Historian calls for dissolution and reorganization of National Fund

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“We have to create new structures: either a foundation for each of the three research areas: natural and engineering sciences, biology and medicine, and humanities and social sciences,” said NZZ, a professor of history at the University of Bern. Ben Sonntag”. “Or various foundations for the promotion of projects, careers and infrastructure, such as databases and editions of texts and resources.”

Zala, who is also the director of the Dodis research center, which edits Switzerland’s diplomatic documents, complained that the needs of the humanities and social sciences were not funded. “SNSF does not understand that our research has a strong connection to the cultural environment in which it was created. Here the interaction between society and science is much closer than in the natural sciences.” According to Zala, the SNSF now wants to abolish the doctorate funding that is at the center of its field.

“SNSF-funded scientific culture promotes a genre that ranges from adventurous to fraudulent. Zala, president of the Swiss Historical Society (SGG), “devotes almost all of its energies to the marketing of the app, while a real app industry is flourishing,” said Zala. You have to make a promise, but hardly anyone cares about the result.” (SDA)

Source : Blick