Foto: Unsplash/Rowan Heuvel and the Young Academys’ logos
Otte Unge Akademier fra den nordisk-baltiske region i opråb til landenes ledere
Debatindlæg af
The Estonian Young Academy of Sciences
The Latvian Association of Young Researchers
The Polish Young Academy
The Young Academy Finland
The Young Academy of Denmark
The Young Academy of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
The Young Academy of Norway
The Young Academy of Sweden
We, Young Academies of the Nordic-Baltic region, have identified three key areas where our leaders should act to defend academic freedom and create institutional safeguards to ensure long-term protection of free and open scientific exchange:
- Academic freedom must be protected by law. It should be given full legal protection as a democratic principle, equal to freedom of speech, press, and religion. In a free society it is imperative that we safeguard the freedom of teaching, research, and dissemination — all central elements of free and open academic institutions.
- An ombudsman for academic freedom and integrity must be established. As an independent body, it should be given the mandate to investigate and address issues relating to the free pursuit and dissemination of knowledge within higher education. The ombudsman should also serve as an indicator to our leaders on the current state, and development, of academic freedom.
- Long-term vision and continuity must permeate all research policy. The entire academic system — from governance to career paths and funding — needs to be designed with the understanding that research and education are inherently slow-moving. Scientific innovation develops over years, not months, and academia must be shielded from undue and abrupt changes imposed by sudden political winds.
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