Please take a look at the open letter below, and consider signing it.
For more information follow the links provided in the email below.
To go directly to the signature page, click:
http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/index.php?file=insert.php
Signing is an individual matter but you can mention your position.
European colleagues will much appreciate your support.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Prof Thomas Reuter
Chair, World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA)
Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 421 605229
Email: thor2525@gmail.com
Web: www.wcaanet.org
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Van: Rudiger Klein <rudiger.klein@allea.org>
Datum: 19 november 2011 11:16:09 AWST
Onderwerp: Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic
Sciences and Humanities research in the new FP, 2014-2020
Dear colleagues,
With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter
addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and
Innovation(http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/), which highlights some
of the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
(SSH) can contribute to addressing Europe's and the world's Grand
Societal Challenges.
Kindly circulate this invitation to sign also across your
institutions, and through your networks, projects and subject
associations.
First results of this initiative to strengthen the SSH-component in
"Horizon 2020" were presented to Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn on 10
November 2011. During a ½ day symposium on the role of SSH in "Horizon
2020" in London, the Commissioner expressed her appreciation for the
mobilisation of the community towards strengthening the SSH domain in
the new Framework Programme (
http://www.allea.org/Content/ALLEA/SSH/Speech-Commissioner-09-11-11.pdf
).
Following this successful exchange, we shall interact next (after 20
November ) with lawmakers in the European Parliament and national
political authorities.For we must bear in mind that in the past the
SSH-related Framework Programme component has been, time and again, in
danger of being eliminated at the end of negotiations between national
governments, the European Parliament and the Commission; also, the
size of the budget accessible for SSH-researchers is as yet far from
being secured.
It would therefore be useful to collect further support from a large
cross-section of the SSH- and SSH-related research communities. After
20 November we shall do a first analysis of the signatures received
and publicise the results obtained that far through a press release
informing also MEP's as well as national governments and
parliamentarians.
In view of legislative decisions to be taken on the next
100-Billion-worth EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), the
letter stresses the necessity for a varied and strong research
programme in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH). It
would be tantamount to undermining the EU strategy to develop
innovative, inclusive and sustainable societies, were there
insufficient funding in Horizon 2020 for research areas such as
cultural change, demography, education, the economy and globalisation,
identity politics and social cohesion, poverty relief and global
governance and many others. For background information on these
matters see: http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/
The Open Letter initiative has grown out of deliberations among a
number of European umbrella organisations in the area of SSH, and
seeks to bring to the attention of the European Commission and
national governments the concerns of the largest research community in
Europe.
If you agree, that a substantial and independent SSH-centered research
programme should be included in all future European Framework
Programmes, we invite you to sign the Open Letter online at
http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/. Kindly circulate this invitation
to sign also across your institutions, and through your networks,
projects and subject associations.
Thank you in advance for signing and for supporting this initiative.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any
questions:openletter2011@eash.eu
On behalf of the Inter-agency Task Group on SSH in Europe (ALLEA - ALL
European Academies; ESF - European Science Foundation: Standing
Committees for the Humanities and Social Sciences; ECHIC - European
Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres; Net4Society - Network
of SSH National Contact Points), with endorsements from the SSH
ERA-Nets and others
Dr. Ruediger Klein
Executive Director
European Federation of National Academies of Sciences
and Humanities (ALLEA)
P.O.Box 19121, 1010GC Amsterdam
c/o KNAW, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1010JV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: ruediger.klein@allea.org
