On 16 September, the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies, the Conference of Spanish University Chancellors, Investigación Digna, the Federation of Young Investigators, and two major trade unions demanded in a public statement that the government bring
civil research spending back to the 2009 level of 0.6 % of gross domestic product — the average in Europe — by 2016.
Even though the Comprehensive Spending Review outlines average cuts of 19 % across all government departments, the main part of
civil research spending, the science budget, was fixed for the next 4 years at this year's amount, # 4.6 billion ($ 7.2 billion).
Not exact matches
A third speaker, Johnston, the former Property and Environment
Research Center fellow,
spent part of his presentation criticizing the American
civil courts system for making American companies less competitive on the international stage.
Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are
spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank
research or actions of other
civil society organisationsor through the law.
It decided there was scope for «a modest enhancement in funding» for precompetitive
research into new technologies and set up a group of
civil servants to work out how the money should be
spent.
After some great exchanges on Twitter around the #climate2014 hashtag today, I asked Constantine Samaras, an assistant professor in the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, to amplify on this point about
research spending:
As a passionate advocate for access to justice, Nicole
spent two years as the Executive Director of the Canadian Forum on
Civil Justice (CFCJ), a national not - for - profit that works on issues of access to justice and civil justice reform and has led several local and national research projects that examine the cost, affordability and effectiveness of the civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior Research Fellow at the
Civil Justice (CFCJ), a national not - for - profit that works on issues of access to justice and
civil justice reform and has led several local and national research projects that examine the cost, affordability and effectiveness of the civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior Research Fellow at the
civil justice reform and has led several local and national
research projects that examine the cost, affordability and effectiveness of the civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior Research Fellow at t
research projects that examine the cost, affordability and effectiveness of the
civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior Research Fellow at the
civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior
Research Fellow at t
Research Fellow at the CFCJ.