近日,由欧洲42名诺贝尔奖获得者和5名菲尔兹奖(数学领域的最高科学奖)的获奖者发起一项科学请愿活动,以抗议在欧盟范围内的可能的研究经费紧缩政策,以防止在今年11月22日于比利时布鲁塞尔召开的欧盟2014-2020年的预算会议上出现的重大的决策失误。 这个请愿活动从昨日开始已经在许多媒体上报道,并得到了许多科学家和研究人员的热情支持。到目前为止,已经有接近2万5千人参加了这个请愿活动的联署活动。在这个博文发布的前一个小时(即10月24日欧洲大陆时间上午10时到11时)之内已经有1万多人新加入到这个签名活动之中。 以下是请愿活动的征集签名的网站: http://www.no-cuts-on-research.eu/ 欢迎大家踊跃支持这个签名活动。 特别是,如果您以后有可能参与欧盟的第八框架的研究合作,请你发出你自己的声音。 下面是nature对请愿活动的详细报道: Nobel, Fields Medal winners launch campaign against EU research austerity European Nobel and Fields Medal prizewinners have launched a continent-wide campaign to protect European Union (EU) research funding from austerity. German biologist Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard; France’s Serge Haroche, this year’s co-winner of the Nobel prize for physics; geneticist and president of the Royal Society Paul Nurse; and 47 other leading researchers have signed an open letter calling on European leaders to defend EU research funding. At a time when Brussels — itself recently awarded its own Nobel gong for peace — is ordering governments across the 27-member bloc to slash public spending, a number of national capitals are kicking back and saying that if they need to tighten their belt domestically, then the EU needs to as well.(详情请见上述网站)。