EUROPE: Better working conditions for Europe’s researchers proposed
June 7th, 2008
By Alan Osborn
Fresh efforts are to be made by the European Commission to improve working conditions, mobility and status for European researchers as time begins to run out for the EU's core Lisbon Strategy. A meeting of representatives of industry, research and the EU institutions convened by the French Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique in Brussels last week (May 28th) heard that problems in transferring technology from universities and research organisations to industry were compounded by the often poor conditions under which ...
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