Each time a Danish researcher awarded a støttekrone from the EU, removes the Danish state a penny in its support.
the 1.5 billion crowns. So many money download the Danish researchers, on average, home from the Eu research programme Horizon 2020 on the year.
But the Danish universities lose money again, because the Danish state shall deduct EU research funding in the state research funding. It writes the Danish newspaper Information.
technically, it happens so, that the government has decided that the public support for research should be a percentage of gross domestic product, gdp. But in recent years, the EU-støttekroner reckoned with here.
It will say that every time a researcher receives a penny from the EU, it is a crown, which the state avoids to use.
It is deeply unfair, believes the Danish Universities and the Danish Magisterforening (DM).
Anders Bjarklev, president of the Danish Universities, see the netting of EU research funding, as a fundamental problem for the researchers ‘ motivation.
– I don’t think there are many companies that would motivate their employees on the way. Therefore, it is also a totally crazy system, he says, to the Information.
in Particular, on climate change, where the government and Parliament want to bet big on green research, work the netting of EU funds way, does the president of the Danish Universities.
He backed up by the Dansk Magisterforening (DM), who believe that climate and energy should be exempt from the deduction in a period of time.
– It is senseless to off-set climate and energy research with the urgent needs, we have to find answers on climate change, says Camilla Gregersen, who is the president of DM, for the Information.
She suggests that climate research be exempted from the offset the next five years.
Education and forskningsminister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (S) is / are willing to examine, on the climate and energy research can be exempted.
– We have just said, we will invest in research, and we are in a process where we would like to bet even more on green research. It is the main priority both for me and for the government, says Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen for Information.
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