Macron needs to “transform” French analysis and extra “autonomy” for universities | EUROtoday
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HAS on the event of the creation of a Presidential Science Council and a day devoted to analysis and innovation, this Thursday, December 7, Emmanuel Macron introduced that he wished to “transform” the group of French analysis “ within eighteen months” and open “act 2 of autonomy” of universities, as a part of a “real revolution” to treatment a “fragmentation” which weakens the worldwide place of French researchers.
“I hope that we succeed in transforming our major national research organizations”, such because the CNRS, Inserm or INRAE, “into real program agencies”, that are “strategists” of their area, declared the pinnacle of the State throughout a gathering on the Élysée with a number of dozen researchers.
The president listed the specialties assigned to reworked organisms: local weather, biodiversity and sustainable societies, on the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); well being on the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm); agriculture, sustainable meals, forestry and related pure assets for the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRAE); carbon-free vitality on the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); digital software program on the National Institute for Research in Digital Sciences and Technologies (Inria): house on the National Center for Space Studies (Cnes).
Towards “real autonomy”
At the identical time, he referred to as for giving extra “autonomy” to universities in order that they “organize and manage research” on the native stage, based on “site logic”. “What I am proposing to them is within eighteen months to open Act II of autonomy and move towards true autonomy”, implying “real multi-year contracts” and “governance reformed,” he mentioned.
“We must move forward without taboo” on “the issues of governance, economic model and, in fact, build real contracts of objectives, means and performance with much more incentive funding,” added Emmanuel Macron. Act I of autonomy, underneath the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, gave rise to an extended standoff.
Aware of this pitfall, Emmanuel Macron joked about the truth that his Minister of Higher Education and Research, Sylvie Retailleau, had “forbidden him from pronouncing the word” “status” for workers, as a result of altering it will be “ straight away.” “Everyone will get in the way, we won’t be able to do anything,” he agreed. “So I didn’t say that we were going to reform the statutes,” he added, eliciting laughter from the viewers of researchers.
After praising the outcomes of the efforts made since his first election in 2017 to place French analysis again on monitor after many years of “too significant disinvestment”, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that “we have experienced difficult times in recent years”.
In this regard, he talked about the “strange defeat” of the Covid vaccine, France having found the precept of messenger RNA however not having been capable of develop the treatment.
He deplored the “disorderly fragmentation” of the analysis system which “deprives us of focusing on major shared challenges, prevents us from being reactive in emergencies and reduces our ability sometimes to be attractive also in the world” .
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