Open access key to European research

During the ERA Conference 2012 last week, stakeholders discussedthe main challenges of European science and research. MáireGeoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science,addressed the attendants in her
“With Europe crying out for growth, ERA can’t wait any longer.We can’t continue with a situation where research funding is notalways allocated competitively, where positions are not alwaysfilled on merit, where researchers can’t take their grants acrossborders, where large parts of Europe are not even in the game,where there is a scandalous waste of female talent and where ourbrightest and best are leaving never to return.”
“I want an entirely new ERA-partnership, with stronger role forkey stakeholders, and much tougher monitoring of Member States’progress. I will not hesitate to ‘name and shame’ those who performbadly against ERA objectives,” Geoghegan-Quinn announced.
More open access, increased involvement of women, agreater pool of excellent researchers
Leading up to the conference, the EU Commission invitedindividual researchers, national and European researchorganizations and governments to complete online questionnaires andpositions papers commenting on the current state of ERA. Apreliminary
- Make Europe more attractive for top scientists andglobally-mobile private R&D investment
- increase transnationally-coordinated research
- expand open access
- raise involvement of women in science and research
- achieve higher scientific excellence
- support moving, working and co-operating freely acrossborders
- tackle global challenges
Recently, open access (OA) has gained significant
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