Conseguirá a UE fazer o suficiente para atrair cientistas para os seus países?
A Europa tem mais de dois milhões de investigadores e quer atrair muitos mais, especialmente após as restrições impostas pelo governo dos EUA à comunidade científica. Será a iniciativa "Choose Europe" suficiente para fazer da UE uma líder mundial no campo da Ciência?
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00:00Europe 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 euro package for the period 2025 to 2027.
00:4820 million euro will be earmarked specifically for research projects with industrial applications.
00:54A 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.
01:15Ursula 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 que caem para lá aprender, que também possam vir para cá passar a mensagem, os conhecimentos.
01:40Porém, a gente vai falar sobre a industria.
01:42Isso é importante para o financiamento e as a própria investimento científico.
01:47Eu acho que é, porque a nauca é a base.
01:49E o mais que vamos ser crescidos, e o mais que vamos ser crescidos, e o mais que vamos ser crescidos,
01:54o mais que vamos ser crescidos para nós, é melhor para nós.
01:57Eu acho que isso não é um objetivo, principalmente se são pessoas que realmente se conhecem sobre isso e são pessoas que podem aprender a gente, então eu acho que isso não tem nada.
02:08Meu colega Amadeen S. cover this announcement for Euronews.
02:13Em sua conversa sobre iniciativa Ursula von der Leyen nunca mencionou a situação nos Estados Unidos.
02:19Mas muitas pessoas pensaram que eram indiretas referências para o presidente Donald Trump recentes medidas nesta área.
02:28Você poderia explicar um pouco sobre esse contexto?
02:30A presidente da Comissão da EU disse que o papel da ciência no mundo hoje está sendo questionado,
02:36e ela ainda disse que era uma descalculação gigante.
02:40Então, vamos ter em mente que nos Estados Unidos, a Trump Administração lançou uma grande ofensiva contra universidades,
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02:54como falar em pacifíciosralos, como asenas e polêmicas chamerem têm apontadas de geração.
02:58Um, dois próprios que apontaram feito valendo o acesso aoamento de financiamento.
03:02Tudo bem é só um anunciamento financeiro,
03:06há também a mention grande do
03:09europeu Direito AP.
03:11Como é o objetivo de essa decisão?
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 and they are already enshrined in the German constitution.
03:41There is also a lot of emphasis on using science to create new business opportunities. What 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 as 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, which 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.
04:25In the EU budget for 2021 to 2027, distributed among the 27 member states, 93 billion euro has been allocated to the Horizon Europe research program.
04:35In 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.
04:55But 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 start-ups, research and innovation.
05:15Welcome to ERO News.
05:16I'd like to start by asking what is your opinion of the recent United States government measures towards academia and other scientific institutions,
05:27not only in budgetary terms, but also even political guidelines about how to do research.
05:33In Europe, we do differently.
05:35We don't tell researchers how and what to research.
05:38We respect scientific freedom, we respect scientists and everybody is free to research and they are 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, bureaucratic problems, short budgets as well?
06:10We have an excellent programme, actually.
06:12It is Horizon Europe.
06:13It's the brand name programme, the biggest, actually, programme in the world for research and innovation.
06:19So, we are really very focused on reducing the red tape, reducing the report, I mean, so to say,
06:26focusing on how to make the programme more accessible for the small research organisation, for the smaller companies, for SMEs,
06:35which will spare time and money for the applicants.
06:40Scientists fear that the next research framework programme will be kind of short of money
06:46and, 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,
07:12it's 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 programme, the framework programmes are in our treaties.
07:24So, there will be a research innovation programme.
07:26But connection with competitiveness is really crucial, I think, for deployment.
07:31So, it will be win-win.
07:33A 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.
07:46This is a highly competitive sector worldwide, and the EU member states will have to open up their pockets in order to attract the best to its academia and industry.
