Decades of sort-sighted politics have taken a huge toll on the French system of Higher Education and Research (HER). According to OECD, France was 7th in the world in 1995 for its research effort compared to its GNP, and 15th in 2011. In 2011, France was also 14th for the ratio researchers/population. Despite the international […]
In Germany, according to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, investments in R&D have increased over the past years and do correspond to 3% of the GDP. According to the Lisbon-strategy and its successor, the Europe 2020-strategy, all member states of the European Union are supposed to pursue and reach this goal. This collaborate […]
France is well known for its strikes and protests. “Sciences en Marche” experiences a new kind of demonstration. During 3 weeks, from September 26th to October 18th, researchers, faculty members, technical staff and all people concerned by the future of sciences in France will relay from all main French town toward Paris. The march, indeed […]
Basic research is intrinsically risky: looking at the history of science one may find many examples of unexpected discoveries as well as of many ideas that were assumed true at a certain point in time while later they were proven wrong. Among the first we find, in recent years, the discovery of high temperature superconductivity […]
Welcome to the Homo scientificus europaeus blog! This blog is your space to share ideas, to discuss issues, to bring suggestions on how best to improve the research environment for scientists working across Europe. Until now, scientists were attempting to solve the problems they face at national level. Thanks to simple and readily available communication and publishing tools, the […]
