"Science Must Be Supported. But Not Like This" - Technology Minister Zoltán Tanács Also Reacted to the Termination of the Contract of Ferenc Krausz and His Wife
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The Nobel Prize-winning researcher's achievements are not in question, the problem is that they wanted to spend so much public money without democratic control, the minister wrote.
"The whole thing is based on a logic that we have already seen in the KEKVA model of higher education: outsourcing public assets and public tasks to a foundation form, with long-term contracts, strong political timing, and limited democratic control."
Peter Magyar announced that he is terminating his contract with the Élvonal Foundation for Breakthrough Research and Talent Care, headed by Nobel Prize winner in physics Ferenc Krausz. The opposition believes this is retaliation for the Nobel laureate's collaboration with Viktor Orbán's government.
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https://mandiner.hu/According to Zoltán Tanács, the problem is not with cutting-edge research, but with the fact that significant public funds would be allocated to a foundation system that would be cemented for many years, with limited democratic control.
"The question is whether it is acceptable that, with a long-term contract concluded before the elections, hundreds of billions of forints of public money are allocated to a foundation based on the KEKVA model and managed by a narrow circle of decision-makers, so that the democratic government of the day will have little real insight into and influence over the use of the money," the minister wrote on Facebook.
Zoltán Tanács Also Spoke Out About the Termination of the Contract with the Krausz Ferenc Foundation
The Tisza government is terminating the 261.7 billion forint support contract with the ÉLVONAL Foundation led by Ferenc Krausz. The decision was now justified by Zoltán Tanács, the party's Minister of Science and Technology, on social media. According to him, the aim of the move was to ensure that public funds reach the Hungarian scientific sphere in a transparent, competitive system instead of a narrow-based foundation model. The decision also …
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