Spanish science defies political parties – Hypertext

After years of budget cuts and as contentious as the Job CSIC measures, the Spanish investigation has said enough. It has for the closure of Forum 100xCiencia , the meeting in La Palma has met the Centers of Excellence Severo Ochoa with journalists and media.

Juan Lerma , director of the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante, read an official statement signed by all Centers of Excellence Severo Ochoa, representing more than 3,000 researchers from all over the Spanish geography. Lerma has indicated that, having analyzed the situation of R + D + i, the institutes are determined to “put its expertise at the service of institutions and different governments.”

The statement Forum 100xCiencia is a response to warnings released these days by former CSIC responsible, which qualified the situation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research “unsustainable and chaotic”. In that sense, Lerma said that “progress is an engine of economic and social development”, which exhorted politicians to promote a State Pact for Science . The Spanish science needs financial stability and improvements in management

This alliance, according to the Centers gathered in the Canary Islands, would provide the Spanish research financial stability , away from the political ups and downs that happen every four years. Lerma has also pointed out the need to reform the laws on the management of R + D + i, with the aim of improving their competitiveness, a message repeated in the three-day Forum 100xCiencia.

It was not the only challenge for scientists. The Centers of Excellence Severo Ochoa also urged political parties to “define its position” on the investigation and “determine his electoral commitment” to science, so that voters can know which lines and ideas of each candidate. After reading the statement 100xCiencia Forum, Carmen Vela has indicated that to the point where the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation has powers-the State Budget for 2016 has been earmarked Spanish resources for science. Scientists have called political parties are clear in their electoral programs

“We have people on the left worth the skin, “Vela said in reference to the Centers of Excellence Severo Ochoa, describing them as” the best centers of Spain “. Secretary of State for R & D has admitted the “difficult times” for research, but said that “despite everything we have twenty mentions Severo Ochoa and some more will come from the October 30″.

“The future lies in science,” said Vela during the closing ceremony of the Forum 100xCiencia. Inescapably a future marked by the general elections next December 20 , a quote used by researchers to launch a cracking political parties in order to show their commitment to the Spanish science.