The Norwegian government’s revised national budget is lacking measures to improve the research and higher education sector, according to the country's scientists.
According to Forskerforbundet, a union for researchers, the 112 million Norwegian kroner (€14.8m) allocated in the budget to research and higher education institutes will not achieve the improvements academics hoped to reach. Public research institutes, for example, do nearly a quarter of all Norwegian research, but they only receive 11 per cent of the country’s research funding, Forskerforbundet says.
In most European countries research institutes receive 25-50 per cent of the funding, it adds.
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