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(Note: Some comments are not made public accessible.) 23 Mar 19:40 Austria AC2T Austrian centre for competence in Tribology Enrico Corniani Marie Curie students in Action 10 Feb 13:29 Austria AIT Christoph Zauner Dont have our research-time wasted by making us fill out and fill out and fill out and... 23 Feb 16:05 Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences Bernhard Laback It is important for the advancement of science in Europe that the administrative load for EU-projects is dramatically reduced. 20 May 08:34 Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences Georg Pabst Lower the administration duties and researchers will have more time to do what they are actually paid for... 24 Feb 09:58 Austria Austrian Academy of Scinces André Gazsó - more research and less administration - 24 Feb 00:29 Austria Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) Paul Luif Research can only prosper if researchers can concentrate on their work. Excessive bureaucracy obstructs innovative research. 2 Mar 09:18 Austria Austrian Research Institute for AI Brigitte Krenn Since the last 20 years I have been involved in many European projects, some I have been coordinating. I have seen different regimes of growing and shrinking and growing administrative overheads in the different FPs with overall too many resources going into administration. Researchers and EC officials together should work on a common goal on how to assure the highest possible level of transparency and at the same time be able to devote most of the resources to research. A stipulated maximum of 7% administrative overhead does not do the job when the actual administrative overhead is much higher. 9 Feb 16:32 Austria Austrian research Promotion Agency Susanne Formanek we should keep the administration as simple as possible! 2 Mar 17:42 Austria Austrian Research Promotion Agency Manfred Halver Austrian organisations have to deal a lot with precedural tasks instead of research in FP7 projects. 8 Feb 09:55 Austria Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Jürgen Rattenberger We urgently need to react and REALLY simplify. 4 Mar 10:58 Austria Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (OeGBMT) Winfried Mayr The Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering has decided to support this important initiative and I sign on basis of an unanimous decision of our board. In the interest of our members we hope for a success towards reducing the administrative burden and giving more room for creative and efficient research work in European projects. 16 Feb 10:39 Austria AVIR Green Hills Biotechnology AG Joachim Seipelt I would like to see a simplified administrative procedure that reflects the needs of scientists and research. Both for Universities and SMEs several current regulations are not practical. The process for changes in running projects (amendments) has to be streamlined and simplified, the administrative capacity of the comission needs to be increased. 24 Feb 13:34 Austria b.a.s.e. Heinz Schoibl I think we should change control schemes from financial and administrative criteria to standards of quality management and to develop the control procedures from bureaucratic measures into formative evaluation schemes 2 Mar 17:50 Austria Bachmann electronic GmbH Peter Nachbaur Everything great and noble should be simple! 19 Mar 12:07 Austria Boku Katharina Paschinger It is obvious that people who write the calls are primarily driven by regulatory items. Here I suggest a simple way to reduce the effort and to increase the scientific output. Just hand the money directly to the national science trusts, in the first round according to the population in each country. The national agencies can then fund single projects and to a certain percentage infrastructural improvements at the universities or research centers. This ensures the increase in research output since on small basis the cooperation works well and furthermore no lobbying is then nessesary to get the resarch field into the call. Repeat the procedure every year. Then after five years due to the output the next tranche of money will than be directed to the countries with the higher scientific output in order to support the most competitive researchers. 24 Feb 09:45 Austria BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna Cedomil Josip JUGOVIC Right decision! 24 Feb 16:01 Austria BOKU University of Natrural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Dietmar Haltrich Research should also be made less bureaucratic at other levels, strting from own own universities all the way to teh European Union 15 Feb 01:16 Austria Boku University Vienna D. P. Kreil While the declaration seems a little vague, I wholeheartedly support the idea of reducing the administrative complexity of EU research funding. A funding framework that has given rise to hundreds of professionals specializing in EU grant writing and management in support of scientists clearly indicates the disproportionate role that non-scientific issues take in the framework. 24 Feb 08:21 Austria Borealis Polyolefine GmbH Markus Gahleitner Money dedicated to research should go to scientists, not to accountants, controllers and consultants! 23 Feb 15:51 Austria CALMA-TEC Lärmschutzsysteme GmbH Lukas Brunbauer As an SME with strong innovative character and high R&D investments we support and encourage improvement in structural betterings. We are convinced that constant innovation is vital to permanent success. 25 Feb 19:59 Austria CEASS-Center at the IHS-Vienna Alexander Chvorostov Yes, it must be simplified. In the first instance, it should be put into a unified on-line e-platform, immediately linked with the URF and enable simple accounting of every expense item, suitable for follow-up audit. It must be accessible for every team and project coordinator and verifiable by organizations financial (accounting) office. 16 Feb 10:49 Austria Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna Werner Sieghart I fully support this initiative to simplify the rules of the European Research funding. Just one example: in FP7 we have to complete lists on working hours spent each day for each person financed by the EC. But even if a student or postdoc works 12 hours a day, he is only allowed to enter about 40 hours a week, otherwise he gets problems with the law. So please eliminate this stupid regulation. Whatever is noted here probably is wrong and nobody can check that anyway. The control is output of research results. But this is just a waste of time and a simple overregulation to satisfy some bureaucrats. 17 Feb 01:51 Austria Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) Sylvana Kroop Reporting working hours is unnecessary. Reporting results (list of publication etc.) should be enough. The reporting workload just wastes precious time that could be used to get real work done. 8 Feb 17:57 Austria CISC Semiconductor Design+Consulting GmbH Markus Pistauer I spent a huge amount of time for preparing financial information in proposals, which then do not fit for a financial audit due mainly general statements in the financial guidelines which leave place for interpretation. 24 Feb 07:55 Austria co-op studyprogram production technology and organsation Hagen Hochirnner as long as the paperwork takes as much capacity as the research itself it is not very attractive to do any reseach in a common market program! 19 Mar 13:54 Austria CTR AG Jochen Bardong Bureaucracy is necessary, but not at this detail level in R&D. The funds have to be used to do R&D, not to oversee it. 17 Feb 09:58 Austria Danube University Krems Daniel Medimorec Reduce the administrative burden! 