As Chairman of an Expert Group of the European Research Area on international collaboration in science and technology, he has pointed out that the demographic decline in Europe, combined with the lack of vocation of youngesters for hard sciences, will generate a dramatic shortage of qualified workers in less than a generation.
作为欧洲研究领域研究国际科技协作的一个专家小组的主席，他指出欧洲人口的下降，加上自然科学行业缺乏年轻人任职，将在不到一代人的时间内导致合格工作者的巨大短缺。