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(Note: Some comments are not made public accessible.) 18 Mar 15:00 Portugal Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology Armindo Salvador Burdening scientists with bureaucratic duties is a severe misuse of expensively trained human resources 18 Mar 20:02 Portugal Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Sáude /ISCS-N / CESPU Hassan Bousbaa I also find the process of applying and bureacratie painful and disencouraging. 19 Feb 14:58 Portugal CES - University of Coimbra Carmen Diego Gonçalves Avoiding heavy bureaucracy; implementing trust, transparecy, accountability, research and reseacrhers will gain in quality and time to achieve good final results. 26 May 15:30 Portugal DDTE - LCD - Aveiro University Rui Manuel Guimarães Lima Working on CIDTFF - Research Centre for Didactics and Technology in Teacher Education 3 Mar 21:01 Portugal Dep. Biologia Universidade do Minho José Vingada Excellent initiative We spend a lot of time and money (contracting external consultants) to answer the tremendous technical demands associated with EU funding. Sometimes I have the impression that we are treated as criminals taking advantage of the EU funds. However, the majority of us end up spending our private money on research to cover research costs. 4 Mar 21:44 Portugal Dept. Mathematics, University of Coimbra Alexander Kovacec An immediate measure is to keep home-grown paperwork at our own institutions at bay (virtual or otherwise). And then: a corageous battle of university-administrators against state bureaucracy. 11 Mar 17:51 Portugal Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Manuel Ortigueira I think it is easier to do a Ph.D. thesis than a project proposal. On the other hand there is an inversion: a project should be for finding new things not to find funding for things already discovered. 24 Mar 22:59 Portugal Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa Joao Daniel The application process, but still more burdensome, the administrative process, are unduly heavy and time consuming, so that the actual scientific work and the mentoring of post-grads and post-docs becomes an impossible task. 10 Mar 14:48 Portugal Faculty os Sciences and Technology Arnaldo Batista Too many acronyms, too much buorocracy, many hours spent on trying to understand the data 19 Mar 11:27 Portugal IBMC Teresa Summavielle Bureaucracy consumes a large percentage of my daily schedule. 26 Mar 10:56 Portugal IGOT - UL Maria Aurindo We should balance the need for control and justice in what concerns fundind and the usual excess of procedures that delay when not make impossible for some research to be developed. Is not the quantity and the control that help high quality to emerge. There has to be some flexibility within continuing to pursuit excelence. Why not ask the ones that have to deal with all of this (in the different levels of responsability, hierachy and functions) to give their structured opinions, expectations and wishes (maybe through a questionaire online) so that decisions may be made with a significative participation of those whose work is daily influenced by al of this. 10 May 10:33 Portugal INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomedica Pedro Granja The excessive bureaucratic components of EU grant applications discourage researchers to engage in this process, which became terribly time consuming and, most often, useless. The current standard procedure of hiring specialized companies to carry out the task of grant writing clearly shows the perversion of this system, which does not seem designed to award the most innovative proposals nor the best science. 26 Mar 18:28 Portugal INEB-Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto Mário Barbosa Too much administrative hurdles render science less effective. And this costs a lot of money and opportunities. 5 Apr 19:12 Portugal Inovamais S.A Miguel Sousa Research management should be given to researchers and to industry not to policy makers. 23 Mar 22:52 Portugal Instituo de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Manuel Pedro Salema Fevereiro It is ridiculous to realize how much time we spend with burocracy. I am usualy so sumerged I haveno time to study, nor to think. This is the wrong way to do our job. Any reduction in paper work will be mostly welcomed! 29 Apr 14:41 Portugal Instituto de Medicina Molecular Federico Herrera Trust!!! 