18 Mar 16:15 Austria Datacon Technology GmbH Gernot Bock I have been involved in projects within the European Framework Programme for almost 10 years now, but its still a big effort to keep track of the regulations and fulfill them. 15 Feb 10:45 Austria Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, MFPL, University of Vienna Markus Teige as coordinator of an ongoing ITN I am convinced that many working hours could be spend much better for advancing science and the benefit of the researchers 24 Feb 09:26 Austria Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hermann Buehler GmbH Hermann Buehler Urgently required to support participation of SMEs! It is prohibitive for SMEs (who typically do not afford large legal departments to be occupied) to be required to reveiw 100s of pages of complex financial regulations with sometimes unclear meaning. Complexity of regulations - like everything - has to proof positive contribution to success with respect to the scope! 23 Feb 16:29 Austria Energy Innovation Centre Weiz Franz Kern R&D supports innovation in buisness and therefore creates jobs in future technologies and services. SMEs are very interested to take part in European FTI programmes. So please make it easy for SMEs to enter in European R&D programmes. 3 Mar 14:01 Austria Engineering Center Steyr GmbH & Co KG Peter Astl If an Audit Certificate is needed a limit value should be defined for the auditor! 19 Feb 13:04 Austria ENT University Department Medical University Vienna Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner science before bureaucracy ! 11 Mar 12:13 Austria EUSCEA - European Science Events Association Peter Rebernik A review of the selection/jury process for the proposals should lead to more reliable results - including the more detailed and clear call descriptions. 26 Feb 18:53 Austria Faculty of Mathematics University Vienna Hans G. Feichtinger Having experience with almost 10 European projects I see the administrative burden growing from framework to framework, the rules changing too often, so that even a well organized team is having difficulties too keep up with the requests. Control is fine, but should respect the work-flow of scientists. I know colleagues who are willing to give up going for European funds just because of the risk of loosing more time with administration than the funds obtained. Also, it seems not be be necessary to change rules significantly from framework to framework. Officers appear to be overworked and not well supported by the system. 23 Mar 14:21 Austria Fed. Ministry for Economy, Family and Youth Gerhard Burian This declaration in not only directed to th EU-Comm. but alsoto the National Authorities dealing with this mattter. Aa joint urgent action of Me,ber States and EU Comm. is needed to attract more institutions, persons and companies to apply for funds. 3 Feb 07:42 Austria FFG Kurt Burtscher I fully support this initiative. I spent a huge amount of time for preparing documents for a financial audit demanded by the European Commission in 2009. And the outcome was a deviation of less than 2%. And this deviation mainly came from unclear statements in the financial guidelines. 10 Mar 10:57 Austria FFG Siegfried Loicht In my daily work with my clients I recognize that the financial and administrative burden in FP7 is really a challenge and often a reason for not participating in such programmes - so it´s time for a change! 8 Feb 11:45 Austria FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency Monika Egger-Fuchs I support this initiative 100%. 1 Mar 14:01 Austria FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency Andrea Kindler In 2009 I had to waste a lot of my working time with audits. Especially irritating was that there did not exist any valid audit guidelines in the respective programme. So even trying to align everything with the project officer, I cannot be sure that this audit will comply with the rules of an EU auditor. 8 Feb 12:45 Austria FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency Astrid Hoebertz I fully support this initiative! 23 Feb 20:33 Austria FH JOANNEUM GmbH Bruno Wiesler have a look at the Austrian FFG programmes as good examples; do not produce so many different documents - one document for a call 23 Feb 22:42 Austria FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH - Logistikum.research Friedrich Starkl I fully agree 24 Feb 07:36 Austria Frauscher Energietechnik GMBH Josef Frauscher According unrestricted to Declaration 3 Mar 13:43 Austria FTW Nicolai Czink Less administration leads to more time for research and to better results. Everybody wins. 4 Mar 14:46 Austria FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien GmbH Hannes Weisgrab Reducing management overhead is the key to improve research performance! 24 Feb 07:39 Austria GAT Microencapsulation AG Victor Casaña-Giner Offering microencapsulation collaborative research for biomedical purposes! 3 Mar 10:47 Austria GeoVille GmbH Christian Hoffmann Financial and adminstrative regulations of EU projects are prohibitive for widespread partcipation of SMEs 24 Feb 15:46 Austria Gnowsis Leo Sauermann Some DARPA projects have a one-page proposal, but are more througoughly rehearsed in reviews. Most EU IST Projects have 300 page proposals and are not reviewed by intense outside testing. Many billionaires live in the USA. I wonder why we cant simplify and make things easier on our side of the pond. 24 Feb 14:42 Austria GOLEM IMS GMBH Serguei Golovanov There are two major components of a decision to apply for research support by EC funds: 1. Availability of Knowledge about the expected content of the study, amount of expected work and time required to address relevant research issues, expected results (not always CORRECT ones, of course, attempting to find out or implement the Unknown ... ) 2. Availability of knowledge about the proposal application procedure, «rules of the game» including additional work and time required just to submit the complete application for the research support (no one knows if it would be evaluated positively). Within the last 7 years there is gradual increase of the second component part reaching almost ritual magnitude (agencies, conferences, seminars, training, consulting, guidance, books, software, manuals, etc). If applying one needs to know/be aware of a large number of human created nuances and details having nothing in common to the content of actual research work to be done. It is necessary be able to meet increasingly complex conditions set up by the people needed «things to be presented and done in the right way». In a growing number of cases the proposal should correspond to some bureaucratic perception of the goals and procedures providing convenient and secure ways for judgments of those involved in the funding process. There no or very little correlation to the actual content of work and availability of the project goals achievement in the final run. Important is that this «Component 2» (or OK - overhead knowledge) presents amount of work and time increasingly taken away from the total available research time for the project. It consequently and gradually substitutes the actual research agenda (all of us have limited life timeframe) and results in tendency of decreased the goal achievements. And at the background we all have more and more complex nature of the research issues each passed year. As result the research team leaders are increasingly faced with the dilemma: Does it worth to spend our limited time and available resources to learn and accommodate the OK of «Rules, Regulations, Procedures, Requirements, etc» which actually was developed and