Petition about 8th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (HORIZON 2020)

    Cultural heritage research must be included in the 8th EU
    Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (HORIZON 2020)

    Running from 2014 to 2020 with an Euro80 billion budget, the
    EU's new programme for research and innovation is part of the
    drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe.

    Regretfully, cultural and natural heritage is not mentioned
    explicitly in the European Commission proposal, leaving room for
    serious fears of a possible complete omission of this subject
    area from future EU funding and related calls for project
    proposals

    This has serious consequences as the whole basis for the
    conservation of cultural heritage in Europe will be eliminated,
    probably for many years to come.

    The cultural heritage research community has initiated an online
    petition addressed to the European Parliament and the European
    Council in order to plead strongly for the inclusion of cultural
    heritage research in HORIZON 2020:

        <URL:http://ctt-news.org/6S6-R714-NAM95-AKBNX-1/c.aspx>

    In signing this petition, you support that the EU fully
    acknowledges its responsibilities to put cultural heritage
    research back on its agenda and to include it in the next
    Framework Programme.

    Almost 6,000 people have already supported the petition but more
    signatures are needed to ensure further promotion of cultural
    heritage research. The call will be online until the end of
    April, therefore we kindly ask those of you who have not signed
    yet to do so and also alert other people by forwarding the link
    below to your network:

        <URL:http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cultural-heritage-research_8th-framework-programme/>
        <URL:http://ctt-news.org/6S6-R714-NAM95-AK9IE-1/c.aspx>

    Please post this link and message using also your social network
    contacts.

    Thank you very much for your support.

        Johanna Leissner and Constanze Fuhrmann
        Fraunhofer Brussels Office, Germany/Belgium

        Isabel Rodriguez-Maribona Galvez
        Tecnalia, Spain

        Pedro Martin Lerones
        Cartife Technology Centre, Spain

        Maite Berasategui
        Acciona, Spain

        Antonia Moropoulou
        National Technical University of Athens, Greece

        Paulo Lourenco
        University of Minho, Portugal

        Adriana Bernardi
        National Research Council/Institute of Atmospheric Science
        and Climate, Italy

        Roberto Di Giulio, Alessandro Massarente and Keoma Ambrogio
        University of Ferrara, Italy

        Katarina Malaga
        SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden

        Myriam Crolard
        Saint-Gobain, France

        Isabelle Pallot-Frossard
        Ministere de la culture et de la communication, France

        Rob van Hees
        Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
        TNO, Netherlands

        Jacques Akerboom
        Monumentenwacht, Netherlands

        Roko Zarnic
        University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

        Vlatka Rajcic
        University of Zagreb, Croatia

        Alison Richmond
        Institute of Conservation, UK


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