New report of mine on how every year the EU channels large sums of money into universities worldwide, transforming academic institutions into vehicles of institutional propaganda
25 million is still small potatoes though, which shows how cheap these people are. Just to give a benchmark, the 2009 EU election observation mission to Afghanistan costed over 30 million for 3 months.
Yet, the funds are funneled in already very pro-EE institutions, which are the prime recruiting ground for its high-ranking civil service. They are copying again the US system...
Academic grants are not big, but they go a long way, because the underlying cost of research work in social sciences is not hight. For 25 million Euro you are talking about direct influence over many hundreds of senior academics and researchers, who in turn infleunce others. And influence students. And infuence the media in a completely hidden way.
And that is just ONE program, not the entire unverse of these types of grants.
Exactly ! How many of these ”little 25 millions” are disseminated, each producing ”little-rivers effects” ? This one is merely one little facet of a huge underground system.
I am not saying that its has no impact. I am saying that 25 million is little compared to the several hundred million of US indirect public and direct private funding of European universities. Yet, it is a circuitous and unacceptable way to propagandize membres states and population, and most likely illegal btw.
Indoctrination industry for gatekeepers in the "€25million per year to universities and research institutes globally that reaches around 500,000 students annually across more than 70 countries" is not a trivial matter.
Excellent effort, calling out such insidious dishonesty and insult to academia.
25 million is still small potatoes though, which shows how cheap these people are. Just to give a benchmark, the 2009 EU election observation mission to Afghanistan costed over 30 million for 3 months.
Yet, the funds are funneled in already very pro-EE institutions, which are the prime recruiting ground for its high-ranking civil service. They are copying again the US system...
Academic grants are not big, but they go a long way, because the underlying cost of research work in social sciences is not hight. For 25 million Euro you are talking about direct influence over many hundreds of senior academics and researchers, who in turn infleunce others. And influence students. And infuence the media in a completely hidden way.
And that is just ONE program, not the entire unverse of these types of grants.
This is bigger than you think.
Exactly ! How many of these ”little 25 millions” are disseminated, each producing ”little-rivers effects” ? This one is merely one little facet of a huge underground system.
I am not saying that its has no impact. I am saying that 25 million is little compared to the several hundred million of US indirect public and direct private funding of European universities. Yet, it is a circuitous and unacceptable way to propagandize membres states and population, and most likely illegal btw.
Indoctrination industry for gatekeepers in the "€25million per year to universities and research institutes globally that reaches around 500,000 students annually across more than 70 countries" is not a trivial matter.
Excellent effort, calling out such insidious dishonesty and insult to academia.
Great article!
Well done - it's important that these kind of programmes are brought to light .
Cultural hegemony is a thing