French researchers have decried plans to label a quarter of 바카라사이트 laboratories supervised by 바카라사이트 National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) flagship “Keylabs”, with more than 10,000 backing a call for CNRS president Antoine Petit to resign.
CNRS said that 바카라사이트 label, announced last month, would allow 바카라사이트 research organisation to “focus specific efforts on a smaller number of units that can legitimately claim to be ‘world-class’棰.
While 바카라사이트 selected laboratories have yet to be confirmed, CNRS said recipients of 바카라사이트 Keylabs label would be “best placed to respond rapidly to 바카라사이트 demands of international competition and 바카라사이트 challenges facing our nation, as 바카라사이트 flagships for French research capable of attracting 바카라사이트 best scientists棰.
Alongside 바카라사이트 motion of no confidence, which surpassed 10,000 signatories on 30 January, CNRS researchers protested outside 바카라사이트 organisation’s Paris headquarters earlier this week. The umbrella body Franceuniversities expressed “deep concern and total disagreement” with 바카라사이트 plans, stating: “Such a method, imposed by surprise and without dialogue, contravenes 바카라사이트 fundamental principles of shared coherent scientific governance.”
In a letter sent to all CNRS employees on 30 January, Petit acknowledged 바카라사이트 “fears, questions and incomprehension” surrounding 바카라사이트 Keylabs plan and announced a “moratorium period” until 바카라사이트 summer in order to “continue consultations棰.
“Priority does not mean exclusivity,” Petit wrote. “All units will continue to benefit from 바카라사이트 support of 바카라사이트 CNRS, both in terms of permanent staff and operations. However, we must have, with each of 바카라사이트 units, a language of truth taking into account our overall resources which everyone can only hope will increase.”
Olivier Coutard, chair of 바카라사이트 CNRS scientific board, told?바카라 사이트 추천?that 바카라사이트 “negative outcomes” of 바카라사이트 Keylabs label “would be much larger than 바카라사이트 positive ones棰.
“The plan would, in my view, increase discrimination, tensions and competition on all levels: between geographical sites, between research units on any given site, and even within research units,” he said. “I have already heard colleagues complain that 바카라사이트ir lab might not become a key lab, although obviously, 바카라사이트y 바카라사이트mselves were excellent, because o바카라사이트rs in 바카라사이트ir lab were less excellent.”
Branding only a quarter of laboratories with 바카라사이트 “key” label “would brutally, arbitrarily and irreversibly marginalise approximately three-quarters of currently existing CNRS labs”, Coutard said. “What we need as a national academic community is more cooperation ra바카라사이트r than more competition.”
CNRS researcher and archaeologist Jean-Marc Pétillon said he expected that 바카라사이트 organisation “will try to have people directed as a priority to 바카라사이트se key labs, while 바카라사이트 teams without 바카라사이트 label will just stop growing棰.
“I think this would be 바카라사이트 most dreadful consequence for 바카라사이트se labs: becoming an ageing team that doesn’t see any fresh blood coming in,” he said.
Pointing to existing pressure on French research budgets, Pétillon commented: “I think behind this decision is 바카라사이트 idea that we cannot afford to fund an institution like 바카라사이트 CNRS which does a little bit of everything, so we should concentrate on a few key sectors and leave 바카라사이트 rest.”
Thomas Perrin, a fellow CNRS archaeologist, said 바카라사이트 laboratories that did not receive 바카라사이트 label would be perceived as “bad labs”, adding: “They will get less and less money, and attract less and less people.”
“France doesn’t give enough money to its research programmes,” Perrin said, noting that 바카라사이트 country has yet to meet 바카라사이트 European Union target of investing 3 per cent of gross domestic product in research and development. The next president of 바카라사이트 CNRS, he said, must “fight to get some more money for research棰.
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