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6 comments.  (Note: Some comments are not made public accessible.)


7 May 11:01   Estonia   Institute of Physics, University of Tartu  Marko Kaasik
The flexible and minimalistic rules, tolerant and risk-accepting practice of NordForsk (the science funding body of Nordic Council of Minsters) might be a positive example for entire Europe.

13 May 14:21   Estonia   Institute of Physics, University of Tartu  Viktor Palm
In my opinion the current rules for EU research funding are prohibiting for those applicants who prefer to spend their time on scientific research not on the research of various bureaucratic procedures.

13 May 08:40   Estonia   Institute of Physics, Univesity of tartu  Sven Lange
It is true that innovation should bring better goods and services to the public but by financing it is based on finance plans we will eventually only fine tune existing inventions not creating anything new...One cannot create a good finance plan for a non-existing product or a way of thinking. All great inventions have (mostly) started from seemingly worthless seeds cultivated purely by scientific community (no significant finance support) up to a point when economy noticed its greatness.

8 Feb 16:58   Estonia   Ministry of Education and Research  Rein Kaarli
I support the initiative. When funding research, the nature of research and research output should be heeded more seriously. The same concerns the implementation of EU Structural Funds and the ways different instruments are combined. I appreciate the efforts the EC has taken for the sake of simplification, but there is still much room to go.

7 May 12:20   Estonia   National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics  Risto Tanner
A lot of funding instruments are focused mainly to the cross-borders cooperation of research and to promoting contacts between scientists with the pesumption, that basic research has been provided on the national level. But the latter is very unequal in member states. More projects for direct funding of research itself is needed, intending reasonable proportion of the total for cooperative purposes.

2 Mar 22:01   Estonia   University of Tartu  Talis Bachmann
Excess bureaucracy does not fit the nature of scientific research -- neither in terms of output efficiency and innovation nor in terms of academic freedom principles.



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