29 Apr 14:44 Portugal Instituto de Medicina Molecular Tiago Outeiro We deserve to be trusted 2 Jun 10:12 Portugal Instituto Higiene Medicina Tropical Leonard Amaral There is an urgent need to develop agents that are effective against MDR and XDR TB. We have developed such agents and determined the mechanism by which they promote the killing of intracellular MDR/XDR Mtb. This mechanism involves the activation of the human non-macrophage of the lung to kill intracellular Mtb. This mechanism therefore avoids any mutational response of the intracellular organism that leads to resistance. At this time Global clinical trials with the phenothiazine thioridazine for the cure of XDR TB are being organised with our international partners in The Netherlands, UK, Argentina, India, Guadalupe, Mozambique, and other areas of the globe where XDR TB is prevalent. 16 Mar 11:00 Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL Manuel Alonso The documents for funding research inside the EU are very difficult to fulfill and have to many exceptions. 29 Mar 11:07 Portugal IPIMAR, National Institute of Biological Resources carlos vale The effort on research and development should be focused on knowledge and scientific innovation. Administration should be maintaned as simple as possible. 18 Feb 14:47 Portugal ISA-UTL João Palma Simplification and standardization! If we manage to write Intro, Mat&Met, Disc, Concl for the whole science... funding agencies should be able to work on a standardized method to the funding info needs. 23 Mar 11:06 Portugal LNEG Joao Carvalho To understand the rules of some European funded projects (e.g. FP7) is an awesome task. Simplification is a must! 18 Apr 14:56 Portugal LNEG Fatima Abrantes Innovation is only possible if you have freedom of spirit 23 Apr 17:44 Portugal OPT - Optimização e Planeamento de Transportes, S.A. Joao Cunha It takes a lot of effort to make processes simple and easy to follow. 18 Feb 11:36 Portugal Technical University of Lisbon Maria Ferreira Please improve the use of paper work required 28 Apr 16:36 Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Fernao Vistulo de Abreu Researchers should concentrate on research, not on bureaucracy. Today the most important people in research, do no research. That is a problem, isnt it??? 23 Mar 23:22 Portugal Universidade de Évora Manuel Mota Please cut the administrative burden. The EU needs it! 29 Mar 17:28 Portugal Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Luís Barbosa Please reduce burocracy. 2 Jun 09:48 Portugal Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Rolf Kemmler A burocracia muitas vezes ilógica e desnecessária rouba valioso tempo aos investigadores - trata-se efetivamente de desperdício de recursos caros! 18 Feb 19:43 Portugal Universidade Nova Regina Salvador Research - as is organized today in the EU - privileges the organizations with specialized departments to take care of red tape. If you are not in one of these organizations, you have to do it yourself, leaving no time to research. 24 Mar 22:12 Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Joao G. Ferreira I was recently involved in three FP6 projects, one of which as coordinator. Two (SPEAR and ECASA) have now been successfully closed, one is still outstanding. All ended at least two years ago, and only very recently were closed. The supporting documentation is unacceptably laborious to assemble - as an example, a description of major cost items was required from SPEAR, I assembled a list of items in the >50K euro range (for a project funding of 2MEuro), and was asked to provide far more detail, but the financial officer refused to let me know what the EC understood as a major item - one of our Dutch partners ended up reporting items down to 30 euro cost as part of the major item list. A Kafkian experience. 31 Mar 11:12 Portugal University Beira Interior Jose Manso I think its urgent to simplify these process in order to improove our productivity and free researchers to do what they know: to do research 17 Feb 21:55 Portugal University of Aveiro Célia Alves Reduce burocracy and evaluation time 18 Feb 11:27 Portugal University of Minho Luís Miranda-Correia Be friendly with researchers; simplify the rules. Everybody will gain. 29 Apr 11:43 Portugal University of the Algarve Isabel Cardigos According to my experience the process involving candidateships for projects is the main obstacle for the going ahead of many worthy and interesting initiatives. If we managed to pass this main test of filling forms and sending them online, this was at the cost of enormous stress and work delayed or undone elsewhere. Ones sense of fulfilment should be invested in more creative tasks than that of filling forms with success. 2 Jun 15:47 Portugal University Tras Montes Alto Douro (UTAD) Joao Carvalho We are embraced in too much bureaucracy. More than 50% of our time is spent for administrative issues, imposed by administrative officers and regulations. No simplification exists, no help in this matter and few time remains for research and study. 2 Jun 11:57 Portugal UTAD; CRIA-ISCTE Paulo D Mendes Simplicity helps Transparency. 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