CNRS researchers want boss to quit over two-tier ¡®Keylabs¡¯ plan

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¡¯é¢.

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 scientistsé¢.

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 consultationsé¢.

¡°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 onesé¢.

¡°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 P¨¦tillon 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 growingé¢.

¡°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, P¨¦tillon 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 researché¢.

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