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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to greet Commissioner Potočnik, Mr Buzek and all the shadow rapporteurs and thank them for the climate of cooperation that they succeeded in creating while drawing up this seventh framework programme.
Europe has to make considerable improvements to produce new knowledge through basic research, in disseminating it through education and training, and in applying it through innovation, not least in small and medium-sized enterprises. These are the conditions for achieving the Lisbon objectives. The seventh framework programme is a step in this direction.
In relation to this new knowledge, the European Research Council has been set up to boost basic research. I welcome this revitalisation of basic research: research at the frontiers of knowledge, promoting dynamism, competitiveness and creativity at the highest level. This new body, which is a response to the pressing demands of the European scientific community, must feature independent scientific judgment, fast procedures and rapid decision-making. Parliament has clearly emphasised and again reiterates that excellence must be the sole criterion to guide selection.
As for the legal structure of the European Research Council, I hope that it will be possible during the trialogue to eventually converge on a more widely accepted solution.
It is appropriate to emphasise the great importance of human resources. Researchers are a vital link between new knowledge and its application in innovative technologies and processes. This link does not work very well in Europe, and a sign of this poor connection is that, although Europe produces twice as many PhDs as the United States, the United States has twice as many PhDs in industry as Europe has. It is no coincidence that a good 400 000 researchers who received their doctorates in science and technology in Europe are now in the United States.
We need new researchers in order to reach the target of eight researchers for every 1 000 employees, both men and women. At this time, a large proportion will have to be women, since they make up only 29% of the scientific community, and measures need to be identified that can make it easier for them to enter this career, such as measures to reconcile work and family life for both men and women.
The new Constitutional Treaty provided for the creation of the European research area. I reiterate the idea by talking about a ‘European area of researchers’, in other words a single job market that could be organised partly through the creation of a European researchers’ association or an umbrella organisation of researchers’ associations, which could be a useful body for enhancing their role in the European context.
A final recommendation concerns embryonic stem cells. We should affirm the principle of research freedom, which must have scientific rigour as its basic tenet. Moreover, research must be given the opportunity to exercise control publicly in particularly sensitive areas of research. I therefore call for confirmation of the position adopted by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, which accommodates the opinions of those for and against embryonic stem cell research."@en1
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