exists for very different purposes. The ultimate stated aims of the EU funding initiatives are attractive and focused on fundamental needs of European Union while contributing to the global development. It includes vital necessity to establish and keep competitive edge by EU countries in this increasingly complex and competitive word. Thus the issues of grass root practicalities of research support procedures which fight growing OK as well as decreased results are of vital importance. The OK should be continuously and seriously looked after with aim to bring it to absolute logical minimum including developing the «Trust» mechanisms. Finally: (1) The re-evaluation of results of past project implementations vs. their initial project OK evaluations back to the time it was approved may provide valuable source of information regarding «What was the right issue to consider and what was irrelevant? ». (2) It would be only beneficial for all parties of the game if the funding requirements are continuously compared to the procedures, rules, results and statistics of competitive options provided by private sources: faster, less bureaucracy, less OKs, more attention to research insight and content. 23 Feb 16:59 Austria Graz University of Technology Gernot Beer As a coordinator, I have now allready spent nearly 5 months negotiating an approved IRSES (Marie Curie) Project, with no end (and contract) in sight, at the time of writing this. During the negotiation there was a change in Project Officer and every month we get new requests for more details in the Annex I. This is for a 4 year project only involving mobilities of researchers and a very small budget. Bugs in the negotiation software NEF also caused further dealys and additional work. At one time some information was deleted and we had to input it again (after a delay of 2 weeks that it took to fix the bug). There is a great degree of frustration in the consortium. 23 Feb 17:39 Austria Graz University of Technology Wolfgang Pribyl I fully support this initiative. I sincerely hope that it will lead to a simplification of the administrative procedures and that more trust will be established between the funding agencies and the research groups. We should again be empowered to fully concentrate on the scientific-technical aspects of our work. 11 Mar 15:51 Austria Graz University of Technology Otto Koudelka I support this declaration wholeheartedly. The European R&D funding systems have become overly bureaucratic reducing the efficient use of resources for R&D. 24 Feb 00:54 Austria Graz University of Technology, Department of Electrical Measurement Georg Brasseur I fully agree with the declaration! 26 Feb 17:55 Austria greendriving Wolfgang Blaschek i hope it helps to sign 15 Feb 12:27 Austria IMP Alexander Stark Any time spend on administrative issues means less time spend on research! 23 Feb 17:01 Austria Infineon Technologies Austria AG Andreas Bertl The funding schemes, which are used in Singapore are much simpler in terms of administration and targeted more directly to maintain or increase R&D activities in the country. 25 Feb 15:51 Austria Ingenieurbüro - TAITEC August Taibinger www.taitec.at, 23 Feb 18:49 Austria Innsbruck Medical University Johann Hofmann Scientists should focus on science and should not be occupied to overcome the complicated hurdles of the EU. It costs time and money for both, scientists and for bureaucrats. 25 May 09:23 Austria Innsbruck Medical University Monika Ritsch-Marte I am grateful for all the funding I have received - but adminstration has become a burden, tendency increasing... 19 May 16:31 Austria Insitute for Transpor Science Knoflacher Hermann Quality of Research x Amount of Formality = Constant Since Amount of Formality of EU-Research is close to infinte ..... 28 Feb 22:51 Austria Institut for Electronic Music and Aucoustics Winfried Ritsch since being involved in a cultural project of the EU I can confirm that regulations are so complicated so that they cant be controlled very easily. Please simplify and help reduce administration workload. 22 May 19:24 Austria Institut for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences Eva-Maria Knoll Among many other burdens I struggle hard with the complicated and quite often incorrect English of EU funding bureaucracy. I wish the forms, explainations, and letters would be short, straight, and get checked by a native speaker. 24 Feb 15:37 Austria Institute for Integrated Sensor Systems, Austrian Academy of Sciences Franz Kohl If you understand german, read this famous article at the homepage of NZZ: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/die_letzten_tage_der_wissenschaft_1.6983 It fully covers my motivation to support this initiative and it does it in a humorous way. There must be an english translation of this excellent story somewhere in the web. 18 May 14:34 Austria Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences Maria Leichtfried I agree also with each word! 5 Mar 11:24 Austria Institute for Sustainable Waste Management and Technology (IAE) Karl Erich Lorber We support the initiative. 23 Feb 15:44 Austria Institute for water quality, resource and waste management Helmut Kroiss Research is not selling hours but finding new solutions on the basis of sound methods, fantasy and limited warranty of success. 4 Mar 11:32 Austria Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research Michael Rappolt Most of the capital foreseen to support science is wasted beforehand: first, European bureaucracy is very costly (high salaries incl.) and second, there are thousands of projects every year that never see any funding. Applying for funding is very time consuming and the outcome is often a delusion, and hence costs the European society a lot of money. My dream would be that funding would be distributed through 2 channels: project bound as now (incl. reviewing process, but with simplified procedures) and free money for scientific merits. Successful scientists/work groups should receive some basic funding without the need of writing a project. 15 Feb 11:33 Austria Institute of Molecular Biotechnology John Victor Small Deliverables: an unfortunate term unfit for use in creative scientific activity. Knowledge benefit or the like would be more appropriate. Time sheets do no more than waste valuable time doing research. 16 Feb 08:54 Austria Institute of Neurology, Medical University Vienna Herbert Budka Having dealt with the EU bureaucracy for almost 20 years, such an effort is more than overdue. 23 Feb 21:55 Austria Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences Helge Torgersen I am deeply concerned over the ever increasing bureaucratic requirements for filing a funding application within subsequent framework programs, as well as the over-complicated documentation needs. Such harrassment renders scientific research unnecessarily cumbersome and reduce efficiency significantly. 25 May 13:20 Austria IST Austria Nick Barton European funding for research is an invaluable stimulus to strengthening our research - and the new European Research Council is especially valuable. However, the associated bureaucracy is a major waste of time and money, and compares badly with many national schemes that are run efficiently and fairly at much lower cost. 23 Feb 17:52 Austria Joanneum Research Gerhard Paar From FP6 to FP7 bureaucracy has been considerably simplified. Formal procedures such as contracts, reporting and accounting are necessary to maintain the legal objectives of funding research (in so far I do not completely agree to the first paragraph of the Declaration). Nevertheless, many of these procedures could undergo straightforward simplifications and, even more importantly, unifications. Unique (mandatory) templates for proposals and reports, on-line funding calculators, transparent funding rules, mandatory & simple project management & maintenance tools (all to be provided by EC and its REA) would add efficiency to communication channels (within the research community, management levels and the funding agencies), while releasing lots of resources currently allocated by thousands of management / training / corporate consultant firms. However, this portal should also be used to express appreciation to our national contact points, which effectively, quickly and unbureaucratically help in any matter of concern. 