Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-09-Speech-3-285"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050309.18.3-285"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-09-Speech-3-2862
lpv:speaker	lp:Alessandro Battilocchio2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-10-23)3 member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PETI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partito Socialista Nuovo PSI (2004-07-20--2008-02-18)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking on behalf of the New Italian Socialist Party. First of all, I must congratulate Mrs Locatelli on her excellent work. The problems of the European Union’s competitiveness in relation to the new Asian giants, the drain of our best brains to horizons richer in opportunities, the difficulty in meeting the Lisbon targets in terms of employment, development and innovation, and the issues of energy supply and health – these are the subjects that fill our time in Parliament and on which the future of our economy and our social system depends. These topics are closely linked to each other, and their common denominator is the development of scientific and technological research. Research actually means knowledge, employment and economic development, as well as a better quality of life. It is therefore essential to obtain a substantial increase in funding to make it our strong point. Research, however, is not just a matter of funds, instruments and infrastructure. Research is done by people. Any economic effort made by the European Union and the Member States will in fact be in vain without suitable human capital. I am not alluding to quality, since our universities and our graduates are already the best in the world, but I am referring to jobs: opportunities to do research and to earn money. Paradoxically, while science and technology play an ever more decisive role in today’s global economy, young people are avoiding science subjects because of the limited job opportunities. As a result, many graduates are forced to leave Europe or to spend years living on grants that are totally inadequate for the current cost of living, while they wait for a stroke of luck. In recent years the number of young Europeans who choose to carry on studying science subjects has declined. European universities do not have enough staff in their science departments to replace lecturers reaching the end of their careers, and fewer and fewer science and technology graduates find work as researchers compared with their main competitors in Europe. We must at all costs reverse this trend, bring our young people into contact with science from an early age, stimulate their curiosity and above all enable not just the fortunate few but all those who deserve it to use their knowledge to serve Europe, by offering them work, careers and decent salaries in exchange. If we want a future based on knowledge, we have to invest in our young people in order to train them and, above all, not to lose them."@en1

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