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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – Levent Akbas (DE): What is needed to exit the crisis and help Europe’s economy to grow?

First, what is needed is a calm, reassuring and transparent policy, one single point of contact with markets and external
powers so that entrepreurs
and investors feel secure
for their investments
and their ideas. Continue reading

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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – Joris Van Hecke (BE): What are your main concerns for the future?

The main challenge for
the future society is to give people access to information, education and technology, to fight poverty in semi-developed countries but also in
our countries. Continue reading

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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – Jan Rask Christensen (DK): What is needed to exit the crisis and help Europe’s economy to grow?

I think that numerous things need to happen. I think the first one is probably for a lot of people, their mentality needs to change. I think it is a question of people being used to a certain standard of living. which we can no longer afford. I think t… Continue reading

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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – Maria Da Graça Carvalho (PT): How do you see research and innovation making a difference for a better future?

There are
more and more challenges
with the ageing of the population,
new diseases
that we have to face.
We need more research
in order to understand
and find solutions
for these new diseases
that we have
in front of us.
So research is
completely … Continue reading

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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – Giles Chichester (UK): What is needed to exit the crisis and help Europe’s economy to grow?

Build more nuclear power stations.
That’s it. Continue reading

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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – David Hacher (BE): What is needed to exit the crisis and help Europe’s economy to grow?

I’m askin myself this question:
do we really need growth? Should’nt we need instead
a better repartion of ressources? Optimize what we already have
could be a good start. Continue reading

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Horizon 2020 – video testimonials – David Cuartielles (ES): How do you see research and innovation making a difference for a better future?

I think that public funded
research should always be open source. And I think thiscollides a little bit with the idea of the current move for innovation, which is based on registrating idea and try to profit
from it. And I have seen a bunch of cases in… Continue reading

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