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as a part-time postdoc out of choice, i also see EU grants being used mainly as a way to prevent unemployment for highly skilled people. If the public knew wher
by buboard 7y ago
as a part-time postdoc out of choice, i also see EU grants being used mainly as a way to prevent unemployment for highly skilled people. If the public knew where this money is going i doubt there would be much support for these grants. Tons of bureaucracy, travel and 'disemmination' spending, a system designed to enrich established PIs, a culture of "apply for grants or perish" , and the instagrammification of academic CVs make this academic culture unattractive, and in anyway there is too few positions for all these people. It very rare to meet a 'weird' academic anymore.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoWhy do you choose to participate in such a system?
- buboard 7y agoi like learning stuff and working with smart people, and my self-employment leaves me enough time to do it. i m too old for academic ambitions anyway
- anjc 7y agoThese grants tend to require industry partners and matched funds, so the value for money with regard to public funds is probably far higher now than the "weird" era you're talking about. > enrich established PIs Nobody stays in academia to be "rich", and in general they could earn far more and be far less stressed by working in industry.