http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=testimonials en Wed, 22 May 2013 03:35:31 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss For more RSS news feeds click the link above. Wed, 22 May 2013 03:35:31 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss The solution is a multi-level one. You can go in very technical solutions like manage the budget, manage the Euro crisis and so on, and also manage the regulations but a good start would be to find new ideas for growth, jobs, maybe create your own job... That is part of the solution I guess.]]> 2020 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT On its own, Europe is not responsible of the crisis. I think Europe has done plenty of good things but we need to calm down a bit the investors and not trying to find always the best interest. I don't think obligation, European obligations such as Greece and other, have to be on the market I think, personally, that's the reason why the crisis is so high todays, that they're speculating on products that are involving our daily life every day. That is my point of view.]]> 2020 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I mean, people have a very egoistic thinking and I think we should work together more. I mean the European Governments like to do it, but I think in the wrong way.]]> 2020 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I believe it actually starts from the youth. To be able to get out of this crisis we need more qualified youth, a youth which is more aware of what to be European actually means, what are the privileges of being European: freedom of movement, being able to travel to study other European programs. So basically we need to talk about what being a European is: it is a benefit to be multilingual, it is a benefit to be able to travel freely in the European sphere and it is those children who will grow into this kind of education who will have more ideas, a big identity, more language skills, be more adventurous, who will have new ideas for the future. So I believe it is about focusingon European youth today to get Europe out of its crisis tomorrow.]]> 2020 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT In integration. Because if people meet in such congress, they get to know each other, they get to present their world and they get to exchange their ideas. So basically in these interchanges they will get to know each other better. So in this way maybe?]]> 2020 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think that technology and research are very important for the future but we have to make a difference between companies which are looking for their own interest and benefits and profit etc. and companies that are looking for global benefit for the people and not only for the economic profit. I think we have to go in that direction and not the other one.]]> 2020 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT It does! But only if we create the right channels. Because there are different types of research: economic research, development research and human research. So it depends on the role every country wants to play. Europe has enough resources, all it need to do is to work on economic research, which means create more labour, more working environment, then it will change the economy. Because at the moment the economy is stagnating, it is not moving forward, because no new jobs are created, every old jobs have been taken, so it is like a boomerang situation. All they need to do is to open up the system, that allows more trainee and more work.]]> 2020 Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it depends on what we consider as Europe: is it politicians or people in the street? I think that the solution may come from the people and the citizens. There is an important to change the mentalities and I think that people have to be more critical about the world in which they are living and we have to change our habits and our way to consume goods and find new values. And I think that politicians have to help that and they have to believe and to realize that we have to change the system in which we're living and the economical system and the philosophical, political way to consider the world and society in general, today.]]> 2020 Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT There's no worse or better there's only different. And I can promise you that. In the US, there are so many different issues and class disparity and you see that people that are poor are becoming so much poorer. Now they are starting to become a social stygma. And unemployement is just as bad except they have no net to fall into. Now Europe have the safety net which brings a lot of people into. You know you don't have the motivating factors but I would say it is going to just...Both sides needs to swallow their pride and realise that they have to make changes, especially in today's world where you can't just throw money in industry anymore, you can't just say: We need to manufature more goods because we don't need more goods. We need to have ideas, like from talent places that were out today that you need to start opening your mind. The systems are very closed right now, and you need to start opening those up and maybe steal some ideas from both sides.]]> 2020 Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, in fact I was quite longing for the level of living or the European style of living. For example, work hard and rest much, and they have more time with the family, and I like that very much. But for example, I’m sorry for the Italian people or the Greek people, but they do not work so hard. I think. I mean the time… the time is quite, little I think. So that is one of the problems of the crisis.]]> 2020 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think research and innovation do certainly...can guide us for a better future, At the same time, I would say, we need to define innovation, because I believe that we have a certain concept of what innovation means, at this current time...meaning especiallly technological innovation but I also feel that it's gonna be destruction if we only focus on the technological innovation. So, I believe that research can help us more if it focuses on health and issues that are important to people.]]> 2020 Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT There are simply mega things that would not have happened without research. I refered, before we talked, to digital mapping, companies like Tele Atlas, Navteq, would not have that kind of existence without this kind of research. On the other hand, the efficiency is by far too low. When you talk about - and I'm sorry to say so - about research and the EU level, the efficiency is low, the bureaucracy is far too high also in other organizations, of course, and the companies, it's too high. So we have to make sure that we are more efficient.]]> 2020 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The main concern I can think about is the lack of privacy that we'll have in the future and what these social networks bring to our life, our friendships, our relationships, and I'm just afraid they will affect us more and more as human beings and even though we have a feeling that we are more interconnected, we are actually falling more and more apart.]]> 2020 Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think being more accountable, working hard and not blaming other people. You've got what you deserved.]]> 2020 Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think Europe should keep working on promoting spaces where people can think out of the box, that can bring new ideas, because innovation and research is always aligned to economical growth development and in the way that we can make the world a better place to live.]]> 2020 Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT There should be a bit more investments in the future, And a bit more risk taking. It is something that Europe is not very good at. It is risk averse compared to other powers like the United States.]]> 2020 Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT At this moment, I believe that you cannot get out of something if you have the same mentality as you started with. So, for me, the big thing to get out of this crisis is to have a change in mentality: we can't look at the problems the same way as we came in to the problem...So, meaning by that is having these entrepreneurs out there, that change things, that really see it from a different point of view, from an innovative point of view, it can be the same way, but just the approach is very much different. Again linking towards a strong leadership in it and having those change agents.]]> 2020 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think they make all the difference because they are the possibility to better use everything that we have, to forsee the problems, to solve them and to provide a much better use of the resources that are limited and to re-use them efficiently and in this respect science and innovation are almost everything.]]> 2020 Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT More robust infrastructures, pragmatic reaction If we look at some of the challenges, I mean climate change, is a key one facing us, and a lot of the people will say we need to do a lot for climate change. Which is actually true,there is a lot of mitigation things we're doing. But we also, need heavy investment. in some of the adaptation methods as well. I've just come bacl from a tour of the United States, looking at what the're doing dealingwith all their extreme events. We have to make our system in Europe,all our society more robust for the changes that are going to happen. and this is not a defeatist in, saying we cannot prevent it, it is just a pragmatic reaction to the fact, things are going to happen.]]> 2020 Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to get down to the personal level. I think too much is happening at the macro level and we need to go back down to small groups of people, individuals, rather than this globalization huge companies, big organizations.]]> 2020 Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT We're now seeing with new programs of science and innovation a focus on tackling the big challenges that we need for the future and looking in ways in which we can have more integrated programs where science and technology and different fields is working much better together, exploring the synergies, we could say in longer words. Because I think up to now that we've perhaps had too much of a single focus in different disciplines. So this multidisciplinary horizontal research. Working together in teams and building bigger knowledge and innovation communities across Europe which is something we are doing with the European Institute of Technology which I'm very passionate about. I think that's a real step forward in developing new ways of working together So a combined effort, but focused on solving those big challenges and what interest me is when I see some universities in my region and other places, starting to organize their own research program around societal challenges. So within the universities themselves they're building these multidisciplinary teams and then will respond to the challenges that are coming from outside.]]> 2020 Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think that research and innovation are essential. Without them, there will not be a lot of progress, progress will be impossible, and we will not be able to make more progress. But I think one of the conditions in which we will have to do that, is to make sure that whenever public money is used for any kind of research, that results of those will be available for the public as well.]]> 2020 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT If you stop evolving, you're dying. And that's basically valid for all living organisms or economy as a whole: if you are content and you stop looking, you stop, for a part, existing, you stop evolving and you go downwards! The whole economy and the wole situation, the whole society degrades. So yes. Just to know that you remain living and remain on top of things, you need to evolve and for evolution, you need research and innovation.]]> 2020 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I guess my main concern about the future is Europe's ability to move forward. Because Europe used to be this big boat that is really stable and doesn't take a lot of decisions and I really believe that the world is changing really quickly right now and we need to be able to adapt to it, also as quickly as possible.]]> 2020 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Research & innovation is very important but equally important, I think, is to help those researchers implement their inventions. So when governments fund research, they should also help those researchers think of a business plan maybe, or what are the practical usages of their research, because I think in a lot of projects, now, you have the scientists and they find these amazing things and then it stops, because they're not business people. So, I think, this synergy of business and science could really help us further.]]> 2020 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I would say, first the rise of nationalism, or even regionalism in our country, the end of Europe, or some kind of a doom scenario like that, global warming and the rising in the occurence of cancers or important diseases.]]> 2020 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well first of all, I think we have to really recognize and analyze our strength. I think a lot of it is about resources, well, the biggest resource on the planet is right here: this is our people. So I truely believe that we have to build a future industry. It's clear that we have to innovate. I think this is another element, and we have one of the best educational systems in the world, we have top universities, we have a long tradition to solve problems, this is in the history of our people, so I think we have to get back to that and look at the challenges and opportunities of the future, I think in energy, in communication, especially in healthcare... so I think that's where we need to focus on and really build a longer term, sustainable industry.]]> 2020 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think less globalization, less dependence on, mainly Asia, but also the US, so less globalization, preferably even micro-economy within the country, so that the country itself can sustain itself or the communities within the country can sustain themselves...It's the only way to keep your head above water in the long run. If you create the other dependence on all the countries, on all the world, then sooner or later, if one falls, we all fall. And you don't want that.]]> 2020 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm concerned about education because I think the level of the teachers is getting lower, much lower, so I think that's my concern: that teachers cannot motivate children anymore and they don't have the right level to really teach something to the children.]]> 2020 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT First of all, we have to have the ability of sharing, this is really important, so, the ability of sharing will maybe help us to innovate, to be creative, to face this crisis.]]> 2020 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm a firm believer that we have to change our economy in some way and base it on other things. I think we consume too many things that don't necessarily make us happy but we think they make us happy, so somehow, we have to focus on making ourselves happy again and some way, the government needs to help us see the light, because a lot of people don't seem to see it, I think.]]> 2020 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns for the future are with regard to the egoistic mentality of a lot of people nowadays, so I'm really concerned that this can be a worry in different domains in society and that we shoud be driven a little more by, not only self interest, but also a collective dream or collective hope.]]> 2020 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, I have a certain sense of pride, working with the European project - although I'm Canadian from origin - I believe in the European Dream... if we could say that... which has kept peace and stability for the longest period ever known in Europe and it's very participatory, which I think is maybe the best buzzword of the year, or the decade. But it does work and I do believe there's need for more of it.]]> 2020 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think Europe has to start thinking outside of countries, but more inside of really the Union itself and not thinking about: yeah, we need appraval from that or that country, to do a kind of policy, but really put the power more centralized and I think solutions should come from an idea that it should be people-centred, and so, every idea or policy or whatever should help a cause, of course...and I think also, we need to cut down a little bit on bureaucracy and make things move faster and easier.]]> 2020 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Innovation has its own language and it opens us up to being curious again and to exploring possibilities. And that can help us to, sort of, reach out and be more tolerant of each other as we come to understand that there are different prospectives and different ways to all achieve our common good and I think that's the biggets thing, as it raises the bar and it opens our minds to what we can do to secure out future.]]> 2020 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I find it funny that the motto, or the main sentence that Europe says today is Unity in Diversity if I'm not mistaking.. I see more diversity, internally, than unity so everyone looking to his own concerns and not really working in unity, to go out of this crisis. That's my feeling.]]> 2020 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT If you're a doctor, usually, you rely on medical research and that's something that we're all thankful for when we go to doctors. What the tragedy in education is, we tend not to do that in education. There's so much education research out there and we're not really taking that research forward. So, that's really what I think about that: I think we need to...for example: research into the brain. The games industry has really taken that research, used it and taken it forward. OK? One of the tragedies is, in education, we haven't used brain research when we're planning schools, when we're planning curriculum, when planning education. So the games industry have gone way ahead of us and the education system needs to take note of some of the brain research that's been around for the last 20 years now and that's definitely how research can really help, I think, in education.]]> 2020 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Personally, I think it's important to look at new technologies, like biology and bio-technology and I think that, to have everyone have access to open science and open research is extremely important because as a designer who is not a researcher, collaborating with scientists becomes one of the most interesting projects that I have done. So I think it's important to allow the space for people to collaborate together and also think about new technologies and applications together collaboratively.]]> 2020 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT My concern for the future is largely based around giving a sense, for people around the world, that they no longer have to be consumptive, there could be a shift from being passive and consuming beings to being more active and assertive and that's kind of an idea that doesn't take hold partly because it scares people but I think that's the way to make the world more cooperative: it's to empower people to be who they want to be and to say what they want to say and share the ideas that they have and not to just sit and consume what's given to them by governments and by companies and by leaders, so to speak.]]> 2020 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT A lot of efforts have been put into fixing the economy, in a way, and to try to make it work. This is important and next to that, it will be also really important to also invest a lot in education: how people will learn new elements, discover new things, and apply and multiply the research that we have, mith more optimized porcesses and more optimized elements.]]> 2020 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, I guess it needs to be more dynamic, I think, we need to support the little people who start their own project because I feel right now the only ones getting support and the only ones getting the good regulations are the ones who are able to lobby, so, it's the big guys...And so, all the small guys just face a lot of problems and nobody is there to support them. So I think we need to support these little people who just make little shops or little business, to go ahead and boost the economy in Europe.]]> 2020 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm not a scientist, but I believe in the power of science. Science can show us a lot of things and politicians all have an ideology and I think we should step down from that ideology and give more power to science. Like, instead of voting for democrats or republican, have a government of technocrats, not like in Italy, but the same thing actually: of people who know what they are doing, who know how it has to be for it to work.]]> 2020 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The global population is growing so we've got to and it depends heavily on science how we're gonna face that problem and difficulties. More and more people will be affected by climate disasters. More and more people will be affected by famine. More and more people will be affected by lack of clean water. More and more people will be affected by secure place to live and that's not because we are unable to provide it right now. It's because the population is growing. The science role ,we know that, is to find a solution which has never been seen before: some people can say that it can be gentically modified food others can say that it's access to clean water, to filters, the rest can say: ok, let's just try to figure out some new systems, how to some new vaccinations, eradicate polio for example, with the Rotary program...Science is the most crucial thing and it should be funded, subsidized heavily. Because it works. Science works.]]> 2020 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm not an economist, but it would seem to me that two dissonent ideas that are the cause of the crisis. The first is we have built a society and a structure on the concept of a permanent job through which we pay taxes, we receive benefits and pensions, however, those jobs that create these goods that we consume, have increasingly been exported to other parts of the world, which means that the actual basis for our society, which is an artificial construct, but has served as well, is no longer valid. We need to revisit the ideas that Bismarck had, when he first created the pension system for Europe. There are other ways of doing things. Unfortunately for us, we have built layers of government and politics on top and it is they, who are the most reluctant to change, because they will lose the most.]]> 2020 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT So we really need a lot of research and science, but my main concern, as representative of the building industry and also from the provider engine industry is that we go from science and power-points and presentations to, really, development of products in the field, to really help the daily life of the people.]]> 2020 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT You know, innovation, when those ideas really help, they are inspiring and they are nice and they are, you know, motivating and entertaining. But there's one more thing, that if there's a really good idea, then it will also generate jobs and it will generate interesting products and...One of the great examples is of course what we have seen over the last years: the iPods and iPhones, which is a new idea and then everybody wanted to have this product and it is generating a lot of sales and then, it's getting further because other companies, they jump in and come with new ideas.]]> 2020 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, my main concern is what kind of world our children are going to be leading into, and how science and how education, because I’m in education, can help them into a better world. Because I think we are getting into a world that is quite frightening.]]> 2020 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, we can get rid of the few politicians, for a start, because they are all busy, worried about their position, as opposed to what needs to be done practically. There are very complicated situations to get through; I don’t think many people can solve it. They are doing the best that they can. But they really need a good dose of entrepreneurship. So, you really, all the funding and everything doesn’t get communicated very well, what they do. That’s one thing. Secondly, how to make people or how to help people work in harmony, so they can express themselves. There’s a lack of ideas. You see people today are on a status quo because they feel comfortable. We can’t be comfortable, we need a pioneer spirit.]]> 2020 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I see two things that we probably should be doing, as Europeans: one has to do with immigration, where we need to be trained towards a different attitude with regards to immigration. I think we need to become much more open and re-attract talent, and just attract young people from over the world, to come to Europe and work here and grow businesses here. That's a big project and that's a sort of relaxation exercise we need to do... On the one hand. On the other hand, any European investment in infrastructures that are cross-border, cross-national, new europeanized infrastructures...I think is a good investment. Anything that increases a little of exchange between European countries whether with trains or roadways or information networks, is in principle a good thing... or water networks...So, all those investments will actually grow and benefit us all. And the faster we get rid of single nation centric infrastructures, the better! And the faster we get rid of single nation centric infrastructures, the better!]]> 2020 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it's important in this time .... crisis, to people to feel that they can be creative and innovative and that the chance to start something small and to see it grow could be possible and that there's opportunities to do that and the people aren't so be education or workplace through lack of funds.]]> 2020 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think my biggest concern is around education. As technology is accelerating so fast, a programming language, or an engineering tool, or a way of designing things that was the best 5 years ago or 10 years ago, is now non existing, is useless. And we need really to pay attention and make sure that we change the way we deucate. So you can learn things faster, so you can learn things quicker and not just learn once... and...you can't apply that for your entire life you have to learn and learn and learn.]]> 2020 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well I think everybody is concerned about sustainable resources and my main concern about a sustainable resource, is the next generation of thinkers. In particular, of course, of scientific thinkers, not exclusively, but my interest is in science, especially where is my expertise, and my concern is how we are educating the next generation of scientists, where the creative, curious, inquisitive scientists will come from and who will do the work that will keep this place running in spite of one crisis after another that we’re inventing. So we have to invent solutions as quickly as we invent crisis, it seems to me.]]> 2020 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Currently, I'm concerned with the economic crisis that hits Europe and the whole world. And I think one of the impacts of it is that people become more and more individualistic, it's a trend that's been set a while back but I think this insecurity that it is causing makes people trying to stick to their own economic security and making them more individual than solidair.]]> 2020 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it's because we're facing so many fundamental changes in the way our society functions, so many technological innovations, so many new things that have taken everybody by surprise: the financial crisis, the Arab spring...What we need is a new way of interpreting these changes and, basically, be much more inovative in how we actually tackle these, so what we need is to actually learn creativity, because what we need is to invent new solutions to the problems that we'll be facing tomorrow, we need to be much more open to experimentation, open to change and much more willing to take risks. And I think that's one of the fundamental problems of Europe and the culture that dominates a lot of the institutions, is that people are afraid of change and afraid to do things differently. So I think what is needed most importantly is a change of mindset.]]> 2020 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Research and Innovation are absolutely at the key of making a better future in that we are constantly developping new technologies, constantly developping more research that we can from a technomic standpoint sell to people, which keeps an economy rolling, but also just it gives us a better quality of life, helps generate new technologies, better medicines, helps invent science, It's.... ball: once you've started rolling it you have to keep it rolling in order for things to roll out. If you reduce the amount of science funding, then you really slow the ball down and it has trickle effects 20 years, 30 years later where no new things have been developped and it takes forever to get that ball rolling and so it's critical to maintain a lot of scientific funding.]]> 2020 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Don't get stuck in the old patterns, look for ways...to work together and go forward solutions are there…]]> 2020 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The research that I do, is where science or technology meets human behaviour. So, I'm interested in, if you like, the humanization of technology: where it meets everyday life, and that means everyday emotions, everyday experiences... that means how you behave at work, how you behave at home. The barriers between those two things are also disolving: we do work at home we do also leisure activity at work, so maybe it's a bit about thinking how technology can help us to be more human with each other.]]> 2020 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Big companies gathering too much power and gathering all information and forcing us to pass through them actually, to accompish any task we want to. So we can't do anything if we don't have an Apple iPhone or another device and if we can't access to google search in every three seconds, we can't do tasks nowadays. So this is a concern: it's the fact that, what was really a wide democratic space, the Internet, is becoming now the most capitalistic space ever.]]> 2020 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, you can focus on what's wrong but I'de rather be on the positive side and look at what's right and I think there's a great bunch of people who are ready to put energy in it and trust to build this new kind of economy. So, but then you need to be able to trust that everyone will fight for it.]]> 2020 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT One thing I like about though: for me personally, it is still fun. It is fun to explore, to see how it works, to try this out, to show it to a friend, to use it for communication, to play games... So much of my enjoyment life comes from that. I used to take my young children to the carnival. And I would pay a hundred dollars for them to throw balls and get bigger stuffed animals and i would pay 50 dollars for ping-pong balls to win a goldfish and now I get an app for free, an app for free, an app for free...an app for 2 dollars, an app for one dollar...And I have all the fun in the world so we are in the fun era for adult. We get to buy our little affordable smartphones and play with them, and play with them and ... Wow what a toy man! We've got something really new! And when they change it is like a new toy, cars don't seem to change as much you know but uh.. maybe in the earliest days, the cars, they did.]]> 2020 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm not a specialist at all. My understanding is that it's a financial crisis mainly and now it's an economic crisis financials are very linked to economic activities in a second step. I don't know what we have to do with the financial sector, but I think that the position that has been taken after so many meetings between presidents and ministers and officials in Europe, are going in the right direction: we have to put this banking system aligned with the economic affairs.]]