Tuesday, 12. May 2009

Austrian Science Minister publicly announces to leave CERN - mountainfolks withdraw from the suisse caves into their own

The Austrian Science Minister Johannes Hahn wants to free 20mio EUR budget per year by leaving the CERN consortium. This would allow him to move the money directly to his buddies at local universities to support "european research".

Well, then please also close down your WWW servers at http://www.bmwf.gv.at/ because we are currently celebrating 20 years of this CERN invention.

In their own words: "Durch die frei werdenden CERN-Mittel bieten wir den Universitäten eine europäische Forschungsperspektive". - "By freeing funds from CERN we offer the Universities a european Research Perspective". Well, I wonder why the Universities are currently cut off from EU funds - because they are not writing enough proposals? And CERN is international, its not Europen. Even better to stay there.

Here is the press release (7.5.2009).

Here is the protest platform:
http://sos.teilchen.at/

"Der wissenschaftliche Output ist unbestritten, aber die Sichtbarkeit kleiner Staaten in Experimenten mit über 2.000 Mitgliedern eher gering." - meaning: with over 2000 scientists, the Austrians don't always appear in front row, and this is not enough great publicity for my ministry. What the fuck? Its about science, not about a minister showing off in front of cameras. Be happy if you can send your students to meet the other 2000 top phycicists in the world, in a highly competitive atmosphere.

So, lets leave the underground caves in switzerland, filled with mysterious magnets, to go back to our own caves at the Austrian Research Centers, a political wonderland of science funding.
QR barcode by i-nigma.com/CreateBarcodes

Trackback URL:
https://leobard.twoday.net/stories/5696541/modTrackback

icon

semantic weltbild 2.0

Building the Semantic Web is easier together

and then...

foaf explorer
foaf

Geo Visitors Map
I am a hard bloggin' scientist. Read the Manifesto.
www.flickr.com
lebard's photos More of lebard's photos
Skype Me™!

Search

 

Users Status

You are not logged in.

I support

Wikipedia Affiliate Button

Archive

May 2009
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 2 
 3 
 5 
 6 
 7 
 8 
 9 
10
11
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
30
31
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Credits


austriaca
Chucknorrism
digitalcouch
gnowsis
Jesus
NeueHeimat
route planning
SemWeb
travel
zoot
Profil
Logout
Subscribe Weblog