The Role of Foundations for Social Mobility of Scientists
The Role of Foundations for Social Mobility of Scientists

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the role of foundations, funding, and/or carrying out research and innovation programmes, supporting the development of science and scientific institutions, and how these influence the social mobility of scholars. Empirical data were collected through a large-scale survey (EUFORI) of EU foundations and NGOs that fund, and/or are engaged in, research and innovation programmes, a survey that was conducted in the period 2013–2014 in all EU Member States plus Switzerland and Norway. For the purposes of the context of the topic, this article is focused on one main indicator in the EUFORI survey – the role of foundations for the research mobility and career development of scholars, features that are definitely and directly related to the social status of researchers, i.e., to their positioning in the middle class.

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