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Portugal’s former science minister, Manuel Heitor, says EU must address root causes of researcher precarity
An EU push to improve research careers will not, on its own, be enough to deliver real change to struggling researchers, according to Manuel Heitor.
Heitor (pictured) is former science minister for Portugal and current envoy on research careers for the association for science and technology universities, Cesaer.