It is one of ALLEA's tasks to defend the role of basic science (in all fields of scientific inquiry), and to argue for the diversity of
national research traditions as potential assets to be carefully evaluated.
Not exact matches
The concept isn't really a break with
tradition, Bloch insists: ANR takes the place of two funds, now dissolved, which doled out money on a project - by - project basis: the
National Fund for Science and the Fund for Technological
Research.
But the fact that there is «no long
tradition in science is an advantage,» claims Erwin Wagner, director of the Cancer Cell Biology Programme at the Spanish
National Cancer
Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, CNIO) in Madrid.
While the European
Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to
national traditions and institutional frameworks.