Re: [Universitas_in_trasformazione] Russian academy

-- Jacopo Meldolesi Emeritus Professor Division of Neuroscience Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano Italy Corrispondent Member of the Accademia dei Lincei > From: claudio procesi procesi@mat.uniroma1.it > Reply-To: Università e Ricerca Forum > universitas_in_trasformazione@mail.dm.unipi.it > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:08:47 +0200 > To: Forum Università e Ricerca > universitas_in_trasformazione@mail.dm.unipi.it > Cc: Vladimir Popov vpopov03@gmail.com, Parshin-1 parshin@mi.ras.ru > Subject: [Universitas_in_trasformazione] Russian academy > > cari colleghi, vi mando una copia di una lettera ricevuta da due Matematici ed > accademici Russi, non so cosa possiamo fare oltre a farla circolare. Forse > sottoscrivere una lettera da inviare all'indirizzo che ci mandano. La lettera > potrebbe essere del tipo > > Dear Minister, we hear from our distinguished colleagues that it is in act a > deep transformation of the Russian Academy of Sciences. > > > We do not want to enter into the details of this plan but want to firmly > stress the fact that, when touching such old and distinguished institutions, > one should do it with extreme care and full involvement of the scientific > community. Such reforms, when done only by bureaucrats and politicians > destroy traditions and do not build anything useful for the future. Needless > to say that, even in the most obscure years of the past, the academic > institutions of Russia and the Soviet Union have always carried a high and > unique scholarly tradition. > > We hope that hasty and not well planned "reforms" will not destroy what > centuries of scholarly work has built. Sincerely yours > firme > > > > > > > > > > se volete aderire mandatemi una mail con nome cognome e titolo accademico, > che io possa facilmente copiare ed incollare. > > > > > > > > > > > COPY: > > Moscow, June 29, 2013 > > Dear Professor Procesi, > > On Thursday, June 27, 2013 the Russian Government unexpectedly discussed and > approved the draft law on liquidation of the Russian Academy of Sciences > founded in 1725 and on creating on its basis a new public organization. All > the existing institutions of our Academy are offered to move away from the new > organization, to subordinate them to a special administrative Government > agency, and to subject to a selection compliant with certain conditions > defined solely by this agency. A very negative experience of such a selection > made by Government officials was demonstrated last fall during monitoring of > the educational institutions in Russia. Many popular and highly reputed > universities have been declared ineffective according to the rules that in > fact have little to do with assessing real scientific level. > > Another unpleasant aspect of this situation is that the draft law, which > fundamentally changes the system of science organization in Russia, has been > prepared and examined without discussion with the scientific community. Even > the public structures created by the Ministry of Education and Science for > consultations with the representatives of the scientific community have not > been involved in a discussion of the draft law and have not been informed on > its existence. The Academy also has not been informed on the existence of the > project. > > This law has already been submitted to the Parliament of the Russian > Federation and is asked to be approved on the next week. After the acceptance > of this law, a liquidation process of the Academy should be completed within > three months. > > We ask you to express your opinion about the destruction of the Russian > Academy of Sciences. You can send it to the address of the Department of > Mathematics of the Academy (with a copy to us) om@ras.ru. Unfortunately, the > matter is urgent. > > We would be very grateful for your support in this difficult for science in > Russia time. > > > A. N. Parshin, > V. L.Popov > > > > Claudio Procesi, Professore Emerito, > > Dipartimento di Matematica, G. Castelnuovo > > Membro dell'Accademia dei Lincei > > Università di Roma La Sapienza, piazzale A. Moro 00185, > Roma, Italia > fax 0039-06-44701007 > http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/~procesi/ > > _______________________________________________ > Universitas_in_trasformazione@mail.dm.unipi.it mailing list > > Per consultare gli archivi, cancellarsi, o cambiare le proprie impostazioni: > https://mail.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/universitas_in_trasformazione > > Ulteriori informazioni, e per firmare la petizione, sito di Universitas > Futura: http://w3.disg.uniroma1.it/unira/index.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LA TUA CURA E' SCRITTA NEL TUO DNA. AL SAN RAFFAELE LA STIAMO REALIZZANDO. AIUTA LA RICERCA, DAI IL TUO 5XMILLE - CF: 07636600962 info:www.5xmille@hsr.it - www.5xmille.org Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007 http://www.codetwo.com