The show goes on!
“We have completed – and I dare say, successfully – the first phase of the NICR project. Through our joint work, we have created a functional consortium, defined shared rules, created organisational support structures, and improved research facilities. We are entering a three-year period of obligatory sustainability: now we shall see whether the new consortium, National Institute for Cancer Research, survives.” states Aleksi Šedo, Director of NICR, in the introduction to the latest issue of the inSCIder newsletter, adding in the accompanying video: “Right now, our cashflow is interrupted and we are waiting for the call into subprogramme 4, but in the meantime we must, during the period of sustainability, function and produce. Recently we have shared what I metaphorically call a ‘pastoral letter’, where we wrote aboutwhat’s ahead of us and what is yet to be done. Responses to this letter indicated that most research teams want to keep functioning under the heading of NICR. That makes us really happy because it’s the best feedback we could hope for. Not all groups have already reacted, but no one said they wouldn’t want to continue. And so I believe that we will manage to maintain the environment, conditions, and support for the scientific work which we do together. Many thanks!"
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