2023-11-22 15:00:38
The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Moranthas assumed this Tuesday as the main challenge of its portfolio that of supporting scientific and university talent and improving the financing of research, development and innovation (R&D&I) and higher education.
“In the next four years we will continue to prioritize science, innovation and university education: increasing and ensuring funding for our research centers and universities, increasing public-private collaboration in I+D+Irecovering the talent that left, expanding rights for the research and teaching community and promoting open, ethical science with values,” he stated.
We will increase and ensure the financing of our research centers and universities, increasing public-private collaboration in R&D&I
Diana Morant (Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities)
Morant made these reflections during the event held at the Ministry’s main headquarters, in which he also received the Universities portfolio from his predecessor, John Subiratswho has recognized that the natural place of universities is next to science, as it is a place of training, but also where 75% of Spanish research is carried out.
The minister has praised the work of Subirats at the head of Universities and has valued the work “side by side” and the “excellent” coordination that has existed between them in recent years and has celebrated among his successes the reformist drive in higher education and that has reversed cuts in public funding for universities.
The first vice president and Minister of Economy also joined the event, Nadia Calvino and the new head of Industry, Jbarley Hereuin addition to the president of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Heloísa del Pinoand representatives of various universities and scientific organizations.
Collaborate with the Autonomous Communities
The minister has appealed to the autonomous communities to work together and reach the commitment of spend 1% of GDP – provided for in the new university law – and put an end to precariousness in the hiring of teachers and researchers, to increase the scholarships and to facilitate access to a public good that is “key.”
Achieving spending of 1% of GDP will help end precariousness in the hiring of teachers and researchers, and increase scholarships
“I know first-hand; without the university scholarships promoted by socialist governments, I would not be an engineer today and I would not be here speaking as a minister,” she said.
Morant takes charge of a much broader portfolio by incorporating the powers in Universities, but with much of the legislative work already done during the previous year, when the new ones were approved Science Law y Universities Law.
It is now up to you to develop these texts, but also to approve the Statute of Teaching and Research Personnel, which will affect more than 100,000 public university professors and which was left out of the law precisely due to its technical complexity.
The two regulations commit the minister to maintaining a significant investment effort, since the Organic Law of the University System (LOSU) requires that 1% of the GDP be allocated to higher education in the year 2030, and the Science Law requires that public financing of research, development and innovation (R&D&I) grows to reach 1.2% of GDP in the same horizon.
And to achieve this, the main challenge for the minister will be to maintain this investment effort, which in recent years has set historical records, when the fondos europeos (Next Generation).
Transfer knowledge
With research and higher education already brought together in the same portfolio – an old aspiration and claim of the rectors and the main scientific societies -, Morant will have to face the real pending issue of Spanish science, the transfer of knowledge, and try to achieve that the scientific potential (which is largely generated at the University) benefits the economy and benefits society.
During the inauguration and transfer of the portfolio, the minister stated that “knowledge is the compass to manage the present and plan a better future for society as a whole”, and she had words of remembrance for the former Minister of Health and former rector of the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Ernest Lluchmurdered by ETA 23 years ago.
Fuente: EFE
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