> 2020 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it helps to share resources and it helps to shere knowledge. My topic is car-to-x, car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication, and here you need joined efforts, because there's a new technology there's a new solution to improve traffic safety and traffic efficiency and to get these advantages, you need collaboration across industry and not only across car makers or suppliers, all across Europe, to have a successful implementation. So here, Europe really helps, also with these joined research activities, to get a common understanding, to get inter-operability of the system and to foster deployment. I think this is extremely helpful here.]]> 2020 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think we need to be more creative in research and innovation and also my personal view is that research projects have a tendency to be recycled and recycled and not really focusing on the concrete results and effects. So we need to be more precise in what our research project really should come up with and have a plan for how it can come to a concrete implementation.]]> 2020 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm a firm believer in technology and science because I think the mankind has a long history of technological innovation and how that has solved a lot of problems and made our lives a lot better.]]> 2020 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT That's what I think that innovation can bring to society: disperse the growth, disperse the creativity and the economic engine for growth. Because ultimately, the purpose of our existence is to make our lives easier to make our future more prosperous... And the way that we do it is by refining our technology, and refining our theories and views of the world.]]> 2020 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think one of the thoughest things about economy in Europe and in the US is a lack of cooperation: that there's so many interests that are competing and that don't give intake. And we have to learn, to look beyond our own interest, for the good of all.]]> 2020 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I believe that there's going to be a strong need for a renovation of small entrepreneurship and independent entrepreneurship and a focus on creating small business and reinvigorating the middle class which is always the economic motor of every society. I think that, without being able to do that Europe will languish a bit.]]> 2020 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT We need one strategy, rather than 27 strategies...plus the World Bank, plus the something bank, plus the something else, plus somebody else...We need to get agreement, as fast as possible, on what is A single European strategy and somehow, to get some confidence back. Again, talking simply for the UK, banks are not short of money but they're not lending it and business wants cash to invest, to expand but everyone is lacking confidence, so it's the classic stalemate, people sit and look at each other and say: well you go first no, you go first...]]> 2020 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think that the problem in not a problem of Europe, that it's a problem worldwide. And I think that the only way to find a solution is to work together to cooperate, to find a possibility of spending better, resources and money, which are all over the world...and find solutions especially for the emerging countries - excluding Russia of course - which have very much more troubles than we have, really.]]> 2020 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Education is the start of everything. So we should have very good educated people in Europe. I think some countries are doing really well, some ere doing less...but I think that's a start, because if you have the knowledge, you have the tools available to get out of the crisis.]]> 2020 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The biggest benefit that I see in the European research programs is the ability for people from different countries to get to know each other and work together on projects, because learning what is going on in other places and being exposed to other thoughts is really important and I think here Europe has a real advantage, because the culture that's developed in these different places means people think a little bit differently from one another and if they can learn to talk together and develop products together, innovations together, there's a true added value here that I don't see in more homogenous societies.]]> 2020 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT As a company, we get connected to other industry partners, but also research institutes and universities. And really, it is quite the whole community that comes together and works on the topics together.]]> 2020 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT In my personal opinion, I think one big problem that we have is how the politicians are trying to save us from the crisis and also I think that, I'm a researcher, but I think as well that if we use more money to improve our research and if we try to find something new to move the market it could be a solution...And forget about giving money to the banks... totally!]]> 2020 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT As a developper, or technician I would say that it's...uh what we need is that the politicians listen a bit more to the technicians or to developpers when they put in place the different programs research programs or competitivity programs for next years. Because I think we know what we have to do sell better products in Europe and other countries in the world and I think they don't take the time to really listen to our solutions.]]> 2020 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it si very important - certainly at this moment - that Research & Development is, in a way, dealing with practical issues. so, in some cases, research is, in my opinion, a bit far away from daily problems: dealing with societal problems, where, I think, individual change is much more easy and...I think... better to do stepwise. So research should focus on people in the end.]]> 2020 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I mean Science is the basis for what we are going to do. You cannot develop advanced products, unless you have a scientific background. So we need Science, we need demonstration products and we need implementation. But all these areas could actually be supported by Horizon 2020. That is why Horizon 2020 is so important, not only for the industry, but also for the people of Europe.]]> 2020 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to look at it more generally and not as fragment and in terms of the research and the innovation that happens, the knowledge that we have, and not see it as the North against the South, or somebody has to be something more general that not...And if we put all the data together, I think that ultimately it's gonna give us the best outcome.]]> 2020 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT We need to take care about the need of the people, of course that's very important. we need to listen to what the people need, but not necessarily what they needfor -let's say- infotainment, but maybe what are their real concerns, like better way of moving better way of working etc. Today the technology is focused too much on the leisure and maybe not enough on what we really need.]]> 2020 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT What is lacking is mainly a vision, both from the southern countries and the northern ones...and the central European ones...and besides that, the willingness of all countries to be part of a Union.]]> 2020 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it's critical. if people aren't exploring in any means possible, including science, we're gonna be going backwards and not forwards. Right now, education is failing us and I think it's because people are learning in ways that were appropriate for a century or two ago and not for our modern times... and again, if people are learning what they want and need, to learn, to live the lives they want and need to live then people will be sp... on to do who knows what in their own creative way.]]> 2020 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT First of all, I would say, the multidisciplinarity of the teams: you learn a lot from other countries other cultures and other ways of doing research. That's one of the main points, and for me, I think, it's the most interesting thing. Apart from that, you are able to perform some research that, maybe in other situations, you wouldn't be able to. You have funding for new researches and that's a big advantage.]]> 2020 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Through this project, we get to know many other places, within Europe, that was very good. I don't think that projects that come from one country, would, without this kind of support, see what's going on in other member states. So...understanding what's going on in Italy, from Scandinavia, was a lot easier with this kind of support than it could have been without. Yet! There is of course, through certain standard procedures for smaller companies, a big hindering to participate. So...most of these projects apply to larger corporations.]]> 2020 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Concerning traffic, I think my main concern is this great heart attack of all traffic and when you're looking at these evolving countries and these big megacity regions that are just growing and growing, there's just to many cars then for the infrastructure and the infrastructure is growing slower than the cars are coming up, so I think that's a challenge for a lot of big cities, yeah!]]> 2020 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think Europe has very high costs on people and personnel and it's important to invest in science because other countries have lower income and they can make more quantity and more products. So we have to do more things with our brain, I think.]]> 2020 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT It is Important that the EC focus the mainlines that are important for the society to be developed. So the companies can make research on these kinds of areas without risking so much effort or so much money from their own, because they have help from the Commission.]]> 2020 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT One of my main concerns is the use of the natural resources that we have. I think we're overusing them in a very unsustainable way, in producing things that people think they need but in principle don't need]]> 2020 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think what we really need and what does lack in Europe is a clear leadership! They are requested, for example, for Germany - I am from Germany - and they are asking for the bigger countries here to take the lead, for France and for Germany but for Germany it's not easy, due to history... you know? But I think we need this, we need leadership. It's not the most important thing, that 'this is the perfect leadership but the leadership itself is needed so that the people get hope and the economy and then, let me say, there's an automatic process that we do not have at the moment, that will give hope to everybody that will support to get us out of this problem.]]> 2020 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think we first need some discipline, in each country and a common willing... a common will to realize it. I have no doubts that we will master this crisis.]]> 2020 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT It can make massive difference. Going back to the economic downturn that we are in, people are having to do more with less money and less budgets so that's where science, engineering, technology and innovations can really help to bring about change for the better, with very little money.]]> 2020 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I come from a background of research and science. I believe that the value that science and technology brings is the collaborative spirit and you're no longer thinking about yourself or your particular background in terms of religion or race...Science brings together a spirit of collaboration and mind share and I think that can really drive positive change in environment global and European.]]> 2020 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I used to live in Europe and, a few years ago, at the beginning of Europe - I'm not an economist - but I never understood why countries with so different levels of living would do to be able to share a common economy. Because anyone, any country could not come up with the style of living of Germany and France instantly because they were in Europe... And I think that a lot of countries expected that to be...and that cannot happen. In the other way we can't expect Germany, France and other countries to lower their style of living because of the other countries. So...that's a big issue and, unfortunately, I think I saw the problem, but I don't have any solution...]]> 2020 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT You speak about a European crisis but in fact, it's a worldwide crisis because all over economies and people are interlinked. Transport is not a solution or panacea certainly the area which I deal, but the movement of people and goods is essential to recover from any crisis, financial matters notwithstanding. So certainly the sector to which I belong could have a contribution to overcoming the crisis because you connect peoples and goods more efficiently, it's the engine that lubricates the economies.]]> 2020 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT One of the things that I think is most important, is by getting the research out of universities. I see there's incredibly important things being done in universities, but it's not getting out there and I think also one of the main things the European Commission does is trying to get the research out and trying to get it put into practice. And some of the projects I have been doing recently happened to be trying also to do that by getting real people and by getting real concerns, brought together with the scientists.]]> 2020 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I have been involved with EU research for a number of years now, and I would say the benefits, at least in my perspective, come in two ways: the first one has got to do with how we interact as people, because the richness of a EU project in terms of different cultural background, different mentalities, the way of solving problems, that, is just absolutely fascinating! I'm an engineer, but I think the social component of life is very important. And the other is obviously the more technical side of life. And precisely because I think the EU has a certain... nag for getting people together with real expertise, really good people, they have managed to steer the fundings in a very focused way.]]> 2020 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Research is so important for us, to stay ahead, or at least in front, together with the other continents, in this huge reach towards the future. But it's very important that we are aware that research should not be research by itself, it should be research targetted towards the market, targetted towards solutions, targetted towards needs.]]> 2020 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think the best way is to do research to improve technology this way, we can enrich our life and also have a direct impact on economy, for sure.]]> 2020 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think that there are many solutions which we can't develop on our own. As an OEM we need to collaborate with research institutes, universities, suppliers and other OEMs to develop the technology and that is one of the main benefits: to come together and develop the technology and also have the cooperation within the standardization forums.]]> 2020 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well I think as the technology is more and more coming into usual life and it's not only putting goods, it's also putting a lot of problems and it's kind of funny, because we're trying to solve the technical problems with other technical solutions, so as we are definitely not going backwards we have to find new solutions for the technical problems we have but we also have to try not to get too far away from the needs of the people that's a problem that I see, so we deal with the problems which some people have and other people are having much more different problems which we are not aware of... So this is a problem that...we are kind of opening to the world providing solutions for the world, but that are kind of local even if we are not aware of it very much...and so I think the term the connected world and being connected to everyone is kind of not really correct at the moment and we are not really aware of the problems which people have and the real needs that people have and I don't think that we're always finding the needed solutions fro the problems we have we're always finding the needed solutions fro the problems we have]]> 2020 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I hope we can focus on people more. OK? So we do have machines we do have machinery we do have enginering that is brilliant so that can replace our manpower but we should focus more on behavioural science, I believe, and we should all focus more on service, so that our lives are better..... Right? So medicine, health, well-being, just growing and being better as people let the machines do their job, our job, and let's just be better people and let's have the quality of life.... we used to]]> 2020 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT So I think that innovation has to happen early in the education process and so, what we have right now, in neuroscience can only be done in large institutions, right? So if you get a Ph.D, then you can become a neuroscientist and understand how the brain works. But if in astronomy it was the same thing you'd have to get a Ph.D in astrophysics to be able to look through a telescope, but kids can look through telescopes today the maybe become interested in become an astronomer...But as neuroscience doesn't have that even though we have all these diseases with no cures, so what my research in innovation is about, is bringing these expensive tools down into the classrooms, so that the kids from 5th grade, 6th grade, all the way up to graduate school, can understand exactly how the brain works, by doing hands-on experiments which living neurones.]]> 2020 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT When I first met scientists, they were some of the most passionate people that I had ever met. Passionate, bright, willing to work for practically nothing in order to try to save people's lives. And this was were I saw discovery happening, with the people who care so much. It's not always the person who studied the most but the person who had the most passion to create something, or to solve a problem. And what I work on, is getting people with passion - a lot of time they're called hackers - into science. They have a great capacity to learn, and the way they approach problems is going to be the future of research and discovery.]]> 2020 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Well obviously, it's very important. Science and innovation, obviously, as manufacturing jobs, shifts from Europe to Asia, as we've seen in the US, I think it'll probably be more important to invest in the higher value jobs and applications, you know, and obviously, science and research would contribute to that.]]> 2020 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT It's very complex. 2 majors pillars might be cooperation between all stakeholders and trust...I think trust has to be increased.]]> 2020 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT It's working in ecosystem, with other partners and coming up new ideas. It's also a stimulus to do things that otherwise you wouldn't have the time to do because they don't generate immediate business.]]> 2020 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think something that happens in Europe - and I'm speaking as an American who's lived in Europe now for 13 years - is that we do an awful lot of attempting to emulate other actions in the world, instead of focusing on things that are really particularly unique and good in Europe. A couple of things that I think are, first, the cause of the global economic crisis and some ways that Europe can uniquely deal with that, is focusing on sustainable growth, focusing on, again, women-led industry, women-led enterprise which is slower, more sustainable, more risk-adverse, and looking at this is actually a more constructive way to slowly grow and develop the economy.]]> 2020 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is that we are not giving kids enough freedom to learn how they want to learn. I have run an organisation where we provide resources to help self learners to thrive outside of school and I am concerned that right now, going to school is not an option but rather an obligation. I think that public schools should be available, should be there for people to access, but right now there are negative social stigmas around not going to school.]]> 2020 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Research & Innovation are the basic construction materials of our future. Full stop.]]> 2020 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think it has to change the mentality and to work harder and to put the economic growth as the priority above everything for example, above maybe, political correctness, for example. Yeah, I think that is what we need to get out of the crisis.]]> 2020 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT As a paediatrician, I've seen children's health change dramatically in the last couple of decades. When I started paediatrics, it was rare to see a child with high blood presssure or blood sugars out of control or cholesterol levels that were up or waist size up to 38 to 40 inches...But today in United States, where I practice, two thirds of American children, in middle school or high school, already had at least one of those middle age conditions. And it's spreading around the western world. And for the first time, most children will have a chronic illness some time in childhood. This is a metabolic ticking timebomb that if we don't addess now, will cause severe problems for the next generation. And it threatens to banckrupt our economies as well.]]> 2020 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think what is needed is to re-train an enormous number of people to be entrepreneurial with a technical twist. As far as I'm concerned, I know in the United States at least, engineers are not getting adequate to training and how to actually create a product from start to finish. And I assume it is the same in Europe. You can relatively quickly train a person to design and market new products, and to innovate. There are so many people with ideas but they don't know how to act upon those ideas and actually, it's something that in one year, you could train a person to have all the technical skills they need to actually bring their ideas to flourishing so you have a lot of people with big dreams and no way to implement them and so I think we need a combination of this technical training, that is very well thought out for helping people create products and services that have never been seen before, and also we need a financial structure to support them, either low interest loans or grants that can be distributed to people with great ideas.]]> 2020 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT I watched this documentary, about this agricultural thing and what I realized, just a few days ago, is that research can actually change the world. I do believe it. What I saw, this was amazing: there were projects for farmers in Senegal...and good stuff! ]]> 2020 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Looking for the future is very difficult. We must know that the world is in the hurry and this means that also the future comes very fast. This means we must calm, I think, a little bit in that sense, also, thinking about the transport, we must calm also the transport systems and I would say the Intelligent Transport System must be also a calm and safe system.]]> 2020 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think research and innovation is really the basic strength of Europe. In the past, it has already been shown that everything that is related to mass production is not really strong in Europe, we can live for a while from it, but in the end it disappears and the main reason for that is that we don't have real natural resources in Europe. So that means that we have to live from knowledge and competencies and this is exactly what research and innovation is giving. In many different industries, Europe has been leading and when it comes to technologies and real innovations: pharmaceutical and also the automotive industry, where I'm active, I think research and innovation is what's going to make the mobility, for instance, sustainable in the future.]]> 2020 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Investing in this research & innovation has already produced a lot of results. In terms of mobility, that's what I'm primarily interested in and working, that is already producing results: a lot of technical investment, but I think, more issues having to do with deployment of these innovations deserve a lot of attention now: how to do that? And I think the European Union does have a role in supporting this deployment.]]> 2020 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think, due to the economic crisis and the diversity in Europe, of countries like Greece, compared to Germany, Scandinavian countries compared to the southern countries, we have a lack of confidence in the original idea of bringing the countries together and have a safe environment for everybody and no wars since I don't know how many decades. That's something we should stress again and let the people know that this is a real benefit for everybody in the European Union even if there are some economic problems right now, that's something we have to overcome and we can overcome, it will take some time, but the big goals should be visionalized and stressed again. What is the rational behind the European Union? Bringing everybody together, live in a safe and open environement and society.]]> 2020 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Wel I think most of the countries have a too local point of view. They should have a wider view and think what is a good solution for all Europe, not only for their country or their city.]]> 2020 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is that I have the feeling that responsibility in the society nowadays, is not the size of awareness that it has to be. Society has to be more aware of the fact that they can change something and each single person can change something. So, my concern is that people are not learning fast enough that they are going to change something.I think it's a question of formation, of education and learning self-responsibility.]]> 2020 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation definitely can drive economy by bringing in new products and new solutions. So I believe it's an important factor even for the economy. And secondly, of course, research and innovation will be able to tackle some of the most important issues, like emission, like coping with traffic demand etc.]]> 2020 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT That is a really hard question. I would say like...I think it's a lot of combination. It's like... kind of old fashioned, in many ways how we are doing things in Europe I think, and when it comes to innovation. I think Asia and now also, I think, the US -again- are sort of picking up a lot around these new possibilities, this new technology. And I think Europe needs to look into education and how we can create there... inspiring, for our kids and the youngsters around, so we could pick up a bit on other countries and other parts of the world.]]> 2020 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I don't it is my place as an American to tell Europe what to do about the crisis. From what I do know, it sounds like there's some big decisions to be made about the austerity, that's being done, and how to maintain social support for people that are having trouble being integrated into the global economy. And so, the best thing I can think of is to have an inclusive dialog with as many stakeholders as possible and to not have isolated silos of decision-making or responsibility, to include the prospectives of all people possible, to reach mutually advantageous solution.]]> 2020 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm working on the development of traffic simulation, so we are working on trying to estimate all of the cars and the movements situation, using traffic simulation and from the detectors and other sensors information. So, if you, if we can see the whole traffic situation, using our tool, there are many solutions to the problems about traffic.]]> 2020 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think that research & development is really really important to improve the future, to get a smarter and sustainable future. I'm coming from the transportation industry, as an example, if you look at all the research projects that we have in the area of mobility, this really helps making people's lives better: we will be able to get smarter cities, sustainable mobility... Of course this can only be done if everybody works together in research projects. Research is a very important, a key element of improving and developing our cities and our lives in the cities.]]> 2020 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Europe was always leading, for hundreds of years, research and development and this, I think, will continue. I think for research and development now what we need is harmonization. Having ... and making progress in Europe without really working with other countries, in Asia or in America, this will increase the time and resources spent in harmonization and working together. You know there are lots of platforms that can be used: standardization organisms etc, at European Commission level, or between the EU and the US, so they can work together in order to invest less or every country will spend less money, but at the end of the day we'll have a global solution that can be deployed or can be marketed over the world.]]> 2020 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think the main concern in the European problem today, is that the European society is not based on consumption...like the Americans are or like most of the Brazilian people. I think the main concern is to get to know that you are going out of the crisis and then get to spend some money in vacation or everything else that is very important for the Europeans.]]> 2020 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I don't know... Maybe to... facilitate business between countries between regions...Now I have the feeling that the economy in each country finally is not transparent, is not readable, so we find a lot of, lets's say, troubles that we were not aware of, like in Greece... and, I don't know, I think that people are not playing fair enough...in Europe.]]> 2020 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Research is the basis of all our future welfare, because research is really the beginning of creating new things that will come to products that will make our lives easier in the future and that are really a prerequisite for a better future .]]> 2020 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT There is a lot of them, I will say that, for sure. first you become aware of what is the state of the art of what other research companies will be marketing in 3 or 4 years. There is also a very good relationship that opens up the opportunities for companies for making business outside their own country, for establishing very good links that, after the research project, can become business links and also the opportunity to develop new products...It's very good for a company to be in this kind of projects.]]> 2020 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Although I'm not an R&D person or a snob, but I think innovation is very essential, because innovation and synergy create new industries and that creates opportunity for us, for the economy. How don't you know how Apple revolutionized the whole way of how we look at our lifestyle in terms of mobility and communications ? I think that's a great example, right?]]