Betreff: | Strong concerns about potential future budget cuts in the context of EFSI |
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Datum: | Fri, 22 May 2015 08:14:17 +0000 |
Von: | Angeles Rodriguez Pena <[log in to unmask]> |
Kopie (CC): | Monica Dietl <[log in to unmask]>, Tatiana Kovacikova <[log in to unmask]>, Ingeborg Nolte <[log in to unmask]> |
Dear
COST Action Chairs,
In
context of the European Fund for Strategic Investments
(EFSI), drawing budget from Horizon 2020, the COST
Association is facing a potential 7% budget cut for
operating the COST Framework. Not only would this impact
the future number of COST Actions to be funded but most
likely lower the funds of all ongoing COST Actions.
Given
COST great leverage and high impact on the European
Research and Innovation capacities, the
Committee of Senior Officials has therefore made a
statement pleading for a conservation of
COST budget. This statement, published yesterday, has
been shared with the European Commission (see attached).
Moreover,
we have decided to launch an online petition on the COST website
where Actions’ participants and COST stakeholders and
friends can show their support.
If
you believe that the COST should have stable and
sufficient budgets to allow European researchers,
engineers and scholars to connect and collaborate,
please sign our online petition “Engaging
for COST”.
You
will find the related News release here.
Please
help us to keep the COST budget by distributing this
mail to all your Actions’ participants (management
committee, working groups, etc.)
Thank
you for the attention given to this message. We will
keep you posted on the developments.
Best
regards,
Ángeles
Rodríguez-Peña
President
of the COST Association
-- Dr. Stefanie Wefers grantholder manager COST Action TD1201: COSCH www.cosch.info i3mainz Hochschule Mainz Lucy-Hillebrand-Str. 2 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 628 1471 Fax: +49 6131 628 91471 www.i3mainz.hs-mainz.de