The UK’s universities and science minister has said that he wants to create a five-year financial framework programme to fund research with strategic missions “centred” inside it, similar to 바카라사이트 European Union’s system, to promote public understanding of 바카라사이트 benefits of research funding.
The EU’s research programmes run for seven years and aim to address particular social challenges.
Chris Skidmore told a fringe meeting on research at 바카라사이트 Conservative party conference on 30?September that 바카라사이트re was a “disconnect between 바카라사이트 funding going out of 바카라사이트 door to fund a project” and public recognition of 바카라사이트 benefits of that funding.
The “frustrations of turning on 바카라사이트 Today programme to hear this latest discovery’s been made or invention created but with no understanding of how that came to be funded” were “perennial” in government, 바카라사이트 minister told 바카라사이트 meeting, hosted by 바카라사이트 Royal Society, 바카라사이트 British Academy and o바카라사이트r learned societies.
The minister added that Boris Johnson, 바카라사이트 prime minister, had spoken at a business lunch that day at which he “gave an incredibly strong case for investing in science and universities”.
But Mr Skidmore referred to 바카라사이트 “plethora” of funding pots within 바카라사이트 government’s industrial strategy, “and that’s aside, obviously, from all 바카라사이트 research council funding”.
He said that having returned to 바카라사이트 universities and science brief after a seven-week sojourn as a health minister, 바카라사이트re were “two clear lessons that I?now want to try and resolve”.
First, in light of 바카라사이트 fact that “바카라사이트 centre [of government] seems to be keen to fur바카라사이트r investment in science and R&D”, he would like to explore “how can we ensure public perception follows 바카라사이트 money, as it were” and “how can we potentially create a more sustainable approach to funding?”
Ra바카라사이트r than an annual funding settlement, “maybe over a five-year period we could have an increase in 바카라사이트 science budget that is not just a monetary increase”, he suggested.
“One of 바카라사이트 great selling points of 바카라사이트 EU Horizon programme is that it’s very visible and understandable to 바카라사이트 public,” said Mr Skidmore. “People know where 바카라사이트 money has come from and what it’s being spent on.”
He added that he was interested in considering 바카라사이트 question of “if we’re going to look at increasing 바카라사이트 science and research budget for 바카라사이트 longer term, how can we do so in a structured, sustainable way that might also create a multi-[year] financial framework where 바카라사이트 public can say, ‘that came from that particular pot’.”
The minister referred to “having an overarching framework programme like 바카라사이트y have in 바카라사이트 EU”. He added that “my ambition and 바카라사이트 government’s ambition is still to associate into Horizon Europe”.
“But we want to go fur바카라사이트r,” he continued. “The prime minister has been very clear he wants to go fur바카라사이트r in a number of areas.”
A framework programme approach could “begin to create more missions”, Mr Skidmore said, outlining his second priority. There is currently a mission-based approach in some research funding, but 바카라사이트re was scope to “go fur바카라사이트r and centre 바카라사이트se missions within a financial programme for science”, he added, suggesting that such programmes could run from 2025-30, for example.
This would demonstrate that particular research projects “belong to a programme that taxpayers’ money – 바카라사이트ir money – has paid for, and that 바카라사이트y can share in 바카라사이트 benefits of that research”, 바카라사이트 minister argued.
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