Cesaer president backs open-access initiative following reversal from European Research Council governing body
The president of the Cesaer group of European science and technology universities, Rik Van de Walle, has backed the European Commission’s support for the controversial open-access initiative Plan S. His move follows the July withdrawal of support from the governing Scientific Council of the EU’s flagship science funder, the European Research Council.
“I reiterate our association’s strong support for achieving full and immediate open access,” Van de Walle, who is also rector of Ghent University, said in a 20 August open letter to EU R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel, top Commission R&D official Jean-Eric Paquet and interim ERC president Jean-Pierre Bourguignon.
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