A fundamental and applied research system is a crucial field in the development of countries. We can call for the EU to keep funding for research and development in all member states above 3% of GDP.
A fundamental and applied research system is meant to be a crucial field in the development of a country.
It leads not only to an high level education and a knowledge that teachers can spread in communities in the form of culture, but also in an essential contribute in many other collective themes: health, environmental sustainability and technological innovation represent only a part of the subjects with the major effects. In order to achieve these results, it is important that researchers can join valuable projects durably and that scientific areas can grow simultaneously and interacting each other, according to a subsidiarity principle.
Now, thanks to the Next Generation EU, the funding supply is being made possible and it is going to allow the support of projects, a lot of which has the aim of going toward this direction. Nonetheless, it is not sufficient, since the funds dispensed will come to an end. Then, it is necessary to consider a long term model of research support that the whole European Union should subscribe with determination.
In the 2016 the letter “Balance research funds across Europe” was published on Nature by the Physics Nobel Prize Giorgio Parisi and subscribed by 69 Italian scientists. Thus, the petition “#SAVETHERESEARCH: let’s invest 3% of GDP in innovation” was launched to make Italy do its own part to reach the purpose. Today the same call can be addressed to all member States of the Union, so that each of them could contribute equally. This is a necessary condition in order to think about the various issues that Europe has the duty to face and solve with a synergic effort, being certain that then the solutions would be effective in their execution across the European territory, with uniform possibility.
Borrowing some words from that appeal, we call for the European Union, in the same way the National Governments are currently prescribed to respect the balance for their budget, to pretend them, with equal promptness, to keep their funding for research and development above subsistence level, as demanded from the 2010 Treaty of Lisbon and the 2002 Barcelona European Council, which set it to 3% of GDP within 2010.
Yey
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