Public research funding survey
Following the Prime Minister's announcement on February 1 of a multi-year research programming law, a collective of 22 learned societies launched a two-stage consultation on the major expectations of the academic community with regard to this law. Last March, the AFSP asked political scientists to respond to an initial survey, which received over 3,000 replies. Their analysis attests to the high expectations concerning the multi-year programming law, and helped identify the priority themes to be addressed in the law. Hence this second phase of consultation with the academic community via 4 additional thematic surveys, which will be put online between April 19 and May 10.
A summary of the results of the first online consultation can be downloaded here.
Based on the responses to this first questionnaire, 4 additional thematic surveys will be put online between April 19 and May 10:
1) Institutional funding of public research (this week)
2) Scientific employment (opening week April 22 to 26)
3) Administrative organization of research (opening week April 29 to May 3)
4) Relations between public research and society (opening week May 6 to 10).
Each survey will be open for a period of 2 weeks, with the first anonymized summaries of the responses to each questionnaire being made public at the end of the period, and used to present the community's position to the ministerial working groups preparing the programming law, and to members of parliament.
The survey on public research funding will be open from April 19 at 10:00 to May 2 at 12:00 on this link.
As a reminder, the timetable announced by the Ministry is as follows: February 2019: Launch of working groups July 2019: Restitution of working groups August - December 2019: Drafting of the multi-annual research programming law During 2020: Adoption and promulgation of the Multi-Year Research Programming Act January 1, 2021: Entry into force
List of organizing societies: Société Française de Biologie du Développement, Société Mathématique de France, Société Française d'Ecologie et d'Evolution, Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, Association Française de Science Politique, Société des Neurosciences, Société Informatique de France, Association Française de Mécanique, Société des Professeurs d'Histoire Ancienne de l'Université, Société de Mathématiques Appliquées, Société des Historiens Médiévistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur Public, Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Société Française d'Optique.