> 2020 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Shares that point. Considering global competition, we should count on the capacity of having competitive innovation. I think that, considering the competition,that now is global and it will stay global, we have to count on the capacity of making innovation, to be competitive. Other way like reducing the cost of manpower or whatever or even natural resources that areshort in Europe are not the answer we can count on.]]> 2020 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Old solutions don't seem to work anymore. We are facing a huge environmental crisis, even if we do manage to reduce the CO2, we still have an environment that's under threat, we have a growing world population food supply is under threat...So, going on with what we know, what we have is not enough. So we need to innovate and we also need to innovate in the way we're living and our lifestyles. So it's not only about technical innovation, it's also about social innovation.]]> 2020 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The point is that we see that a lot of production is leaving Europe because of the prices. We see that the production is going to the Far East, some parts are coming back, to former Eastern Europe,But still, Europe is not a production continent. What is really our benefit, is Research and Innovation.This is what makes the difference this is why Europe is well seen in all the world, including America, Asia, the Pacific etc... And therefore, it's really necessary that we don't lose here the momentum and that we show that we are the innovative part of the world.]]> 2020 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think really that change takes more time than we think it does and so, it becomes important to be thoughtful about making change and building things for the future, otherwise, we try to do everything all at once and it doesn't work very well.]]> 2020 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The main benefits are to learn from each other and from other researchers, also other industries but not only about technical stuff, but also about very unique, personal things we can learn from each other, how they work.]]> 2020 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Innovation is crucial, is important and will be responsible for the future, for the prospective of Europe at least. We have to have the best heads, in Europe,the best conditions for innovation, for research, and we have to spend money on research as well.]]> 2020 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT First of all, I would say they have to work together- it is not easy, you know, to come out to this stage - and work together to solve the problem although there are various issues in different countries...I fully support that the EU is heading as acting role to help solve those problems in different countries. And definitely, as one member particularly in the area of telecommunications and transportation area, I think the last infrastructure development is one of the driven forces for the economy. So I would say: the government should put more investment in all those infrastructures, particularly for those infrastructures that can help the sustainability in the future.That will create more jobs, more investment, particularly for those infrastructures invested in or initiated by the government, that can guarantee the future benefit for the whole society.]]> 2020 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT My opinion is that people should look to the fresh ideas,look for fresh ideas, look for students,brilliant students from universities, and they can help us, from the youth side, from the youth point of view, to calm some problems, I think, because people are very... not so open-minded, and the student and the youth, can help us with fresh ideas.]]> 2020 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The research areas in special parts of the countries are quite different. So if we can have a common framework to go forward together, it's quite easier to do so.Because, also, the SMEs are not really in the right position to do it on their own. So, it's quite important to stick together, the bigger ones to the smaller ones, to have the most efficient ideas for the future.]]> 2020 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think our scientists are doing a great job and I think technologies do solve a lot of problems already here.I get the sense that, sometimes the polticians, and then, the people that really should, like, boost the implementations, are not really listening at the scientists...I always get the sense that they're... they're quiet or they're writing difficult papers and don't really...like... the general publicdoesn't understand what's going on.]]> 2020 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT It think that one the things that must be done by people from Europe,is to develop joint projects with countries like Brazil, like Argentina and other countries in South America and Latin America.I think that only selling the technology is not a good thing. You need to develop together. I think they are new times now.]]> 2020 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I'm not a specialist in this area, but I do believe that we should make more investments in people and education, I think that's a really important thing. I'm actually Portuguese and I see many of my fellow countrymen really struggling to make a living and it's really sad to see that but I don't know if these austerity measures are the way.I think maybe we should put more investment in our economy and maybe inject some more money into our economy, maybe that's a way to do, but... yeah.]]> 2020 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I think we need to invest more in education,we need to invest more in Research & Development of new projects, of new services,because this is where the added value will come up, this is also where new jobs will rise up and probably, be concerned less with financial institutions...]]> 2020 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT I would say that I am quite concerned about the environment but also about peace in the world...I think the situation that we have around the world... It feels a little bit insecure to think of what the world is going to look like.]]> 2020 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT People have to believe indeed, in the possibility of science, with, if you look around, the revolutions we are now seeing, for instance: ,what is possible with smartphones and pads, which was unbelievable only 2-3 years ago. I think we can do something similar with traffic: really create a revolution in the way we see mobility and make a greener and more convenient society on the way.]]> 2020 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I see that part as really important. As an employee at the Swedish Innovation Agency, I work with those issues everyday: how do we make our countries stronger? how de we create sustainable growth? And I see that the research and innovation part of it is crucial for this! We must develop smarter systems, smarter cities, smarter processes and products... to be able to meet those challenges. And innovation is crucial for that.]]> 2020 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT All those types of initiatives need an initial spark and this spark can be public funding - funding through FP6 or FP7 -and this is a major chance for companies and for operators and for the whole industry, to do new things and to create new markets and new solutions in the traffic field.]]> 2020 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The crisis is not made in Europe. Rating agency do whatever they want and  messed with Europe I have a feeling like it's not made in Europe, the crisis. We are probably just toyed around with the contrictions of rating agencies who do whatever they want and they decided to screw Europe]]> 2020 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT My idea about innovation is to connect with the citizen or the people.The people is the focus, not technology, but what is possible to improve the people, what you put in their hands, in my hands,to use this technology, to improve my life. So in my opinion, the focus is the people. How to work to satisfy the people? So in this case, to improve my quality of life, improve my work, improve my business... So, if you invest in people, you invest in the city, in the country, in the world... So the people is the focus about investments, the crisis,the quality of life, for example. So in this case the people is the focus.]]> 2020 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we need to have more open communication on what's happening and I think the public at large should know better what's going on in Europe not only what's happening in their own national states regarding politics or finances or what the banks are doing but I think we need even better European politicians knowing how to communicate the message to the national countries, to their own... public, their own voters, let's say, and really convince them of the fact that we should really further cooperate in Europe, in order to get out of this crisis]]> 2020 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT There would be two concerns: the first one is: we need to protect our planet, because if we continue this way there will be a problem in the future. The second one is worst, because we need to finish with the crisis and if we don't finish, we'll also finish with this Humanity, but in the economic, which we have created...]]> 2020 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I would be very concerned about the environment at the moment, with the global warming and the melting of the ice caps, and possible ocean rising levels, and that would certainly drown certain major areas of Europe, for example.]]> 2020 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all, I think we have to look in a different way to different crises: actually, on the one hand, we have the problem with our currency : the Euro problem is one of those crises. On the other hand, we have a strong economical problem, because I think the automobile was the key product of the twentieth century and due to some changes in the public sense, and the coming up prices of oil and benzine, I think there's some change in the usage of cars and this could be one of the major points: we need a new key product for the futurean European key product, which has the possibility for several thousands of employees and it should be an innovative product, compared to the care industry which was an ideal product: it needs infrastructure, it needs fuel, it needs engineers work, it is modern, it is innovative, everybody likes to have i and this could be one of the crucial points, another one is, we have to bring Europe some kind of European cousciousness.]]> 2020 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The roots of this common crisis are quite complex and quite difficult to understand but as far as I have understood them, I think if we want to maintain a common currency and a common unified Union, we have to make sure that social policies and economical structures become more similar. Brave politicians that can take tough decisions, I think that's kind of the only way out, as far as understand it.]]> 2020 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all it could increase our understanding and not just the world around us, but on our impact on environment, for example. And so...with new research comes new ways to do new things in a more sustainable way. We could do lots of things without damaging our planet and I think that's very important, because we can't do anything if we don't have somewhere to live.]]> 2020 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research will make a difference in the future, but I don't know if research makes a good future or a bad...because it's always the question how the people use invention.]]> 2020 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Specifically, I think that, if we saw the world as, like, a house research would be at the base of the house so you need research in almost everything you do so, everything we take for granted today: cars, planes... the basis of everything is research. So I think that funding for research and having scientists available to do research is probably the most important thing that we could do for the future.]]> 2020 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I work in these programs and obviously, what it does, it brings together lots of people from all the various countries in the EU to work together and this is very inspiring and it brings ideas together, rather than working in isolation. So I think the EU by funding these things even without funding them to 100%, they can further the collaboration. I suppose I can also say that they can also trigger things. So if they want to have certain researches in certain areas by putting in a smalest percentage, they will trigger other governments and other institutions to put in money into that area, and I think that is one of their benefits.]]> 2020 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT For the near future I'm kind of concerned with my new experience in education because these days in Czech Republic, I'm from Czech Republic, the schools are getting kind of hard to get in and also the price of education is rising so I'm hoping to either get a scholarship or get a part-time job, to afford to go to university. So, I think it's crucial to get good education to get a good job.]]> 2020 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT To boost the economy, I think Europe has to get itself together and start to build some new scientists, some smart scientists, to pick them from schools and to get them a proper education so they can lead our countries and make Europe a better place.]]> 2020 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Within the Irish economy and the European economy, we need hi-tech, high-scaled people so that's where we need to be. From an innovation point of view, I think we need to invest in smaller businesses, we need to give our entrepreneurs, our innovators funding, seed funding so that they can go forward, because they're going to be the employees of the future. So they're going to help our young people to stay in college because they will see that there is an opportunity for them at the end of their college career.]]> 2020 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I guess what I hope is that the various nations will be investing more in young people. I see many countries with a lot of unemployment for young people about 30 percent... and I would like to see more investment in information for those young people.]]> 2020 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT In my view, I think scientific research will help unlock new ways of doing things, new ways of using materials or new ways of using communications, to enable us to do more with less.]]> 2020 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that one of the main innovations that we have in Poland is: we have an organization which supports young people in their research. So, this makes a huge difference and it gives us the opportunity to have a better start in life, in our scientific career, so that really makes a very very big difference if it comes to the development of science and, as a result, the develoment of industry and, as a result, the development of economy.]]> 2020 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think there are lots of people thinking only about themselves and there is a big corruption. It (the crisis) depends from it.]]> 2020 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT In my opinion, future science and today's science have to be oriented on market, on society and it is really important for the future.]]> 2020 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research by default is about the future. What we do is to discover more things. This is what I was saying about renewable energy, this is all about research, this is the future, because at some point we will lack resources. So it is extremely important and will make a difference.]]> 2020 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I'm not afraid of the future. I think we must find solutions for the future. There are many problems which will wait for us. For example, energy problems and so on, but we, young people, have to solve these problems by doing projects and by thinking of the future.]]> 2020 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation answer every problem that we have. Economies are built on what we learn and what we develop and how we help other people. So I think it's essential for any economy to grow, that they invest in these ideas and we solve these problems with the creativity that comes with science, technology, engineering and maths.]]> 2020 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The key thing about research and innovation - I usually put education and training in there as well, because I see that as a package - what they do is: they lift the constraints in the long run.Your potential growth rate is going to increase as a result of that, but it doesn't do anything in the short run Just imagine that you've paid 7 billion to five large companies and seven labs, that wouldn't even be registered on the scale of the European economy but 7 billion every year for twenty years that might have an effect, twenty-five years down the line and that's how you have to think about research and innovation, training and education: they're long term investment, In our future, to make sure that their sustainable growth rate is going to rise, but they won't have a short term effect.]]> 2020 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that science and researches are really really important for our future and they could change, like, everything help people. Hopefully they will help people.]]> 2020 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is to see that everybody has an opportunity to participate in science, particularly the girls.]]> 2020 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is that many of our political leaders today don't take the responsability that they need to take, about the future and about our environment.]]> 2020 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe the number one key ingredient missing right now in any country would the word trust. Without trust, we cannot further go and say that we are going to be opening up doors to future generations if the trust is not implemented first. That means in institutions as in companies.]]> 2020 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I don't have many concerns for the future to be honest. I think the future's got a lot of opportunities. And I think that's important to remember.]]> 2020 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think these days, there's going to be a lack of research scientists because their's not enough interest in young people, because they have a misconception that scientists all have white coats and stay in laboratories all day and they don't find that exciting, when that's not true, so...]]> 2020 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we need a couple of things of course...education, of course, working positions for the new people, and of course, we want inventors and innovations, generally speaking because we are going to exit the crisis by making new things and making new suggestions to the world.]]> 2020 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I would think individual countries would need to start special technology centres where the people could apply...where the good research ideas could apply to set themselves up and perhaps have equipment available to them to do their research and some sort of a grant so that they can keep themselves their heads above water, so to speak. So that's something governments could look at and I don't think, in the whole nature of the economy of the country, that would cost too much. But that's where the jobs are gonna come from in the future.]]> 2020 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT The future can only be better and improved with research. Every day, every single improvement that we have in our life is the result of some kind of research and sometimes researches are where we less expect them. I always give my students the example of the research that they make at CERN that has some huge improvements on our daily life, on the medical side because some of the diagnosis instruments they have today, for cancer,are results of the CERN research and on the other hand, the Web (www) had started at CERN. So it is an example of how research can really improve our future.]]> 2020 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all, we have, maybe a smaller, but the same crisis in Israel. I believe that the answer to it is to focus on two levels: First: bring back the technological education, because society can't only focus on hi-tech. We need low-tech. This is ..what ur society build up, this is the base. And second, the market and the jobs should be more friendly to women. When a woman has to take her kid out of the kindergarten and must leave work, you lose money, she loses money and her child and the future lose money.]]> 2020 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT This crisis is called to be an economic like one, but every crisis is related to everything also. So, I mean that we have to face a kind of social crisis, I mean: the crisis is in all things and all relations and they are much more important than the economic one so we should deal with that one I think.]]> 2020 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it makes a real difference because science is our future and it's always improving that's how it should be because all the scientific improvements made a better life for us It's better always, but we should feel that it's good we should make something for it not just live with it, take it for granted it's not normal, it's science and we have to understand that it's a lot of work in it.]]> 2020 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the climate change and also the pollution of the environment and I think research can work against this. And the third concern is the overpopulation because more people are born and, especially in the developing world, it's a big problem.]]> 2020 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we need to actually tap into the resources we already have we have people I'm sure enough in Europe we already have women and men who are trained, who are training even more, so we have to invest in education, but we also have to create opportunities for the people to actually do what they know to apply it.]]> 2020 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we should not bother too much looking at the small everyday problems and solving the next steps. We need people who look at the bright at the whole picture in order to have bright solutions for the big problem.]]> 2020 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that we should look at how we got out of crises in the past and see what strategies were taken then and then try to innovate from the past and try to work and see how we can make what they did, and that worked, better and in our own way.]]> 2020 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Environmental research is important because nowadays the pollutions are really massive, and we should know what kinds of pollutions we are exposed to. So, we need to find... we need to make an indicator for pollution then nowadays, the science materials are so expensive that I think making cheap indicators is needed... for a bright future.]]> 2020 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that we must design a stabilisation fund, where there are many EU countries and I think that each country must give some money for this fund and we can help the other countries when they need our help and I think that now we must connect more countries]]> 2020 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the primary concern in the future is getting more youth involved in science because, as the population ages, the youth need to be the next step in solving the world's greatest problems.]]> 2020 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think they should focus more on two issues: one is to build more cooperation to make the society more open and include all and avoid individualism. And the other thing is to ge more knowledge-based society, so, to grow the economy on knowledge.]]> 2020 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns for the future are probably over-population, the fact that natural resources are rapidly diminishing, and that it will create, in a few years, political and economical instability and this will be the greatest challenge that we'll have to face.]]> 2020 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main benefit for me was a great opportunity to go out from where I was and to get to know so many people and so many places because, if you just stay in your country, there is a lot of possibilities in the European Union, but you just don't know about them. And this is such a great chance to learn about all of these opportunities. So, I mean, if you know all these opportunities and if you know how to use them, you can do everything. It's a great great possibility and I'm really grateful for it.]]> 2020 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that the important is to believe in the capacities of the person of a country, because we, citizens we have a lot of qualities we can do something to our country and it's important to give us this opportunity to try to improve our own country and to turn the future better we should be active, we should perticipate in the life of the country.]]> 2020 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I don't know if this could be right to say but buy European products and stop buying Made in China.]]> 2020 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I think it's very visible, every day just in the technologies that we use and adopt. I mean: the Internet has shown an explosive growth and wouldn't be possible at all without these basic technologies, the optical fibers, the quantum mechanics needed to build processor cores. which are ever smaller and even more efficient And smartphone -another one-that has revolutionalized our lifes even in the last five years or so, again built on very basic technologies which need science to operate.]]> 2020 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the first thing to express is the deep frustration that the finance system seems to take all the resources. And actually, they are not a sector that are producing solutions anymore, just problems. So I think that the science technology community is the one that has the solutions. And also I think, the things we here now about the morals of the finance system, you don't here those things about the morals of the scientific community. So you have a community here which is full of expertise and passion, look to this community for your answers.]]> 2020 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT For a better future, here in the European context, what we need is the intellectual added value because basically that's all we can build on in the world right now. So, we should develop new research and innovation projects and this way we can achieve our goals presented, for example, in the Horizon 2020 Program.]]> 2020 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we first need good will. Everybody needs to be very conscious that it is a problem for everybody. And be more generous for sure will help to get things better. So that is my main answer.]]> 2020 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT The problem is that surely nobody knows what is the right way to escape the crisis. But according to me, just stimulate the economy make sure that the economic growth is continuing and maybe do some monetary reform, reform Euro, the system of the common currency, think about some other ways to establish the European economy and it's important to think, these days, what we want the EU to be: if we want just a big federal state, or if we want seperate economies which are just collaborating together.]]> 2020 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT In my case it's quite easy because I'm working on environmental chemistry and reduce the usage of pesticides is my topic. It is a direct investment, a direct benefit to the society because it helps to make our food more healthy and also our planet more clean. So, if our research can prove the benefits, society will take them and use them.]]> 2020 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have a very nice experience in the field of international ccoperation at the European level and also with other continents. I think that the best opportunity is to receive money of course, because money is very important, but to create networks, to know other partners, other research centres, to find other opportunities to cooperate together to solve the problems that we have day by day.]]> 2020 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I suppose my main concern for the future of science is that information is relayed to the general public. I feel that there is a lot of information coming from research, from innovative ideas, and those kinds of things. But I do feel that it is important that the general public gets involved in some ways or that the information is relayed to the general public. Certainly, there are people out there who feel that science isn't accessible to them. It is something that, you know, scientists learn and it is kept within those realms. And then, there are ordinary people within the general public who have very good ideas as to where science should be going or, you know, that Eureka moment, as to asking the questions that maybe will lead research where it needs to be that other people have overlooked. Maybe getting back to the very basic things.]]> 2020 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Actually, I don’t know much about this crisis, but I think people should stop screaming there is some crisis! and they should work…]]> 2020 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Work together and stop being so focused on popularity. Look at it as trying to find a better world for the future generations. Stop thinking about the here and now and what will give short term popularity. You have to take tough decisions because we are living in a tough world and don't be afraid, you have the power use it... please!]]> 2020 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe that without research and innovation, you will be on a status quo and everybody else will move passed you. The expectations nowadays are that you increase your wealth and your expectations in your life, not that you are standing still. And I believe that you have to look forward, you should not look backward.]]> 2020 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have many projects in the academy of science of Czech Republic. I am not a scientist or a researcher but I'm also a PhD student. But I think some events like ESOF are really useful because we can change our knowledges, our experiences, and meet other people who have the same problems, the same projects and it's a very useful networking.]]> 2020 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the fact that European Union has that funding that allows people from different cultures, different backgrounds, different educational systems, to interact, it generates new ideas I think that’s the real advantage and I think the next program Horizon 2020 is going to actually have a bigger impact.]]> 2020 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Brave and courage people with open minds which don't argue everytime, which work together...have good communication, because in our world this is very important to have good communication and without, you know, without worse arguments. And, I think that when we will be open, with open minds, our children, young people, young population, will have a good example for a better life and I think that it will help our European Union, you know, to be better, I think.]]> 2020 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT You see, this year, I will be 75 but I'm still interested in many things that concern science and education, high education, secondary education, high school education in Russia and in other countries because I still believe in the use of international cooperation in all these topics]]> 2020 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all they fund science, that's great! I've heard they fund science. That is brilliant in my opinion. My boyfriend is a recipient of a Marie Curie fellowship and it is just amazing the conferences he gets to go to, the interaction with people, he works alongside Peter Higgs and he was there, saw all the interactions with CERN. They organised their own conference recently and had just amazing people come and speak to them purely because they have that money from the Marie Curie programme and they can do all these things that if you don't have money you can't do... So it is pretty cool thing to have.]]