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EUROSCIENCE 34 Newseuroscience: the VOICE of SCIENCE in EUROPE EUROSCIENCE 34 newsEUROSCIENCE: THE VOICE OF SCIENCE IN EUROPE In this issue: News and Views: page 2 Working Group and Open Access – threat or blessing? page 3 Euroscience poetry competition page 4 ESOF2008 page 5 Invitation to Host ESOF2010 page 6 Student interest in S&T page 7 Importance of minority languages and A view from Africa Letters: page 8 Letter to editor and News from Greece Books: page 9 Features: page 10 Euroscience Day page 11 Rammal Award: Past, present & future page 12 Thank you John! is hardly likely to tackle systemic A European Institute weaknesses of the European A Mystery Event university system such as fragmentation, lack of at ESOF2006: of Technology: would concentration or a perceived lack of real top quality universities. The ‘Chairmen’s After all, there are many ‘MITs’ it serve Europe? in the USA. Given the fact that Session’ Europe does have a number of very good universities, investing EUROSCIENCE has established research institutes or companies. in the ERC, and maybe even ESOF2006 OF COURSE (like an electronic mailbox to collect These would cease to belong to establishing a few more many European Eagles) has comments on the proposal of their home organisation but European-level funding agencies, two heads, namely Professor the European Commission to become legally geographically might be a better way to create Wolfgang Heckl – our ‘Local establish a European Institute dispersed parts of the EIT. The a tier of top-level universities at Champion’ – and Professor of Technology (EIT) in order to funding should come from public par with the US top league. Is it Jean-Patrick Connerade, the present a EUROSCIENCE but, especially, also from private realistic to expect substantial EUROSCIENCE President. position. In fact, the underlying sources. private funding if one knows that Unusually for European Eagles, question is whether the average share of industry they have decided to collaborate EUROSCIENCE should play an A web-consultation based on a contracts in university research in organising a joint session at active role in promoting an EIT questionnaire has been organised funding in Europe is the same, ESOF2006. What is the subject? much as it has done in the case (http://europa.eu.int/comm/ even slightly higher, than in the They were rather coy about the of the European Research Council education/policies/educ/eit/ USA, while private foundations detail, but it seems that it will (ERC). consult_en.pdf) which shows the are lacking and the tax regime bring together science, wide variety of responses. In fact does not help very much? It technology, history, politics, Opinions, however, seem to be such a consultation based on a seems there is already much achitecture and even… poetry. much more divided on the use of very open questionnaire on an ill- political wrestling taking place; Well, can one believe that? the Commission’s EIT proposal. defined subject, resulting in 741 some members of the European Rumours were rife in Berlin and According to the Commission, responses mostly from individuals Parliament have even established in Munich when the Programme Europe would need it to turn and in addition from most diverse a committee to host the EIT in and Steering Committees met. more R&D results into organisations, should not carry the EP building in Strasbourg It was completely unclear what commercial opportunities, to any representative weight at all. after which the EP itself could was afoot until (in an unguarded concentrate resources, promote It is said to be, on the whole, give up its expensive double moment) one member of the entrepreneurship and create new, positive towards the EIT, but location. That some people Programme Committee (i.e. a better suited organisational towards which EIT, if there is so seriously believe that the Bill reliable source) admitted over a models. The EIT performs post- much variety? Would 39 individual Gates Foundation might jump in glass of beer that she did know graduate education, research and responses from Germany say would seem to definitively pull something more. It was (she let innovation in an integrated way. anything about the views in the carpet from underneath the slip) quite possible that one of It would be a network-based Germany (other than people do credibility of the Lisbon and the Princes of Bavaria might also organisation, led by a Governing not seem to be interested)? So Barcelona strategies. In short, turn up for this session, and Board to manage the central let us ask some questions about time for a serious debate that there had been talk of bringing budget and select the the EIT proposal. Foremost on will be continued at ESOF 2006 in musicians connected to this “Knowledge Communities” most scientists’ minds is a in Munich. event. There are actually three for 10-15 years. The latter are conviction that a decentralised Herzogs known to us in Bavaria, partnerships in emerging trans- EIT is a contradiction in terms. Peter Tindemans, so the question