Science Policy
"The inconsistent Europe 2020 and research strategy," voxeu (12/03/2012)
On the Simplification of Community Funding for Research: Some Basic Principles, (slides) Brussels, 24 February 2010.
“Shifting from Academic ‘Brain Drain’ to ‘Brain Gain’ in Europe” (with M. Lietaert and M. Grigolo) European Political Science 9, 42, 118–130, 2010.
“Towards the ‘Fifth Freedom’: Increasing the Mobility of Researchers in the European Union” (with M. Lietaert and M. Grigolo) Higher Education in Europe 34, 1, 25–37, 2009.
“An Open, Integrated, and Competitive European Research Area Requires Policy and Institutional Reforms, and Better Governance and Coordination of S&T Policies” (with Maria de Graça Carvalho) in Knowledge for Growth Prospects for science, technology and innovation: Selected papers from Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik’s Expert Group. European Commission, 2009.
“Governance and Coordination of S&T Policies in the European Research Area” (with Maria de Graça Carvalho) report of the Expert Group “Knowledge for Growth,” June, 2008, available at http://ec.europa.eu/invest–in–research/monitoring/knowledge_en.htm
“Evaluation of the effectiveness of the New Instruments of Framework Programme VI” (Chairman). For the European Commission. July, 2004.
The Case of the Failed Selection of the New Director of the European Research Council Executive Agency
On how I was pre-selected (by a panel of the European Commission and the Scientific Council of the ERC) as one of the three final candidates for the final selection process to fill the new post of Director of the ERC Executive Agency; on how this final selection never took place and the process was closed without an appointment; on my correspondance with DGResearch; on my formal complaint against the European Commission to The European Ombudsman; on the positive reply from The European Ombudsman and his reply of March 25 with the opinion of the European Commission. and my last letter to the Ombudsman with my opinion on the European Commission's Opinion, and some press coverage.
You may want to read first my letter to The European Ombudsman or, for a small pre-detour, my letter to the Scientific Council of the ERC. From there, you will be referred to the first documents, which are either here or on the web-page of the ERC (under About us/ Review and Development of the ERC).
Documents and correspondence related to the Selection Process:
Letter to The European Ombudsman. 5 November 2010
Letter to The Scientific Council of the ERC, 5 November 2010
and some press coverage:
What do you think?