スペインのマドリッドのUniversidad Complutense de Madrid(UCN)大学では、財政危機のために、研究実験などが資金不足で中止に追い込まれる
La deuda de la Complutense paraliza los proyectos de los investigadores
La universidad ha retenido fondos de los científicos
Los proveedores ya no suministran material de laboratorio y sufren el bloqueo en revistas especializadas
Alicia Rivera Madrid 9 JUN 2013 - 20:11 CET
Los miembros de la Plataforma de Investigadores de la Complutense Juan Manuel García (Químicas), Jesús Pérez Gil (Biología), José Manuel Baurista (Veterinaria), Concha Gil (Farmacia) y Celia Sánchez (Óptica). Sentados, José Antonio Jiménez (Ciencias de la Información) y Jacobo Santamaría (Físicas). / uly martín
The Complutense debt paralyzes researchers projects
The university has withheld funds scientists
Providers no longer provide laboratory equipment and experience in specialized blocking
Alicia Rivera Madrid 9 JUN 2013 - 20:11 CET
The money that the Ministry of Finance allocated directly to research projects at the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) has been admitted to the university. But this, given the critical financial situation have not put these funds immediately available to researchers recipients, thus delaying the payments that they had to work who have been immersed in a maze of unpaid invoices, suppliers left labware supplying them, claims international colleagues, locking in magazines where they have to publish their results ... This situation occurs in the midst of a drastic reduction in science budgets in recent years, in the case of scientists UCM doubly affects them so much significant barrier to the development of their research.
The platform denounces the UCM researchers. This bottleneck of research funding has caused "even halt projects," said the group, or the increase thereof having to pay additional costs for late payment, you have come to exceed one year. "We are affected by this problem hundreds of researchers from the Complutense" complains a member of the Platform. The group explains that the financial hole that is causing this mess for most university scientists face of Spain (100,000 students and 6,000 teachers) around 50 million euros in the Complutense Foundation, the entity responsible for managing research funds obtained UCM staff. According to the Platform, which brings together some 600 researchers, one third of all teachers of the UCM performs "active investigation", ie competitive programs.
Source: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. / COUNTRY
The Rector of the Complutense acknowledges the problem and says it is doing everything possible to remedy it. "We do not blame the previous managers of the UCM, but the reality is what it is: the current governing team arrived in June 2011 and met with a debt of 50 million with the UCM Foundation, the majority research is money, "he told El Pais the Vice Chancellor for Research, Joaquin Plumet. "Since we got the rector we tried to transfer more funds to the Foundation to remedy the situation and delay payments to suppliers, whether in 2012 was more than a year, now is three or four months."
The problem does not surface on a fixed date, but is the product of a gradual drift of the Foundation budget. Scientists began to suffer increasingly pressing effects of delays and defaults, up to a desperate situation.
Researchers Platform channels a long and detailed list of scientists who have suffered difficulties. Several reported price increases (15% or 20%) of supplies. For others, the situation is even worse because providers have refused to serve the material, given the accumulated debt, or do not perform repair and maintenance of laboratory equipment. Several teachers complain of unpaid contributors travel bills, including foreign institutions, who anticipated expenses and receivables fail after several months claiming the money, with the "consequent decline of the prestige of the University Complutense" adds one of them.
Some teachers complain about not being able to pay registration fees to international conferences. In the animal house a center "most providers (gloves, stockings, masks, alcohol, think, anesthetics, etc.) no longer serve the UCM, so part of what we now assume that spending researchers", complaint other. Among the complaints highlights one on "the impossibility of using high quality laboratories, eg for precision dating since only accept payment in 60 days." You come to denounce the "inability to perform animal experiments".
A researcher submits a photo of a bulging file of invoices on his desk. A picture is worth a thousand words. And others exposed the problem emerged when the delay in the payment of publication fees of scientific journals not complicate the presentation of his research on them.
Scientists present their competitive programs and projects are selected for their quality and interest after being evaluated, each receive an assignment to develop (within a fixed time), and have to go to justify the expense. The usual procedure is that the institution where the researcher works open for him a line on spending.
In the case of the UCM, the Platform blames the problems of access to finance to the strategy of the rector, who works with a single box which will stop all the money coming to college, regardless of origin and destination , and leaving all your payments. But money for research projects (the National R + D + i, of European or autonomy) is assigned individually. And the owners are responsible for the proper use of money within the time limits (three years in the National Plan). Plumet acknowledges a single housing policy and emphasizes that research is a priority, but behind the payment of staff salaries.
The Secretary of State for R & D + i, which manages and funds the National Plan projects, says that you are not aware of the situation occurring Platform complaint because the UCM single box, but remember that "money projects must be justified in detail at the end of it (with possible extensions argued and justified) and, if not met, the institution must return the money is not justified. "
UCM scientists want solutions now. The rector said that they are paying urgent bills Plumet suppliers recognizes its "obligation to try to fix this problem." But it emphasizes that, with deep cuts in funding for the Community of Madrid Complutense suffering, "the situation is not fixed in one day."
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