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In the open letter addressed to the most important official stakeholders in the research and development field starting with prime minister Emil Boc, the president of the Senate, Mircea Geoana, as well as the Public Finances ministry, Gheorghe Pogea and the Education, Research and Innovation ministry, the general manager of the National Institute for Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique, Ph. D professor Ghoeorghe I. Gheorghe signals the critical situation that national research institutes in Romania that are specialized in applied research, the only ones to ensure the link between Romanian industry and economy, have to face, forced now to use 4 times less funds than last year and 5 times less than the amount of money that was to be allocated to scientific research in 2010 by the Strategy of Lisbon.

As the "Open letter" shows, "research is the building block of progress and is a key to ensuring the permanent evolution of the future of society" and the allocation of a 0,18 % of GPD to the research activity not only defies the politics of the European Union (that aims at building a strong European Research Area - ERA and Romanian Research Area), but that will actually lead to a long-drawn and irremediable decline.

In 2008, Romanian research activity was receiving state funds up to 0,85% of GPD, an amount of money similar to 1% of GPD, that the EU would recommend member states for 2010, aiming at converting into reality the "knowledge-based economy and society". Despite this fact, in the beginning of 2009, only 0.18% of GPD was decided to be granted by the Government to research activities. Under these circumstances, we would like to highlight that his situation will lead to "the definitive loss of Romania researchers", who will either "migrate to other private fields of another countries", "the loss of the technical an technological capability of the national research and development institutes in Romania, and of the Romanian Research Area, conducting to a regression and a historical gap between it and the European Research Area", generating no improvement perspectives", "canceling already signed R&D contracts in national competitions". "the incapacity to observe the National Agreement for Education and Research", "the impossibility to continue launching new competitions within short (2009) and medium (2010-2012) term and, last, but not least, "the impossibility to assume the R&D national and international obligations and the agreement within national collaborations and European projects" and, consequently, "the slowing down – leading to the stagnation - of the development and the evolution of the Romanian society".

Under this given circumstances, the general manager of INCDMTM, at the same time, a reputed academic, states that this collapse of the research system can only be countered by urgent actions: offering R&D at 0,85% of GPD for 2009, launching The National R-D-I Programme II/ Third Competition and of the "Sectorial" Programme, as well as sustaining European Programmes – such as "Structural funds" and FP7 and of the co-financing of the European projects won by Romania in European calls, in order to attract cash flows from the EU to Romania, as well as sustaining Romanian research infrastructure investments and offering enough money for keeping  the Romania research elite in the field and especially, attracting and maintaining young valuable researchers within the Romanian Research Area, the financial sustaining of graduate students that can be directly involved in R-D-I activities, in order to ensure a continuity in the research personnel, to reduce youth unemployment, to decrease graduate student emigrations, slowing down the growth in the age average of the R&D employees.

The document was sent to  Emil Boc, Mircea Geoana and Ecaterina Andronescu, as well as Dan Voiculescu (Senate vice-president), Roberta Anastase (Deputy Room president), Gheorghe Pogea (Finances ministry), Constantin-Claudiu Stafie (state secretary within the Economy Ministry) Sorin Dumitru (president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Cristian-Sorin Dumitrescu (president of the Education, Science, Youth and Sport Commission), Marian Vanghelie and Adrian Nastase.

The National Institute for Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique has initiated preparations for the MECAHITECH’09 International Conference that is to be organized between October 8th and the 9th October 2009.

The event will take place under the high patronage pf the Ministry of Economy and of the Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation through ANCS.

The scope of organizing MECAHITECH 2009 is reuniting companies, universities, institutes and research centers with the goal to ensure an experience exchange on the latest news in innovation, trends and challenges within the mechatronic and mechanic engineering field, as well as developing new high-tech products and the introduction or the modernizing of the use of advanced technologies in the production process. This conference is addressed primarily to those institutions that are interested in developing scientific projects on a collaboration basis. The organizers’ intention is to identify common interest points in order to take part in collaboration actions such as: scientific agreements, the integration of Ph. D students in European research institutes/universities, technology transfer, thematic networks for European research projects.

The most important topics covered by the conference will be:

• Mechatronic, micro-mechatronic and nano-mechatronic systems;
• Advanced equipment in production and integrated control;
• Intelligent system production and control techniques;
• Computer integrated production;
• Robotics, micro-robotics and nano-robotics;
• Modeling and simulation;
• Incorporated intelligent control systems;
• Computer image and imaging processing;
• Bio-medical and bio-mechatronic systems and micro-systems;
• Communication and distributed intelligent systems;
• Technology transfer in the mechatronic and micro-mechatronics field –“high-tech” mechatronic products;
• High productivity and high added value industrial services;
• Sensors/micro-sensors and transducers/micro-transducer;
• System and informatic engineering;
• Intelligent micro-engineering;
• Micro-engineering integration;
• Intelligent measurement technique.

The organizers also featured: The University „Politehnica” of Bucharest, The University “Valahia” of Târgovişte and The Technical University in Cluj-Napoca, as well as AGIR – The General Association of Engineers in Romania, The Professional Association of the Romanian Patronage in the Field of Precision Mechanics, Optics and Mechatronics– APROMECA, The Romanian Association of Precision Mechanics, Optics and Mechatronics – AMFOR, The Romanian Society of Mechatronics– SROMECA, EUROP_RO – The European Robotics Platform – Romanian Subsidiary.

The attendance fee is de 200 Euros (for non-students) and 70 Euros for students. The conference language will be English.