The government has allocated "a lot of money" in recent years so that many research institutes have top infrastructures, Education and Research Minister Daniel David said on Thursday, urging Romanian researchers to carry out projects to attract EU funding following competitions, in which they should be leaders.
"I have a message for very competitive researchers, for the institutes we have. (...) I have seen that in recent years the Government has invested a lot of money in Research-Development-Innovation infrastructure so that in many units, institutes, universities we have top infrastructures. My message is this: use the top infrastructures to attract money, at least our money that exists at European level from research projects in which I expect us to be partners, but where we have top infrastructures, in which we have invested a lot of money, we should start to be leaders at project level. (...) The government has done what it was supposed to do in recent years, certainly with the help of the Cohesion Funds, with the help of the PNRR [the National recovery and Resilience Plan], but it is time to make this leap if we have these exceptional facilities. Let us start attracting money from the European level, too, through a competition organized by the Commission," the Education minister told a press conference.
He specified that following a decision he made on Wednesday, research projects that were on the waiting lists will be funded, adding that this "is a good message for researchers,".
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