Dear Colleagues,

please consider our initiative which is open on support-education-eu.itp.uni-heidelberg.de trying to assist education in the EU countries affected by serious economic pressure. We should like to ask you to sign it, and it would be very helpful if you could forward the above link to people interested in education in your environment – institute, college, school, company, faculty, university…

It would also be very helpful if you could induce people of your acquaintance, especially from afflicted EU countries to provide information about concrete problems in their countries – including financial cuts and mismanagement – and to suggest useful actions which may profit from EU support in order to get a positive gradient again. They could directly write to us as indicated on the home-page.

This initiative is meant to show our concern, to raise awareness, to provide a discussion platform, and to suggest possible assistance programs centered on education.
This should motivate regional and European authorities to increase the efforts in this direction.

With our best regards,

Michael Schmidt and Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu