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A declaration to the attention of the
European Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

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


19 Feb 20:41   Croatia   Institute of Phsycs  Veljko Zlatic
The way the funds are distributed is inefficient by design. Selections are made by anonymous professional panels and formal decision by unqualified bureaucrats. There is no room at any level for responsible science policy, which can only be done by accountable humans. Say, a program director, appointed for 5 years, who follows a clear-cut policy, fine tunes the panels decision, makes a personal final decision, gets the credit or the blame for success or failure. Sounds, familiar, doesnt it?

20 Feb 18:02   Croatia   Rudjer Boskovic Institute  David Smith
As the coordinator of an FP6 project, I have had to directly face the difficulties that serve as the motivation for this petition. I have indeed been forced to spend an unacceptably large proportion of my time coping with the various complex regulations and reporting procedures. This necessarily impacts the amount of time I have available to complete my primary activity, scientific research.

17 Feb 14:27   Croatia   School of Medicine, University of Split  Maja Rogic
Application form is to complex and too administrative. In some instances there are no real representative evaluators for specific fields (e.g. intraoperative neurophysiology) which opens route to misinterpretations of project proposals, and finally to the project rejections.

9 Jun 10:58   Croatia   University Hospital Center  Zoran Mitrovic
How can we develop into globally prosperous and competitive community if restrained by administrative burden we impose to ourselves?

17 Feb 14:22   Croatia   University of Split, School of Medicine  Vedran Deletis
Application form is too complex and complicated and take a very long time to be completed. Review process does not represent real value of submitted project(s).

9 Jun 21:35   Croatia   University of Zagreb School of Medicine  Milos Judas
I fully agree that administrative burden for EU-funded projects is too extensive and too complicated - especially in comparison to USA researchers it seems that we here are doomed to spend much more time on administrative/bureaucratic issues than to the fruitful research.

27 Mar 19:35   Croatia   University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture  Tomislav Pogačić
Finding might happen during research, but might not as well. Therefore, how to plan in advance expected outcomes?



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