> 2020 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT The first benefit is to train young minds to attract young minds in this field because marketing of sciences is very low in this past decades but now it is increasing: young people are getting attracted towards sciences and we are getting basic trainings and we can build our future careers based on this. So it is very important to attract young minds train them and ask them to support society and ask them how sciencecan play a crucial role to benefit laymen or direct to society]]> 2020 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, in the field I know about, I mean obviously you can start new sectors of the economy, what I call the Bioeconomy. That is to say, that you take renewable carbon coming from the plants, so coming from the algae and you will build a new chemistry chain, you will build fuels materials from the renewable carbon. And at the same time you will have a value chain for the economy and you will be careful about the climate change.]]> 2020 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns as the owner of a company of 3.000 people, a science-based company of 3.000 people, always were, always are and always will be: people. People are the essence of whatever you do and if you surround yourself with the right people then you can achieve anything. And frankly, the history of Alltech is the history of people.]]> 2020 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns for the future are sustainable use of natural resources so that people will realise already right now that things are not infinite. And you have to think about your future, you have to think about the sustainable use of your resources. You have to distribute what is there already now, so make it equally distributed in space but also in time so that future generations can live like we are living right now and hopefully even better.]]> 2020 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think at a national and European level we need to remove bureaucracy and make it easier for companies, businesses and entrepreneurs to fund new ideas, fund new businesses and to fund growth.]]> 2020 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT The problem is the implant materials which coud be rejected from our organism after implantation. And now we work on soja coatings which can improve this metal surface area and which can be burried between the metal implant and the organism. Maybe next year, we can improve our work and we can solve most general problems like, let's say, people who have no hands...and ears and so on and so on.But now, we're based on it.]]> 2020 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that we have the ideas. We really have good ideas, we really have the motivation to improve, but, sometimes, we need more resources, we need more money to invest, to incorporate different colleagues, with different points of view and to work together with the objective that your group has.]]> 2020 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that innovation, particularly, for example in the environment, last year somebody moved to the idea of a European white grid where all the electricity generated by renewable energies would be transferred to wherever it was needed in Europe. And I think that innovations along that line would greatly help Europe in the future. And again, I think will come a closer integration. I do think that they all go hand in hand.]]> 2020 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I suppose the best answer is proper leadership from all parties, from all people and not local, regional political games which is what we are playing. Real leadership, real honesty, which we don't have.]]> 2020 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT The best benefit from that was the really unique collaboration between many different countries. I was involved in a really large collaboration between seven different laboratories from four or five different countries across Europe which was brilliant in order to share experiences, develop ideas, and to travel to these different countries as well, which, as a young person, is personally inspiring. And you get to meet some really really interesting and innovative scientists. And that wouldn't happen without that kind of framework of funding.]]> 2020 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Every state should stop waisting money for things that are useless. And then there will be much more money for things that are really important.]]> 2020 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think we need young people. I mean, we don't have many young people in politics and I think that they should have the same opportunities as everyone and they have got clear ideas because they will be the people of the future so I think we need them in Europe.]]> 2020 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I mean, sciences inherently long term and if you invest in a kind of research now you're not really going to see the benefits of it for maybe ten, twenty years so it's kind of a forward thinking process and you really got to be thinking of how it is going to be on the long term and seeing the benefits of investing in science and engineering.]]> 2020 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT In general, the exchange programs and the exchange of people around Europe are very very useful for a united Europe. From a scientific point of view, I think it is possibly one of the best programs. More generally, the European Community programs bring a very important added-value because they bring together scientists, disciplines, environments, which is impossible to do with national fundings. It also help bridging the gaP between richer nations which invest much more in research and other nations we do not invest in research.]]> 2020 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, Europe is definitely an interesting region of 27 countries coming together which do not normally have the same background and framework conditions of economy. I think what is needed is definitely to work on innovation. We can only come out of this crisis, particularly in the field that I work in, by finding innovative ways for our economy to grow, and we have to capitalize on particularly research, and think of how we can use research to the benefit of economy.]]> 2020 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it comes from a different place than people expected to, generally. I think we are very good at the moment at really trying to encourage young people to think innovatively. However, I also think that just throwing a whole lot of money at research and innovation and research management, it is going to be very fruitful, however if we think back at the big innovations, they started in garages, they started with young people being inspired and doing their own thing with no funding whatsoever. I work as a scientist, I work on mass spectrometers, and studying proteins. I work on a machine that is currently:state of the art as being sold in huge copies worldwide, developed by a professor who had no funding for it for ten years and spent its weekends developing it in a garage. This is something that is really difficult to quantify, and really difficult for us to actually to anything about. We need to possibly create the space where these things can happen. But if you think of Penisilin,that was not a research strategy, that was not a research ground saying 'this is what we will discover and have developed in five years. It was a total accident. I think a lot of research and innovation unfortunately for us and for research managers, is accidental and long may it last.]]> 2020 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Greater computational power will enable us to make more intelligent predictions about the world’s economy. And I think it will help everyone in the world if we strengthen the middle class and strengthen people in the third world, in terms of technological acquisitions so that they have what they need, so that they can grow with the rest of us and you know, they become more self-sufficient.]]> 2020 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation can definitely make a change for a better future. I think it is not only by research that we can create new products, new patterns, and so on, which has applications in industry and spin-offs but also by the so-called humanities. I also think that knowing our history makes a change for a better future. Or protecting our cultural heritage, which is my field. We have of course to keep a balance because now there is a tendency to move this cultural heritage into a culture of tourism which might affect it.]]> 2020 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research and innovation play several roles when we think about the future. First, it is very obvious that we need to complete the cycle of research and turn it into innovation, for the sake of industry and economy it is very important for us to grow. But we also have to think about research and innovation and look at its societal challenges, addressing societal challenges, addressing the society at large, and make benefit for the society. So we probably embark on what is called 'social innovation' to help finding innovative solutions for our society.]]> 2020 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well a lot of things is needed of course. What I do believe, is that right now, we all talk a lot about smart cities and we talk a lot but we can save the cities in the future if we do things in a smarter way. That we find solutions, take less resources. For the western part of the world I think it's very much knowledge we need to keep research and innovation, we need to find new solutions to existing problems and the future problems.]]> 2020 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe, and my organization believes, that we really need to tap into the creativity of young Europeans. Young Europeans are smart, they have great ideas, they just need to be encouraged and helped to turn those ideas into real projects, businesses that will help to relaunch the economy.]]> 2020 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT The more and more we advance in science, the more and more we will need tools to take ethics into consideration and also the general public. Because much of the things which are now possible to do with science will affect us and society and if you don't understand, it might seem very weird. So ethics and take people into account.]]> 2020 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT the new transformation, more collaboration, new ecosystems supported by open platforms. I like this metaphore, of what we called in the digital world augmented reality. We are in a reality that we can amplify thanks to technologies, thanks to science, but at the end of the day it remains something for the human beings, for us. Then we definitely can be in a better world, with better technologies, cheaper ones. we should welcome it, but not be driven by it.]]> 2020 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the emerging diseases because we travel from different countries and they can spread more easily now And diseases resistant to bacteria and that type of thing.]]> 2020 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT We still have a lot of problems to solve. Science is not only the field for the people to play with, but, in general, we have a lot of things to do which science is directly involved with. Science is not only a nice journey, a nice adventure... Science can really help in many fields. It is difficult to say the fields because it is exactly all the fields which are involved.]]> 2020 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT There is a very interesting balance that each country has to strike between pure research and moving the products of research towards market, through innovation and then ready for the market. It's a complicated process and I think maybe no country gets it absolutely right. Certainly in Great-Britain we have problems with primary and secondary fundings along the line between the pure research and the products for market. I don't have a simple answer to that but I think that is what we got aim to do.]]> 2020 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT I personally think it is a pivot to solve the problems of Europe. That is because everything is strictly related when research is what is needed to make innovation. So innovation needs research and self-wise. We need to look at what is needed in a single country, implement a policy by taking the example from, I don't know, maybe Silicon Valley if you want to have a good example. But not just take it and adapt it and then put it there like a country policy but learn how to better adapt it to the needs and the change that are needed. So summing up, I think we need change...]]> 2020 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT We need to promote science, technology and innovation and we need to promote it with the best talents and with the best people. And for this we need to take women on board as well as we take men. Because women are more than 60% of Europe university graduates but they are only 18% of univeristy professors. That means that we are not getting the best people on board, and we need to open the gates for women in top positions and we need to get more women into science and technology. This will broaden the benefits of European technology and of European innovation to everybody's needs.]]> 2020 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT The ecological issue. I heard not so long ago that Earth needs 1.5 year to produce what we consume in 1 year. And if I hear that, for me, it's already game-over.]]> 2020 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT The first thing we need to understandis what the problem is. And what are the factors that are building into that problem for us. And by fully understanding what is going on in our surroundings, then we can identify solutions for it. And I think it is about combining our analytical skills with our creativity and building collaboration between different expertises so that we can work together. And by sharing ideas, we generate more.]]> 2020 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think people should think a little bit more about what we really need and not look for an excess of return of investments for example. If you have a bank account and some savings and investments going there, If you get 10%, thats's already much more that what people had before. And now, in the past people looked for return of investment which was much more higher. But I think it is difficult to overcome because everybody is looking for profit.]]> 2020 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Personally, I think it is because politicians are more concerned about making profits. I mean, helping companies to make profits. In Europe we need to have concern about social interests and problems more than economy all the time. You can't always think for profit all the time. It's actually the same problem with climate change. It's because of all this profit we want to make that today the situation is so bad. So, it's like everything is linked and I think it's due to globalization.It's like we are a big world and we don't see individuals now.We are big masses but not individuals.]]> 2020 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Support for innovation, support for industry to innovate, support for the universities, academia, not just university but research institutes, to interact with industry to innovate.]]> 2020 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well you see, there is a recent discovery at CERN of the Higgs Boson, that means that we understand better the universe and this will affect the way we progress and the economy as well. In my own field - I come from geophysics - my main concern is climate change, knowing the processes that will allow us to improve the situation. Knowledge is an absolute need for progress of human kind.]]> 2020 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are several benefits. The main one I guess is colleague's experience, how different countries look at the challenge of innovation. Every country looks at innovation with a different lens, in France, in Belgium, in Finland for example, we have a lot of collaboration. So the diversity of experience, that's hugely beneficial. Also, for a small country like ours, we don't have expertise in all the branches of science. So obviously we can find complementary research expertise and that is usually beneficial.]]> 2020 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have all the new technologies to make production of energy more green, more environmentally friendly, so I think investing in green technology, that's really really important for the future.]]> 2020 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, from my own point of view as a scientist I think that we need stronger fundamental research in Europe. You can invest in applied research but of course, after a while, you need new ideas, new basic ideas that will lead to application, not in a near future but in 20 years, 30 years, and that can grow and develop. And I think that one of the main things we should look at is to invest in fundamental research, in the cooperation between fundamental research and application. Now the process of going from research to application and business and application which is directly available to the people is quite slow. I think that if we optimize this process and invest in fundamental research and applied research - because we need a kind ;of balance of that - then we can get out of the mess, because new ideas are the new opportunities of the future.]]> 2020 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Before speaking about how to do it, we have to understand what is our human capital. And I think Europe needs to be focused on the human capital that we have and how to develop it.]]> 2020 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT We need a talented, we need an educated workforce in order to be able to actually sustain growth. We are moving from very limited sets of methods of growth. And we want to move into more idea-centric or ideas-based economies. I mean smart economies are more efficient economies. And we need an educated workforce, we need to be able to sustain that growth. We need research and we need people who are actually smart and able to come up with questions and answers.]]> 2020 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT It's important that we dig in into the areas of main concern and where we see the future lying. So we need to think outside of the box first of all and deal with media issues like energy, energy stores, how do we transform our energy system going from the fossile fuels into renewable energy and all the way we treat the environment, agriculture, stuff like that. Stuff we know are needed for the future, then we can't really fail if we succeed at being good at that.]]> 2020 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the governments of Europe and the intergovernmental organizations of Europe need to develop a much greater courage in regulating the financial services and regulating the financial market whose speculation brought us, largely were responsible for the crisis that we have been facing. I think we need to decide on the key priorities that need to be protected, the services that need to be protected within national and international frameworks, and not to let them suffer in the apparently necessary restraints that we are operating under. And I think we need to commit to a much more equaland much more open kind of society.]]> 2020 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I am heavily involved in agriculture. Around the state I grew up on a range. That's how my family made a living, that is how we put food on the table. And one thing that we are constantly turning too in agriculture is science. Whether it is genomics, developing better genetics, better feed... everyone has to eat no matter where there are from. If you are from Europe, from the United States, from wherever. Everybody has to eat. So that is one thing I really focus on, just how science is ever evolving and affecting agriculture, because agriculture affects everyone.]]> 2020 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT If you would have asked that question a few years ago, people would have said we don't need research. Where would we be today? And that I think will be the same in several years. We have to find the right balance between basic research and applied research, or like it was called at ESOF 2012, between curiosity-driven and challenge-driven. We need both of them. This is a virtuous circle: basic science drives innovation, drives applied science, drives innovation, drives application and drives basic science again. And if you cut this circle, you are loosing. That's the only way for us to have a good life in the future: invest in science. Science for society, that's important.]]> 2020 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research and innovation make in many ways a difference for our future in that aspect that we have to be competitive in Europe but also by creating new kinds of jobs and inventing new kinds of solutions for the great challenges. This is climate changes and all the other challenges. And it also helps to link the world closer to each other because the situation now is that we should not lock Europe, we should not put a border around Europe and especially when it comes to research and innovation, we need to cooperate with the emerging economies, with Africa, because we are faced with the same kind of challenges: diseases, climate change is not a specific European problem. problems we face with are global and therefore we should solve them at a global level,]]> 2020 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is really how we're going to achieve a sustainable world and a high standard of living for those in the world. Obviously a lot of people are living in desperate circumstances but if everyone aspires to the type of lifestyle we have in the west at the moment, we would need three planets to service that. So somehow we have to achieve compromises and that's going to be very difficult.]]> 2020 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that by combining innovation and research with some good politics, that can really bring all that knowledge together, we can come out of this crisis. There are some places where we can't compete, countries like China, but we have this Science and innovation and we can do something with that.]]> 2020 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have to decide that politicians should not spend more than what they earn and of course we should belief it's possible to do it with the citizens. So we should be more efficient in our systems and in what we have to learn. So, the education from politicians and administration has to be put forward. And of course we need a legal framework, we see say that up to 2020 we want to have a clear message for the people that can be achieved.]]> 2020 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think what's really needed is people feeling more responsible for each other within the European Union and feeling more responsible for the European Union. Because at the moment what I feel is going on is that people are mostly concerned with their own countries and not across the boundaries for other people around them and the nations around them.]]> 2020 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe that in some fields we can do a lot of major improvements and for example, textile is a good opportunity to do research because we are living with textile, it is our second skin. And I would say that at the moment, nearly nothing is done and there is not so much concern. But since I am a scientist and working on textile, I can assure you that there is good, bad and ugly things in the textile. And it is really important ,to bring excellence level in this case and be sure that you bring to the people a better technology to protect them.]]> 2020 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I would say first: why growth? I think we have to have a critical stand really based and learned on what has happened, not to do it again. So, I don't believe that we need to grow. We have to have a sustainable economy and really face an economy that will fit well for our societies, which is not making more money but would make our society better. So everybody is entitled to have a job, entitled to have a good health system, a good education, and whatever. I think that's the model we really need to implement, and it should be completely different. We have ten centuries. We have to do the things in a different way, no more growth.]]> 2020 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I am not an economist but there is a lot of mathematics that is involved in making predictions about where the economy is going to go. And for me the amount of investment in banks compared to the investment in science is just ridiculous. I mean the amounts that have been spent this year on the banking system is probably more than what has been spent on science since we started doing science in about with the ancient Greeks. I really think that one thing is important: reinvest in the things that are going to really change our world and solve the problems and that is science.]]> 2020 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT If I may speak about the ERC funds, basic research according to the principle of excellence only, and it's the first time that we have an international competition. So the very best get funded. And for Europe, in a globalizing world, we have to continue to fund the very best in basic research. We know the results do not come tomorrow but unless we do that there will be no tomorrow.]]> 2020 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT The very benefits of this one is that it brings the European strengths together. We cannot compete with China on financial means and growing markets. We can't compete with the US entrepreneurial spirit. We have to bring Europe's knowledge and the best asset of Europe is the university and diversity. Sometimes we focus too much on diversity. let's look more for university. And I think there, European programs can really make an added value, if they are on priority areas. We really have to see that research is also mainly done on those areas where Europe is also strong later on in the value chain, in the industrials to pick it up. Doing research on issues which anyway are manufactured somewhere else in the world could be maybe a lower priority.]]> 2020 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main benefit is that precisely, building on this diversity we have in Europe, these researchers can meet together, exchange ideas, share ideas and through this sharing and exchange, create new ideas, exchange about working methods, about how to address a problem to solve it, and that's why I personally think it is very important to keep this diversity. It's good to harmonize to some extend. Precisely, it's good that we have the Bologna process for universities. I've been one of these students many years ago who had difficulties to go from one country to the other. But on the other side, there are differences in the way to educate young researchers or young people. that is what give us the richness. When these people with these different educations meet together, this makes this emulation which makes this creativity. And I would like to say that very often, the United States import the diversity, because they don't have it anymore on their own souls, so that's why they attract so many researchers and young researchers from Europe and from all other. We have it so let us build on this, and promote it.]]> 2020 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT It's a very critical question because mainly when you speak about research and innovation you don't know what are the outcomes. But when you just invest in research and innovation you get the outcomes, only you cannot expect them in advance. So in any case, this is the way research and innovation helps, by producing products that you were not expecting and that could help you in your life or in the general society. That's the main way research and innovation helps.]]> 2020 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think a long term vision of where we want to go in terms of economic, direction and social direction, what is a sustainable model for the future. Seriously having an idea of where we wanna go. That would be a first solution. And investing in the future, investing in a long term perspective would be the best way to solve the problem, not just looking at the short term.]]> 2020 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I definitely think that the 21st century economy is called the knowledge economy. So it is well-known that the knowledge will call the capital. So maybe before the capital created knowledge but now if you have the knowledge, if you have the good idea, you can call the capital to you. The capital will go to the best project, to the best idea and the idea that will have practical implication in the future. So I think what Europe is doing now gives the chance to young scientists to prepare themselves, to make PhD, masters,... the most valuable steps, create the human research to attract the capital later.]]> 2020 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have many projects in the academy of science of Czech Republic. I am not a scientist or a researcher but I'm also a PhD student. But I think some events like ESOF are really useful because we can change our knowledges, our experiences, and meet other people who have the same problems, the same projects and it's a very useful networking.]]> 2020 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research, science is systemic in Europe, there is a lot of support, a very healthy support for science in Europe but also that support is declining. So I think science can deliver solutions, or some solutions likes for ageing, climate change, etc. But again, it needs to build and rebuild trust among people. Again, solutions can't be foisted on people. We need to work with citizens to solve problems.]]> 2020 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I find it very difficult to know because thinking like a scientist you try things out and you see how they work, and you try them on a small scale first and see if it's successful and then maybe expand it or drop the idea and try something else. Whereas when you're dealing with an entire economy or multiple economies at the same time...Well I wouldn't like to be in their position.]]> 2020 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT For me it is very clear: research and innovation is the way to future. I mean we cannot continue with business as usual. We really need to invest in areas with future and for me research and innovation is one of the most important areas which will solve the problems and also will re-stimulate the economy and solve many aspects of the crisis,]]> 2020 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the education systems need a complete over whole. I think they were made for when people had one career for their whole lives, and just went into that. We need to foster excitement within children cause they are the future and for them to innovate and be confident to start their own enterprises. Not just get on X-Factor, and that's it for the rest of their life.]]> 2020 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Out of the crisis, I think that you have to keep looking at the future and make the right choices. And of course the crisis is not a pretty thing to experience but I think that you have to keep looking forward. If you try to slow down too much, then I think it won't work. So you have to be more efficient. And I think you need crisis to be more efficient or become more efficient.]]> 2020 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have to start consuming less and if we start consuming less that will affect business of course. So if we take a few steps towards a greener economy where jobs and innovation comes in the....For instance, in the recycling field that would create jobs in itself and that would be a step towards a greener economy.]]> 2020 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think good ideas. I think people being more open towards sharing ideas but also sharing those problems and identifying them rather than hiding them in sectors. So I think greater transparency, more accountability, I know those are buzz words, but I think they're also things that should be embedded in our future activities.]]