French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the country’s main research organisation, is backing calls for a budget of €200 billion for the EU’s research and innovation programme.
According to the paper, FP10 should help guarantee the the political, economic and technological sovereignties, as well as the competitiveness of the EU and its member states.
The CNRS wishlist for FP10:
- Keep excellence as the main criterion for funding
- Consider fundamental research as an empowerment of ideas and creativity as well as the vital breeding ground for innovations
- European Research Infrastructures (RI’s) should be a top priority
- Back projects for which intra-European collaborations clearly provide added value
- Collaborative projects, harnessing the EU added value across the whole TRL scale, should transcend the whole FP.
- Boost the mobility of doctoral students by enhancing Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
- Foster international scientific collaborations to make Europe more attractive for scientific talents worldwide.
- Boost collaborations with the African Union.
- Develop and promote open access in research. Develop new indicators to redefine the societal/economic impact of research
- An eco-bonus that would reward projects promoting the reuse of already existing or shared equipment, deterring as much as possible systematic spending for new cutting-edge equipment.
https://www.cnrs.fr/sites/default/files/news/2024-07/FP10_CNRS_Final.pdf