International Recommendations
Moving Forward: Guidelines to Improved Science Systems (2016)
Published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Joint Statement by the 2nd Joint Science Conference of the Berlin Process
- Policy Advice
- Globalisation
- Science Communication
- Research Policy
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This document was adopted in 2016 by the 2nd Joint Science Conference of the Berlin Process in Vienna. The conference was organised jointly by the Leopoldina and the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the 2016 French Presidency of the Berlin Process.
The document formulates five key recommendations for science and tertiary education in South East Europe (including the Western Balkans):
- Build a social and political culture appreciating the relevance of science for open society and economic development. Involve scientists in policy-making and institutionalise communication by establishing National Science Advisory Councils or similar bodies.
- Apply international quality criteria to and involve international scientists in evaluation and recruitment of scientific-academic personnel.
- Embrace a welcoming culture for attracting outstanding scholars from the diaspora and international scientific community. Guarantee long-term planning security. Offer mobility measures for brain circulation at all career levels.
- Create national autonomous research funding institutions and depoliticise the science system.
- Adopt special instruments within the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for the Western Balkans 6 and the EU13 to combat inequalities in the EU. Develop one central information hub for EU-funded opportunities.