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| Signatures including commentsRefine your search Show all comments (sorted by date) Show all comments (sorted by length) Show regional comments: Comments from Cyprus8 comments. (Note: Some comments are not made public accessible.) 4 May 09:06 Cyprus Cyprus University of Technology Dimitris Tsaltas It is of our great concern that this approach from the EU authorities is also spreading to a national level. This type of management struggles research and puts second thoughts for new grant applications. All relevant authorities need to understand that it is of the researchers benefit to save the funds and use them reasonably in order to promote research further. This will result to both personal satisfaction and better promotion status. 4 May 10:41 Cyprus Cyprus University of Technology Christos Papachristoforou Bureaucracy paralyses research 23 Mar 13:54 Cyprus European University Cyprus Georgios Christou Bureaucracy kills research, as instead of spending our extremely valuable time on research, we have to fill in forms on forms, just to prove that we have done research... Vicious circle? Well... 26 Mar 12:52 Cyprus European University Cyprus Iacovos Psaltis Apart from the very complex and bureaucratic system of the procedures for obtaining funding for any European Research Programme the other factor that is forbidding for an academic to get seriously involved in research or even writing any papers is the heavy teaching load. And heres the story of the chicken and the egg. What should the priority be of an academic institute? Excellent teaching that produces graduates of high stndards or academics with excellent CVs? Doing both is rather either exhausting or ...impossible! 21 Feb 18:03 Cyprus RTD Talos Alexandros Michaelides Administrative and Finacial Bureugracy is AGAINST research! 4 Mar 00:57 Cyprus STARC, The Cyprus Institute Franco Niccolucci Adopt a two-step procedure for proposal submission. It is nonsense writing 60 pages to be rejected because only two proposals will be funded and yours is ranked less. So a lightweight preliminary form, with just the idea, and a shortlist with 150%-200% of the feasible number of funded projects. Also, less work for evaluators so money saving for the commission. As Einstein said, good ideas do not need too many words to be explained. Simplify controls: do them by sample and go in depth, dont rely on possibly fake (too many) papers. I bet that 95% of timesheet are crap. Today Disraeli would have said There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and EU project reports. 16 Feb 09:58 Cyprus The Cyprus Insitute Ropertos Georgiou Simplify and effective research. 16 Feb 09:56 Cyprus The Cyprus Institute Adriana Bruggeman Generally, European research grants (i) fund only a part of the actual cost of the research; (ii) take about a year between conception and receival of funds. Therefore, it is very important that the funds can be allocated easily and in a flexible manner, such that the needed requirements, which can not always be foreseen beforehand, can be covered to achieve the best possible research outputs. Back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||