> 2020 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think Research & Innovation is the key word. Because research converse money into knowledge. It is innovation that converse knowledge into money. But not all knowledge can be converted into money. It is only the monetizable knowledge that can be converted into money. Apple for example, what was it? It was converting monetizable knowledge into money, and they became the biggest market cap company in the world, entirely based on innovation, iPods, iPads, iPhones and the rest of the revolutionary items. So when we talk about this century, the century 'of knowledge', it is the century of innovation because a mere creation of knowledge has no consequences, but converting that knowledge into wealth requires innovation.]]> 2020 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think my singular concern would be sustainable development, and whether we will really be able to sustain the sort of development which we have had over the last 20 years. And particularly the biggest concerns would be around water, energy, climate change and associated calamities. And I also think that there will be unknown diseases break out, there could be things which we haven't even anticipated that could happen. And they may happen in the future and this would be a great concern.]]> 2020 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe that it is a lot of awareness building, it's not enough, what we have as awareness building. Key learnings from each of these projects, learnings in being able to see how the challenges have been faced. And how these learnings can actually implement future projects. Take what is required from the learnings of a successful project and adapt it into a new project. I think that is important so there is a larger multiplayer effect and actually an implementation of projects across all platforms. Key learnings from these projects and how these learnings can impact the other projects.]]> 2020 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is the fact that we are growing as a population and more and more people are getting more and more means to reach a level of consumption that we used to in the Western world from where I arrive. The issue will be that there will not be enough resources if we use resources the way we do today, there will not be enough resources for the people in the world. If all the emerging economies wish to consume and live the way we do in the Western world, we need 2 or 2,5 planets. If we all want to live as the Americans do, we might need more than 5 or 5.5 planets. So that's my major concern.]]> 2020 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I would say to look at the strenghts Europe has. Invest in them, getting the partnerships that will help them to come out of the crisis. For example, research and innovation is one of the areas. Well, promoting this through partnerships and strengthening, getting along with other countries would help them grow their economy.]]> 2020 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT My personal concerns for the future mainly regarding India is the growth that I see everywhere is very good but I think somewhere along the line we are losing our own identity, we are losing touch with our own culture. Money is good, development is good but I really feel it should not come at the cost of your own values and your own past. To move ahead or to develop in the future, I do not think we really need to give up everything that is the past.]]> 2020 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Scientists from India were participating in international programs, largely because of the physically availability, facility etc. That was in the old days. Now facilities in India are comparable to anywhere in the world. But the Internet information is accessible to anybody in the world. Now we don't need that, what we need is the intellectual participation, so the participation is to exchange ideas. And in track with the scientists, could co-develop the concepts, that is the main use of European programs and French programs, and several other programs. I'm participating in several of these French programs.]]> 2020 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that we need to have two things. One is the political vision of a united Europe. And as an Indian, having lived over 20 years of my life in India, I can see Europe as one, which I may not see If I had stayed in France, my home country, my birth country. If you see Europe from India, Europe is obvious. And this way out for Europe is typically to have full-fledged integration, to the extent to which people are willing to accept it. And to reach out again countries where there are emerging opportunities there are many people wanting to trade with us, to buy from us, to share with us. This is where the future of our children lies. The sooner we reach out to them, the better for ourselves and our kids.]]> 2020 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Be patient, continue to do the good things that you do. Don't throw away the good things with all the bad things that you have to throw, and it is good to be poor. we have all been living beyond our means for a long time. It's good to go back and learn to live basic. Many people around the world have been doing it for many many years.]]> 2020 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Just one word: Democrazy! This means that we have too much bureaucracy and too much populism instead of a research of facts and this will probably put harm on the democratic systems. And we need participation, we need integration, specially in research.]]> 2020 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Excellent networks, access to great minds in Europe, great resources. More and more research and innovation needs partnerships. Not one country or one lab could do it alone. Secondly, big money and thrilling new ideas, out-of-box thinking. These are the three caracteristics I find very helpful.]]> 2020 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think actually two things perhaps to be very sure and short. One is to try and not somehow feel that just because it is the financial crisis, everything in Europe is not working. I think there are green shoots of hope that will eventually take Europe forward. But we have this tendancy of focussing on things which are not going right. So I think there is too much focus on the financial sector and the problems through the financial sector has a huge impact on our economy. But let's talk about what is going right with Europe right now and let's start building from there. That's the first thing. The second thing is let's identify those countries, in this case India, and ask what can do India to help Europe in re-calibrating Europe's capacity. So it's not about Europe's crisis but it's about how Europe recalibrates its capacity. In India I'm trying to innovate and moving to the future. That are the two key issues that we can use to go out of this so-called perceptive problem that we are in.]]> 2020 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think what is most needed is to understand that all Europeans have to face the crisis to be together and to try to work together, to take over this problem, to solve this problem, all problems are arriving from the crisis.]]> 2020 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I guess we need to be more conscious on development, industrial development and other things. We need to have a more open-minded view and maybe empower research and development, research and innovation for SME's, focusing more SME's, then other companies or other things.]]> 2020 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation are both very important for the future. So far, research and innovation have been important also for enterprises, mainly for enterprises because innovations have been away to cut costs and to increase profits. I think in the future this is where things have to be changed and innovation has to be produced for people to meet the needs of people and in a sustainable way of course.]]> 2020 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main personal concerns for the future are education, food and poverty that we see all around the world. And this growing inequality that we see in the world. So that is for me the prime concern at this moment in time.]]> 2020 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT In terms of my business I want to expand my business in Europe and you want to get in the market to improve the European life we're dealing in making railway system and automotive systems We're keen to get in the market and improve the ideal life as much as possible that's my concern in terms of business, in terms of my personal issues I want to get married as soon as possible.]]> 2020 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT The big challenge is to have all sectors cooperating together we need to bring together the research communities, the industry but also the public authorities to develop solutions for Europe.]]> 2020 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that's the key thing that is going to differenciate countries or companies or even individuals. Because after the industrial age, there was the information age and now it is the age of innovation. It is going to bring market products faster to the market, more competitive, cheaper. And in many ways, it is also going to change the entire way which life is today. For example, if you look at the age factor in many countries, people are living longer because you have better medicines, better healthcare... So I think innovation is going to fundamentally change the way we live, work and play. So it's extremely critical.]]> 2020 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT We need to to improve the efficiency of our transport system and research and RTD projects will help in that but we have to go beyond that we have also to look at the behavioral aspects and we need a new mobility culture and this needs to be more addressed in European research in the future]]> 2020 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT With the EU funded projects, instead of having a national view a national pool of researcher of engineer.We could have this pool at the level of Europe. Meaning that instead of having a hundred researchers working in an area We have thousands of people that could work together to bring innovation, and to bring europe facing other countries such as United States or China.]]> 2020 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Since we cannot compete on low cost basis, I strongly believe that we definitly can out compete the rest of the world, by being more creative and more innovative. Which means that we have to find the right sectors.]]> 2020 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that clearly all the tools are not in place. We don't have them all. If we had them all we would not be facing the crisis or feeling a bit helpless towards the crisis. A city has to save 20% of its energy. Because transport uses more than its fare share of energy at the moment, this means a really big effort and that means in some way getting people to drive less or travel on bicycles and things like this. Why do people not do that now? So we have to find something that will attract them away from their cars, something that does not, at the same time, damage their need to move around and does not damage industry. Apart from this, the tools that we find, the applications we find, the technologies, will be a new source of industry. We will have new businesses out there creating solutions for this sustainable mobility that we keep talking about. Nobody ever thinks we have achieved it or are likely to achieve it. ]]> 2020 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT At the moment, I would say the fact that European countries stopped working together might be the most important fear I might have In this economic context it would be a shame that they stop cooperating. And also regarding the transport sector the gender gap is the main issue for me.]]> 2020 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think what we need is more industry driven research, because there is a big gap between the academia and industry. And that's a gap that needs to be closed as quickly as possible. Even in my own railway industry, there's stil a lot of groups, research institutions, industry partners, working their own way so, we need more colaboration on that.]]> 2020 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT The biggest benefits of the EC, the EC programme area unique unifying entity element between the research in the different member states. Coming mainly from an organization that works mainly with There are no other programme that allowsus to address the issues, of the whole of Europe, wether it'd be from Bulgaria up to Norway, It's something that brings, together all the different countries, which you don' tget with any other programme.]]> 2020 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT My personal concerns about research that researchers should be fairly paid for what the job they've done and not to support only big projects, but it is also important to support small projects by the European Commission.]]> 2020 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think there are a number of things necessary first that we will makesure that our financial households in the members states and important financial players in the members states, that these are being put in order. The second one that we will somehow re-established growth which means that we have to find the right sectors and we have to invest in the right sectors in order to make sure]]> 2020 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that there are many thinkers who have good ideas but I think the mechanism is organic and no one wants to stop it. We don't hear people who say different things, so perhaps the problem is not only to have ideas but to listen to different ideas.]]> 2020 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have to combine it with verial productions and especially we have to combine it with with natural things, let's say for example for the agricultural, for fishing area, to be, let's say, closer to natural and not too away from the natural. Of course we have to give some opportunities, for new electric things, new electronic things but in parallel with the natural one.]]> 2020 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I hope it makes a difference in our future It's what many people, including myself, spend all their time and energy upon so if we think for example of C02 emissions from the transport sector we can easily see that thishas improved dramatically in the past decade especially in the past decade and that was all driven by research and innovation so from, in terms of, not only environmentfriendly related technologies in terms of comfort, in terms of performancein this case in this field of transportation which is where I come from,I think research and innovation has made a huge impact on society and on our lives and I hope that this stays,this will stay in the future It's research and innovationwhich makes our lives better more safe, more secure, more clean and I'm quite confident of that]]> 2020 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Looking at the faces in Greece and thinking about these things I think the people should have a moreoptimistic view on life and look to the future and have a go in life. Everything is a bit too depressed and in crisis. Nobody wants to go anywhere does (just) whatever they do and then you go backwards if you stand still you have to go forward, look to the future, be optimistic... I could say many more things about it, but I think it's the way forward. Even if you think it's impossible just go for it.]]> 2020 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think basically what is needed is that the citizens and governments particularly, learn that there is no free lunch, we cannot continue to overspend and borrow money and spend and believe that someone will pay it off for us in the future. There has to be much more discipline in Europe and elsewhere in the civilized or economically developped world. It's tough when it comes, but if we are not learning this we will again,go into the same kind of economic crisis as we are right now. It is, of course, alsosure that as the world is opening up and becoming more and more one, unique world... The standard of living will equalize a little bit. We cannot enjoy a very nice standard of living in Europe and retire at 55 and have the government pay forthe rest of their lives when when we have all the shiniest Indians,the Brazilians and so on who are keen on working and working very hard.]]> 2020 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Because, of course, it prepares the next generation and the growth in each countries and it has been assured for many decades that investing in reserach was one of the best ways to have growth. That is clearly one of the most important points is to increase the share that spent on innovation and research in Europe which is much different than what it could in the US or what it could be in Asian countries. So we need to reach reach some targets and to increase such partnerships and involvement in Europe.]]> 2020 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, the first thing of course is we have got to develop these new technologies the second thing is we have got to build strong networks with other parts of the world to make it a little bit more peaceful and to make our position are more linked to the developments in growing economies and this is something where research and research funding can contribute substantially to,]]> 2020 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Because, of course, it prepares the next generation and the growth in each countries and it has been assured for many decades that investing in reserach was one of the best ways to have growth. That is clearly one of the most important points is to increase the share that spent on innovation and research in Europe which is much different than what it could in the US or what it could be in Asian countries. So we need to reach reach some targets and to increase such partnerships and involvement in Europe.]]> 2020 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future are the social aspects of Europe. We have now an economic crisis, but the consequences for the people we have perhaps a commercial Europe but do we have a real social Europe? I'm afraid not yet.]]> 2020 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it's hugely important. There are scientists finding answers to all sorts the problems and the important thing is to share that knowledge firstly among the scientists and then to translate it into practical applications in the industry and economy.]]> 2020 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main benefit of course is the colaboration between all the different cultures or people that are in Europe being able to cooperate in order to commonlydeliver what is required and being able to work together torwardsa common goal and this is really important of course for the future of Europe and also from a personal perspective having this experience allowed me to avoid the effects of the economic crisis by going to actually developped and competive econonomies so I have also a kind of personal benefit from this part]]> 2020 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT More robust infrastructures, pragmatic reaction If we look at some of the challenges, I mean climate change, is a key one facing us, and a lot of the people will say we need to do a lot for climate change. Which is actually true,there is a lot of mitigation things we're doing. But we also, need heavy investment. in some of the adaptation methods as well. I've just come bacl from a tour of the United States, looking at what the're doing dealingwith all their extreme events. We have to make our system in Europe,all our society more robust for the changes that are going to happen. and this is not a defeatist in, saying we cannot prevent it, it is just a pragmatic reaction to the fact, things are going to happen.]]> 2020 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT The European economy is not bad all over Europe it's bad in some parts of Europe and I think if we carry on with, I would say, the European idea, which is to support eachother in a better way, at the same time, I think, we need a good transport system, otherwise Europe will not survive in a good way. And here, I think, the European project can play an important role because, if we are not in a competitive edge, we will not survive in a good way, with the high living standard that we have today in Europe. So I think these activities are very important.]]> 2020 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Be helpful to each other, help vulnerable. Leaders that really care about the people I think what we need most is to be helpful to each other. I mean to help people that are more vulnerable. And we, Greek,s get to understand that, its full content since, we get help from all of you, from the rest of Europe, and I understand that the rest of you the people of Europe, not the leaders, have to work much harder to help us as well. So this is one option and the other, is to have leaders that we didn't have (the happiness) to have during all those years that really care about the countries, I mean they care for the people, not only just for the banks and how to increase their wealth their personal wealth, their money...that's my opinion. ]]> 2020 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT The crisis is of course very big and complex but then again we have the EU and the EU is for cooperation and in such a cooperation, we also need compromises it's like joining a club: you cannot have all your individual opinions and all your individual interests being realized...you have to give up and be ready for compromise. So, if all members of the EU had that approach, I think compromises and solutions could be found.]]> 2020 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I think it is very clear that both in terms of some the technologies we need to respond to issues like climate change, water scarcity, many of the issues related to climate change, we can't do it without technology. And for the technology we need the science. But also innovation, for me, isn't just about new technologies it is also about new ways of doing things. So looking at existing technologies and say: How can we use them in a new way to respond to the challenges that we face?]]> 2020 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think there is a magic word called innovation for me. We need to reinvent ourselves and beyond the leading edge again as we used to be for several decades. Now we're being overtaken by other countries and we should really focus on knowledge instead of manufacturing and old school industries basically.]]> 2020 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I kind of see these innovation waves. We had a first wave, between 90 and 2000, which actually made us understand what Internet means. We have from 2000 to 2010, now we understood what the social aspect of that link means. What I've seen in the last 2 years, is a transformation to understand that it’s not just social. But the social should lead to problem solving And I see this in open governance I see this going to open education, there’s a big momentum for education. So that’s what I expect for the next 10 years to be one the next big wave. And the next wave we see coming is related to mobilisation.]]> 2020 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT It's crucial across all sectors. Any of the systemic challenges that we face from climate change to health, ageing society or anything the only we way can find a solution is through innovation. But innovation has to be nurtured in a special and specific way. Often, government programmes are not the best designed tools to support innovation. There is often a difference between the spirit and the goals and how innovation works concretely on the one hand, and how governments think innovation should work and should be financed, on the other.]]> 2020 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT What we have failed in the past, is not in innovative ideas, not in successful research, but in connecting this research to the society and the needs of the market. If we are successful in doing that and I know that the emphasis, in the new framework program Horizon 2020, is on that if we are successful on that, then I think research and innovation will play a key role in changing our societies.]]> 2020 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT We cannot avoid going deeper in innovation and actually, technology is ready, I would say for example, with sensor with informatic and telematic we have the tool and the hardware ready for having a better traffic management and so on...so, in this way, I think innovation can be very important for the future, not to reduce the traffic, but to manage the traffic in a safer way and in a cleaner way.]]> 2020 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT The future is positive, because we're living this exciting moment, where energy is changing, the way we move is changing. We are moving even faster than what we were expecting into renewable energy, in spite of everything and we are moving even faster than what we were predicting into electrical mobility.]]> 2020 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation are linked to the future, Future cannot exist without them. However, it is crucial that all the humanity access to this future. I’m shocked as women are no enough present in research and innovation, Maybe this field is no “women friendly”. So, for me, it is essential to answer the following question: “How can we open research and innovation a more inclusive way?”]]> 2020 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that integrating various modes of transport information systems or various modes of transport: rail, maritime and busses, along with cars, would increase the effectiveness of public transport for the people. That, in turn, will drive people to use public transport, much more than they use today. It'll increase their confidence level, people will be encouraged to leave their cars at home, and that obviously would bring to less dense roads, less populated roads, incresease in the usage of busses, trains and boats and reduction in carbon emission...That, I think should be one of the goals.]]> 2020 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the social cohesion is very important for modern societies. This meaning: the demographics, the unemployment are very big concerns because it is very important for the quality of life.]]> 2020 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main concerns for us, in the transport industry are the cost of transportation and the need for further research to reduce the cost of transportation in an active way. In terms of European projects we need to improve the returns on the investment and what I would suggest is post-completion review of European projects, to demonstrate the financial benefits are extremely important.]]> 2020 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT One of the benefits is certainly that you're feeling the European spirit you're feeling that this is cooperation it is very simple on the basis of a project with participants from many member states simple, nice and good company, and people ready for compromise and people with the right spirit and will.]]> 2020 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and development drive any progress. If there will be not any progress, there will be not any future. So, by this way, I do believe that the change is depending on the research and development. The products are going to be cheaper, affordable and also, will be much more sophisticated, responsive to the customers' needs.]]> 2020 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT It's a question of the development and urban traffic, road traffic, and also urban public traffic I think there we have the biggest problems in Europe.]]> 2020 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think one of the most important things that we really care about is less use of fuel, taking care of the environment, optimizing is perhaps not the right word, but looking at how to use the resources the best way.]]> 2020 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT You can't deal with a problem if you don't know how big the problem is and you can't deal with a problem if you don't count it first so, in my mind, research helps us directly do this it helps us make some great steps forward understand what can be applied or what cannnot see if one thing is good for the society and the economy and the public community in general or if it is not. After the research come the applications so, first research and innovation, then we see which module fits better to our needs.]]> 2020 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the best way to bring all the people together is to join, to be just one important voice to join, to match all the cultures in order to become one power, no? We have to be huge power, no? To treat every single country as just one in order to be just one power, no? To get out of the crisis.]]> 2020 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to remember where our strenghts in Europe are and our strenght is innovation. So we have to keep up the pace, fast innovations, shorter time on the market and the consequence usage of our competitiveness. This is what would help us. If we lose innovation I think we will lose everything. Europe can only survive as we have a high labour cost level. We cannot exist with cheap production so what we need is innovation.]]> 2020 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think it's crucial to continue research and making innovation in Europe. First of all because we are in a competitive world, with globalization and we have to compete with Asia and America. So we have to continue if we want to keep pace, whether in Europe or in general. The governments should not cut on that, that's what I think.]]> 2020 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT In my opinion, research and innovation is the future. I mean it is design and it forecast the future. So for example we can talk about electric vehicle, we don't really know if it is good or not. But research can help and try to forecast if it is good.]]> 2020 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Maybe consider new policies that are more cause effective and certainly invest in innovation and research because then you can create new solutions that can lead to a better transport system that is not as harmful to economy as it is now.]]> 2020 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research and innovation can make a great difference in changing the future. We have to continue to attract excellent students, we have to continue to really excite the young people to want to change the world and we have to do that with reduced economies so keep research excellent, teaching excellent and excitment excellent. And... change the world!]]> 2020 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are very very useful things but I believe that if they aren't used for military purposes, both research and technological developments, then it could be something that would really make our lifes a lot better. But as we all know, most innovations or huge technological advances have been done via the military field. Now, if we can avoid that for once and if we can learn from the past and from the past mistakes, then this is how we start creating a sort of more human society.]]> 2020 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, if you participate in EU funded research you have to have a multi-stakeholder approach and a cross-boarder approach to be accepted. And that is beneficial for all parts because if you have a new solution you must implement it in a full-scale, you need all parties involved. By the way you promote innovation by have it funded by the European Commission. So it's a good way of working for all this to learn from.]]> 2020 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think this idea of a European Union like in America, the United States of Europe, this would be a good clue to get out of this European crisis. So further integration of the European Union and more transparency for the people so that they can see what Europe can do. This I think is the key for exiting this crisis.]]> 2020 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the sort of collaborative projects the the European Commission promotes do enable companies to do work that they would perhaps not normally do or they wouldn't entering to. It also encourages you to work with other partners and so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts as it were. And so you get new ideas coming up and people working in areas that they wouldn't normally do. So I think that is a valuable asset.]]> 2020 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern is just the lack from politicians to go towards a common vision of the future. The politicians and the countries think more about their affairs, their interests and the things of their country instead of perceiving a common goal for Europe.]]