Comment by seydor
2 days ago
> OpenEuroLLM has a total budget of €37.4 million of which €20.6 million comes from the Digital Europe Programme.
So on average 1.87 million per participating institution which might amount to funding ~5 PhD students per institution. Not bad for a training program.
The project has been awarded the Sovereignity Seal, an EU mark of Excellence before it even started. This is truly in accordance with european values, where we reward participation and proclamation. I don't think we will ever hear again from this project.
Congratulations to the participants of the consortium for receiving this large EU grant. Thoughts and prayers to the students who will be writing the deliverable progress reports.
> This is truly in accordance with european values, where we reward participation and proclamation.
Yes. In my experience the government is happy with "looks good doesn't work" as long as it truly looks good.
Thank goodness we have startup culture in the US, instead we can have “looks bad, doesn’t work, but Microsoft bought it so…”
and "actively erodes human community and democratic society"
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Microsoft is certainly much better at judging the value of a software than any european administration.
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Lol yeah unlike corporationd who are happy with “makes life intentionally worse but brings in money”.
Jesus the ideology in this place runs so thick with some people.
It’s truly absurd the ways some people here twist logic. “Government did it” means it MUST be bad, of course. It takes a willful ignorance, pretending that all government efforts are bad and all corporate efforts are therefore good.
As if ARPAnet just sprang from a group of MBAs sitting around unemployed.
When I read 1984 in high school, I didn’t really get the scariest bit: a lot of people are PROUD to shout that 2 + 2 = 5 as long as it makes a poor person somewhere else sad.
Sovereignity Seal -- https://strategic-technologies.europa.eu/investors_en is just a fund for investing in strategic technologies, it's meant for projects that are getting started.
for 1.87m per project, you get in EU rather 15 - 20 people :) (salaries are low here)
At least in France, where they have PhDs which last only 3 years, a years of PhD would cost ~45K EUR in gross salary (granted the student gets around half of that after tax), then let's say ~10K travel and consumables costs, then add up the inevitable 20% overhead costs and now you're looking at around 200K for the shortest possible frugal 3 year PhD.
At least in the UK, overheads are usually over 100%.
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I agree, in Germany companies PhD funding seems to be between 200 and 300k.
I assume the largest portion will be consumables, travel, meetings etc.