In a February 2004 article, The Scientist,
an international news magazine focusing on live scientists,
characterized the funding for basic research in Austria as low and
falling, calling it“a grim funding scenario for basic research.”Bridges has asked Prof. Georg Wick, President of the Austrian Science Fund, to comment on this report.
The
movement “Zukunft kann man sich nicht ersparen,” or “You cannot avoid
the future,” is at present supported by 13 Austrian scientific
societies, covering fields ranging from neurosciences (Austrian
Neuroscience Association, ANA) to philosophy (Austrian Society for
Philosophy (ÖGP) and mathematics (Austrian Mathematical Society, ÖMG).
The movement surfaced last summer when the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
declared that due to the shortage of financial resources it would be
unable to meet the funding of projects that had already been approved
based on their scientific merit.
