Petition “Science equals Future” (for the continued existence of publicly funded research in Austria)

The future of publicly funded research in Austria is at stake in the negotiations currently ongoing between the Austrian Finance Ministry and the other departments of the government for the federal budget for the years 2016 to 2018. All major research institutions in Austria have been running on grossly insufficient budgets for years; the Austrian Science Fund, the country’s largest agency for fundamental research, has used up its financial reserves and, without a substantial increase to its annual budget, will have to severely curtail […]