Subject: 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 *** Conservation DistList Instance 25:45 Distributed: Sunday, April 8, 2012 Message Id: cdl-25-45-003 ***Received on Wednesday, 4 April, 2012