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There are obviously better and worse ways to deal with bureaucracy, but I find it amusing your suggestion that one solution is to outsource it to countries know
by pcrh 13y ago
There are obviously better and worse ways to deal with bureaucracy, but I find it amusing your suggestion that one solution is to outsource it to countries known for bloated bureaucracies. I'm sure Greek scientists are by and large as good as German or Danish ones, so maybe the science should be sent to Southern Europe and the bureaucracy sent to ever-efficient Germany.
Or better yet, do away with all that "filler".
- mjn 13y agoIt's certainly not a solution, more of a coping process. If the EU has a bunch of bureaucracy, having a project managed by someone who knows how to navigate bureaucracy streamlines things. Alternatives are opting out of EU projects entirely (possible for some people, not for others), or revamping the EU funding process (difficult, way above my level of authority to do anything about).
- pcrh 13y agoA bit of revamping is probably in order. Scientists are naturally a very mobile group and will usually work wherever the facilities/environment is favorable. Certain pan-European organizations have a very strong reputation, such as The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL, link below), and the EU funds the Joint European Torus (link below). These institutes have a very mixed national contingent. So... if the motive of EU funding is to promote transnational collaboration, then the approach they take is needlessly complicated. A simpler possibly solution would be to fund "magnet" institutes (which could be based in existing centers of excellence, or created de novo) that have a requirement to recruit from diverse EU states. http://www.embl.de/ http://www.embl.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus