Fonte: El País
Na véspera da reunião que irá discutir o orçamento da UE para 2014-2020, cientistas respeitáveis (ganhadores de Prêmio Nobel ou Medalha Fields) decidem chamar a atenção dos chefes de Estado e de Governo quanto ao apoio à ciência. Veja a íntegra da carta abaixo:
Transformar conhecimento em inovação, dizem eles, é a única maneira de dar à Europa uma vantagem competitiva.
To the Heads of State or Government
of EU Countries, Presidents of EU Institutions,
It is often said that every crisis
also presents an opportunity. The current crisis forces us to make choices, and
one of those choices is about science and its support. Back in the year 2000,
you and your predecessors set yourselves the target of becoming the “world's
most dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010”. The intention was ambitious and
noble, but the goal has yet to be achieved.
Science
can help us find answers to many of the pressing problems facing us at this
time: new ways to harness energy, new forms of production and products,
improved ways to understand how societies function and how we might order them
better. We are just at the start of a revolutionary new understanding of how
our own bodies work with incalculable consequences for our future health and
longevity.
Europe
is at the forefront of science in many areas. Transforming this knowledge into innovative new products, services and industries is
the only way to provide Europe with a competitive edge in today's rapidly
changing global landscape and to ensure Europe’s long-term future prosperity.
Knowledge knows no boundaries. The
global market for outstanding talent is highly competitive. Europe can ill afford
to lose its best researchers and teachers, and would gain greatly by attracting
foreign talent. Reducing the funding available for excellent research means a
smaller number of trained researchers. In case of a severe reduction in the EU
research and innovation budget we risk losing a generation of talented
scientists just when Europe needs them most.
In this
regard, the
European Research Council has achieved global recognition in a remarkably short
time. It funds the best researchers anywhere in Europe regardless of
nationality: Excellent people, excellent projects. It valuably complements
national funding of fundamental research.
Funding research at EU level is a
catalyst to make better use of the resources we have and make national budgets
more efficient and effective. These EU resources are extremely precious. They
have proven to be capable of achieving essential benefits for European science
as well as increasing returns to society and increasing international
competitiveness.
It is essential that we support, and
even more importantly, inspire in a pan-European way the extraordinary wealth
of research and innovation potential that exists all over Europe. We are
convinced that the younger generation of researchers will also make its voice
heard – and you should listen to what they have to say.
Our question to you, the Heads of State
or Government and Presidents meeting in Brussels on 22-23 November to discuss
the EU budget for 2014-2020, is a simple one: when the deal for Europe’s future
budget is announced, what will be the role of science in Europe’s future?
Signed by Nobel Prize and Fields
Medal winners
Sidney Altman, Werner Arber, Robert J. Aumann,
Francoise Barré-Sinoussi, Günter Blobel, Mario Capecchi, Aaron Ciechanover,
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Johann Deisenhofer, Richard R.Ernst, Gerhart Ertl, Sir
Martin Evans, Albert Fert, Andre Geim, Serge Haroche, Avram Hershko, Jules A.
Hoffmann, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Huber, Sir Tim Hunt, Eric R. Kandel, Klaus von
Klitzing, Sir Harold Kroto, Finn Kydland, Jean-Marie Lehn, Eric S. Maskin, Dale
T. Mortensen, Erwin Neher, Konstantin Novoselov, Sir Paul Nurse, Christiane
Nüsslein-Volhard, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, SIR Richard J. Roberts, Heinrich
Rohrer, Bert Sakmann, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John E. Sulston, Jack W. Szostak, Sir
John E. Walker, Ada E. Yonath, Rolf Zinkernagel, Harald zur Hausen; Pierre
Deligne, Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Stanislav Smirnov, Cedric Villani
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