is: which one and interdisciplinary fields And creating one physical EIT Convenor Science Policy will come? The plot thickens, between existing top-level would perhaps be nice though it Working Group as they say. departments of universities, may take a considerable time, but [email protected] EC SPRING 2006 ES NEWS . PAGE 1 news & views WORKING GROUP the European Research Area This declaration has been project of Commissioner Philippe communicated to French ON OPEN ACCESS IN Busquin. The French draft for the Parliament members. We are new law was dominated by the proud of initiating a common SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING music industry’s problems about European action, fulfilling the illegal downloading and, almost purpose of EUROSCIENCE. alone in the EU, set aside the exceptions for educational and Still, the debate goes on in research purposes. We published France, the majority of the an opinion paper in the Assemblée Nationale followed THE WORKING GROUP on started to work in 3 subgroups: newspaper Le Monde, “La the government and did not Scientific Publishing was created Open Access Publishing (OAP), science c’est aussi de la culture” take account of science needs, in the wake of ESOF2004, where Open Access Archiving (OAA) and (“Science belongs to culture”), refusing to establish exceptions a symposium “Spreading the Open Access Copyright (OAC). on line on the WG webpage as for free downloading and free word” was devoted to some a warning about the risk of photocopying for science and issues in science publishing. (See The first task of this last damaging research activities with education purposes. We hope ES News and the proceedings). subgroup was generated by the regulations that are intended for the Senate will be more receptive parliamentary debate in France, other activities and that restrict to our arguments. In October 2005, it started its over a new copyright law, the flow of information. Action activity by preparing a new intended to transpose the EU was taken to inform lawmakers European scientists have a lot symposium for ESOF2006, directive of May 2001. It should about these issues. We got of ideas to express for improving centred on Open Access, entitled be recalled that, at that time, valuable support from our scientific communication. Join us! “Open Access – threat or EUROSCIENCE was already German colleagues, through a Pierre Baruch blessing” (cf. Stevan Harnad’s taking part in the discussions declaration from the German [email protected] article below and the webpage). surrounding the directive, writing group Aktionsbuendnis fuer Hélène Bosc to the European Commission and Urheberrecht in Bildung und Convenor of the workgroup on In January 2006, wishing to to members of the European Wissenschaft. Scientific Publishing increase our efficiency, we Parliament while commenting on [email protected] of authors will comply. The four Open Access – institutions worldwide that have adopted a self-archiving mandate DISTINCTION to date -- Southampton ECS threat or blessing? (School of Electronics and THE PRESIDENT of the Computer Science), University Republic of Chile has of Minho, Portugal, Queensland awarded the rank of University of Technology (QUT), Grand Officer in the Order Australia, and European of Bernardo 0’Higgins Organization for Nuclear Research to Claude Kordon, (CERN) – have confirmed this. honorary President of THERE ARE 24,000 peer- competitive advantage, yet only EUROSCIENCE, for his reviewed research journals 15% of the 2.5 million articles All evidence to date is that support to imprisoned, worldwide today, publishing published annually are being institutional self-archiving co- dismissed or exiled Chilean 2.5 million articles per year. spontaneously self-archived exists peacefully with journal scientists after the military No research institution can worldwide today. publishing. 93% of journals coup which overthrew the afford all or most of the journals have already endorsed author legal Chilean government its researchers may need. Creating an Institutional self-archiving; only 7% of in 1973. Hence all articles are losing Repository (IR) and encouraging journals have not. potential research impact researchers to self-archive in it is (usage and citations). a good first step, but the only The ESOF2006 symposium on institutions that are reliably Open Access Self-Archiving will Recent findings show that articles approaching a 100% annual self- address ways of hastening the whose authors supplement archiving rate today are those transition to 100% OA and its subscription-based access by self- that not only create an IR and benefits to research, researchers, archiving their own final drafts provide library help for depositing, and their institutions. The leading free for all (“Open Access”, OA) but also adopt a self-archiving institutions and activists will on the web are downloaded and policy requirement or mandate. presenting their successful cited twice as much across all strategies and findings on the disciplines analysed so far.
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