¿Puede la UE hacer lo suficiente para atraer a los científicos a trabajar en sus países?
Europa alberga a más de dos millones de investigadores y el bloque quiere atraer a muchos más, sobre todo tras las restricciones impuestas por el Gobierno estadounidense a la comunidad científica. ¿Bastará la iniciativa "Elige Europa" para convertir a la UE en líder mundial de la ciencia?
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00:14Europe is home to more than 2 million researchers and the bloc wants to attract many more.
00:19The European Commission has seen an opportunity in the restrictions imposed by the US government on the scientific community.
00:26The Choose Europe for Science initiative promises more resources and less bureaucracy for researchers coming from outside the bloc.
00:34In EU Decoded, we investigate whether this is enough to make the EU a world leader in science.
00:40The European Commission has promised a new €500 million package for the period 2025-2027.
00:48€20 million will be earmarked specifically for research projects with industrial applications.
00:55A new 7-year super grant will provide researchers with long-term career prospects.
01:01Researchers who relocate to Europe have a top-up beyond the grant and that amount will be doubled this year.
01:08In her speech to present the initiative, the President of the European Commission said that the EU needs to stand for science.
01:14Ursula von der Leyen added that it is the fuel for growth and progress.
01:19What do Europeans think of this race for scientific genius?
01:23Viverem para cá é uma concorrência deslegial para aqueles que já cá estão, não é?
01:28Portanto, viver na Europa já é um incentivo para quem quer que seja.
01:32Não sejam sempre os cá e para lá aprender que também possam vir para cá passar a mensagem, os conhecimentos.
01:40Acho que fazer a ponta com a industria também é importante para se financiar essa própria investigação científica.
01:46É claro que sim, porque a научa é a base e im mais profunda que nós estaremos nos desenvolvidos,
01:51e mais profunda que nós estaremos nos desenvolvidos,
01:54e mais profunda que nos estaremos mais profunda para nós,
01:56a melhor para nós.
01:57Creo que no es un problema, especialmente si son personas que realmente se conocen sobre esto y son muy beneficiosos que pueden aprender a los jóvenes, creo que no hay nada.
02:27¿Puedes explicar un poco ese contexto?
02:30El presidente de la Comisión Europea dijo que el papel de la ciencia en el mundo de hoy está siendo questionado, y también dijo que era una gran descalculación gigantesca.
02:41Así que teníamos en cuenta que en los Estados Unidos, la administración Trump ha lanzado una gran ofensiva contra universidades,
02:48así que un budget federal fue cortado, algunos recursos fueron terminados,
02:54y los investigadores también están banned de usar algunas palabras como cambio climático o mujeres en sus papas,
03:01o que enfrentan el riesgo de perder acceso a la ciencia.
03:04No hay solo una anunciación financiera, hay también la mention de un nuevo Europeo Research Area Act.
03:12¿Qué es el objetivo de esa legislación?
03:14So one of the goals of this European Research Area Act is to enshrine the freedom of scientific research in law.
03:22The EU Commission made it clear the main priority of the Choose Europe Initiative is to make sure that science remains free and open.
03:31In fact, in Germany, for instance, academic and research freedom are seen as fundamental rights,
03:38and they are already enshrined in the German constitution.
03:41There is also a lot of emphasis on using science to create new business opportunities.
03:48What will be the novelties in that front?
03:51The novelties in that front will be that the EU Commission is planning to put forward a European Innovation Act,
03:57as well as a start-up and scale-up strategy.
04:01And basically the aim is to cut red tape and to facilitate access to venture capital for European companies.
04:08And this is not a new idea, it was already put forward in the Draghi report on EU competitiveness,
04:15which was suggesting to create a research and innovation union in order to foster EU competitiveness.
04:21Let's look at the state of investment in European science.
04:24In the EU budget for 2021 to 2027, distributed among the 27 member states,
04:3193 billion euro has been allocated to the Horizon Europe research program.
04:36In addition, each country decides its national investment, with significant disparities.
04:42Belgium spends 3.4% of its GDP, while Romania only 0.4%.
04:47In total, the bloc spends 2.2% of its GDP, and the Commission has set a target of 3% by 2030.
04:56But even this figure is well below that of other advanced regions.
05:00The United States with 3.5%, Japan with 3.3%, and China with 2.4%.
05:07Our guest is Ekaterina Zahariev, European Commissioner responsible for startups, research and innovation.
05:15Welcome to Euronews.
05:16I'd like to start by asking what is your opinion of the recent United States government measures towards academia
05:24and other scientific institutions, not only in budgetary terms, but also even political guidelines about how to do research.
05:32In Europe, we do differently. We don't tell researchers how and what to research.
05:38We respect scientific freedom. We respect scientists.
05:42And everybody is free to research, and they're welcome in Europe.
05:48That's why the European Commission is presenting the Choose Europe initiative.
05:53Do you think it will be enough to attract researchers from all parts of the world,
05:58considering that the ones that are already working here face, you know, a lot of red tape, you know,
06:05bureaucratic problems, short budgets as well?
06:10We have an excellent program, actually.
06:12It's Horizon Europe. It's the brand name program, the biggest, actually, program in the world for research and innovation.
06:19So we are really very focused on reducing the red tape, reducing the report, so to say,
06:26focusing on how to make the program more accessible for the small research organization,
06:32for the smaller companies, for SMEs, which will spare time and money for the applicants.
06:39Scientists fear that the next research framework program will be kind of short of money,
06:47and at the same time that it might be even diluted into the new competitiveness fund.
06:53What is your strategy?
06:54The public funds will be never enough.
06:57So what the Commission is working and is focused is how to see more investment coming from the private sector in research innovation.
07:05But what we are lagging behind and what we have problem, and I speak a lot with both the private sector but with academia,
07:12is really to transfer this knowledge, to transfer this discovery to the market.
07:16So this is the goal of the competitiveness fund.
07:19As I said, research innovation program, the framework programs, are in our treaties.
07:24So there will be a research innovation program.
07:27But connection with competitiveness is really crucial, I think, for deployment.
07:31So it will be win-win.
07:32A quarter of the world's researchers work in Europe, making it one of the most productive in terms of new knowledge.
07:39The bloc is considered a leader in some areas, such as robotics, space technology and pharmaceuticals, for example.
07:47This is a highly competitive sector worldwide, and the EU member states will have to open up their pockets
07:53in order to attract the best to its academia and industry.
