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Transdisciplinary EU science institute needs funds urgently

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Europe's future hinges on funding transdisciplinary scientific collaboration. But career paths, peer recognition, publication channels and the public funding of science are still mostly geared to maintain and reinforce disciplinarity.

We do not properly understand the effects of technology on the evolution of the systems on which we all depend. To take on global challenges such as climate change, growing urbanization and loss of biodiversity, we need to build a new science community that will explore common themes in natural, artificial and social systems.

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  1. Institute Para Limes, Doesburg, the Netherlands

    Jan W. Vasbinder

  2. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Bertil Andersson

  3. Palo Alto Research Center, California, USA

    W. Brian Arthur

  4. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Maarten Boasson

  5. University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

    Rob de Boer

  6. Institut Pasteur, France

    Jean Pierre Changeux

  7. Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, Spain

    Esteban Domingo

  8. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

    Manfred Eigen

  9. University of Cambridge, UK

    Alan Fersht, Daan Frenkel & Martin Rees

  10. Prisma & Partners, the Netherlands

    Theo Groen

  11. Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

    Robert Huber

  12. London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, UK

    Tim Hunt

  13. University of Michigan, USA

    John Holland

  14. University of Oxford, UK

    Robert May

  15. Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Sweden

    Erling Norrby

  16. VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

  17. ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur, France

    Jean Marie Lehn

  18. Wageningen University, the Netherlands

    Rudy Rabbinge & Marten Scheffer

  19. University of Vienna, Austria

    Peter Schuster

  20. Library of Alexandria, Egypt

    Ismail Serageldin

  21. Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

    Jan Stuip

  22. University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Jan de Vries

  23. Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands

    Wim van Vierssen

  24. Dutch Senator, ex-chief executive, Shell Nederland, the Netherlands

    Rein Willems

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Vasbinder, J., Andersson, B., Arthur, W. et al. Transdisciplinary EU science institute needs funds urgently. Nature 463, 876 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463876a

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