2.05 Training of researchers should be developed
Pharmaceutical research is to a large extent based on the knowledge and ability to make use of the requisite technologies in medicine, chemistry, biology pharmacology, and genetics and biotechnology.
To ensure that the persons who are to apply the research technologies have the necessary skills, MSc programmes of a high academic standard must be available in the health and natural sciences.
Moreover, an MSc programme of a high standard is often a necessary prerequisite to arouse the interest of potential Master-level graduates in going on to train as researchers.
It is therefore satisfying to see that in recent years the number of PhD programmes in the health and natural sciences has been rising.
Lif holds the view that it would be appropriate for the involvement of companies in the design and implementation of PhD courses to be considerably increased, in order to promote collaboration between private and public research and thereby contribute to an overall strengthening of research in Denmark.
Increased corporate involvement would also contribute to encouraging foreign investment in Denmark.
More Danish support for research would contribute to stimulating research and economic growth in the whole of the Øresund Region.
Lif believes:
- that greater interest should be generated in training as a researcher in a range of the health and natural sciences, by allocating more public funds to researcher training,
- that the state should promote the training of researchers by allocating more funds to PhD programmes in the health and natural sciences,
- that more internationally recognised training programmes and research faculties should be established in Denmark, and
- that it should be made attractive for Danish and foreign researchers to work in Denmark.
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