7 Mar 16:09 Austria Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz Gerhard Chroust In 2005 we have written a paper: Chroust, G. and Schoitsch, E. and Zoffmann, G. and Zuser, W.Small is beutiful, but not for the European Union - Critical remarks on the Framework 6 Programme, in: Hoyer, C. and Chroust, G.: IDIMT 2005 - 13th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks, Verlag Trauner, Linz 2005, isbn 3-85487-835-4, pp. 31-38 and published at a small conference. I have sent the paper to the organisers, perhaps they can make it publicly available. 23 Feb 17:49 Austria Johannes Kepler University Tudor Jebelean It is in the interest of Europe to reduce the administrative burden on scientific researchers because this will increase their availability for performing advanced research. 24 Feb 12:50 Austria Johannes Kepler University Wolfgang Wagner The present accounting rules take a disproportionate amount of time and person-power that should better be invested in research. The new rules must be brought back to a reasonable level again. Particularly at institutions as ours where, lamentably, there is no institutional support for FP7 administration, this is an unreasonable burden. 11 Mar 09:40 Austria Johannes Kepler University Alexander EGYED For scientific research, the idea and its novelty should count the most. 11 Mar 14:25 Austria Johannes Kepler University Hanspeter Mössenböck Project size and the number of partner institutions has hardly ever been a good criterion for successful research. Please allow smaller and more focused research projects. 18 Mar 14:19 Austria Johannes Kepler University Hermann Gruber It is a pity that the EU funds consortia only and not single projects. Consequently, successful funding is far more dependent on social networking and reputation of participants than on excellence of the actual project. The second adverse effect is that the pressure for high-quality output is weak. No wonder that EU projects give less output than single projects funded by US agencies or by several national funding agencies in European countries. At least half of European funding money should be given to stand-alone projects. This will result in a jump-start of European research and give hungry youngsters more chance against established rope teams. 27 Apr 10:49 Austria Karl-Franzens University of Graz Thomas Schmickl 1000+ pages of deliverables and reports per project per year is too much. This holds for the scientists working in these projects, for the poor reviewers that have to read that stuff before reviews and for poor officers that have to read tens of thousands of pages, as they have many projects. It just slows down scientific process. As a comparison, our national funded projects in Austria (FWF) require 2-3 written pages of reporting per year and about 20 pages at the end of the project. 28 Feb 17:07 Austria KIÖS/Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Viktor Bruckman Scientists should be able to focus on scientific work, not on administrative issues. Thank you for this initiative. 23 Feb 17:51 Austria Klagenfurt University Laszlo Böszörmenyi 1. Quality can principally not be quantified. 2. At the end there is no other way than trust each other. Why not just start with trust? 3. The slogan trust is good, control is better is definitely false. 4. I am very much for high-quality research. The basis for this is FREEDOM. Also freedom from unnecessary bureaucracy. 5. We live in the time of the death of common sense. Lets stop it! Conclusion: Lets try to keep administration on a necessary minimum. Otherwise we loose more than we gain. 23 Mar 19:29 Austria Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology Stefan Fischer Research should be hanicapped due to bureaucracy. It should have a necessary amout of paper work. Scientist are not paid to organizing money they are paid to produce knowledge. 29 Mar 11:03 Austria KWF Andreas Starzacher more transparency regarding the eligible costs (overhead etc.), more transparency regarding state aid rules FP/ compared to community framework. guidelines for SMEs regarding the effort it takes to take part in FP7 29 Mar 11:23 Austria KWF Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungs Fonds Jürgen Kopeinig Simplification and standardization must be the targets. Thanks on that initiative. 23 Feb 16:23 Austria Lenzing AG Kurt Christian Schuster The administrative effort connected with EU funded research projects is certainly too high at this stage. As a large enterprise, we have good chances to spend the necessary time if we are convinced that there is sufficient benefit in a certain project. But with the experience of the current project we are involved with, it will be hard for me to convince the responsible decision makers to go for a follow-up. For SMEs, I know that the bureaucratic hurdles are frequently a reason not to participate in consortia. 23 Feb 18:01 Austria Lenzing AG Haio Harms Time from project idea to start of project activities is key for an overall R&D progress and also for a potential conversion of R&D results into economic success. The share of R&D ressource spending (time, money, R&D-experts) for non - science/ technology activities is unjustifiably high and must be minimised! Elaborate and fast changing public R&D-funding schemes favour the really big players who can afford to stay up to date and can keep their own lobbyists and professional expert-project-gost-writers. For many industries the KMU limits are obstacles to innovation. 10 Mar 15:59 Austria LGWA - Leistungsgesellschaft Wärmepumpe Austria Christine Widmann Due to time-consuming processes many good ideas and initiatives are stopped again, expecially within SME or SME Associations. This slows technology processes and developments within the EU 8 Mar 09:09 Austria Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research Karl Krajic If excellent research is expected, rules should be further developed to support the logics and content of research processes. 18 Mar 12:13 Austria Magna E-Car Systems Heribert Strasser Simplify the administration, focus on the results. 16 Feb 15:40 Austria Med University of Graz Gerhard Kostner Good scientists are bad administrators 12 Feb 12:22 Austria Med. Univ. Vienna Johannes Schmid Scientists should focus on science - and not on administration or politics. 