Read EuroScientist’s last issue about Science and the Common Good! Towards new ways to use and to make Science closer to the needs of our tired world! Peace must disrupt the vicious circle: fear-ignorance-hate and help the citizens to overcome the old adage tremendously exposed by Etienne de la Boetie close to 500 years ago: the […]
Martin Luther King got One. A great process against ignorance.
Remember… Charlie Chaplin in the Dictator Do not forget our Open Letter: “They have chosen ignorance”. Each day more relevant! Sign and spread!
There is a wide debate on the next referendum in Greece. It’s hard to summarize the different economic, social and political problems that are all equally important: all require an intervention that must reverse a route that looks set to wreck safe. Below I have singled out the points that I consider the most important […]
Dear Colleagues/scientists across Europe, During the last six months, you signed the European petition “They have chosen Ignorance”. Today, we think that an ideal occasion has arisen to make our protest more visible – we propose to read it at the Bologna Ministerial Conference, which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, on the 14th […]
Measure the impact of scientific research of a country is of great interest to policy makers in order to define both the amount of its spending and its priorities. To study in a systematic way the scientific impact of nations, using simple and relevant indicators, data on the number of articles and citations produced by individual […]
Last time I spoke with Mariano Gago, it was a few weeks after we published the open letter “They have chosen ignorance”. It ended up being a one-hour phone-call! He was horrified by the recent research cuts in Portugal. He was also very concerned about the fact that the human resources dedicated to scientific research, […]
As you might know, on the 8th October 2014 we published an open letter called “They have chosen ignorance” in 7 languages and 9 daily newspapers throughout the EU. It was addressed, primarily, to the community of European scientists, asking for large-scale signing. Our challenge was and still is multiple, but with a concrete goal: joining the […]
Here a text from Guillermo Orts-Gil and Victor Puntés. On November 24th the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain’s largest public research institution, celebrated its 75 anniversary. During the official celebration, special guest King Felipe VI, claimed: “Spain cannot afford to prepare young scientists who travel abroad with no possibility of returning”. One of the reasons […]
Accounting and working with budget numbers isn’t always that boring as it appears to be, especially if it’s spiced up with marketing. Presentation matters and can make reality more shining (or more gloomy) than it actually is. A good example is the debate on the budget of Horizon 2020 as compared to the previous framework […]
Young researchers from Southern Europe are not accepting any more to be the best educated generation ever with no opportunities. Why are the governments not investing in the future, in supporting the bright youth and the innovative knowledge based society? This is a good question. Has any society ever prospered by cutting down on the […]
