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It'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 bur
by mjn 13y ago
It'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