Break the ceiling of scientific research!"Reduce burden reduction" to young researchers also requires salary at the bottom of the kettle

Text ｜ Zhou Chengxiong (Researcher at the Academy of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

8月8日，科技部官网发布《科技部财政部教育部中科院自然科学基金委关于开展减轻青年科研人员负担专项行动的通知》，旨在解决青年科研人员面临的崭露头角机会少、成长通道窄、 Evaluation and assessment frequent issues and heavy affairs and other outstanding issues to ensure that young researchers will use their main energy for scientific research.

The root is administrative

In recent years, the reporting environment of young scientific researchers has been reported. For example, some outstanding young scientists who have returned overseas have left again after returning to China; young scientific researchers have low income treatment and pressure on work and life.

The promulgation of this document shows that the survival of young scientific researchers has a certain impact on society, and it has also attracted great attention from relevant departments. These problems have a complex social and historical background, the most important of which are my country's increasingly serious administrative trend of scientific research.

The rare opportunity to emerge is caused by the arguments caused by administrativeization. Scientific researchers have no chance to take important scientific research projects without a certain amount of qualifications. For example, a certain type of scientific research project requires a professor or researcher to apply, and scientific researchers need to apply for a master's degree and doctoral supervisor qualifications step by step. Young scientific researchers are the most innovative group, but they are greatly restricted in scientific research work and obtaining scientific research resources. These restrictions do not exist in many countries abroad, and generally do not require that only professors or bloggers can apply for topics, nor will they restrict the qualifications and quantity of young scientific researchers recruiting graduate students.

Narrow growth channel refers to the growth path of young scientific researchers under the management of administrative management. If you do not get the corresponding title at a certain age, it is difficult to enter the next level, and the number of titles is extremely limited. There is no corresponding title of scientific researchers, and it is difficult to obtain the scientific research resources required to overcome difficulties, including funds, laboratories, instruments, equipment, and graduate students, which means that the ceiling of scientific research has basically reached the scientific research career.

The roots of frequent evaluations and heavy affairs are also administrative. Based on the pressure of various assessments and rankings, all universities and scientific research institutions have decomposed the relevant pressure layers downward, and some short -term performance indicators are set on young scientific researchers. Under the short -term assessment indicators, young researchers can only pursue short -term results, and can only try to obtain scientific research resources. Scientific researchers should have the entertainment and expansion relationship with those who have the right to distribute the resource allocation. They must face various topic application procedures and scientific research processes assessment, and consume a lot of energy on transactions that are not directly related to scientific research.

The bottom of the kettle can be implemented in place

This document provides opportunities for the growth of young personnel and reduces the burden on the growth of young personnel.

First of all, in some important national scientific research plans, the documents clearly require young scientific researchers to have a certain proportion of the topic leaders and backbones, so that they have more opportunities to pick beams. Secondly, the proportion of funding for young scientific researchers in scientific research institutions and universities is required, and support for doctoral graduates and post -doctoral support for doctoral graduates who have just joined scientific research positions will allow young scientific researchers to grow better Opportunities and more stable scientific research conditions. Third, proposes to reduce the burden on the assessment of young scientific researchers, extend the assessment cycle, and conduct medium -length cycle assessments without conducting short -term assessment to avoid the rapid efforts of young scientific researchers.

At the same time, the document also requires reducing young scientific researchers to participate in unnecessary entertainment activities, hires scientific research assistants, and allows young researchers to liberate from affairs. In addition, the documents are allowed to avoid repeated information and improve the physical and mental health of scientific researchers. These contents will undoubtedly pay attention to the main difficulties of young scientific researchers and will help optimize the living environment of young researchers.

However, there are still issues to pay attention to during the implementation process.

For example, in reducing the assessment of young scientific researchers, the pressure of assessment facing universities and scientific research institutions is unchanged, and these pressures will inevitably be transmitted to young scientific researchers.

In addition, to ensure the scientific research time of young scientific researchers, if the general phenomenon is not avoided, resource distribution rights are still in the hands of a few scientific researchers, and young scientific researchers will have to spontaneously perform entertainment activities.

Therefore, in order to completely improve the living environment of young scientific researchers, we must improve my country's scientific and technological ecology, and to draw salary at the bottom of the kettle. The most fundamental thing is to allow young scientific researchers to have the opportunity to engage in scientific research and conduct a fair competition environment.

First of all, the qualification restrictions on the application for scientific research projects should be eliminated. To give the first -fledgling young scientific researchers who have the opportunity to apply for various projects, they cannot draw in prison and restrict the scope of work. For example, the practice of applying for the qualifications of master, bloggers, and post -doctoral mentors should be applied at the same place in the relevant quota. At the same time, it should be treated equally in the relevant quota. It no longer sets up according to qualifications but based on the needs of scientific research work, so that young scientific researchers have the opportunity to get fair competition.

Secondly, we should avoid the solidification of the distribution of scientific research resources and the right to speak. The distribution right of scientific research resources should be avoided, and equal configuration among scientific researchers of different qualifications to avoid curing scientific research interests.

Third, it should curb the trend of scientific research. On the one hand, it is necessary to prevent management agencies by managing administrative agencies, avoid the bureaucratic tendency of bureaucratic agencies and resist scientific research institutions, and avoid quantitative assessment indicators to increase and pressure. On the other hand, to change the atmosphere of "learning and excellence", the incentive for outstanding scientists no longer rely on administrative promotion; for scientists who are interested in administrative management and obtain administrative positions, they should avoid their referees and referees and When athletes, ensure equal competition of scientific research resources. In short, as long as you break the various restrictions and unfair treatment of youth scientific researchers and provide fair competition conditions and environment, youth scientific researchers have more energy to engage in scientific research, and there is more possibility of standing out. Only by fully exerting the ability of young scientific researchers, can the scientific and technological competitiveness of a country become stronger and stronger, which is also an inevitable law of science and technology development.

"China Science News" (2022-08-10 The 1st edition of the news)

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