18 Feb 10:56 Austria Med. Univ. Vienna Heinrich Schima The administrative workload and stress put on researchers by administrative pitfalls puts a contraproductive burden on people, whose tasks would be research, development and dissemination of scientific knowledge 23 Feb 16:28 Austria Medical University Innsbruck Paul Debbage The administrative burden has been growing, with no obvious or explained need for this growth. As the burden has grown I have been compelled to reduce the time and energy I spend on obviously valuable activities such as research and teaching, in order to prepare applications and reports in multiple copies at ever shorter intervals. According to a recent overview in the journal Nature I share this experience with a majority of European researchers, in that most of those who administer project funds have been forced to protect their research time by cutting their teaching, or their teaching time by cutting their research. Often enough the extra time spent on this type of administration has conflicted with other essential administrative activities such as recruiting and supporting a full-sized research team. In sum, I find the burden of ever-growing evaluation and controlling activities a brake on my work, a discouragement and an insult. I suspect that many who could do excellent research have already given up. 8 Feb 16:49 Austria Medical University of Graz Michaela Theresia Mayrhofer Currenly, our project unites 51 participants from 27 member states. Overall, our experiences with the European Commission, especially the continous support from our scientific officer, are very positive. Communication and support work in a smooth and fast manner. However, the current system of participant validation, the long duration of amendments and validation of reports creates constant administrative and budgetary challenges. The inclusion of a new participant, for instance, can take up to 6 months or longer, and often forces the project participants to finance activities from other sources as their project related duties have already started but the formal inclusion as new participant (and therewith the instalment) is still pending on formalities. Also, the long duration and complexity of administrative procedures require a great deal of flexibility and trust from the local administration of the project participant. In a nutshell, the current system is not fit for handling big consortia in a smooth manner and binds a great deal of energy and resources of scientific staff for administrative procedures. 16 Feb 15:38 Austria Medical University of Graz Gert Kostner Scientist should spend most of their time in the lab or at lecture halls but not at the desk to fill out silli forms 24 Feb 08:52 Austria Medical University of Graz Peter Sedlmayr I support this initiative. The EC should try to avoid over-regulation in science as well as in other fields. 15 Feb 20:55 Austria Medical University of Vienna Anton Stift The member states of the EU and their politicicans need real visions. In terms of medical science a European Institue of Health (EIH) should be established to target the scientific community and their efforts on basic science with translational research options. The NIH could stand as a model for the European medical science. A lot of people deal with irrelevant stuff instead of creating new ideas and make visions real. The basic problem seems self will which prevents visions for life and progress. Therefore politicians headline should be, It´s time to move on, not for myself but for mankind. 23 Feb 18:29 Austria Medical University of Vienna Manfred Neuberger creative persons should be relieved of administration 24 Feb 17:56 Austria Medical University of Vienna Rainer Schmid Stimulate more smaller projects with less administrative burden! 20 May 09:53 Austria Medical University Vienna Thomas Grunt I would very much like to see a significant amount of money to be spent for Bottom-Up Research Projects rather than all these Top-Down Programmes. A good example would be the FWF in Austria. 16 Feb 08:32 Austria Medical University Vienna, School of Dentistry Corinna Bruckmann If excellency in research is to be a (European) goal, researchers have to be encouraged and supported and not hampered. 23 Feb 19:15 Austria modernfamilies gmbh Andreas Kreiner I fully agree with this; even worse for me have been programmes that are co-sponsored by EU and national states. Then there is not only 1 red tape but 28 of them. 10 Feb 09:29 Austria Montanuniversität Robert Scholger The administration of EU research projects has become unproportionally time-consuming for coordinators and partners during the last ten years. 10 Feb 08:29 Austria Montanuniversität Leoben Christian Mitterer 80% of my research time is used for project administration, only 20% is left for doing research and supervision! 23 Mar 15:54 Austria Municipality of the City of Vienna - Waterworks Gerhard Kuschnig especially financial reporting makes it nearly impossible to proceed with the activities as it would be best for the project and the envisaged results. the inflexibility of the time frame of the planned budget makes a smooth working progress impossible 25 May 08:51 Austria Museum f. angewandte Kunst Barbara Karl Too much administrative work impedes research. 16 Feb 13:23 Austria PCz-Consulting and Med. University of Vienna Armin Peter Czernilofsky applications should not contain so much redundant information and total length should be shortened, two step applications should be the rule, financial administration should be streamlined and simplified 24 Feb 13:18 Austria PEG MedAustron Theodor Krendelsberger The European research funding makes a very good impression on the academic elites of the member states. This impression should not be deteriorated by too high administrative burdens and by too complicated financial regulations combined with them. Therefore I fully support the efforts to simplify the procedures and regulations. 7 Mar 21:46 Austria planwind.at - planning-management-research Heidrun Wankiewicz For better research topics and research results, it would be necessary to open research and related EU programmes to NGOs, SMEs, civil society organisations and give them easy acces. 3 May 09:36 Austria punkt international GmbH Brigitte Rohner The different units of the EC who are somehow involved in the support of a research project should more efficiently interact and communicate their interaction-results, e.g. with the support of an accordingly extended version of the Participant Portal (PP). These are units ranging from development of the PP to finance to audit units. 18 Feb 09:41 Austria RECENDT Peter Burgholzer really necessary initiative 10 Feb 18:32 Austria Recendt GmbH Stefan Katletz more time for research, less for proposals and administrative work! 23 Feb 17:32 Austria RepaNet Matthias Neitsch I would welcome an administrative simplification also in other European funding programmes like ESF, INTERREG, etc. 15 Feb 12:59 Austria Resarch Institute of Molecular Pathology Simon Rumpel As a researcher I am trying to convey my excitement about being a scientist to my students every day: The freedom of research, getting the first answers to new questions, taking the risks of going unusual ways....and then I would have to explain them how to correctly fill out time sheets? This is exactly not what science is about. The sad thing is that EU funding will not reach its own goals with this strategy of overloading research with bureaucracy: in the future only those researchers will apply to EU granting schemes which unfortunately will have no other choice. The good ones which will have other options and will do everything else. 15 Feb 11:57 Austria Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Christine Hartmann The term deliverable is an unfortunate term unfit for use in creative scientific activity. Advance in knowledge or techniques would be more appropriate. Research isnt an 8 hour job and does not only happen from Mo-Fri. So time sheets will never be able to reflect the amount of work put into a project and filling them out is no more than waste valuable time doing research. 23 May 14:42 Austria rho-BesSt coating GmbH Doris Steinmüller-Nethl Within the last years many improvements - especially for SMEs - have been achieved - but there is plenty of room for further changes and facilitation... 