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FP7 from the perspective of Research
InstitutionsEPP-ED HEARING ON 7th FRAMEWORK
PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENTEUROPEAN PARLIAMENTThursday, 22
September 2005Carl Johan SundbergMD, PhD,
Coordinator Science SocietyDpt of Physiology
Pharmacology Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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A young neuroscientist asked where can I do best
work?

• Made ground-breaking discoveries on stem cells in
  the human brain
• Was offered a permanent position in the US
• Millions of dollars in research money
• A lab
• Full support

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Is basic science important - really?

• Numerous studies show that investments in basic
  research give high return
• Knowledge from science serves as basis for
• Policies
• Environment and climate
• Infrastructural needs
• Energy
• Health care
• Technologies
• Understanding

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Science may seem difficult

• Special training
• Special language
• Distinct culture
• Obscure deliverables

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If Europe does not invest more

• US, Japan, China India still will
• Europe does not reach its potential

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Europe will slide and become second rate part of
the world

• Emigration of highly educated people
• Unemployment
• Low-skilled jobs

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Core European values are threatened

• Less democratic
• Lessened scientific culture gt
• open space for ideologies

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If we

• Focus on true excellence
• then

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• Truly new, revolutionary knowledge will be created

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• This knowledge can be used in
• Policy making
• Health care
• Industry

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• Which improves life for the people in Europe
• Jobs
• Quality of life
• Democracy

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The young neuroscientist

• Chose to remain in Europe
• Private foundation strategic public and
  university support
• Founded biotech company
• Raised venture capital
• Clinical trials shortly
• Does science full-time

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Europe

• Has great potential
• Is fragmented in
• Science
• Science technology-driven cos
• Financial markets
• Seeds less on RD (2/3) than comparable economies
• Does not harvest what it seeds
• Exports brains
• The environment (the research universities)
• The research resources
• The personal resources 

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Europe

• Needs
• Political will support
• Focus on what builds tomorrow e.g. basic science
• Pave the road take away barriers e.g.
  European Patent
• Uniform rules different playing styles across
  EU
• Individual leadership in politics, academia
  industry
• Competition and collaboration
• Innovation systems/Clusters
• Universities embedded in society as engines for
  knowledge-formation growth
• Better conditions for scientists
• Resources salaries
• To focus on excellence, proven or coming

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FP7

• Pan-European research market gt
• critical mass
• Admin reporting must be simple
• Support
• Basic science
• Competition with quality as main/sole criterion
• Talent
• Mobility
• Fully financed projects
• ERC
• Is very, very important
• Must be substantial

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