I was asked to take part at the kick-off of the Slovenian semester at Ispra, Italy and gladly accepted the invitation. Last but not least, my Faculty for Civil Engineering has an on-going and fruitful cooperation with the JRC's ELSA lab and was even able to meet some of my former students there.
Of course there were a few speeches. Mine included. Below are the slides I made to use as talking points. Key message: Europe is about synergies among its parts. JRC's are a good example of that.
It is difficult to comment the presentation only on the basis of slides without hearing the oral part.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, some impressions based on the slides - part only:
- the use of some " fresh sentences " and expressions, that are not the most common in " political " presentations is certainly welcome;
however,
the whole presentation is far too general (in particular when we have in mind that it was given in Ispra, site of three specialised JRC Institutes) - 22 out of 24 slides have very little relation to JRC). The presentation as a whole is so general, that it could be easily done by a bit more knowledgeable high school students surfing the web and using europa.eu website - one would expect something more from the minister!
On other issues:
The link JRC - EIT, presented on one of the slides, is not clear. How would JRC contribute to creation of EIT ? By doing pilot studies ? By creating synergies with the future EIT ? And - do not forget - JRC is a European Commission's DG, while EIT will be a separate new legal entity. This relation by itself imposes certain relation between the two subjects.
And - by the way - is Slovenia doing anything already to become part of the EIT ? Currently the " Identification Committee " for nomination of the Governing Board has already been set up by the Commission....