10 Amendments of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2023/2184(INL)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas job insecurity restricts freedom of scientific research; whereas thousands of researchers work with limited-duration project funding, by way of individual or project research grants, fixed-term employment contracts or by performing specific tasks as self-employed persons, and have poor job security and labour protection;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas working conditions for those in the science sector, whether researchers or technical research support staff, have declined with the deterioration of job security that particularly affects research fellows;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the labour rights in the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers must be enforced;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas defending the freedom of scientific research ensures that scientific research serves the public interest and contributes to development and improved living conditions for people;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges that there can be no real freedom of scientific and intellectual production and creation while precariousness in the sector persists; defends the labour rights of researchers and scientific workers, enhancement of their careers, stable job contracts and access to social security with guaranteed sickness, maternity, unemployment and retirement protection;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Advocates putting an end to statutes and systems based on research grants, such as the Research Grant Statute in Portugal, which allow workers to be made indiscriminately dependent on research grants, a situation that is not compatible with promoting scientific work; calls for scientific workers to be guaranteed the right to a stable employment contract and access to social security;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that it is also higher education institutions' management bodies that set those institutions' scientific research priorities; acknowledges that the increasing degradation of democracy in academia is also a factor in the attack on academic and research freedom;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to take all necessary stepssteps within their power to protect and promote the freedom of scientific research in the Union, including using its legal authority to and prevent any further backsliding with regard to this fundamental right;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to fully respect and uphold the freedom of scientific research, and to ensure that any measures taken in the name of publicrivate interest do not unduly restrict the freedom of scientific research;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9