> 2020 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT An intercultural atmosphere, a interdisciplinary partnership and these discussions, and solving problems all together give great value to people. And open-minded to young people, I would like to involve my young colleagues, this is important for the future.]]> 2020 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it is really important that we focus on young people above all else. That is absolutely crucial. We have seen very high levels of unemployment about young people talking about a 'lost generation'. We need to get them back, we need to use their skills, we need to use their abilities. And one of the ways to do that is to focus on giving them education, giving them the skills that they will need, in order to come up with those innovative solutions for the future. They are the future, we really need to rely on them.]]> 2020 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT It's certainly the network of people. the quality of research: I come from Italy, typical European projects have better quality than Italian funded projects. At the same time, EU research should be much better organized to really reach out to the real innovators and not the people who are more experts in participating and filling forms, those who really can deliver an impact.]]> 2020 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think you cannot grow in an autonomous and independent way as we thought we could 50 years ago. Policies need to be thought in global terms. You have to think about the relations, the connections that you have. All the issues we have in Europe, the political issues like immigration, like unemployment, they all depend upon our relation with the rest of the world. So we need to think in a new way and how we can integrate all these people, not so much as future enemies or future competitors, but as the ones with whom we do business, so we need to cooperate with them.]]> 2020 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT The clear concern has to be the state of the economy how do we get out of the crisis we've been in, how do we get the jobs and growth we need for the future. And research and innovation are clearly absolutely crucial if we are going to do that. Because if we don't innovate, we can't find solutions to the many many difficult challenges that we face.]]> 2020 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I think one of the bigest benefits is the fact that these are collaborative projects, where people from different countries can work together on a common project and I think that is very important to cross those cultural and language barriers. Secondly, the funding is quite important, the financial support especially for small companies. And third, I think the visibilty that the participants get from being involved in European projects.]]> 2020 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that if we can open up knowledge and if we can open up innovation, there is a lot we can do. There is a number of easy techniques to do that. Which is the current challenge is that we are providing too intellectual property rights and a number of monopolistic possibilities to businesses. And we extend those way too far into the value chain. If we restrict them to the value chain, we can keep the rewards of inventors. but we can eliminate inefficiencies that are created by monopolism of distributors. If you want to allow an explosion of creativity and innovation, the best way to do that is to open up the basic results of research and to make sure that anybody can access them at conditions that are non-discriminatory and that are equal for everybody.]]> 2020 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT We hear about explosion of financial bubbles. Economy is really far from people everyday life. But, if economy is no more linked to citizens, it has no sense anymore. Therefore, to my mind we have to find sense to economy. There are various ways to do that But I really think that people who works in financial activities have a huge responsibility. We rely on them!]]> 2020 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that, to exit the crisis, we should rethink the way we consider the system and the way the system is working right now. In the new situation where we are, we are given new tools and new opportunities for solving the economics problem and I believe that the authorities are not using those tools as much as they should.]]> 2020 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think there is a need to unleash the positive energy, the creativity, the innovation. Basically, now in Europe, there are a lot of nice ideas emerging, in a very fast way, probably the fastest way ever, but very few of them grow to have a significant market share, a significant industrial impact, a significant job creation and what we need is really to free this energy and to make sure that there is, not only from the governments but also from the entrepreneurs, a commitment to go all the way towards making a difference with job creation, towards making a significant marketing pact, and not having a safe job and selling the company as soon as possible.]]> 2020 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT In Spain, we are working very hard but we have a problem of competitiveness, of effectiveness. We work a lot but perhaps we don't obtain the results that we would need to grow. And I think innovation could give this supply, to be more competitive and solve this problem. Sorry, I can't be more precise, because I don't know. I would like to have the formula, but I just hope that people thinking altogether will find a solution.]]> 2020 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to escape from the actual economic model based on greed, few people accumulating money. Without a clear perspective of what is the environment where the life should take place. I think there is a number of issues that, if properly addressed, can create jobs and can perhaps diminish the impact of human activity on earth. So I think we have to change the orientation of the economic design to put in value something that actually we take for granted, like the destruction of the planet, like the lack of reuse of residues, contamination of water. All these things are destroying capital and we have to restore these conditions, to have a planet where life would last.]]> 2020 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it is going to be difficult for me, as I am not an economist, I am a marine geologist to tell you how to quit or escape this economic crisis, but I can give an advice on how we can look better at the sea and the marine environment and resources, and especially on how to develop the marine economy. This marine economy could probably help Europeans or other parts of the world to have a better access to the food, to the agriculture, but also to the blue growth. It could also gives us access to marine resources, to specific research to which we don't have access yet. So for me, the blue growth and the marine economy are things which are important for me and which could help the different countries to have a better economy and maybe escape from this crisis.]]> 2020 Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Although it is always foreseen that the non-Europeans or the southern mediterraneans are always looking for funding and the help from Europe, but I see that Europe needs us, especially with renewable energy issue. In the Mediterranean we have different sources of energy that can be used by the European countries. And then we can have this technology transfer or sharing of knowledge so that we can, in both sides of the Mediterranean, benefit from these resources, like solar energy, wind energy as well as ensuring energy security. I believe European countries will benefit from it and it will positively affect their economy.]]> 2020 Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think public programmes are well designed. European projects are well designed. But we need to be more performant across Europe in the utilisation of the results of the projects funded by the different programmes, on the national and European level. The results need to be more embodied by society, by firms, by different bodies, by economy in general terms. On the other hand, you can perform better in the popularization of the results of science to let citizens more aware of the value, in terms of knowledge of these results, and the economic value of these results as well.]]> 2020 Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT As an observer, from outside, I see that the economic crisis was in a way related to the virtual economy not to the real economy. Europeans were as creative today as they were before. So I think it has to do with coming back to the real economy. And that prosperity and growth depends on real economy, not speculation.]]> 2020 Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe that the results of research and innovation should be used in real life conditions as soon as possible, and not keep them on the shelters. It's good to use them in everyday life and to have applications like smart cities, applications for environment, for energy..Using new tools that could be implemented in the everyday life of people.]]> 2020 Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research and innovation should be linked to development. We should not really support research just for the sake of research. It should be linked to major development projects that enhance productivity and create job opportunities for the young people.]]> 2020 Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Actually there are three elements in this. The first has to be demand driven. The problem of social innovation historically was that we used to do research for the sake of research. We don't have this leisure anymore, we have to focus on the meagre funds that are available on more demand driven approaches. The second issue is that there has been a lot of applicable technologies and innovation that have been developed but we lack the marketing arm for it and I think we should have some sort of regional major programmes linking all the 'bric-a-brac' of not only the European Commission programmes, but also member states programmes and all the wealth that has been generated to be utilised for the better of both Europe and the southern Mediterranean.]]> 2020 Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The concept of open innovation environment is a very good concept to adopt. Because if you are thinking of shared resources regarding expertise, facilities, equipments, widening your linking to the European Community, to Mediterranean countries, this is going to be a very fruitful and very helpful when you are passing an economic crisis.]]> 2020 Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main difference from the 80's to today in the research area was that research was very limited to research institutes feeding research. The big difference today, the big challenge, is how you integrate and use into the design of the research projects, into the way you define your end products in combination with the needs of the users.]]> 2020 Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT It has been very beneficial, working on European projects. It gives me a better understanding of other regions of Europe, exchange of ideas. I would have never thought that meeting completely different cultures can make me see things in a different way. And then of course, we are able to provide common solutions to common problems that affect us all. So overall it has been extremely beneficial for me and very very helpful.]]> 2020 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The clear concern has to be the state of the economy how do we get out of the crisis we've been in, how do we get the jobs and growth we need for the future. And research and innovation are clearly absolutely crucial if we are going to do that. Because if we don't innovate, we can't find solutions to the many many difficult challenges that we face.]]> 2020 Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Coming from a southern Mediterranean country, particularly Egypt, I have quite many concerns at the moment, mainly our political future. And also, looking at the region as a whole, I have some concerns about how we are going to develop our region, particularly the Mediterranean region in relation with Europe, in view of the natural resources like water and energy which we have to expect and ieal with some solutions for our future.]]> 2020 Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that people are stuck with the same routine's methods for too long, and that maybe you need someone from a younger generation, more technologically experienced to come in with some new ideas and flip around the situation.]]> 2020 Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all I think that for the companies that I work with and that I helped to get some European funds, it is an opportunity to get the funding, that we cannot sometimes get in our country. It is an opportunity to internationalise, to get in contact with other organisations that would otherwise be very difficult to get in touch with. It is an opportunity to access programmes for reasearch and new orientations that are much more global that the ones you may get on a national level. And finally, having the capacities of the different countries, of the different centres, researchers, is a win-win situation for everybody. So I am absolutely in favor of that.]]> 2020 Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I think it is necessary first of all, it is not so much if we are going to make a big or a small change, it is needed, we really need to grow into technologic area with more success. What I do hope is that also the outcome of research projects for example would be better disseminated, better understood, and better shared amongst European people. I think there is a lot of very good brains, of great initiatives but they do not tend to materialize, they don't go to production, they remain really theorical. The results are not efficiently broadcasted, and it is something we have to promote and increase in the future. I also think we really need to address all the possible sectors in term of research and innovation. What I mean is that there are certain research areas which are not developed enough and again I'm coming back, to be more pragmaticwhen we subside those projects for example.]]> 2020 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think as a Jordanian it is hard for me to answer but I will answer from my point of view, if i was a European. Anything linked with the economic crisis has to be related to the root. We have to look deeply at the main problem and work to solve it. I think everybody is looking at the surface and they don't look at the root. I guess they have to locate where is the main field that will bring money and bring more jobs, and save Europe or Mediterranean countries from their crisis. And this won't happen in one or two years, I think it will need more time. And we have to be patient with this stuff.]]> 2020 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Huge question! To my view, we need more decentralization. This crisis shows the failure of centralized models, pyramidal, with strong hierarchy I firmly believe in the capacity of new technologies and the Internet to create more direct, more horizontal, more decentralized models. It is slowly emerging. Unfortunatly, not yet in politics, which is one of the last frontiers in that matter. But it is definitly towards this model that we are going, I hope that Europe will go towards more decentralization and will let democracy be more participative, more direct. using new technologies to do that.]]> 2020 Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that we have a lot of talented people in Europe and sometimes I have the feeling that politicians, European politicians, do not listen enough to those talented people. We have great ideas and we can give you a different view than you already have. And also I participated in the European Youth Parliament, in earlier times and I think it’s a great opportunity to listen to youngsters, to young people who have different idea.]]> 2020 Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT First, what is needed is a calm, reassuring and transparent policy, one single point of contact with markets and external powers so that entrepreurs and investors feel secure for their investments and their ideas.]]> 2020 Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main challenge for the future society is to give people access to information, education and technology, to fight poverty in semi-developed countries but also in our countries.]]> 2020 Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that numerous things need to happen. I think the first one is probably for a lot of people, their mentality needs to change. I think it is a question of people being used to a certain standard of living. which we can no longer afford. I think there is also another aspect to it,as we talked a lot about it today is about research and innovation, which I think it is an important aspect for us to improve and become more efficient. And final part, it will also help us gain a competitive edge, compared to others countries.]]> 2020 Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are more and more challenges with the ageing of the population, new diseases that we have to face. We need more research in order to understand and find solutions for these new diseases that we have in front of us. So research is completely fundamental for our quality of life.]]> 2020 Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Build more nuclear power stations. That's it.]]> 2020 Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I'm askin myself this question: do we really need growth? Should'nt we need instead a better repartion of ressources? Optimize what we already have could be a good start.]]> 2020 Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that public funded research should always be open source. And I think thiscollides a little bit with the idea of the current move for innovation, which is based on registrating idea and try to profit from it. And I have seen a bunch of cases in Sweden that should be putting an alarm on how we are doing things. For example, a publicly funded PhD, created a small company, a small startup. They created a software, and sold it for x million dollars and this close amount to Apple, an American company.We see this happening again and again. So we see European funding going to countries, from countries to individuals, individuals sign the thing, and then we are locked out of that technology. So I think that the first thing,is that research publicly funded should actually be left to the public domaine. And that will create a different kind of innovative landscape, where companies could compete in the best service on the ideas. And not like we are right now, where companies are just fighting to have the control of the idea, instead of making the best for the users and consumers in general.]]> 2020 Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns regarding the future is we are destroying ourselves even though we have continuous research and innovation activities, I think we should put it more in practice. If we just think about gas or oil production, I'm sure there is already a greener solution we are just using that, so it is my main concern at the moment.]]> 2020 Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT As Einstein said, problems cannot be resolved at the level of thinking that created them. for me the real challenge is the level of thinking, the styles of thinking that have got us to where we are today, and sufficient to take us into the future. And it will require people to step back and create some new perspectives and look at things in different ways, to actually create solutions.So get big changes whether as a community, and as nations and globally if we are able to that as individuals and communities.]]> 2020 Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think basically raising the level. If you take a look and if you compare generations, when I was a kid, to have a book was a great thing, we had to struggle for information. Now information is available for everybody. What people before would learned or would know how to do basic stuffs, now as we saw in the videos, kids of tomorrow really know how to use an Ipad, how to develop a small software by the age of fourth. Maybe by the age of 20 they will do bigger things, so knowledges are becoming skill. So I think knowledges in the hands of more people will lead to a better good for everybody. We saw that with the Arab revolutions for example,when freedom speech had been given to many people, the voice became louder. I think it's gonna be the same for knowledges, they will become bigger and bigger, it is exponential. The second idea is keeping in mind citizens responsibility, and influence politician to keep the better good in mind. I think research will be used by governments for the better good, rather than for other purposes. I think this is happening in Europe, I hope it will happen elsewhere.]]> 2020 Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT We are in a race to cross a very dangerous zone, between where we are and where our grandchildren may be. Will they will know how to manage the planet? How to expend beyond the planet? How to stay calm? How to argue in a fare and decent way, bypassing politics? this isn't a vast utopia, it is just us, much more reasonable, having raised better grandchildren. in order to get there, we have to get past all these pifalls. We have already got past the one called the nuclear war, it is pretty impressive. There are so many others along the next twenty, thirty years, that is our job. And if we make it,we might be the fist intelligent life form to make it.]]> 2020 Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT To exit the crisis we have to invest in an industrial policy, able to create jobs in the fields where Europe is competitive. The industrial policy means of course research and innovation, and we saw that MS which invested in their competitiveness, they were not so bad during the crisis. And studies also show if MS invest 3% of their GDP into research and innovation we could create 4 million jobs untill 2025.]]> 2020 Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT For the future my main concerns are mostly about the people. The people who don't really understand that we are living in world that is really changing, it is not like it use to be, and people don't want to accept this change, to evoluate in order to live better after.]]> 2020 Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT About the future I think that the difference will come just if we now stop speaking about research and innovation. We need more acting now, it is about how to make ideas happen, actually we need to stop just declare and say that research and innovation are important: we now that. A lot of managers, experts and politics say they know that research and innovation are important, they declare it but I dont have the feeling they're doing something, there is a gap between saying something and doing something. We really need more action, it is time for action. ]]> 2020 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that less bureaucracy is needed, because it hinders entrepreneurs in their work. I know a few of them who are sad about that. For Europe, you need entrepreneurs who are creative, who come up with great ideas and they are in a hurry to execute, and now they are held back a lot of times by bureaucracy, so this is one thing that could help.]]> 2020 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think since the past ten years what we've been seeing is a big influence of the Internet, the speed of the sharing of information which was heavily influenced by the events of 9/11. We see the Arab Spring, we see the crash of the stock market, and we are even doubting about the financial system. So that it is a really big thing we have to think about these days.]]> 2020 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT A natural catastrophe, where people are back in touch with their common sense and primal reactions. It is a bit a cynical answer but…]]> 2020 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are a lot of things to do! First, we need more European integration. So more relations between the European countries. Second, we have also to re-develop the industry in the European countries. Germany has made that, and this is part of the success of Germany for the moment. But I think that in other European countries, probably also for the peripheral countries of the eurozone for example, we need to develop more and more industries based on innovation of course. Because we are ahead compared to India or China but we have to maintain to advance in innovation. So we have to continue creating, innovating. This is the key for the future I think.]]> 2020 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think my three main concerns are all these unemployed people. Especially young people, all around Europe, all around the world and especially in Italy and in southern European countries. My second concern is really erasing racism and xenophobia around Europe against immigrants, against the other. The third one is the lack of great political leaders inspiring people.]]> 2020 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT In the world, research and innovation are fundamental, but even more for Europe because it is the only sector where we can have some competitive advantage compare to other areas in the world. So if you want to be competitive in these terms...Of course we don't have much capital or cheap labour, so it is really about what we have to invest in, our core values.]]> 2020 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that we have to go a level higher than the level in which we are living at the moment. At the moment, we are living in a very materialistic world, and I believe that if we come to share real values together, so that we can recreate an identity based on values, then there is really a hope for the future. I think that for the moment, everybody is concentrated on individualism and materialistic things. And this is not giving us the elements for growth and to believe in the future. I think that working together for instance, sharing values together which are going beyond the individual is giving us the real opportunity for the future.]]> 2020 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I would like to see structural change to the way economics works. A change where perhaps economics is not based on growth it is based on sustainability, I think inevitably it has to be that way. Or else, we will see a repetition of these problems again.]]> 2020 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are two types of contributions to society when it comes to delivering on technologies. It is the use, the adaptation of technologies today. As well as the research for the adaptation of the new technologies in the future. Which will help to be even more efficient, which will help to develop new materials, news solutions. Solutions that we don't know right now. And which will be much more efficient, larger in term of scale. Therefore, investing even though we are talking about 80 billions, at the end of the day it is a relatively small sum compare to the benefits it can bring to the future. And an advance society must invest a relatively important portion of the budget in order to think about the challenges of tomorrow.]]> 2020 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT States have to put more money for research, for example in Belgium, federal state does not subside so much research and people leave in order to study and work in other states, Switzerland and so one. ]]> 2020 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Empathy from people that have the money. Or passion for the things that people love and enjoy, whether it is actually doing them, or donating resources to support them. But I think that a lot of the problem with the world would probably be resolved with a little more empathy.]]> 2020 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the country should work more closely together and I think there should be some governance rules that need to be respected by all of the members. And I don't mean that there should be a control on every movement, on every person on the individual level, but there some things that need to be alined between all the members of the European Commission. And innovation and ICT can play a very important role in that as well, in supporting all these governance rules and in creating, providing work for as many people as possible.]]> 2020 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT It is the heart of our future. If we do not continue to introspect, and extrapolate who and what we are as a society, and as a species, we risk stagnation. and research and innovation is the critical place for us to do that self-examination, and that projecting out. It almost feels that to say what else could we do other than that in order to be healthy seems almost an obvious answer.]]> 2020 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all innovation is a driver of all the world to go further. So I think first goes the innovation then the rest of the world follows. It is a kind of driver for everyone. Once you look again at what is happening, what was not possible a long time ago, it is now the reality. The thing is that we can just only imagine right now, we call it innovation and it will be reality in the future. So it is important  to keep an eye on the innovation, of course not all the innovation will be implemented, but still it is interesting to look at that and try to pick what you probably will get and what will be growingin the future, that is interesting.]]> 2020 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT It is a disaster I think for the moment. An economical and financial disaster. We see that there are a lot of economical crises. And this is because the government don't want to find a solution. That is my opinion for the moment.]]> 2020 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation are the base to understand where needs for problem solving are or political areas where we need support by looking for options. You know we have a lot of options politically: one is transparency or data protection. So transparency is WikilLeaks, it is Anonymous. Data protection is don't use your camera on my street. So what is between these two extremes, what we can achieve within these extremes. And on the other hand, it is also the question on harmonisation, or mutual recognition. Where do we need harmonisation? Where do we need mutual recognition? A lot of principles which have to debated and where the Science community could have a very good impact to help us finding better solutions.]]> 2020 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT From my perspective I guess it is important that we focus on what we do best. And I don't think it is primary production. It is to aim more for the intellectual level and idea-based society.]]> 2020 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT We are part of a network called ACTINET Network, which I think is a benefit for us, as nuclear scientists. It enables us to access nuclear facilities within Europe, such as ITU in Germany or some laboratories in France. And we can also welcome people from Europe to do some research together, and actinide science in Manchester. So we can travel and use facilities abroad and we also share expertise in an area where it is important to work, to share science and the expertise within Europe.]]> 2020 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Science programs of EU are really important. Mostly for small companies science-oriented, because otherwise, I cannot imagine how those small companies or organization can survive, without this funding from European communities. So this is really important and I think it is something that should be kept in some way because otherwise a lot of small companies, again science-oriented, more than others, won't be able to survive.]]> 2020 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT It is absolutely necessary to keep up our major investments in research. The worst thing you can possibly do in a time of economic downturn, is to reduce your investment in your long term future. Because that won't mean that other competitors who are not in such economic trouble as we are, will simply march ahead. And this is true for businesses as well. So I think it is crucial that we get a really good financial settlement for the next round of research's spending in the horizon 2020 program. And given that the budget is constrained, I would shift funding from areas like agriculture for example, into what I regard as being key seed corn funding for the future.]]