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[โ€“] SW42@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Thatโ€™s good to read but itโ€™s not really that muchโ€ฆ

[โ€“] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I was going to say exactly the same thing. It honestly isn't that much. Source: my wife is a researcher who works for the EU and approves grants.

[โ€“] Anonymaus@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago

Its not much, but its a start

[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 19 hours ago

The real info would be 721 million divided between 281 researchers (less than 3 million each).

Personally, I'd rather see that nice 700 million budget be used to focus on a handful of selected priority projects (I don't care of they're senior or junior researchers) but that's just me and since I don't have 700 millions I probably do not know what I'm talking about.

Also, being the EU, my very naive idea would then raise the question: what are the selection criteria and who is to decide? And since it's the EU that would lead to the creation of a commission that would study the criteria to use and who to ask, and then to a new commission studying the result of that first commission, and then a new commission deciding of it's worth using those results validated by the first two commissions because of the public perception that day, and so on and, suddenly, we're already 25 years late.

But, I insist, I have no idea what I'm talking about ;)