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"Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur for her invaluable work. On account of the amendments tabled in committee, this report ended up being more wide-ranging; when dealing with issues related to research areas, we must not focus solely on scientific communities. The role of the SME sector as a locomotive force for innovation and research work must also be clearly borne in mind.
The Commission’s communication provides an unnecessarily one-sided view of the challenges of European research. It is obvious that, in the preparation of this communication, there has been no horizontal utilisation of the expertise of the various directorates. Since the discussion on the research area touches, for example, on the enlargement process of the Union and on the vitality of the SME sector, one would have wished that the Commission’s communication had presented more visions and concrete content. It is not enough to talk in broad terms about the competitiveness of the Union. Keywords in research policy are flexibility, global thinking, and the more effective use of resources than at present. The self-directed nature of science and the Member States’ own research policy priorities must be accorded sufficient space. It is therefore necessary to give careful thought to what will be required in the future of the joint research centres highlighted in the Commission’s proposal. On no account is it appropriate to enlarge the role of the Union’s research centres in such a way that the operations of national research centres are made more difficult in the context of resource reallocation.
Most of the added value of the internal market approach in research will be acquired specifically through the more even distribution of the research and know-how which is funded by non-public resources. Practical experience has shown that by working within framework programmes it is not possible to react sufficiently flexibly to problems which demand rapid action, such as the BSE crisis. Increasing, for instance, the mobility of researchers according to need and enhancing the cooperation between the scientific communities of the EU and Eastern Europe will create a reliable and credible basis for research projects.
In this discussion, particular attention must also be paid to the position of women in European research policy; the body of technical experts in particular – which actually suffers from a labour shortage – is alarmingly male-dominated. The EU must accept that one of the most important challenges for its training and research policy is to awaken women’s interest in this sector."@en1
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