スペインの大学教師連盟は、政府の教育予算削減による、研究·開発費の削減に抗議
POLÍTICA CIENTÍFICA
Los rectores denuncian “los masivos recortes en la financiación de la I+D”
Los promotores de la Carta por la Ciencia convocan un acto el 6 de noviembre con el lema ‘Sin ciencia no hay Futuro’
Alicia Rivera Madrid 5 NOV 2012 - 21:43 CET
SCIENTIFIC POLICY
The guiding denounced "massive cuts in funding for R & D"
The promoters of the Charter for Science convened a rally on November 6 with the slogan 'No science no future'
Alicia Rivera Madrid 5 NOV 2012 - 21:43 CET
The Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE), through its R & D committee, opposes "the massive cuts in funding for R & D in the State Budget for 2013" in a statement that alert the plight facing research in Spain and recalls that the application of such cuts "is an unacceptable brake on innovation development and economic progress." Total financial resources provided for R & D next year "are clearly insufficient, under those contained in the 2005 budget, which will have serious consequences on our young science and technology system," emphasize the heads of universities.
In line manifest promoters of the Charter by Science, an initiative of the Confederation of National Associations of Spain (COSCE), Digna Research platform, the Federation of Young Researchers, the CCOO and UGT, the Business Forum Innovative and same CRUE. With the slogan No R & D there is no future, has been called an act to be held on November 6 at the headquarters of the CSIC (Madrid), at 18 hours. By 2013, the state budget envisaged a fall of 7.21% of the funding of R & D, but in the games of subsidies, fueling research in the public sector will fall the next year a 13.68 %, following the continued reduction of investment in science that has been occurring since 2009, says the COSCE.
The commission R & D sector of the CRUE denounces the lack of public funding to make the system sustainable science and technology. It also notes with concern that this year "there has been a severe reduction in funding for research projects, which has meant that groups have seen excellent trajectory truncation of many years." The fall in funding for next year will further aggravate the problem, he notes, and "many research groups will be unfairly doomed to abandon their activities and research areas."
Credits are not real resources for public research institutions
The problem of human resources in R & D system "is an unaffordable risk" say the guidelines. "The loss of human capital and the return that their activity is occurring in society are disastrous for society." They also demand coordination between the Ministries of Economy and Competitiveness and Education, Culture and Sport to complement its policies and avoid the delays and lack of synchrony. The Spanish University makes two-thirds of research in Spain, says the CRUE.
The guiding denounce "the misleading financial compensation with the departure of financial mutual funds" is being done in the state budget in recent years, so the actual sharp reduction of subsidies is masked with increasing providing loans (over 60% of the total R & D), which are then largely unused. "The availability of credit are no real resources for public research institutions for failure to attend debt" they say.
Both CRUE as promoters of the Charter by the Science report that funding is not contemplated in the budget proposal for 2013 to the oft-promised and never created Research Agency, which must confer agility, autonomy and rigor to Spanish science system . The Agency, under the law of 2011, should be created last June at the latest, and now not even reflected in government budgets.
The CRUE claims that R & D, such as education and health, are excluded from the adjustment measures before the crisis. And remember that "the surrounding countries, crossing similar situations, have taken a firm decision and strategic maintain and increase investment in R & D as a way out of the economic crisis." By reversing the growth curve of Spanish science that had been taking place, the country will lose the train of technological development, with an expensive cost to the economy, the directors concluded.
The COSCE, and other organizations that have joined initiatives around the Charter for Science, emphasize that provides a reduction of 23% of the funds nonfinancial Program Development and Coordination of Research and the National Fund, with which funds competitive calls for projects of the National Plan and HR. Regarding the Health Research Fund, and a drop accumulates close to 50% since 2008. Also in this release highlights concern for human resources, warning that "we are creating a generation gap in the scientific deep and forcing into exile daily indefinitely better educated our youth."
The business investment in R & D declined in 2011 for the first time
The public research institutions such as the CSIC as "asphyxia budgetary suffer seriously endangers their survival and their investigation will esclerotizando illiquidity which already affects basics such as the purchase of reagents and materials essential to develop research, "says the document. Universities also are drowned economically "and have had to drastically reduce its equity research, while having serious cash flow difficulties for the implementation and management of national and European projects."
But the dramatic situation caused by the reduction of effort in science and technology also affects businesses, whose investment in R & D "dropped in 2011 for the first time since statistics have empres s innovative and have seen their recent number years. "
The organizations behind the letter and news release estimated the investment needed to stop the decline in the R & D "is affordable" when compared to the cost of many infrastructures that have been undertaken and are underused or unused all, "and many more with the billions for the banks.
The conclusion: "Research and innovation are not a luxury: no R & D + i no future".
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