“If these billion euro may come, in this case, set aside the assessment [of research centers, which is ongoing] that is undermined credibility and do something as it should be, it seems a good measure,” said André Janeco speaking to Lusa.
The Minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato, announced Thursday, in parliament, that the Portuguese State has agreed with the European Commission with funding from the Structural Funds thousand million by 2020 for science.
With the partnership agreement 2014/2020, reached between Portugal and the European Commission after “intensive negotiations and sometimes very difficult”, the Government intends to ensure funding for basic science, but also the “international competitiveness and scientific excellence” of research and development units and the “transfer of knowledge” for companies.
André Janeco also stressed the importance of knowing as the availability of funds will be announced, adding that sometimes, if there was talk “of numbers many millions” and then, at the time of tendering, what comes to effectively units and researchers “are trifles,” accused.
The Portuguese research units are to be subjected to an evaluation process that is taking place, and which has already deleted, the 2. third phase, almost half of the centers involved.
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