3 Mar 12:53 Austria RTCA-Rail Technology Cluster Austria Vera Fochler transparency and less bureaucracy are factors for successful project processing 29 Mar 09:13 Austria S.O.L.I.D. Sabine Putz S.O.L.I.D. is an Austrian solar engineering company specialising in all aspects of large-scale solar thermal energy plants. Since 1992, S.O.L.I.D. has been planning, building, delivering, assembling and operating large-scale solar plants (exceeding 100 m2) around the world, providing hot water, heating rooms, and supplying process heat, including district heating. SOLID also designs and builds solar chilled water plants, including the largest commercial solar cooling projects currently in operating. With its unmatched experience in design and operation of large-scale solar plants, S.O.L.I.D. is both a pioneer and one of the world’s leading companies in the solar industry. 23 Feb 15:53 Austria Salzburg Research Wernher Behrendt Reporting *once* on significant issues is good practice and a necessity when using public funds. Reporting many things several times in different formats increases everybodys ecological footprint, unnecessarily! 23 Feb 16:05 Austria SCL-SEnsor.Tech.Fabrication GmbH Ernest J. Fantner This is essential to increase the attractiveness of cooperations within European projects for SMEs. 24 Feb 10:41 Austria Sico Technology GmbH Walter Nadrag Research in Europe is verry Important. we as a smal Company have the chance to work together with Institutes, Universitys and other Partners. Sico developed in the last 3 Years new products and got 2 Patents with this type of R&D many Thanks Walter 26 Feb 09:46 Austria SinusPro GmbH Gerald Pichler For SMEs it is almost impossible to enter into R&D, as the required amount of money is relatively small compared to larger companies, but the process to get that small amount of money is equally complicated. SMEs do not have the financial power to risk paying one person full time, and in the end getting no money for research at all if the grant should be declined. SMEs in this way are very effectively kept from researching, which cannot be in the publics interest. Most innovation is coming out of SMEs, yet no financial incentive is provided to bring these ideas to the market. 15 Mar 09:03 Austria Software Competence Center Hagenberg Klaus Pirklbauer The simplification is very important to allow especially small companies to attend such research projects. Especially the remaining rules should be so, that everyone follwing these rules has legal certainty that there is no need to pay money back. Nowadays newcomers to such research projects can not even get a certification if their calculation method is right. So there should be few clear, understandable rules. 12 Mar 11:16 Austria Sonnenplatz Großschönau GmbH Josef Bruckner • We call for a faster and simplified procedure for project implementation. Waiting times of over half a year for decisions and cash flows are barely viable for small businesses. After placing the order (contract) there should be a preliminary payment of 10% of the total cost provided for the applicant and partners to compensate the already incurred personnel costs (application creation). • A single registration system for all program lines, as it works in Austria to the FFG, would facilitate the massive bureaucracy with each submission. • The applicants would have an advantage if they already know the composition of the jury (engineers, scientists, ...) in advance and hence the submission can be focussed accordingly. • The transfers of funds must be free of charges for the recipient and the partners. 23 Feb 16:18 Austria STUDIA Schlierbach Wolfgang E. Baaske For small private research organisations it is difficult to manage and to participate in European research programmes, and especially to submit proposals - mostly because of too complex procedures. 23 Feb 16:22 Austria Styrian Regional Government Maria Luise Stangl although FP 7 - especially using internet and electronic applications for research grants - has improved significantly to transparency and simplification, there is still an urgent need for streamlining administrative burdens for grant applicants and here especially in the field of financing and finance administration. 23 Feb 16:41 Austria Technical university vienna Markus Rupp please simplify administration. I spend 60h per week just on admin stuff, I never do research any more 29 Apr 10:38 Austria Technische Universität Ulrich Schubert I stopped participation in EU calls because the time spent for bureaucracy in three EU projects was out of proportion and killed all real research. Instead of following up our research ideas we were filling pages nobody would ever read. 23 Feb 18:01 Austria Technische Universität Wien Hermann Kopetz European research fund should be used to perform world-class research, not to feed a growing bureaucracy. 25 Feb 09:07 Austria Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung - Tyrolean Future Foundation Robert Ranzi The procedures should be simplified for technical but also innovative services. Please keep in mind the non-technical-market. Let´s find good and innovative combinations. 16 Feb 08:28 Austria TMG Bruno Lindorfer For Succeeding in the global innovation competition Europe does not need more bureaucracy but more new ideas and more new products and services. I proposoe a new slogan for the DG enterpirse and the DG R&D: Service (for our Customers) is our Success Service for the Customers means to minimizie the bureaucracy to an abolut minimum ! 9 Mar 15:05 Austria Toni Eiser Innovation-Strategy+Funding Toni Eiser It is difficult to convince SMEs to participate in European Research projects when they get aware of the administrative workload caused by the participation but also by the uncertainties concerning the acceptance of project costs. This is especially true for the cost of the work of entrepreneurs working in projects. 23 Feb 17:09 Austria TU Vienna Dionyz Pogany Administrative burden of researchers increased a lot from FP5 to FP7. We need to go back to system used in FP5 or even simpler. Proposal guidelines should have less than 10 pages. 1 Mar 10:34 Austria TU Wien Stefan Kalchmair Please give us researchers the chance to produce knowledge for a better place! 3 Mar 09:29 Austria TU Wien Siegfried HUEMER Simplify the EU administrative and financial procedures. Go on with the consultation procedure with the stakeholder. Try to keep it simple and smart. 27 May 19:10 Austria TU Wien Andrew Frank The complexity of the rules have increased from FP to FP; at the moment, participating in EU research projects is for most programs of no benefit to the top researchers: too much administration, not enough freedom to follow interesting and risky research leads. Fraud is still possible and occurs, despite all the rules - but honest research has become difficult. 10 Mar 13:34 Austria Univ. of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Ika Darnhofer If the administrative burden linked with research projects does not decrease researchers will either submit fewer project proposals or waste much of their time with paperwork rather than research. This is not efficient and is not what the tax payer has in mind when spending money for research!!! 15 Feb 10:29 Austria Universitaet Salzburg Hubert Haider As chairman of a department with little administrative infrastucture I refrain from applying for EU-funding just because the administrative collateral work load is too time consuming. 4 Mar 14:01 Austria Universität für Bodenkultur Peter Holubar From FP4 to FP7 the workload for writing a proposals and the subsequent reporting during projects has somehow tripled. This is highly unproductive and must be reduced to enable high class research. 