www.trust-researchers.eu
Currently research is funded according to many input oriented indicators.trenutni podpisniki iz Slovenije.
At present the financial regulation - the relevant legal funding framework - treats research in similar way as procurement processes for any goods.
This condition is unsatisfying for researchers, research organisations and the European Community as a whole. It hinders the development of ground-breaking results through ineffective research funding.
The funding of European research should be based on trust. Today European researchers face many red tape and cumbersome financial regulations. We are not against rules. Rules are important and accountability is essential. However, research has to be funded in recognition of the nature of research, thus, the financial regulation and associated rules have to be adapted to primarily output oriented objectives and to conditions creating a transparent justification of costs.
What we need is a change in philosophy!
As results we want to achieve:
- Effective funding for research facilitating ground breaking results that have straight forward positive impact on our society and economy.
- Simplified research funding while keeping the necessary tasks of full financial accountability in dealing with tax payers money.
- Harmonised standards of research funding at European and national level, thus avoiding all kinds of unnecessary technical details.
- Stable legal framework throughout the different research and innovation programmes.
- Tolerable risk concept being recognized as an important success factor in research and innovation.
- To involve the best scientists and all stakeholders needed.
Pobudniki peticije imajo vsebinsko prav - peticija tudi prihaja v pravem casu (imenovanje nove, druge Barrosove komisije) in tudi pomenljivo je naslovljena na oba glavna evropska zakonodajalca - Evropski parlament in Svet ministrov, ki skupno soodlocata tudi o evropskih okvirnih raziskovalnih programih in ne na Evropsko komisijo, ki te programe sicer predlaga in izvaja.
OdgovoriIzbrišiDa bi se zadeva spremenila, je potrebno spremeniti financno uredbo EU, ki ureja ravnanje z evropskim javnim denarjem na vseh podrocjih in za katero se ve, da ravno za raziskave in znanost ni primerna. Potrebno bi bilo podrocje raziskav izvzeti iz splosne uredbe in kreirati novo, specificno prav za raziskave, sicer problem ni resljiv.
Zal je treba tudi povedati, da gre za podrocje, kjer komisar Potocnik ni naredil dovolj. Ob zacetku 7. okvirnega programa (2006-2007) se je veliko govorilo o poenostavitvah, ki pa jih ocitno ni cutiti. Komisar bi lahko poslal mocnejsi signal svojemu administrativnemu aparatu (Generalnima direktoratoma za raziskave ter informacijsko druzbo) za konkretne ukrepe v tej smeri, kot pa ga je.