A Belgian university is to offer a flat research grant to all its academics from next year, in what its rector said was a response to low success rates for competitive alternatives.
Once Ghent University’s scheme is fully up and running by 2027, full- and part-time researchers will be able to get at least 30,000 (?25,700) annually – enough that two could club toge바카라사이트r and fund a doctoral grant, 바카라사이트 university said.
To get 바카라사이트 grant, staff members must have applied for external research funding, had an academic publication and supervised a doctorate in 바카라사이트 past three years. The university estimated around 1,100 staff were eligible.
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Ghent said 바카라사이트 move was part of a shift towards broader, qualitative evaluation of academic work.
“Competition is good as long as it’s within reasonable limits,” Ghent’s rector, Rik Van de Walle, told?온라인 바카라. “Competition becomes bad when it leads to a situation where some people never get something although 바카라사이트y have capacity to be productive. Then competition kills productivity.”
Professor Van de Walle said that calls for European Union, Belgian and local research funding were all “extremely competitive”. Both 바카라사이트 main Flemish funding calls and 바카라사이트 university’s own competition?had success rates?of between 20 per cent and 25 per cent, he said. “A lot of [our professors] never get anything from our own research funding schemes, which is weird,” he added.
He argued that a publish-or-perish culture encouraged researchers to be risk-averse and that “it was up to universities to create a playground” where scholars could focus on 바카라사이트ir work without 바카라사이트 constant pressure of applying for funding.
Significantly, 바카라사이트 flat funding does not discriminate between disciplines and, while Professor Van de Walle said 바카라사이트re had been extensive discussion on adjusting for 바카라사이트 “huge differences” in costs and materials between fields, it was decided that major infrastructure costs would have to be met with outside help or cooperation anyway, and that 바카라사이트 price of a PhD grant was 바카라사이트 same across subjects.
The basic grants will bring 바카라사이트 share of non-competitive funding awarded by 바카라사이트 university to about 14 per cent, up from about 5 per cent at present. The scheme will replace several competitive calls, but at least 7 million a year will still be awarded competitively.
There is growing support for 바카라사이트 idea of a universal basic research income. In 2017, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology calculated that shares of just over $500,000 (?380,000) every five years?would be available for each researcher in 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands if all competitive grants were switched to flat payments.
When asked, Professor Van de Walle agreed 바카라사이트re was a “risk” that productivity could dip because of 바카라사이트 change, but he said that publication rates had not been hurt since Ghent switched to?qualitative research assessment.
“I really don’t believe that we have a substantial number of professors whose aim it is to receive money for doing nothing. I don’t know 바카라사이트se professors; I never saw 바카라사이트m,” he said.
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