12 Feb 11:30 Austria Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Iain Wilson One should end the nonsense of milestones, deliverables, unreadable rules and overlong contracts - concentrating instead on actual scientific progress! 4 Mar 13:50 Austria Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Willibald Loiskandl Frequent changes of officers (e.g. financial officers) lead to a process with accepted reports have to be rewritten. Feedback is required in not more than 3 month, notlike in my case a year. Project management with partners from the South are object to difficulties, which should not be increased by the EU-administration. Projects should be evaluated on quality and not on accounting and so on. 23 Feb 23:11 Austria Universität Klagenfurt Jürgen Pilz My recent experience (STREP within FP 6) was horrible and frustrating, an incredible waste of time for administration purposes! I hope that the present initiative will lead to noticeable simplifications. 24 Feb 14:33 Austria Universität Salzburg Esther Weinberger The main focus of a scientist should be on science, not bureaucracy! 24 Feb 11:51 Austria University odf Salzburg Friedrich Steinhäusler Too much time is waisted on filling forms for the application of a proposal as well as during the implementation of a granted project. Bureaucracy is overwhelming and distracts from carrying out actual R&D. 10 May 07:42 Austria University of Graz Richard Parncutt Creative, innovative research can only be promoted if the administrative load of researchers is minimized. This principle applies not only to EU and other research funding but also within every university. Administrators must realise that the most important output of a university ís high-quality research. It follows that the main function of administrators is to support researchers. They can do that by maximizing the time available to researchers to be creative and document the results of their creativity. To achieve this goal, administrators must themselves be creative - they must look creatively for new ways to reduce administrative loads without sacrificing output quality. Meta-administrators (those who administer administration) must explore ways of motivating their colleagues to creatively address these problems, and of appropriately rewarding their creativity. This is probably the most important problem hindering the research output of universities today and should therefore be given the highest priority. 23 Feb 16:24 Austria University of Innsbruck Gerhart Schuëller Efficient administration leaves more time for creative research 11 Feb 07:59 Austria University of Leoben Peter Schumacher EU regulation has found its way right down to partly funded national funding programms in Austria making the administration extremely time consuming. Thus leaving no time for in depth scientific work. In stead reports addressed to laymen have to be written and reports on dialy activities been compiled to make sure all hours spent on the project have been accounted for. (but not those on the weekend). Overall the system does not trust the scientist and treats him/her has he would apply for unemployment benefits. 15 Feb 09:16 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Georg Seifert Administration/bureaucracy should be acting as a service to citizens and not the other way round. Fund more simpler and smaller grants! (regional and cooperative aspects should remain important though) 23 Feb 16:28 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Harald Vacik Research and development should drive the future development of Europe. An effective, efficient, reliable and stable funding allows us to contribute to that vision. 2 Mar 12:20 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Silke-Silvia Drexler On the one hand costs for administration of an EU-funded project are calculated too low, but on the other hand administration goes to the expenses of research work. In such projects it is therefore not acceptable that administration is more time-consuming than research work, as the scientific output should come to the fore. 4 Mar 16:30 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna Petra Seibert Take the various national science foundations and their procedures as an example! 4 Mar 18:16 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna Wolfgang J. Berger Research has to be funded according to the nature of research, meaning CONCENTRATED ON OUTPUT! (rather than on administration!!) 24 Feb 08:36 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna Elisabeth Gumhold Administrative regulations have grown more and more and are now that complicate, that for researchers its almost unpossible to follow them, even in the administration we have problems to follow them, especially when the change during the project. 26 May 11:09 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna Georg Weltin Half-paid is better than no salary, but not enough! 28 May 10:01 Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) Marianne Penker Lets focus on research not on administration! 11 Mar 14:55 Austria University of Salzburg Horst Clausen Reduce the red tape burden to a sensible and justifiable level. The main expenditure should go into the scientific effort and not into a bureaucratic exercise. 23 Feb 22:55 Austria University of Technology vienna Guenter Emberger We are researchers - there we are good. We know that admin is necessary, but it should be significantly simplified. Thanks for this initiative. 23 Feb 17:13 Austria University of Vienna Christian Swertz Conducting European funded projects often requires more administration than actual research. This does not help to reach the intended targets. 11 Mar 15:39 Austria University of Vienna Helmut Hlavacs The burden of writing proposals and later on administrating projects has surpassed an acceptable limit. Highly professional academics waste their time writing proposals which are later on rejected due to ridiculous technical details or incompetent reviewers who do not understand the proposed ideas. Surprisingly, there is no information about the damage caused by this waste to the European scientific output. Scientists writing a proposal cannot - at the same time - do good research. 18 Mar 13:38 Austria University of Vienna Wolfgang Robien From a certain size of the organization upwards, the administration doesnt need the organization furthermore to justify its existence ! 24 Feb 09:23 Austria VCE Holding GmbH Helmut Wenzel Research money should be spent on research rather than solving administrative Problems. The way SMEs are treated (Bank Guarantees in addition to the 5% retainment fund) is counter productive 23 Feb 16:26 Austria Vienna School of Clinical Research Heinrich Klech Administrative workload for the submission for EU grants are too heavily loaded with bureaucratic details and many redundant duplications. 25 Feb 10:36 Austria Vienna Science and Technology Fund Michael Stampfer issue grants, not contracts! 24 Mar 23:22 Austria Vienna University Walter Schachermayer As an awardee of an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant I particularly appreciate the intentions of the present declaration. 19 Feb 21:59 Austria Vienna University of Technology Silke Buehler-Paschen We work (almost) day and night to do the very best science with European money, and at the end of the day we have to fill in the time sheet - with 8 instead of 10, 11, 12 hours... 23 Feb 17:17 Austria Vienna University of Technology Raimund Kirner Efficient procedures of research administration are an important factor to support high productivity of researchers. 