Session 1.3 conclusions: How can funding conditions for European research be improved?
Thursday, November 5th, 2009The issue and the context:
External funding is an increasing source of financing research and has become a key component of the funding mix for research organisations.
Funding conditions have a major impact on the capability of research institutions to achieve their goals. Research institutions set up strategies and mechanisms to benefit from competitive funding, to comply with the requirements of external funders, to pro-actively diversify their sources of funding. Across Europe, external competitive funding is currently provided by different types of funders, each of them with their respective strategies and expectations towards research institutions. To support their research portfolios, research institutions …