The problem is well-known: researchers and support staff struggle with overregulation (e.g. for clinical trials, privacy, etc.), with cumbersome and sometimes unpredictable administrative processes, with well-intentioned yet inadequate coordination and, as a result, overlap between successive actors or policy levels, and with a lack of staff to deal with ever-increasing compliance requirements. That is why we must make a genuine effort to simplify administration.
Here, too, we must be guided by realistic voluntarism: identify support needs, take into account everyone’s carrying capacity, set priorities and, above all, draw up a clear plan of action together so that we can limit the number of steps in a process to what is strictly necessary and efficient.