Inolto questo messaggio della SIMAI. Un saluto, Cristina Costantini Cari Soci, ho ricevuto dalla presidente dell'ICIAM questo messaggio riguardante l'attuale composizione della Commissione Europea, dove non e` piu` presente un Commissario con un mandato specifico alla Ricerca, e alla Formazione, ma solo un generico "Commissioner for innovation and youth". Alcuni colleghi hanno preparato una lettera aperta per la Presidente della Commissione per sollecitare una migliore precisazione delle deleghe in "Education, Research, Innovation and Youth", per ribadire il ruolo fondamentale e specifico della formazione e ricerca. Se condividete la posizione firmate la petizione all'indirizzo indicato nel messaggio allegato (e fate circolare la lettera tra i colleghi). Un saluto, Luca ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Maria J. ESTEBAN <esteban@ceremade.dauphine.fr> Date: Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:05 PM Subject: Fwd: Urgent: Open Letter to reinstate Research and Education as EC areas of focus To: Wil Schilders <w.h.a.schilders@tue.nl>, Ari Laptev < laptev@mittag-leffler.se>, Helge Holden <secretary@mathunion.org>, Volker Mehrmann <Mehrmann@math.tu-berlin.de>, Alfio Quarteroni < alfio.quarteroni@epfl.ch>, luca formaggia <luca.formaggia@polimi.it>, Ball, John M <john.ball@hw.ac.uk> Dear friends, urgent action is required in the direction of Bruxelles, not only because there is no longer a commissioner for research (see below), but also because there is the looming threat of a substantial cut of the Horizon Europe Budget. If you resonate with what is written below could you please sign on the web site www.futureofresearch.eu and invite fellow scientists to do the same, i.e. widely distribute the email to all scientists? It is important to have also very visible people who sign, recipient of prizes or directors of big institutes, if you get them to sign, please signal to us so that it can be mentioned on the main webpage. It is urgent as the hearing is on 30.09.2019. At least 10000 signatures are needed in the next few days in order to be able to address the parliament.. thanks so much and all the best Maria ********************* Dear Colleague, We are writing you for the following reason: the candidates for the new EU commissioners were presented last week. In the new commission the areas of education and research are not explicitly represented anymore and instead are subsumed under the "innovation and youth" title. This emphasizes economic exploitability (i.e. "innovation") over its foundation, which is education and research, and it reduces “education” to “youth” while being essential to all ages. We, as members of the scientific community of Europe, wish to address this situation early on and emphasize both to the general public, as well as to relevant politicians on the national and European Union level, that without dedication to education and research there will neither exist a sound basis for innovation in Europe, nor can we fulfill the promise of a high standard of living for the citizens of Europe in a fierce global competition. President von der Leyen, in her mission letter to commissioner Gabriel (Web link to Mandate Letter: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/mission-letter-ma riya-gabriel-2019_en.pdf <https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/mission-letter-mariya-gabriel-2019_en.pdf>), has emphasized that “education, research and innovation will be key to our competitiveness”. We have prepared an open letter at www.futureofresearch.eu to demand that the EU commission revises the title for commissioner Gabriel to “Education, Research, Innovation and Youth” reflecting Europe’s dedication to all of these crucial areas. We also call upon the European Parliament to request this change in name before confirming the nominees for commissioner. Please support this letter by going to www.futureofresearch.eu and signing up as supporter on line. With best regards, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke (MPI for Physics) Prof. Dr. Nora Brambilla (TU-München) Prof. Dr. Aldo Deandrea (U-Lyon 1) Prof. Dr. Carlo Guaraldo (INFN Frascati) Prof. Dr. Luciano Maiani (U-Roma La Sapienza) Prof. Dr. Antonio Pich (U-València) Prof. Dr. Alexander Rothkopf (U-Stavanger) Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel (U-Heidelberg) -- ============================================ Multidisciplinary topmaster program in Nanoscience: http://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/education/topmasternanoscience/ ============================================ Prof. Dr. Petra Rudolf Head of the Surfaces and Thin Films group Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen visiting address: Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands postal address: P.O. Box 221, 9700 AE Groningen, The Netherlands phone: +(31)50-363 4736 e-mail: P.Rudolf@rug.nl web page: http://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/surfaces-and-thin-films/ secretary: Hilda Riemens phone: +(31)50-363 4973 fax: +(31)50-363 7208 e-mail: H.T.Riemens@rug.nl _______________________________________________ Simai-soci mailing list Simai-soci@lists.math.unifi.it https://lists.math.unifi.it/mailman/listinfo/simai-soci To unsubscribe, send an email to simai-soci-unsubscribe@lists.math.unifi.it and follow the instructions