Against Ignorance: the European Experience.

GILLES MIRAMBEAU

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Alberto Baccini Francesco Sylos Labini

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Scientist’s postures nowadays

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Total Article Views: 1,221,065

Aug 30, 2005 (publication date) through Mar 19, 2015*

John P.A. Ioannidis /Stanford School of Medicine

Total Article Views: 78,821

Oct 21, 2014 (publication date) through Mar 19, 2015*

How to Make More Published Research True DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001747

Under the pressure of “publish or perish”, with short term projects, low cost and precarity:

PLoS Medicine

During the Renaissance, with the development of humanism,

Leonardo da Vinci used Art to support Science And Medicine

One solution: to support the inspired scientists!

Looking for my own inspiration with the Molecular art from machines to cells : a crowded and glued staging.

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office@euroscience.org

Your Voice on Research in Europe

Jose Mariano Gago

Peter Tindemans General Secretary

Luc Van Dyck Senior Science Policy

Advisor Sabine Louet Chief-Editor

Gregoire Llorca ex-Webmaster

Amaya Moro Martin

Joan Guinovart Michele Catanzaro

He drives me to ES We co-organized

the 1st HSE meeting

Mission; key activities  •  : the European grassroots organization of scientists

and all those taking an interest in science. The voice of European researchers, across disciplines and countries; promoting dialogue with researchers worldwide.

•  Objectives:

–  Engaging with policymakers, business and society to create a stronger Europe through science

–  Convening partnerships to work on careers, rights and responsibilities of scientists and key issues of science policy

–  Promoting transparency of, and providing information on European STI policies

–  Advancing science for the pursuit of knowledge, prosperity and global development, and for addressing transdisciplinary global challenges.

The AAAS model......

* created in 1848

* around 120 000 members

Negative points:

3000 members, much less voting for the GB !!!!

A passive and dispersed governing board

A lack of financial support

Not enough visibility

The idea of Europe : more a problem than a solution!!!

Positive points :

Presence in Strasbourg, Brussels facing to the Top-Down Organisations

the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers

ESOF

Euroscientist

They have chosen ignorance (more than 15 000 free members)

Homo scientificus europaeus and its network

Sabine Louët Chief-Editor

Monthly special issues

Audience evolution

Audience

Location / All visitors Location / Occasional readers

Demographics

The most engaging sources (lower bounce rate, higher pages/session and session duration) are:

EuroScience open letter EuroScience.org FeedBurner (EuroScientist RSS feed)

Znanost portal (a Croatian portal about science and education)

rrlnewslinks.blogspot.co.uk (a private blog)

ROARS.it

Google.fr (hence French visitors)

Social media source of traffic

Most successful articles

The most successful type of articles is special issues.

The most successful subject of articles is policy.

The HSE community

The European perspective We think that the Homo Scientificus Europaeus should be at the center of Europe, rather than bankers and politicians.

The formation of Europe must pass through science and culture and not through cold bureaucracy, incomprehensible roles and financial affairs

http://www.amayamoro.com/sciencepolicy.html

Farewell letter to the Spanish PM from a scientist who is packing her bags. Last week, the astrophysicist Amaya Moro-Martín published an open letter to the Spanish prime minister, attracting a great deal of attention and generating some 2,000 comments and 75,000 Facebook likes.

The Guardian / 28 August 2013

Spain

Amaya Moro Martin

Investigacion Digna

Spain: general elections at the end of the year!

PhD PhD PhD student

Pedro Sanchez Pablo Iglesias Alberto Garzon

Albert Rivera

Mariano Rajoy

PhD student

Law degree

Rosario Mauritti

Jose Mariano Gago

ABIC & ANICT

Portugal

ABIC

Carlos Fiolhais

Alain Trautmann Patrick Lemaire

France

… you signed the European petition “They have chosen Ignorance”. Today, we think that an ideal occasion has arisen to make our protest more visible – we propose to read it at the Bologna Ministerial Conference, which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, on the 14th and 15th of May 2015….

Sciences en Marche – proposed Europe-wide campaign In October 2014 a visible one-month march by scientists from across France converged on Paris.

… we would like to propose a restaging of the French march on a Europe-wide scale. We invite groups and movements from all European countries to join us in organising concerted parallel events in Autumn 2015.

Such marches would defend the principles of an alternative Public University and of the diversity of basic research programs in the humanities and sciences. It could be seen as one of the answers to the call by the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) for actions on HER 2015 and address some of the key points of the Academic Manifesto.

To the European Union institutions, it could ask for:

The exclusion of national investments in HER from national budget deficit ceiling.

A preservation of the Horizon 2020 budget in the context of the Juncker investment plan.

To individual European countries, it could ask for:

An ambitious, multi-year recruitment plan for HER staff based on secure employment.

A significant increase in core state funding for basic ResearchInstitutions/Bodies and Higher Education Institutions.

A policy for the development of all areas of research, guaranteeing diversity in subjects and in approaches to research instead of the restricted areas prioritized in the Horizon 2020 program, the respect of research methods, together with appropriate time frames and academic freedom for individuals and higher education and research institutions.

The restoration and development of a democratic and collegial spirit within Higher Education Institutions and Research Institutions/Bodies.

contact@sciencesenmarche.org.

Germany / Sebastian Raupach

UK / Science is vital /Jenny Rohn

And now Andrew Steele The Scienceogram: Why more spending on science makes sense

Varvara Trachana

Initiative of non-appointed Faculty Members of Greek Universities

Looking for other nations............

Poland, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Austria....

European organisations: EURODOC, ISE, …...

EuroScience eco-system

Endorsing organisations

Endorsing organisations

Italy

France

Spain

Portugal

UK Germany

The HSE Blog

The HSE Bloggers/Editors

Andrew Steele, Physicist, Francis Crick Institute, London, Science Is Vital (UK)

What to do?

Fighting against Inertia and Fatalism, promoting Activism by the way of bottom-up auto-organisations like ROARS

Alain Trautmann suggests to read again and again The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude from Etienne de la Boetie, 1549

Asking for a New Social Contract for European Science-Makers in close relationships with the Common Good

Get closer to the SSE (Social & Solidarity Economy) platforms:

Looking for Sustainability,

RRI (Responsible Research & Innovation)

& Inspired Research

One big problem: everywhere, Science Activists are…. tired!

Public Campaigns Focusing on the Ignorance/Knowledge!

Developing the HSE network throughout Europe and looking for proactive volunteers

Is EuroScience the Voice of Researchers in Europe? Yes, if the researchers become ES Active Members and build an higher-order auto-organisation

How to conciliate National & European Actions?

But EuroScience urgently needs more financial support to support the HSE actions )-:

Reading EuroScientist, Participating to the HSE Blog, Moving the lines with the Open Letter

Many Thanks to YOU,