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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 Latvia20 comments. (Note: Some comments are not made public accessible.) 10 Feb 17:49 Latvia Agency of LUA Research Institut of Agriculture Aivars Jermuss Less money on birocraty. 28 Feb 00:27 Latvia Institute of Physical Reseach and biomechanics Aigars Atvars To concentrate more on a scientific result than on writing neat project overviews. It should be tested how real pace of scientific work differs from pace of a project form. 3 Mar 16:06 Latvia Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia Andris Sternberg In Latvia - the number of reporting and accounting documents by applying, contracting and implementing of scientific projects, an according paperwork in hours, as well as number of necessary signatures during sign-in procedure increases with geometrical progression. During last three years by coefficient almost 4. In addition, e.g., for some few European Structural fund supported project running we have to report each month on each scientist participating, and for every project there are two persons from leading Agency at Ministry of Science and Education. We completely agree and support, that funding of research in Europe should be based on mutual trust and responsible partnering and the financial and administrative provisions should be urgently simplified. Otherwise high level professional scientists have to waste more and more of their time for bureaucratic paperwork. Please stop it. 4 Mar 08:10 Latvia Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia Eriks Klotins Science is the sole activity that can and must take the gauge of its own results 4 Mar 09:03 Latvia Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia Donats Millers The request for a lot of different reports as well as for filling of tables etc. is time expensive, thus more than 30 % of the time researchers spent for papers instead of actual research work. 22 Feb 18:32 Latvia Latvian Biomedical Research & Study Centre Jekaterina Erenpreisa We need operativity and flexibility in purchase of the reagents. In the fundamental research, it is often impossible to foresee which reagents, f.ex. antibodies you may need in a week. And, of course, if the antibody has proved to be good, I wish to get for the next time just this one but not to obey the foolish rule to purchase by procedure any (the cheapest), which may not work. Because our time is of the highest value. If we are losing time we are losing in competition for novel results. Such economy ultimately is not economic. 2 Mar 17:41 Latvia Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre Andris Dishlers They need your papers not your work. 23 Feb 08:31 Latvia Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis Peteris Trapencieris The only way for the development of EU research area in comparison with US and Japan is an increase of funding and shorten evaluation criteria for grant applications. In reality, the development of Eastern block countries is blocked, because of unfair criteria for them and excluding of chemistry disciplines for grant applications. 26 Feb 12:26 Latvia Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis Inta Liepina Science should be democratic, not bureaucratic! Ive ever wonder what the percentage of funding for science is devoted for administration of the funding, evaluation of projects, what percentage of work of a scientist is devoted for writing thick, hopeless projects. I was surprised that the announced topics of EU scientific programs were very narrow, seems as adjusted for already formed groups. The evaluation criteria very often exclude from a competition Eastern Europe scientists because of less developed technical bases. And from the competition of individual grants the evaluation criteria are not favorable for woman, who at first want to grown up her children and then fully devote herself to science: when she would return to her scientific work, she will be excluded from competition because of age discrimination - most of the individual career support grants are for the person under 35. 23 Feb 10:24 Latvia Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry Janis Gravitis I put my signature in occordance to my experiece of writing EU science proposals 26 Feb 08:32 Latvia Latvian University of Agriculture Sanita Kļava Research interests: rural development, area payments, area support payments, financial support, EU support, agricultural crops, land use, etc. 26 Feb 15:15 Latvia LV Biomedical study and research center Darya Ciganoka Dont wait. The time will never be just right. (c) Napoleon Hill 23 Mar 12:39 Latvia Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy Dace Markus Too many restrictions and piles of paper work which shall be done slows down the resultativity of research. 26 Feb 08:21 Latvia RTU Agnese Stunda Less paperwork, more time for science, more innovations 22 Feb 18:40 Latvia University of Latvia Marcis Leja The current bureaucracy while utilizing the EU funding for research at least in the new member states is forcing scientists to spend significant part of their working time for piles of documentation required for reporting, therefore this time is lost for real research. This bureaucracy does not allow to change the strategy of research based on the obtained results since is requiring to foresee exactly the next-coming steps that normally would depend on the first obtained results. In result, a great proportion of money is spent useless, but the new developments are slowed down significantly. The possibility to avoid the unnecessary bureaucracy would allow fostering the work and obtaining results much more rapidly. 3 Mar 12:30 Latvia University of Latvia Ingus Purgalis Results of research in science does not produce policy! 23 Mar 16:51 Latvia University of Latvia Alexander Sostaks My personal experience shows that during recent years the bureaucratic regulations (at least in the aspect with which I had to encounter) grew up as a tumour. I think that finally one has to cut it! 23 Mar 18:12 Latvia University of Latvia Valdis Pirags We have to hind more effective control mechanisms instead of increasing burden of unnecessary formulars, deliverables, reports etc. 24 Mar 09:55 Latvia University of Latvia, Department of mathematics Janis Buls There is only one possibility: if the specific bureaucrat invents new idiotism his salary must be cut. 3 Mar 14:19 Latvia University of Latvia, Solid State Physics Institute Anatolijs Truhins at least the bureaucracy of Latvia constructed in a way to destroy science. Proposals should be written in a way we used to make publications and only publication should be send as justification of a research. no other idiotic formulation such as straightening etc. Back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||