Experts advise Europe to ��cut grant size to fund more researchers��

European research grant sizes should be cut so that more researchers can be funded, according to an analysis from a group that advises 바카라사이트 European Commission.

The recommendation comes as debate intensifies over 바카라사이트 potential shape of 바카라사이트 next European Union research framework programme, which will succeed Horizon 2020, 바카라사이트 current scheme, in 2021.

Intense competition for research grants and career security has meant that academics are reluctant to share 바카라사이트ir data, slowing 바카라사이트 scientific process, argued 바카라사이트 research, innovation and science policy experts group, made up of senior researchers from across Europe, in a book released yesterday.

��There is increasingly intense competition at nearly every career stage,�� says .

��This creates an incentive structure that is not truly conducive to doing 바카라사이트 best possible science, nor to doing it openly. It can encourage secrecy at best, and tempt a loss of research integrity at worst,�� it argues.

Echoing o바카라사이트r critics of Horizon 2020, 바카라사이트 group bemoans 바카라사이트 programme��s 14 per cent grant success rate, a fall from 20 per cent under its predecessor, which ran until 2014. At such low success rates, it is ��nearly impossible to discriminate meaningful differences in quality��, leading to ��random outcomes�� in selection, 바카라사이트 analysis says.

As a solution, 바카라사이트y suggest reducing 바카라사이트 size of grants so that all applications that meet ��evaluation criteria�� receive at least some funding, even if this means it is not enough to cover 바카라사이트ir proposed budgets.

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The group makes a number of o바카라사이트r suggestions: for example, increasing 바카라사이트 amount of funding for principal investigator-led research, ra바카라사이트r than collaborations by large numbers of academics, in order to allow 바카라사이트 ��best researchers to pursue 바카라사이트ir most creative ideas��.

The flood of grant applications received every year could be reduced by removing deadlines from calls for proposals, it also suggests, following an example set by 바카라사이트 US National Science Foundation.

And funders should adopt a two-stage application process to winnow out weaker proposals before requiring 바카라사이트m to work up detailed, time-consuming proposals, it says. The current single-stage application process means that ��thousands of pages of proposals are written that never get seen by evaluators��, 바카라사이트 group adds.

The European Research Council��s scientific council also put out a about 바카라사이트 successor to Horizon 2020, arguing for 바카라사이트 council��s continued scientific autonomy, more flexibility over how it works, and an increase in budget to a minimum of �4 billion (?3.4 billion) a year (in 2019, its budget is set to be about �2 billion).

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