> 2020 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation are the keys to find new ways to produce and consume. So it is the core root of the future revolution for every citizen.The problem is that research depends on the companies. companies facing the crisis are considering shrinking their expenses in terms of research. I think the main issue will be energy. And energy means new energies to find, new ways to produce new energies, and there, research is a key element.]]> 2020 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that there are two main concerns. One is the bigger picture, that human kind might destroy human kind, so ending the world. The second concern, which is very much on the top right now, is the over consumption of technology and how we handle it so that it balances in our lives.]]> 2020 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT The future is a digital future. We already live in a world where we have tablets, mobile phones, smart phones... What really needs to be done is how to make these tools useful to the human being in everyday tasks.In addition to tablets, there is another dimension or development that is companion robots, this is the area in which we work. And we believe that European coordinated investment in the field of autonomous and intelligent robotics can support areas of growth like space robotics, service robotics, robots helping elderly people, robots helping children in hospitals. And this again will create a better economic and job situation in Europe.]]> 2020 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Of course we have to have a clear government standart, to limit the debt, to limit the government's spending, etc. But we have also to reach out to developing countries and emerging markets, because it is where the growth is. I think that we have to build new partnerships and to help those partners development. By developing themselves, they will also help Europe and our countries to get out of this crisis.]]> 2020 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I am a huge believer in applied knowledge. I don't see the more theoretical research helping a lot. I think when research is done behind closed doors and closed, isolated academic institution where research is done per se, without any applicable outcome, then that is not really helpful. But I think if research means problem solving then that can be very helpful. And if we can find a way to ensure the research is not limited to Europe itself but to find a way to fund young entrepreneurs and development projects can help unchain and really free up this amazing resources we have globally, then I think there can be a solution.]]> 2020 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to give more creativity to the people again. Because we are living in a society where at every corners of the street we have information, we have information access there is still the cap of the second digital generation, but we don't give people enough space to create their own solutions, to little problems in their lives. And I think if we want to have a happier future, or a future of hope, we need to start teaching in a very different way that we do now.]]> 2020 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think education, to me, is the main concern, the main tool that we have. It is the most powerful tool that we have. And eliquate education, whether it is in Europe or in the United States, or in Arabic States, is broken everywhere. Education, historically, has been about literacy but needs to be about connecting people to opportunity. Look at the occupied Wall Street movement, look at the unrest in the Arabic countries, look at the financial crisis in Greece, I think all that comes down to opportunity and giving people opportunity, whether through education, whether through jobs.]]> 2020 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT To exit crisis, it is a very important question, and again it bends out. The popular view is that the crisis came about because some people are extremely greedy and they profited on the expense of others. Then you have a requal of regulations, but I do believe you can plug as many rules as you want, people will still find more rules. If you go down to the roots of the problem, which is greed, or the opportunity to capitalize on the greed that system itself presents, only then you can be able to eleminate the problem for sure for all the generations to come. This is not the first crisis we went through, I hope this is the last one, but i'm pretty sure this is not the last crisis our generation and the generations to come will go through, so if we keep on living in this system that gives the opportunity to have crisis like this, by following instinct of humans desires such as greed, enabled through the system you living in,a system that is giving you an opportunity to have a crisis like this every now and then anyway.]]> 2020 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think we have to stop to grow and we have to decrease the growth, because we cannot always grow, it is not going to happen like this, with too many people living on Earth, and damaging the planet. I think we have to stop the growth, stop making money, we have to come back to a more natural and basic way of life.]]> 2020 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT One area that I am really interested in in particular is education, and specifically the need for the educational system to adapt so that we can keep up with the pace of change. I think you can see radical change in a lot of different areas, but education in the classroom hasn't kept up with the pace of change in other areas.]]> 2020 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT More research and development I think is probably the best way out of this. More basic research in physics, in chemistry… In biology there is a lot of difficult problems to solve, and a lot of very smart people who are able to solve them.]]> 2020 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that a more common approach with a strong leadership is really the key. I don't think we can work in a disparate mode where everybody is looking at everybody. So with a way forward, a good vision but a more common kind of leadership with of course still the need for local and regional initiatives. But my basic, fundamental view is that Europe should be more common, one vision, one view.]]> 2020 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think one of the biggest problems I have is people always talking about innovation and how great it is, and that it is going to be the key for our competitiveness. And it is going to be the key for the European success over China. And this for me is a really alarming statement. It seems to be repeated all the time. And we shouldn't be talking about competitiveness, and who is bigger than who, and who is greater than who. That led us to a lot of problems in the past and we don't seem to have learned from that. So I think for the future, we need to talking more about collaboration, maybe without previous enemies, maybe with our unlikely allies. But it is the fact that we keep talking about innovation as a key to competitiveness, and it is not. It should be the key to collaboration and should be the key to a better world and a better future.]]> 2020 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT In the part of the world that I represent, I have some very agricultural, rural areas, and I have some very very impressive high-tech, biotech companies that really are driving economic growth and development, world leaders. And supporting those companies by making sure that they can compete globally, they can access financing if they need to to grow, to make sure that they have the skilled employees, because a lot of what they say is we would like to employ more people, it is just where are the people with the right skills? Get them to us, we would like to do it. So all sorts of issues that we need to unlock, to help those sorts to help those sorts of brains lead, because we need those ideas. And then even in the very rural areas, some very important ideas going on about how we feed the planet, what fuel we use, what energy we use... Even if you are a long way from the city it doesn't mean you can't be involved in some of the changes that we need in the future.]]> 2020 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it is very important, the only way to make innovation is to produce. When you produce you can see where your failures are, and you can improve them. That what we done the last century, what is happening for the moment, is that we are giving all our knowledges to China, in Holland we call for an apple and an egg, for nothing, it's happenign for the moment. All our knowledges are going away for a few cents and the only way to get better for us, is to keep our production, to innovate with our products, in order to be stronger again.]]> 2020 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT One of the fields where I see innovation like something very important, and especially in Europe, is innovation related to healthcare, and more specially related to the struggles diseases related to old age. Why is it important in Europe? First because we have an old population, advancing in age, one of the oldest in the world. And secondly because the technology makes it possible to live longer. There is a big risk that they will be in the hands of big companies. And if you finance public research in this field, you will have the possibility to have life extensions, or longer lives for everybody, and not only for few. And for me, politically and in terms of equity, it is very important. And also in terms of society, if you have a society where you have people knowing they are going to die of old age soon and the richest part of the population who will be able to live a lot longer, it will be a very disruptive society, and very dangerous. So the whole of the European Union and European countries could be very important in this field.]]> 2020 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT The problem with Europe, I think for the moment - because I am not a politician - but the nations are actually behaving as nation states. and they are not behaving as a unity. So although we have a president, we can have more presidents, but it is all in nation states. We bear the cost of aggregation by compromise. Well, if tomorrow an alien would land, it would immediately give planetary opportunism and Europe would be united.]]> 2020 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT What is really important is communication. People must understand each other. For example, one country and another can find a neutral language. And if this happens, they can cooperate and have a good relationship. It is the base of the solution. And economy will get better, as well as the political situation, and I hope that crisis will therefore disappear.]]> 2020 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is really the ability as a society to take risks, because without risk there's no innovation and, in a time of uncertainty risk is very hard to take. Moreover, society can have a framework that stigmatizes failure and that prevents, inhibits people from taking big risks. So that is my main concern for the future: the ability of the young generation and entrepreneurs to take a higher level of risk.]]> 2020 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to reshape the business models that are being used, so we have to look at the economy in a different way, we have to bring change to how we look at the financial system, how we do adapt those kinds of things and we need to innovate, in order to achieve that.]]> 2020 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think there are three main problems for our future, for the future of our children. One is energy. So we have to change the sources of energy, we have to think not only about oil or gaz, we have to think about solar or wind energy, alternative sources of energy, and I think that Europe can make a difference in this point. We also have to make a difference regarding production, regarding manufacturing: one of the main points the European Commission started some years ago was the idea of flexible manufacturing: intelligent factories that can reconfigure on the flies, so that they can produce many different kinds of products.And the third and last point that we have to take care of is the size of the population, the number of people that are now on the planet. So we have to take care of transportation and also consumption of energy per capita, by building more efficient houses, more efficient means of transportation and reducing the use of resources.]]> 2020 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I spend most of my time on the economic monetary affairs committee, and so I get buried by the eurozone death crisis at the moment, and with all the other matters we have with regards of financial legislation. So it is very hard sometimes to come out from the immediate crisis that we are still in, to actually look at how we are going to grow away out of this. But it is really important that we get that longer term perspective. And we need to make sure that we really put the right building blocks in place. And for me, it is all about the right amount of funding investment in to really innovative but sustainable projects. So projects that really are going to have a return for both society in terms of the values, for health maybe if it is a biometical project. But also in terms of commercialization going forward. We need to be a competitive EU. So it is very important that we actually put money now in technologies that can come true in the future. And actually make sure that we stay at the leading edge around the world in terms of technology.]]> 2020 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I don't know if we should help the growth. Maybe growth is one of our problems.Maybe keeping on growing is not the solution. Maybe we have been growing too much. But then again, stopping to grow is problematic this is not what we are used to, as humans. So I think we should see further in the future. I think many of our politicians are thinking very short term and we are thinking, with them, very short term, so I think that if we start to see problems as more global issues and stop thinking about how much money we make every month, we probably are going to start thinking about other things than growing and that may be one of the keys to... staying alive.]]> 2020 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns for the future are that the funding for scientific research is going to be directed too much to a positive outcome. In other words, what people are looking for is a result which can be immediately applied. Now we know that many of the very important research findings have been serendipitous, they've just arisen, so there has to be the two programs: one is a program for application and the other is a program for pure creativity. That's very difficult, because you don't know what you're going to get and therefore you weren't funded... So, it needs a balance. ]]> 2020 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT If we look to the future, I see something very interesting happening and it happens at the cusp of nanotech, biotech and ITC. If I were to start again, that's where I would go because the ability to shape materials, to manufacture things without loss and to be able to distribute them at very low cost is going to be key to the future. We're talking about creating a future where there's sufficient for the many, not more and more for the few and only advances in electronics, biotech and nanotech can do that.]]> 2020 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, as a hydrologist, I am very concerned about the large human impact on the natural water cycle that we are overexploiting or water resources and also polluting and deteriorating the water quality. And in this context it is very important to have a good quality of observational data so that we can monitor and assess these humans and these changes. And also if we consider the other changes from climate change and land-use change.]]> 2020 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT If I was in control of funding, in addition to doing all those obvious things, that everybody thinks they are the right things to do, take about 10 to 20 percent of those resources, maybe 10 and devote them to the unforeseeable, the long range where you try to answer things like interstellar flight, conquering faster-than-light travel or gravity control, so things that seem so insurmountable now that you don't know how to start, but pioneers are working on that and you can accelerate their progress, just with a small donation or portion into that regard.]]> 2020 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT As a scientist, of course, I see this making all of the difference in the world. Our future societies, at least in the advanced industrialized world, will be completely science dominated and most of the economic growth will be due to research and development. Again I see some problems: the mission of current universities, the mission of academics is at odds with economic growth, because as professors we are not really paid to develop new products or write pattern applications or protect IP, but that's what we'll have to do, otherwise, everything that is the fruit of academic labor becomes, first of all, accessible to everybody at no price, for example China... or impossible to implement, because of no protection.]]> 2020 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern around innovation and technology at the moment, it is just making sure that it's funded: you know, when you're having those austerity years, both in Europe and the US and around the world, there' s a danger that a lot of programs get cut. But I think it's also an opportunity, that aren't producing, you can really focus on the things that will work. Because you can cut out the programs. So hopefully it will be that and we don't cut down to the bone.]]> 2020 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think that for a start, it is the way we will create more jobs. Because if we have the knowledge then we are able to be ahead of everybody else and we are able to lead the world into new areas. And it also means we can get more clever about how we tackle some of the world's problems like climate change. If we have the knowledge, we can tackle the difficulties that arise in an innovative way. And to do that we really have to make sure that we are doing the research collecting the data that we need. We have to have a sound scientific base on which to make political decisions about how to tackle problems like climate change. And you can't scrimp on that, there is no shortcut, you have to put in the investment into universities, into scientific institutes, into small stations around the world to collect basic data. And that is what we ought to be concentrating on doing.]]> 2020 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have everything we need right here. We just need to look at it in a different way. 80 percent of the world surface is covered by water, we know nothing about the ocean. We know nothing about the ocean. We know more about the moon than we do about the ocean. We can have agriculture there, we can have biospheres there, and I'm quite surprised we're not there now. Maybe because we've been too comfortable up here. But there's so much for us to learn and there's so much that we can do without what we have.]]> 2020 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think what is necessary in Europe is to change the attitude. I spend a lot of time in the US, optimism is a moral duty in the US, whereas pessimism seems to be the normality in Europe. I think if there's one thing we have to change, it's our cultural attitude.]]> 2020 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that synergising within Europe and outside Europe is very important. I think if Europe starts associating with countries which are developing, which are already developed outside the European framework, then I believe it would be a very good start in the near future.]]> 2020 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT According to me, just keeping the political class busy with the economic crisis and its financial answers. We won't help to get out of this crisis. We might not die, but certainly we cannot revitalise European economy and European society. For that we need a growth and jobs. And we all know that a linear approach isn't helpful. So we need a step change. And the step change cannot be done by walking. We need jumping. Not a bungee jumping, it has to be a inner jumping based on research and innovation.]]> 2020 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, sorry for the controversial answer, but I'm no certain what we need is growth because, the only thing that grows, after a certain point, is cancer...That's not my phrase, by the way... So, I think what we need to do is rethink this idea of growth, because it is shown that, in developed countries, after a certain point, a growth in GDP doesn't translate in a growth in happiness.]]> 2020 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I work in the field of international development. I have been working for 3 years, so obviously my concerns are in that perspective. Because of the financial crisis EU MS are very reluctant to give part of their GDP to development assistance, this is really what is worrying me right now  because it is the field I'm working in. So I hope for the future, once or if (I don't want to be too pessimistic) if we manage to get out this crisis, mentality will change and people will be willing to give more of their budget to development assistance: this is really my hope and my concern at the same time.]]> 2020 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Albert Einstein said something like:we cannot solve the problems of today with the ideas of yesterday. And innovation and research are all about getting beyond the ideas of yesterday. Because of that, I think that not only do we need research and innovation to make a better future, we need research and innovation to make any future at all.]]> 2020 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we are going towards a knowledge economy all around the world. The European Union is a specific place with specific values, cultural values. They need to be emphasized and, in the research field, we have to point all the differences between European countries but to make it more diverse and more interesting in the different fields we are exploiting, but more united in the outcomes of these researches. So one union for all these researches, but exploiting all the cultural differences.]]> 2020 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I sit at the intersection of two of the fastest changing technologies: one being computing, informatics, and the other one being biology which is becoming programmable through advances in genetic technologies, which are moving really quickly. So the intersection of those two things creates a scientific milieu that is moving so fast that most of the old institutions aren't keeping up, whether it is healthcare, whether it is law, whether it is intellectual property, and certainly, the pace of innovation within our university architectures. It is moving very entrepreneurial, very fast, and it is global.]]> 2020 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think one of the biggest things that can happen, and people have been talking about this today, is that human beings of course are very clever, or so we like to think, but there is a chance that robots and computers will help us not only answer the questions we pose, but will help us pose some of the questions. And that is one of the big hopes in a way, for this mess that we have made on planet earth. Thus hopefully we can get to the point where computers and robots will help us, if they don't kill us!]]> 2020 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think all the governments of all the countries of EU should sit together and talk about everything. Not just the governments of the big countries but also the small countries, like Croatia, should be asked for their opinion. Because for instance Germany and Croatia are two totally different countries and you can't even compare them, so the crisis is different in every country.]]> 2020 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT We have to have research to make progress in the future otherwise we will stay in the ? environment which is obviously negative. some research won't lead anywhere, but some will and it's important we identify those research an turn them into products. i'm an ingineer rather than a scientist, an ingeneer actually makes new stuffs usefull for the future]]> 2020 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well of it is necesary that everybody invest in Research and Innovation. But a part of Innovation, that I call multidisciplinary in work research isn't yet strengthen enough in my opinion. I mean real multidisciplinary, so for example, in medical technology, you need engineers, you need biologists, medical people. They have each their own language, they speak a bit different. Let them come together in projects. A nice example is tissue engineering, You need engineers, material scientists, to make the scaffolds you need biologists, to understand how the cells react on these materials. And the medical people who want to see which bone, which organ they want to reproduce. And they are many example of this. And this is in fact what I would like to see more, and stress more in Research and Innovation.]]> 2020 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are definitely many things that could be done. Of course, there is no one perfect fix for this situation, but I think what we need now, more than ever, especially on the European level, is politicians, but with a vision. I think the last visionary in the European Union was Jacques Delors, and there have been quite a few years since that time, and I think we need people like that, who are going to come with new, innovative, creative ideas, to change the status quo and not just maintain it.]]> 2020 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I believe Research and Innovation set the future, it defines the future. We don't know what the future will bring us until we start investing towards it. Putting the resources and the funding in the right places, we can potentially improve the future and define a better one.]]> 2020 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I don't have an answer for this, this is a very complicated question, but I do think that often we forget that there are many moral issues: there's not only an economical crisis, but there's also a spiritual crisis, a crisis that goes much deeper than all the economics and I think that if we start working on that, if we, as a society, especially the western society, start talking about what are the new values that we are going to be living by... because until now, it was of course only consumerism and capitalism, and gaining more money and spending more money, but I think we have to start questioning that. That will help us gain more strength to get out of the crisis.]]> 2020 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT There are two things. If we talk about economy, first we are not a low cost country so it is difficult to compete with the old economy, or known technology, so one of the solution for us is to try to boost new technologies, to develop new technologies, such as biotechnology for instance, computers. These are new fields where we can make a lot of progress. And of course, also, it has to go in the good direction.For a better future, it is goor to develop new technologies but the good ones.]]> 2020 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation will be very helpful to increase competitiveness of Europe and those helping to create new jobs. This is I think the main incentive for the ? to increase the budget, also the European Commission to put emphasis for research and innovation.]]> 2020 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is globalisation itself, in the sense that it's a very wide subject which many people might not be very aware of what it actually means and where it is taking us. You know, taking technology and the internet, all these new kinds of information technologies, the way we communicate with each other... And that is just taking over us in the sense that we created technology, but now it's creating us in a way and we are not yet very well aware of how it's going to develop. And I think that's the biggest question.]]> 2020 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well research and innovation for a better future has to be concentrated on the public needs. I think that in particular if you look for environment but also safety, security, transportation modes, we have lots of challenges, therefore to my opinion, to go into those challenges with a particular programm it is needed the European Commission to continue to set up this kind of programms in order to give guidances of what is needed in the research area.]]> 2020 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT To help Europe's economy, even in general, I think the very important issue is that the present development of capitalism protest?? to certain difficult situation where the difference between raising money and funds by individuals are enormous, and on the other side the poverty is very significant. And I think we have to level out the differences, in the sense that the poor side will gain more and the rich side will have to deal with lower profits.]]> 2020 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT First of all, I think what we need above all is political harmony, political agreement. It is well known that there are twenty-seven countries and thirty, thirty-five different opinions on what to go for and how to sort it out. Therefore, first and foremost, let's agree on how to go forward. It is in my view, much more important than the actual decisions that are going to be agreed upon. But the second one of course, is to assist industry from the point of view of cost reduction, taxation, tax incentives, for industry, but also red tape. I have been doing business with India, with China, Australia, and the red tape is far less than the one we have to face in Europe. So, encourage industry.]]> 2020 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT One of the main one is climate change. Because I am not sure whether society is geared up to adapt to it when it happens. And I know that some states are doing some studies. But industries like transports which is very weather dependent I don't think really understands fully what the implications are. For example, I think there are some forty-four airports in Europe, some of them quite major ones which are at risk from? flooding towards the end of the next century.]]> 2020 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well I'm concerned because I firmly believe in the European common future. I'm concerned now that the governments and the politicians today will not face up to that reality and take the responsibility that I think they should take. That is my main concern.]]> 2020 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well first of all, you have the possibility to share the vision and to get to win the challenges defined at a European level, and to work together with the major actors of the sector, trying to improve the current state of the art. And provide new products, new benefits for the European community, and reduce the cost of the product, reduce the time to market, improve efficiency, benefits are not limited to the financial aspect. But it provides some benefits directly to the companies or actors participating to the projects, and also to the final user, the European citizens.]]> 2020 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I guess the environment, the earth even being still here. Also, too, I wonder if religion is going to end up becoming more important than science. That really scares me. Recycling...You know, more importantly the earth. Can we breathe? Can we get along with the animals? That kind of things.]]> 2020 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT What is needed is actually, in order to generate more job opportunities and dismiss that there used to be enough, investment towards generating new technologies, so that Europe can get a good share of the market in the world. So that will eventually turn to generate more jobs, that is what I think. So new technologies, novel technologies, innovative technologies, and of course that requires a lot of resource and investment.]]> 2020 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT My major concern now is the effort to continue progress and innovation sometimes comes to the neglect for more traditionnal structures deserving of social needs. Sometimes I feel that going too fast and too financial and competitive may a cumulative detrimental effect on our quality of life.]]