📋 Tender Overview
The Science Committee unanimously approved an initiative proposal by the VP and the Greens which creates a legal regulation to extend temporary employment relationships at universities against the background of COVID 19 measures under certain conditions. The committee also unanimously approved the conclusion of an agreement with Brazil on scientific and technological cooperation.There was also unanimity for a motion for a resolution by NEOS which advocated steps against plagiarism and ghostwriting in academic life. However an accompanying application by NEOS to postpone a Good Scientific Practice course in the university curricula was postponed as a compulsory course.An FP motion for a resolution on chain contracts at universities was postponed. Science Minister Heinz Famann announced a government proposal on this topic for autumn. The FP demand for a doubling of the study places for human medicine was also postponed again. The majority of the committee rejected an initiative by the FP to merge the two Viennese art universities.
