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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 Denmark24 comments. (Note: Some comments are not made public accessible.) 10 Mar 09:59 Denmark Aarhus University Jacob Boeggild Far too much time is spent on writing applications, evaluations etcetera. Set research free and leave proper time for it 28 Apr 21:25 Denmark Aarhus University Hospital Christian Wejse The signature business is getting out of hand. We have to sign budgets and obtain signatures from financial departments and prefects and a 6 page budget is rejected if only the last page with signatures is scanned, all pages have to be in the pdf. As if this signature circus safeguards anything, if they do not trust us in the first place why grant us money anyway 9 Mar 11:31 Denmark Aarhus University, School of Education Estrid Sørensen Simplification is important, too strong standardisation may however harm research, and favour funding of some research areas and some approaches over other. For instance is the current EU formula that force all research to be shaped in terms of milestones and work packages (etc) not equally suitable for all disciplines, research areas and approaches. 29 Apr 14:00 Denmark CBS Torkil Clemmensen simplication and clarity in application and evaluation procedurs to help all stakeholders to understand how to apply and how the application has been evaluated 25 Mar 10:32 Denmark copenhagen business school niels bjørn-andersen it is clear that the administrative burden is getting higher and higher. this is due to examples of fraud. obviously society can not tolerate fraud, but to totally avoid fraud is a massive undertaking (elimination of the last 1% fraud probably costs 100 times as much. we have to somehow put fraud into perspective and only go for the larger amounts. a stupid example is VAT. If I eg go to the Netherlands, and book a hotel inexpensively on the net, the city tax of Amsterdam will be collected by the hotel. it this case, it will be a seperate bill that is not deductable. if I buy it more expensively prepaid through a travel agent, the city tax might not show, and the full bill will be covered. only problem seen from tax payer point of view is that hotel is this case is higher. biggest problem is that raising this issue, if anybody takes any notice, will create a huge effort, maybe even a consultancy investsigation, which again might lead to a stricter control of VAT payment on hotel bills. but did anybody think about how much this extra administration costs? I will bet that it is much more than the enforcement of the rule that the EU should not cover tax out of EU budgets. 25 Mar 11:12 Denmark Copenhagen Business School Ravi Vatrapu As a junior researcher who was trained in the US, currently pursuing an academic life in the EU, and a consortium partner on a EU integrating project proposal, I admit that I have a very limited experience with the admisnitrative and financial regulatory aspects of EU funded projects. Even with that very limited experience, in my opinion, the administration and regulatory aspects of EC projects are worrying and discouraging burdens and ultimately, it might be counter-productive burdens. As reseachers we have enough technical and social issues to attend to. We all can appreciate not having to constantly worry about the administrative and financial aspects of the grant. This is not a call to remove all regulation but to make it actually conducive to research and development rather than a burden. 16 Feb 13:16 Denmark Copenhagen University Vladimir Berezin I fully support this initiative 18 Mar 15:21 Denmark Danish School of Education Birte Ravn I have been involved in several EU projects or programmes and I find the bureaucracy too embarassing - far more than needed. 26 Mar 12:23 Denmark Danish Technological Institute Jeremy Millard I have been involved in EC research since the early 1990s and have been arguing since that time to reduce the adminsitrative burden. However, it has become considerable worse since then. There is of course a need to stop cheating and fight corruption, but there are simple ways of doing this without increasing the adminsitration. For example, focusing strongly on evaluating the quality of the research and its contribution, rather than on bean counting hours, travel, etc. The latter just means that both research and EC staff waste research resources. The former enables these rfesources to be used on, yes, actual research! 5 May 22:02 Denmark Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute Johan Fynbo I think the goal should be to reach a level of bureaucracy similar to that known from national research funds (or smaller). It is in the interest of all to make the ERC as effective and attractive for the best scientists as possible. 23 Mar 19:00 Denmark DBL - Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen Christian Gregart Coordinating several FP6-programmes (STREP) and have especially experienced financil/administrative reporting difficulties and challenges in the actual acceptance of a reporting. Extremely high demand in the detail level of each reporting is especially a challenge when having African partners in the project. Also experiences with different demands in the detailed level of the reporting both in between different projects and reporting periods. 24 Mar 14:52 Denmark DBL Parasitology, Health and Development, Dept. of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of C Thomas Krogsgaard Kristensen I coordinate the FP6 project CONTRAST and agree with the complains leading to this initiative. 23 Mar 15:12 Denmark Forest & Landscape Denmark, University of Copenhagen Anders Ræbild As the coordinator of a project you end up using the majority of your time on administration rather than on research. Much could be done simply by providing exact and easy-to-understand guidelines about the information needed in relation to reporting. I believe this would be a big help for everybody, including the administration of EC. 10 Mar 14:49 Denmark Geocenter Danmark Jørn Thiede The simpler the better! 3 Mar 19:53 Denmark Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University Kim Sneppen Most valuable resource is time. My evaluation of EU grants is that they cost to much time. They are far to expensive time-consumers to be worth the money. To complicated application forms, and to much useless reporting. Just better leave EU funding to the administrators and professionals in applying for grants. 11 Feb 05:50 Denmark Technical University of Denmark Niels Skat Tiedje The administrative burden and complexity in writing application is a major obstacle for applications for research projects. They are the two reasons for not applying for EU grants that I hear the most often. 7 Mar 13:08 Denmark Technical University of Denmark Torger Børresen The paperwork connected to contract agreements are too heavy. Many conditions are given in annexes where the answer to a certain question is hard to find. The legal office is too slow to respond and requests too many details. 24 Mar 10:30 Denmark Technical University of Denmark Cheol-Ho Jeong I am currently working at Technical University of Denmark as an assistant professor from October 2007. 24 Mar 11:20 Denmark Technical University of Denmark Hans-Heinrich Bothe Compared to the total budget spent in EU research projects, the actual scientific output and technical impact are depressingly low. The necessary administrative effort (including paper work and travel to ineffective meetings instead of video conferences) is usually high; but as most researchers agree to dislike too much burocracy, respective rules are often not taken serious and followed strictly. As a results, i) too much of the budget is unnecessarily burnt-off instead of being used for real project work and ii) many administrative rules mainly reate a burocratic bubble rather than preventing any potential monetary irregularities. I believe that there should be a constructive research administration and also some powerful tools for monetary control, which should rather assist the majority of the researchers who want to create good scientific/technical results and create papers for the scientific public than keeping them busy with producing paper for the EU administration. 24 Mar 14:19 Denmark Technical University of Denmark Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg I have participated in one EU-application related to 7. framework programme. The amount of non-scientific work pertaining to writing such application is far larger than the actual scientific part of the proposal. As a consequence, I (as well as my collegues) have become quite reluctant to invest time in the future to write EU applications. 7 Jun 10:55 Denmark Technical University of Denmark Peter Andersen I have coordinated one FP6 programme and I am currently coordinating one FP7 programme. I believe some simplifications have been implemented. However, the administrative burden is still very large. 8 Mar 12:41 Denmark University of Copenhagen Claus Emmeche The European Community should, in addition to its own frame programs, and to secure academic freedom, invent and support policies increasing the rate of basic public fundings as compared with external fundings for university research. 10 Mar 13:11 Denmark University of Copenhagen Carl Christian Tscherning EU applications and the later reporting is a far too heavy burden. ESA has the right system ! 16 Mar 23:19 Denmark University of Copenhagen Andreas Baumann Knowledge is born free, and only the tyranny of evil men has put it in shackles. 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