> 2020 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think research becomes more multi-disciplinary than it is now, so I believe that multi-disciplinary multi-functionnal multi-material solutions will increase in the future, which means that one expert won't be able to find a solution by itself, but a group and I think the European solution itself gives the possibility to work together with interersting persons, well educated persons and that will give us the possibility to find solutions.]]> 2020 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT The main benefits in my opinion are that EU projects widen the horizon, the technological and personal horizon of the participants. They get a network throughout Europe, an individual network on which they can build upon. And they see that throughout Europe companies and institutions are working on the same societal challenges having their same goals. And I think this gives them a kick to do more innovation and to think more strategically as they do with national programs.]]> 2020 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I'm sure that it's very important to motivate and show people the best practices and to support them. Explain several Information and cope with all fuss. What I said to motivate people]]> 2020 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Looking at the developments in Asia and South America, we should do something similar and that means that we should work hard. But we should make clear choices in which areas we want to be competitive and that's something where I think we have not made any choices. Because of the community we are living in in Europe. So we should make choices. And if we are confident that those choices are in the correct areas than we should work hard and we will be okay I think.]]> 2020 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the main benefits of breaking down barriers that naturally occur between different nations and different universities industries, and academia. And in practice if you want innovation to occur, Innovation usually occurs on the front between different ways of seeing the world, And EU projects are remarkably good at bringing people together and forcing them to see the world differently.]]> 2020 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think, well we understand certainly that the industry basically isn't broken. It's the finance that is having problems. As a manufacturer myself I think what's required is just the time and space to carry on addeding value. Better breathing space.]]> 2020 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Besides the more evident benefit, I mean being able to address challenging research that is well funded and so on. I think they are at least two big benefits. One is to participate, or to set up a network of collaborating partners all around Europe. This is important for research, but also for other businesses. And mostly also, I think that participating in these European programs is very demanding. It asks you to have a very good scientific and technological level. And achieving this level also provides us benefits in the transfer of technology to industries in our regions. So I think this second benefit is very clear and is very important for us.]]> 2020 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I co-ordinated already 3 European projects and participated many. And I have very good experience with that. The first one is that there are some problems which can not be solved on national level. There are some limitations if single countries try to develop something And the problems which can be achieved or reached or solved are much bigger on European level of course. Another advantage is that it brings industry, university small and medium enterprises and research together. This results also in new ideas which are generated during the project. Industry specifies needs and universities can directly take it up and develop solutions, So the solutions developed by research and universities are directly implemented into industrial applications Which is very efficient. So this is very unique in the world, And not so common in other continents So this is the strength of Europe.]]> 2020 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think this is an excellent basis to bring subcritical groups to make a big project together. And I think this is absolutely necessary. We have, especially in aeronautics, big facilities, big wind tunnels, we have test airplanes. And very often the funds of one country are not sufficient to make such big exercises and therefore it's absolutely necessary to do it multinational. Furthermore you must not forget that the main industrial customers as Airbus and Rolls Royce are multinational companies.]]> 2020 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT The most important long term objective we need to have is to keep our young people interested in contributing in the area of science and technology, and with all the entertainment pseudo-sciences that is out there for them to be lazy with it's gonna be a big challenge and we will need a lot of attention. I think it's the most important thing, to have the kind of projects we looking at to give them some place to put there intelligence and ability.]]> 2020 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it's very important to do a lot of research and innovation. Because you can already prepare for the challanges of the future. So if you know already what is coming and with what kind of challenges companies and even member states will be confronted in the future. It's very important to be prepared for that.]]> 2020 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT On the long term, it is major that EU institutional implication promotes education. Education at a higher level. So that we spread knowledge in our society much more. Because I believe that nowadays it is not manual work that is valuable, but knowledge. With knowledge you can build a better society. So on the long term, promoting institutions and education.]]> 2020 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think it should be a close collaboration between industry, academics and research institutions on national and international levels and European Commission could be an help on this area.]]> 2020 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT The most important benefits of these research programs from my country's point of view which is a relatively new comer european research area is that we have contacts with each other, that we have contacts with leading industrial and scientific partners, so we can get information which again can work as fermenting forces in our own development. Hungary has been isolated from the rest of the world through the COMECON system in the 60's and 70's and we see a very rapid development in terms of human relation, of scientifict contact, knowledges and ideas, what can help to bring up this country to the same level than Northern countries of the rest of Europe.]]> 2020 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT What is foremost needed is to stimulate and foster research. Because Europe has the capability to innovate greatly. This has a prior exquisite, which is that we offer a decent salary to those people that have labored in the university for many years. And I find it hard to accept that the best minds would go to banking simply because it is better paid.]]> 2020 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think there are two parts to it. One is that presently there are very bald decisions required and possibly decisions that might be very unpopular or jeopardize the European idea as a whole, which I hope is not necessary. This is something to contain the immediate crisis at hand. Another long term thinking would be to enhance innovation and to make the economic area of the European Union a very attractive place for talent in innovation or research as well as the industry.]]> 2020 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern from a professional point of view is to work in a unified Europe mainly on a research point of view for the last innovation and technological issues mainly. For personal point of view is to live in a unified Europe. I don't think we will be only one people but it will be very nice to exchange our experience. Because our history is very complex as a people in Europe. But in spirit of peace and collaboration. I hope this for my babies, I have two babies. So I would like they live in a Europe like this.]]> 2020 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT What we need to do is that we need to improve the educational system in Europe. We need to get more entrepreneurs involved in our education and we need to make sure that we develop or educate future people in the areas where which I just mentioned that we need people in. And here I see for example that the EIT the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is making great progress]]> 2020 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think that collaborative projects are very important. That's why Europe's contribution is very important. But it's quite difficult to build proposals And I think it would be better to help young people To have some money for new ideas. Because it is so difficult to write proposals That very young people can't do that Only senior professors do that And there is a kind of censure in the new ideas.]]> 2020 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think the European Union projects are an essential piece of the innovation network here. By having large scale projects that bring together several players, It really accelerates innovation And therefore commercialisation of future products And enhance it's big element in trying to keep in Europe high technology employment. I think it's key to the innovation system in Europe.]]> 2020 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Given the large population in the world We have to find a way to live together And give welfare to everybody. And science and research is a way to provide thisn In terms of food and in terms of fuel For instance, alternative fuels And in terms of reducing the use of resources Lower fuel consumptions for airplanes and cars and so on. That's where I see science and research to come in.]]> 2020 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Instability caused by economic crises or scarcity of resources]]> 2020 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Science is there for making the people's lifes easier. So I give a lot of importance to research on this purpose. I mean, if we can create more jobs If we can make people's life easier through technological research I think we wil serve a good purpose.]]> 2020 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern is actually the carbon emissions. Will we eventually get them down to an acceptable level at short notice. But actually at a more longer term, replacing the current gas turbines aircraft engines by a new design, a clean design. That's actually also a concern which I've got at the moment.]]> 2020 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT What I am concerned about is when I think about my children and the ones to follow them. They should live in an area, an environment that can support their needs, that can make them healthy and a good life. The concern for the moment is of course that we have to change current structures, current models into something that can do that.]]> 2020 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT To exit the crisis first is to use the diversity that you have in Europe. All the competence to have creative solutions. And as the people in Iceland said never waste a good crisis. So combine all these people that are without work or with ideas and try to find creative solutions. And at the same time, to be prepared for a next crisis. Because it's kind of naïve to think that the past will repeat in the future. So we need to be prepared for these black swans. To be prepared for the unexpected.]]> 2020 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think our target should be that we have balance budget at the end, as an objective. But to reach this objective, we should have joint action of all European countries to get this.]]> 2020 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT So I think just to deal with the crisis, whether it's short or long term I don't know, Is to make growth a priority and I mean a real priority. Not a priority amongst others, but the only one that we go after. What you measure is what you get. So if everybody would know that they are measured on their contribution to ultimate the growth for Europe, you would see a remarkable difference from what we have today. Today we have competing priorities. Every department, every part of the organization has their own priorities. And regardless what the public may think that competes. I think it's time that we call a space a space. We are in a crisis and the only way to get out of the crisis is to grow again. And for that it needs to be the priority.]]> 2020 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think right now we have a lead industry. We have an opportunity to lead. We should be leading in design and technology. I think those are the 2 pillars that we need for European industry. I makes us that much more competitive. We can not compete with China and the BRIC countries let's say on labour rates and energy costs. Where we can take the lead and we have the know how and expertise to do it is on design and on technology. So we are focussing on those 2 issues in our particular industry.]]> 2020 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I think that we need, I mean researchers can do the innovation part, but then there needs to be help in allowing that innovation to make that difference in society, and researchers can't do it all. That's why we need dialogue and help from people, politicians, business people, people with experience in business because researchers are notoriously bad business people as well.]]> 2020 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT In my opinion fundamental research and innovation can bring to the table new solutions to the problems that we are facing. It's not only about making money which in my case, I belong to an industry, is important but also to make it sustainable and to cope with this requirements that the society is demanding. So in my opinion these framework programs get together all the different players coming from fundamental research to the industry to satisfy these requirements. ]]> 2020 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Research and innovation, particularly when it is funded, for example through the EC, is important. Because without that funding, much of that research would never happen. And I think the key focus with research is to make sure that the research is put into the market. So the research has a capital value, and a return to the European community. I think that's an area where strength is required by bringing people from industry working with researchers together, so they can use that skills to put things into the market and bring more prosperity from the innovations. ]]> 2020 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well it's actually quite obvious to me. I think what is obvious is that we need creative ideas and who comes up with creative ideas are creative minds. Creative minds are in research and innovation. And that's our contribution. We have to come up with things that can help shape the future. Products that are needed in the future. And if we do that and come up with those solutions, then we have a future.]]> 2020 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT In general I think that these projects are really finally creating the European research area. And if Europe wants to compete with countries that are growing and getting stronger and stronger, not only economically but also in research and innovation we have to join our resources. From the personal point of view this project changed my life and it made it better.]]> 2020 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we have to understand that we are now in a global market and we have to trade in that global market with a unique selling point. Science and innovation can enable European products to have that unique selling point. To be able to trade in a competitive market.]]> 2020 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns for the future are to make sure that Europe remains a vibrant region of the world such that institutions such as the one that I represent can thrive, can ensure that the student body and the young people that attend that university have every opportunity to develop into the future. That means we need a vibrant Europe which is actually full of innovation, the development of novel enterprises and one that is forward looking, not looking backwards all the time.]]> 2020 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I think we need to trust more the SMEs. SMEs have a fantastic capability to adapt themselves , to hire people and are very sustainable compare sometimes to big companies, changing their minds or changing from one continent to another.]]> 2020 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern for the future is that I hope the all humanity will progress to a better life for all the citizens, men and women, an equal way. To my mind, more than the issue of the economic crisis, The main question is to know how to reconnect citizens and economy. Today, a lot of people do not understand the issues of this crisis. I would say that economy is a bit disconnected today.]]> 2020 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well we clearly need to look at long term thing, a lot of research clearly maybe at an early stage. The earlier you start standardization as a process then the more chance you actually have to securing a long term market for new products, new services as well, don't neglect the service area which is increasingly important. The main benefit is that the research can achieve that market penetration, it is one of the way that can be help, for disseminating the results of their research.]]> 2020 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT I was lucky enough to be a grantee for a European research council project. I have been awarded one of thess nice grants and that really made a difference to me. Otherwise it would have been very difficult to do research at the university like mine in Italy. And this grant was nice enough to allow me to get some people work with me, together with me. We get new vehicules, we are working with vehicules, so material, and it was amazingly easy to apply to that and even the buraucracy was quite limited. It was very nice.]]> 2020 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Well, I gess it's everybody's concern, what we see with financial crisis here in Europe. I hope Europe will stay together, that's my main concern, and to avoid to have stupidities such as a war, or whatever happened between European countries in the past basically.]]> 2020 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT We do work in medical devices where it is quite easy, it is quite straight forward to see how it can make a difference in the future. Because while improving patient care that will improve patient health, we can do save money for the health social system in different kinds of European countries. So definitely, that innovation will make a difference that we can see in day-to-day life.]]> 2020 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT My main concern is for the next generation: young people who are arriving on the job market and finding an extremely difficult situation very high unemployment along European youth]]> 2020 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT My main concern in terms of innovation is the risk of intellectual property rights that are too strong and that are locking up innovation and preventing innovation to happen. I think the current system has by default extended intellectual property rights, and now the risk is that they are becoming too strong. And we are risking of stopping innovation in order of promoting innovation, which is the original purpose of IPR is supposed to be about.]]> 2020 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I think there’s a tsunami coming on to us about education because now there are 5 billion people getting education based on trying to decrease over-populisation but those 5 billion people will, in 20 years, probably also want to grow out of the micro-economic climate. I'm trying to do stuff on micospin-ups, as a way to actually also see what happens in 15 years when they want to go to university. That's my focus!]]> 2020 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Well I think we have to invest in Research and Innovation, and it's the future job and growth for Europe. And in my field, in medicine, I think that with the population getting older, it's very important to have a good management of diseases to be sure that we won't have too many expenses in the future and be sure that we give the good treatment to the good patient, so it's very important to improve the existing tools and have the ability to resolve and meet needs in the future.]]> 2020 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT From a global prospective, I would say that my main concern would be combining the environmental challenges with the increasing population and all the new changes that it will imply for the future.]]> 2020 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I don't know if we need to speak about concern, I'm more optimistic than that. I think there is a great deal of opportunities for many people and mainly for individuals. Individuals have never been as important than today thanks to technologies, thanks to the open mind of some people,]]> 2020 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT What worries me the most is actually the sustainability of the system. And when I say system that means in all the sectors, agriculture, working conditions. I think that we have to work all together to get some improvements in everyday life. And in that sense, one of really nice examples of the union, I think it's really good that we have Innovation Union as a leading goal for the research which means that we all together work on societal challenges. And that we all work for the welfare of everyone.]]> 2020 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT The research activity that I am doing Is supported by a IRC grant which is a personal grant And where top talents actually receive the money to do their research And putting the accent on talent is a big benefit. It was a lot of money and there is very little bureaucracy that follows that money. So these are the advantages]]> 2020 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Well I think if you look to history Europe has never been without innovation. And probably one of the reasons why we are Europe today is because we have been very good in finding new things. Finding how to get better as a society, as an economy. And I don't think this well be very different in the future. So we know that, we understand that. And I think we really need to continue to invest into that, to get ourselves into a good future.]]> 2020 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I think that in my field in particular, in the neurodegenerative diseases, I have the experience of working in the project where we can create the profile of a patient with Parkinson disease. On the other side, the doctor can adjust the medication. So in this case we can improve the quality of life of the patient by adjusting the medication.]]> 2020 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I think innovation is needed everywhere on the globe, and also in Europe. I think it's very important to translate the research we are doing in Europe, in the universities and academic settings to really translate that into commercial enterprises. And for that, I think we need maybe a more unified legislation like for example in the patent law. But I also think that we need to have incentives for generating more venture capital, so that we really have a different level of financing these early seed companies, to really give them a good start. ]]> 2020 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I was asked this the other day on another video, and someone said to me what do I think the solution for greed is. And I actually think the solution is to put politicians in space and to leave them there. No, to put politicians in space and to allow them to look back at our planet for the first time. Because I think what we have is a situation which is created by being in a competitive world that we live in. And if people are taking out of that and they're given a unique experience. I think it would change their lifes forever and we would end up with a totally different world.]]> 2020 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Europe, when I am talking about technology, is essentially driven by SME's (Small and Medium Enterprises). And I believe that they can only survive if they have the right vehicles to be competitive with the rest of the world. And that is true innovation. Innovation is key for Europe to survive economically.]]> 2020 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In the past, all innovation comes at the end from research. And I think the same will be in the future that all kind of research is necessary to go on to develop our world, to face the problems in the world, this is feed and this is also health and of course energy. These are problems we have to face and therefore we need research of course.]]> 2020 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I believe that it is really important to invest more in innovation. We are in an innovation convention, we can see a lot of beautiful things, a lot of great ideas. But it's really important to help and to support companies and people to convert such ideas into products. To something that could be used by everybody.]]> 2020 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In our experience, this particular project has allowed us to have, as a Norwegian company, British, Dutch, French and German partners to work for a small Norwegian company. We would not be able to carry out this work without this partnership.]]> 2020 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I think that the main issue is that we need to manage to keep our manufacturing capacities in Europe. It is the most important point. Not to outsource everything to every part of the world. But just to have this capacity inside of Europe.]]> 2020 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT The last question also was important and I like to add that Europe will have to look outward. Europe will have to go globally. Europe will have to learn to bring young talent in the mainstream. When I'm attending a conference on innovation. I see very few people there. They are all like me with grey hair. You need 20 years old kids in the mainstream. They have the talent. They are the future. They think differently. Just look at how at home we operate TV or any other new computer equipment. Kids never read instructions. Instruction manuals are only for the old people. So I think Europe will have to look outward. Europe will have to bring in young talent into the mainstream. Europe will have to learn to partner better and really try new business models innovate. Not in products and services perhaps but more in new relationships, new business models. I think that's the challenge for Europe. Europe has a lot of talent. Europe has some great institutions, some great scientists, technocrats, entrepreneurs. But again, they're all busy solving problems of the rich. I think that if you could bring this talent to use, to solve the problems of the humanity at large, it will create a lot of opportunitues for everybody. I mean how could we really bring outs down? At the end of the day we need to focus on affordability, scalability, sustainability. These are the three key mantras in all aspects of research and development. Then only, you will reach out to a large number of people. ]]> 2020 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Regarding the future, I’m deeply concerned about the climate change and I think it has been a hype, well people see it as a hype. They think it’s something that was « in » or trendy and that now, it’s not of any concern anymore. And I think we should keep on talking about it and keep on telling people that we have to do something about it we have to act and not only think anymore.]]> 2020 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Excellence in science and technology is no longer a national issue. European Union is the right platform to develop excellence by doing collaborative research with groups from different member states and by developing joint objectives and working together by making the best use of excellence and competitive groups all over the Union.]]> 2020 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In the short term I think everybody knows a bit what we have to do. But in the long term I think we have to re-invent ourselves in the way we see your economy. And the way our companies have to be competitive. This I think it starts from the very bottom for educational, for universities. And then also in the companies, we have to differentiate ourselves from other economies, economy from Asia, from North America and be creative. Developing best in the future.]]> 2020 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I have a particular interest in the renewable energies. In this case again going back to the economic crisis. I would like to feel the current plans are going to go ahead and not be impacted by the financial crisis.]]> 2020 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Certainly, companies have been scaling back on research and innovation, Universities have been cutting courses in the technical fields for cheaper courses and media studies and things like that. We need to attract and pay our researchers effective money and give them effective laboratories to work in, to really bring about innovation in a coherent manner.]]> 2020 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In my opinion we need more entrepreneurial behaviour. We don’t need more entrepreneurs, because there are by far enough of them. But we need more courage, and to stimulate that we should have less regulations]]> 2020 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In the project that I have worked in we were given the funding to develop something to maturity that the industry is reluctant to develop. They live on profits of simple maybe not really innovative things and their motivation to develop that further sometimes not as it could be and in this project we could make something that industry was really not doing because they were happy with what they had.]]> 2020 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Within the next 40 years, global warming is a big one, climate change. But also the social consequences of that the movement of people away from the current population centers now. Because global warming pressures and the effects that will have on the rest of society the repercussions of that sudden surge of refugees.]]> 2020 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT My main concerns for the future is the unemployment and the economic crisis in Europe. In more medium term, the ageing of the population, the health issues, and the environmental issues. To have a quality of life, a healthy life and in a good environment are my main concerns.]]> 2020 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT I guess my main concerns are around this sort of sustainability issues, both for the planet, but also in terms of individual health for…human beings, if you like… I've got children, so…on that level. How are we going to cope with 9 billion or 10 billion human beings, with food and water resources and so on.]]> 2020 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In my opinion, European unity definitely is something which is required. It may take a long time before all member states can adapt to that and we don’t have that time. I see it all the time. I’m actually a firm believer of the European dream for entrepreneurs in the future, but right now, it’s not existing yet, to be very honest. It’s not so easy, but what is needed is, of course for, I’m an on-line entrepreneur, for me the open internet is of course something which is extremely important… Something else which is needed is language unity : we speak too many different languages and there is no common language for this common market. I think it is really a pitty : there’s not enough bilingual people in the European Union…]]> 2020 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT One key issue is: Europe is loosing competitiveness not only vis-à-vis the US but vis-à-vis non-democratic countries and this means having to deal with power struggles with non-democratic countries which could hinder our freedom.]]> 2020 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT ]]> 2020 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT