11 Amendments of Gunnar HÖKMARK related to 2010/2079(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas research and innovation, especially centres of excellences and frontier research, are crucial for stimulating economic growth, making Europe more competitive and accelerating Europe's transformation into a knowledge-based society,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Agrees and recommends broader acceptance of usual national accounting practices for the eligible costs of participants, especially for average personnel cost methodologies, provided that these procedures are in accordance with national rules and certified by, national authorities, leaving enough flexibility to each beneficiary to use either actual personnel costs methodology or average personnel costs methodology; encourages the use of real-time auditing under condition that a user-friendly and appropriate IT tool is available;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to allow universities to submit one single set of auditing documents per reporting period, incorporating the accounting of European research funds into the accounting of national research programmes, thereby reducing the administrative burden for European universities;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Requests simplified interpretation and further clarification on the definition of eligible costs (such as taxes and charges in personnel costs), as well as on the question whether VAT can be covered under eligible costs; requests further clarification on procedures related to exchange rates for partners using different currencies;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Regrets that the introduction of the participation identification code (PIC) has not reduced repeated requests of legal and financial information (and supporting documents) and that the reception of PIC during the application process is not always followed by a validation process; calls therefore on relevant actors to improve and make the usage of the PIC more efficient;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Expresses its concern that current average time from proposal deadline to signed contract (time-to-contract) is still too long, with discrepancies within different services of the Commission; calls on the Commission to shorten time-to- contract to maximum 6 months and to fix appropriate deadlines for evaluation and contract negotiation, based on a benchmark system;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Has strong reservatioconcerns about the effects of abolishing the opinions provided by Member State representatives with regard to selection decisions, especially in security and defence research and in cases of ethical evaluation of projects; favours instead a simplified written procedure based on the current mechanisms, unless communication in earlier phases e.g. in the topic selection process is sufficiently granted;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Believes that European funding should be more open to truly innovative ideas and supports the creation of a pilot project to fund, through a call for proposals, independent best practices that have given initial proof of being successful innovators within the field of research and innovation;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Supports a science-based funding system and a well balanced division between top-down, impact-driven and bottom-up, science-driven research as the basis for FP8; invites the Commission to set up a think-tank where top researchers (e.g. ERC grantees) suggest new topics for future calls and programmes in order to ensure excellence and innovation in European research;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Believes that FP8 should takefocus on frontier research while taking into consideration the whole chain of innovation from frontier research, technological development, demonstration, dissemination, valorisation of results and rapid integration of research results into markets;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Believes that FP8 should encourage collaboration between European researchers by introducing a research voucher scheme with money for research following researchers that move to universities in all Member States, contributing to centres of excellence, independent universities, and increased mobility among researchers;