Researchers protest in Paris against programming law

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In France, the review of the research programming law is planned in the coming weeks and to express their opposition to this text, several thousand researchers and students gathered this Thursday in Paris to denounce the dangers of this law. Reportage.

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Researchers, teacher-researchers, doctoral students and lecturers, there were several hundred gathered on the forecourt of the Paris Diderot 13th university for an operation "Stopping the university and research". They intend to remind the government that research is a priority area.

At the heart of their demands: a massive tenure plan for the many precarious workers, job creation and long-term operating credits for the laboratories. Measures absent, according to them, from the future multiannual programming law for research, which must soon be presented to the Council of Ministers.

Violette Dulac came to demonstrate despite the rain that fell on the capital on Thursday. This 32-year-old doctoral student in sociology wonders: “ After the theses, there are a lot of people who quit because they can't get tenure or because it's too long. Because in fact, the prospect is to become a lecturer, therefore to be established, to become a research official. Except that they are pushing us back when we enter knowing that the average age to enter it is 35 years. "

They are the same size, they have the same build, they do the same job, Paul Voha and Vincent Denis are lecturers in modern history at the University of Paris 1, they talk about mess.

" The pool of talented researchers, young talented doctors who find themselves out of work today due to budget restrictions, it is becoming increasingly important and it discourages vocations, " comments one of them.

" It is, I think, the misunderstood importation of an American model based on short contracts, postdoc which are linked, which are linked until delaying entry into a fixed position, adds the other . It is a short-term logic in fact. We say that by funding a project over three years we will have results in three years. This is not the case and even when the big American universities soften this system, we would like to import naively and stupidly. "

The National Coordination of Faculties and Labs in struggle will meet at the end of the week to decide on the follow-up to be given to the movement.

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