, the news are the launching of call for research and network proposals by the EU, INTAS, ISTC, NATO, and other multilateral bodies; reports that appear in the media (in particular in Nature and Science journals) about the political aspects of the science policy in the Eastern and Western European countries.
During the meeting three possible actions of the group have been evoked. First, the preparation of a proposal to INTAS, aimed at increasing the networking across Eastern and Western scientists of various disciplines Second, the preparation of a kind of survey or collection of testimonies about the judgements of scientists of various classes of age and various disciplines about science management and opportunities in their country. And third, the analysis of two previous collective ideas, one about the Centres of Excellence (goals, structure, implementation) in Central and Eastern Europe, and the other about a program to be proposed to EU (6th framework) about the support of young scientists in order to fix them in their home country.
The participants thanked very much Remy Lestienne and Karl Fuchs for their convening of the working group during the last years. Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Simeon Anguelov agreed to be new conveners of the group.
Dr. R. Lestienne, a convener of the group, presented activity report of the working group. He mentioned several aspects of the activity of the group after the last General Assembly. The importance of the continuation or even development of the activity on spreading of electronic news between group participants was stressed. Among others, the news are the launching of call for research and network proposals by the EU, INTAS, ISTC, NATO, and other multilateral bodies; reports that appear in the media (in particular in Nature and Science journals) about the political aspects of the science policy in the Eastern and Western European countries.
During the meeting three possible actions of the group have been evoked. First, the preparation of a proposal to INTAS, aimed at increasing the networking across Eastern and Western scientists of various disciplines Second, the preparation of a kind of survey or collection of testimonies about the judgements of scientists of various classes of age and various disciplines about science management and opportunities in their country. And third, the analysis of two previous collective ideas, one about the Centres of Excellence (goals, structure, implementation) in Central and Eastern Europe, and the other about a program to be proposed to EU (6th framework) about the support of young scientists in order to fix them in their home country.
The participants thanked very much Remy Lestienne and Karl Fuchs for their convening of the working group during the last years. Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Simeon Anguelov agreed to be new conveners of the group.
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