24 Feb 08:31 Austria Vienna University of Technology Falko Puschitz R & D funding must be easier to be accessed 24 Feb 17:29 Austria Vienna University of Technology Franz Hlawatsch Inflated administration and excessive reporting are paralyzing. Lets allow researchers to do research! 24 Feb 21:01 Austria Vienna University of Technology Thomas Lidy Proposal writing takes away way too much precious research time! 25 Feb 17:31 Austria Vienna University of Technology Günther Raidl laration. 26 Feb 13:07 Austria Vienna University of Technology Armin Wagner Too much paper work. 27 Feb 11:23 Austria Vienna University of Technology Walter Kropatsch Efficiency should be measured as cost for effective output! Costs not only include researchers in projects but ALL administrative costs including the administration and controlling in Brussels. Effective output does NOT include reports not available for the scientific community like history of project, statistics, etc. Under such global criteria current EU projects have a very low performance! 1 Mar 10:59 Austria Vienna University of Technology Ferdinand Bammer Administration of EU-projekts is awful ! For our latest projekt one man was full-time busy (40h/week) for two years ! 1 Mar 17:34 Austria Vienna University of Technology Martin Kozek Procedures for managing an EU-project should not be designed to be the least common multiple of all member procedures. 1 Mar 18:37 Austria Vienna University of technology Franz Kohlbeck Administrative costs now associated with research turned out to be as high or even higher than the actual money allocated to the scientists. This is an intolerable situation. In addition EU formalism allows development only and in fact inhibits true resarch work 16 Mar 14:33 Austria Vienna University of Technology René Sedmik Research is a risk-taking activity. It can neither be judged nor managed with conventional economic measures and schemes. The tremendous effort researchers have to take year after year to gather money and justify their work in reports slows down scientific progress and thus reduces efficiency. Currently, obvious demographic trends indicate that Europe is loosing ground against the emerging far-east. Expertise, knowledge, and high education are key features to ensure our competitiveness and wealth in the future. These can only be maintained by a flexible, long termed, and well proportioned funding structure with an adequate tolerance of risk and a clear confession to support frontier research. 18 May 15:00 Austria Vienna University of Technology Ayse Adalan More than half of the time we could use for reseach is spent for administration - before, during and after research projects. I strongly agree with all points, lets take the initiative. 18 May 16:27 Austria Vienna University of Technology Alberto Castro Fernández I totally agree with this declaration. More research and less bureaucracy 19 May 11:10 Austria Vienna University of Technology Lukas Weissensteiner Increase efficiency of researchers as well as of funding organisations through dramatically improving administration = decreasing bureaucracy! 25 Feb 08:41 Austria Vienna University of Technology - TU Wien Erasmus Langer The strong rules concerning the documentation of working times in EU projects are far to heavy; especially the respective requirement for the permanent staff contributing to the project and paid by the University completely ignores real-world academic research practice. 23 Feb 16:24 Austria Vienna University of Technology / TU Wien Christoph Mecklenbräuker 1. The requirements on the documentation of working times in EU projects are far to heavy, and completely ignore real-world academic research practice. 2. The procedure for claiming value added tax after the project is finalized is very cumbersome. 23 Feb 12:07 Austria voestalpine Stahl Donawitz Herbert SCHIFFERL The administrative obstacles are a big barrier to take part on European Research Programmes for industrial companies like our companay because of restricted ressources in R&D deapartments. 23 Feb 12:42 Austria voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH & Co KG Manfred Zahn If the ruduction of bureaucratic work should succeed, the researchers can focus more on their R&D work. 23 Feb 16:31 Austria WESTCAM Projektmanagement GmbH Alfred Moser WESTCAM supports enterprises and organizations that develop and manufacture high-quality products. Our fields of operation comprise technical software and systems, engineering and manufacturing as well as technology transfer and consulting. Like that, WESTCAM provides the basis for all sorts of assignments in the field of technology and our sucessful customers benfit from our overlapping know-how and long-term experience. For further information please visit our website http://www.westcam.at/default_en.asp. 23 Feb 16:34 Austria Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Rainer Hasenauer research is complex, adminstration of research must be simple. Keeping adminstration simple increases mutual trust. 4 Mar 07:53 Austria WISDOM Karl Mueller Especially in comparison with US-funding systems, European research becomes more and more bureaucratized across all stages of research, but especially with respect to the application phase and nwith respect to the administrative documentation of research activities. The European model drifts more and more towards a highly bureaucratized form of low risk research. 3 Mar 11:20 Austria Wolf Technologieberatung - Object Tracker Luzian Wolf SMEs who perform research are taking significant financial risks. The EU financing of research projects should therefore not only cover reseach costs and overheads, but should also provide a premium for the financial risks that are taken. 23 Feb 19:46 Austria Wolfgang Pauli Institute Norbert Mauser FP6 is a overregulated nightmare for administrations and scientists-in-charge, the rules are very counterproductive, no more flexibility, the SESAM software is very bad. Project officers and scientific officers are constantly changing which makes everything extremely cumbersome. I was a coordinator of a large Research Training Network in FP5 with 350 scientists in 60 nodes - and it was less than 1/5 of the administrative effort than being now coordinator of a small Marie Curie MEST network with 5 nodes in FP6. All my scientists-in-charge of my network who were enthusiastic how European projects could be run efficiently in FP5 are frustrated about the change of rules / procedures and do not want to participate any more in European projects... 14 Feb 20:19 Austria WU-Wien Andreas Novy Research and Knowledge production and sharing in general have to be based on trust and oriented towards effectively contributing to an enlarged understanding of socioeconomic challenges. Reducing bureaucratic burdens and more stress on the organisation of knowledge production would be more joyful and result-oriented. 16 Feb 11:39 Austria Zentrum für Soziale Innovation Carmen Siller I am responsible for the financial management of a large project with currently 26 partners and I regularly see the consquences of the incredible adminiatrative burden for the researchers when it comes to financial reporting. 9 Feb 13:12 Austria Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI) - Centre for Social Innovation Josef Hochgerner Simplification is no danger to accuracy. It makes it easier to be precise. Back-up mechanisms may provide additional assurance and control. 23 Feb 19:10 Austria ZT-Büro Gerhard CORDT Wir sind sehr dafür, dass die Abläufe in der Europäischen Forschungslandschaft sehr viel einfacher werden!!! Back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||