Please consider signing this important petition.
[citation from http://openletter.euroscience.org]
Scientists from different European countries describe in this letter that, despite marked heterogeneity in the situation of scientific research in their respective countries, there are strong similarities in the destructive policies being followed. This critical analysis, highlighted in Nature and simultaneously published in a number of newspapers across Europe, is a wake-up call to policy makers to correct their course, and to researchers and citizens to defend the essential role of science in society.
Information on theEuroScience asscociation:
EuroScience (ES) is a European non-profit grassroots association open to research professionals, teachers, students, science administrators, policy-makers, etc. and generally to any citizen interested in science and technology and its links with society. EuroScience represents not only European scientists of all ages, disciplines and nationalities but also from the business sector and public institutions such as universities and research institutes. [from: http://www.euroscience.org]
For years, a distinct Open Access policy in EU funded research has been established. In Horizon2020 open access publication is mandatory. Thus, taxpayers can easily and freely read the results of research projects.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm?pg=policy&lib=science
Could you give any reference for research to "enrich both the universities and iindividuals"?
Update: "Time to sign the Open Letter" is the head of a new call for support for this initiative, published on EUroScientist:
http://blog.euroscientist.com/time-sign-open-letter/
"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 and 15th of May 2015.
The Open Letter, launched in October 2014, has since received considerable support from more than 18 000 individual followers and over 40 research organizations (with more than 100 000 affiliated members). This is the right moment to spread the petition to your colleagues who may not yet have had the opportunity to sign it, thereby increasing the number of signatures before it is presented in mid-May.Nevertheless, this will by no means be the endpoint of the petition, just a milestone on the road of European scientific workers who are acting collectively for the future of science in Europe."
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http://blog.euroscientist.com/time-sign-open-letter/
http://openletter.euroscience.org/open-letter/
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