Intervento di Gilles Mirambeau al Terzo Convegno di ROARS, 19 Giugno 2015, Camera dei Deputati, Sala del Refettorio, Palazzo di Via del Seminario 76, Roma

1. Against Ignorance:
the European Experience.

2. GILLES
MIRAMBEAU
Paris
Strasbourg
Barcelona
Siena

3. Alberto Baccini Francesco Sylos Labini
By the way of

4. BOTTOM
TOP
Scientist’s postures nowadays

5. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
Total Article Views: 1,221,065
Aug 30, 2005 (publication date) through Mar 19, 2015*
John P.A. Ioannidis /Stanford School of Medicine
Total Article Views: 78,821
Oct 21, 2014 (publication date) through Mar 19,
2015*
How to Make More Published Research True
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001747
Under the pressure of “publish or perish”, with short term projects, low cost and precarity:
PLoS Medicine

6. During the Renaissance, with the development of humanism,
Leonardo da Vinci used Art to support Science And Medicine
One solution: to support the inspired scientists!

7. Looking for my own inspiration with
the Molecular art from machines to cells :
a crowded and glued staging.

8. Since 1998
1, Quai Lezay-Marnesia
67000 Strasbourg - France
+33 (0) 3 88 24 11 50
office@euroscience.org
Your Voice on Research in Europe

9. Jose Mariano Gago
Peter Tindemans
General Secretary
Luc Van Dyck
Senior Science Policy
Advisor
Sabine Louet
Chief-Editor
Gregoire Llorca
ex-Webmaster
Amaya Moro Martin
Joan Guinovart Michele
Catanzaro
He drives me
to ES
We co-organized
the 1st
HSE meeting

10. Mission; key activities
• : the European grassroots organization of scientists
and all those taking an interest in science. The voice of
European researchers, across disciplines and countries;
promoting dialogue with researchers worldwide.
• Objectives:
– Engaging with policymakers, business and society to create a
stronger Europe through science
– Convening partnerships to work on careers, rights and
responsibilities of scientists and key issues of science policy
– Promoting transparency of, and providing information on
European STI policies
– Advancing science for the pursuit of knowledge, prosperity and
global development, and for addressing transdisciplinary global
challenges.

11. The AAAS model......
* created in 1848
* around 120 000 members

12. Negative points:
3000 members, much less voting for the GB !!!!
A passive and dispersed governing board
A lack of financial support
Not enough visibility
The idea of Europe : more a problem than a solution!!!
Positive points :
Presence in Strasbourg, Brussels facing to the Top-Down Organisations
the European Charter for Researchers
and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers
ESOF
Euroscientist
They have chosen ignorance (more than 15 000 free members)
Homo scientificus europaeus and its network

17. Sabine Louët
Chief-Editor

22. Monthly special issues

23. Audience evolution
Audience

24. Location / All visitors Location / Occasional readers

25. Demographics

26. The most engaging
sources (lower bounce
rate, higher pages/session
and session duration) are:
EuroScience open letter
EuroScience.org
FeedBurner (EuroScientist
RSS feed)
Znanost portal (a Croatian
portal about science and
education)
rrlnewslinks.blogspot.co.uk
(a private blog)
ROARS.it
Google.fr (hence
French visitors)

27. Social media source of
traffic

28. Most successful articles
The most successful type of articles is special issues.
The most successful subject of articles is policy.

29. The HSE community

30. The European perspective
We think that the Homo Scientificus Europaeus should be
at the center of Europe, rather than bankers and politicians.
The formation of Europe must pass through science and
culture and not through cold bureaucracy, incomprehensible
roles and financial affairs

31. http://www.amayamoro.com/sciencepolicy.html
Farewell letter to the Spanish PM from a scientist who is packing her bags.
Last week, the astrophysicist Amaya Moro-Martín published an open letter
to the Spanish prime minister, attracting a great deal of attention and
generating some 2,000 comments and 75,000 Facebook likes.
The Guardian / 28 August 2013
Spain
Amaya Moro Martin
Investigacion Digna

34. Spain: general elections at the end of the year!
PhD PhD PhD student
Pedro Sanchez Pablo Iglesias Alberto Garzon
Albert Rivera
Mariano Rajoy
PhD student
Law degree

35. Rosario Mauritti
Jose Mariano Gago
ABIC & ANICT
Portugal
ABIC

36. Carlos Fiolhais

37. Alain Trautmann Patrick Lemaire
France

38. … you signed the European petition “They have chosen Ignorance”. Today, we think that an
ideal occasion has arisen to make our protest more visible – we propose to read it at
the Bologna Ministerial Conference, which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, on the 14th and
15th of May 2015….
Sciences en Marche – proposed Europe-wide campaign
In October 2014 a visible one-month march by scientists from across France converged on
Paris.
… we would like to propose a restaging of the French march on a Europe-wide scale. We
invite groups and movements from all European countries to join us in organising concerted
parallel events in Autumn 2015.
Such marches would defend the principles of an alternative Public University and of the
diversity of basic research programs in the humanities and sciences. It could be seen as
one of the answers to the call by the European Trade Union Committee for Education
(ETUCE) for actions on HER 2015 and address some of the key points of the
Academic Manifesto.

39. To the European Union institutions, it could ask for:
The exclusion of national investments in HER from national budget deficit ceiling.
A preservation of the Horizon 2020 budget in the context of the Juncker investment
plan.
To individual European countries, it could ask for:
An ambitious, multi-year recruitment plan for HER staff based on secure
employment.
A significant increase in core state funding for basic ResearchInstitutions/Bodies
and Higher Education Institutions.
A policy for the development of all areas of research, guaranteeing diversity in
subjects and in approaches to research instead of the restricted areas prioritized in the
Horizon 2020 program, the respect of research methods, together with appropriate time
frames and academic freedom for individuals and higher education and research
institutions.
The restoration and development of a democratic and collegial spirit within Higher
Education Institutions and Research Institutions/Bodies.
contact@sciencesenmarche.org.

40. Germany / Sebastian Raupach

41. UK / Science is vital /Jenny Rohn
And now Andrew Steele
The Scienceogram:
Why more spending
on science makes sense

42. Varvara Trachana
Initiative of non-appointed
Faculty Members of Greek Universities

43. Looking for other nations............
Poland, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Austria....
European organisations: EURODOC, ISE, …...
EuroScience eco-system

48. Endorsing
organisations

49. Endorsing
organisations

50. Italy
France
Spain
Portugal
UKGermany

52. The HSE Blog

53. The HSE Bloggers/Editors
Andrew Steele, Physicist, Francis Crick Institute, London, Science Is Vital (UK)

54. What to do?
Fighting against Inertia and Fatalism,
promoting Activism by the way of bottom-up auto-organisations like ROARS
Alain Trautmann suggests to read again and again
The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude from Etienne de la Boetie, 1549
Asking for a New Social Contract
for European Science-Makers
in close relationships with the Common Good
Get closer to the SSE (Social & Solidarity Economy) platforms:
Looking for Sustainability,
RRI (Responsible Research & Innovation)
& Inspired Research
One big problem: everywhere, Science Activists are…. tired!
Public Campaigns Focusing on the Ignorance/Knowledge!

55. Developing the HSE network throughout Europe and looking for proactive volunteers
Is EuroScience the Voice of Researchers in Europe?
Yes, if the researchers become ES Active Members
and build an higher-order auto-organisation
How to conciliate National & European Actions?
But EuroScience urgently needs more financial support to support the HSE actions )-:
Reading EuroScientist,
Participating to the HSE Blog,
Moving the lines with the Open Letter

56. Many Thanks to YOU,