Non-association in Horizon 2020: CRUS and SNSF collect data
CRUS und SNSF are collecting data with regard to the non-association in Horizon 2020. The science community can participate.
Non-association in the European research programme Horizon 2020 puts research in Switzerland under pressure. One of the immediate impacts has been the exclusion of researchers at Swiss institutions from the funding schemes of the European Research Council (ERC). While a solution to this must be found at the political level, the science community, too, can contribute to the debate.
The arguments of scientists are typically based on facts. Taking this as its starting point, the science community should make a concerted effort to enter comprehensive and precise data on the negative and - if any - the positive impacts of the non-association in Horizon 2020.
What are the consequences with regard to research funding, researchers and institutions? Not everything will be reducible to data, which is why effects that are not directly quantifiable are also of interest.
Enter your data
The CRUS and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) are counting on researchers to contribute. Meaningful data can only be obtained if there are a large number of participants. Entries in the external pagedatabase set up for the collectioncan be made till the end of August 2014.
All data entered will be treated as confidential and only used in aggregated form. Institutions and/or researchers will only be quoted with their explicit permission.
The information derived from the data collection will be used by the members of external pageNetzwerk FUTURE (SNSF, CRUS, KFH, COHEP, Academies of Arts and Sciences) and the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. Plans have already been made for the entry of further data in the winter semester.