Philanthropy in Portugal

Autor: Leonor Saúde, S. A. S. Rodrigues, Maria M. Mota, Sheila Vidal, Margarida Trindade
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: EMBO reports. 8:613-615
ISSN: 1469-3178
1469-221X
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401021
Popis: At the European Council meeting in Lisbon in 2000, the European Union (EU) established the strategic goal of becoming “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge‐based economy in the world” by 2010 (Fontaine, 2000). To achieve this, each EU member state would be required to increase its investment in research and development (R&D) to 3% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which would necessitate an increase in both public and private investments. An important component of private investment is philanthropy. A group of experts recently proposed several policy recommendations to strengthen the role of philanthropy in financing R&D in Europe (EC, 2005). Their report concluded that the EU must further exploit the potential of philanthropy to achieve the strategic investment goals established in the Lisbon Agenda (EC, 2006a). However, many European societies do not have a well‐established philanthropic framework. This is in contrast to the USA and Canada, which have strong philanthropic traditions including specialized institutions to promote fundraising. For example, from 2003 to 2004 the Faculty of Medicine at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada raised 12% of its research funding exclusively from private donations (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005). In Europe, the UK has the strongest tradition of philanthropy in science, with many organizations devoted to attracting non‐governmental funding. University College London (UK), for example, has raised more than GBP£30 million in private donations over the past two years for research and other strategically important areas. Even more well known is the charity Cancer Research UK (London)—the world's leading independent organization dedicated …
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