Santander, Jan 26 (EFE).- The Ministry of Science and Innovation estimates that assuming compensation for the end of pre-doctoral and post-doctoral contracts will have a cost of 30 million euros, a measure that, according to what its head has advanced this Thursday, Diana Morant, will be approved next week at the Scientific Policy Council to be held in Valencia
Morant has announced the approval of this measure at the SER Cantabria Forum, in which he has defended that the Government of Spain “is fulfilling its commitments” in the field of science and research and returning “restricted” rights to researchers.
Among these rights, he explained that, since the entry into force of the Science Law, which includes this measure for the first time, the compensation for the end of pre-doctoral or post-doctoral contracts are being paid by research centers, mostly universities. , which host 75 percent of these researchers.
To avoid “treasury tensions” in these centers, Morant recalled that his Ministry has already announced that it will assume this cost for all contracts, which it estimates will amount to around 30 million euros and that it will be approved at the next Scientific Policy Council, which will bring together the Ministry and the Autonomous Communities in Valencia.
“This is the least that we could do from the Ministry of Science, create new rights and then accompany the research centers in the payment of these new rights,” argued the minister, who criticized that before “they were made to choose between the job insecurity or the sustainability of the centers”, when what, as he has defended, “must be made compatible with the recognition of new rights and the sustainability and financing” of these organizations.
The minister has also advanced that this week the new call for the five-year periods will be published, which serves as a reinforcement to cover the salary of the research staff of the public research organizations, which for the first time will recognize the research experience in all the centers , including foreign universities.
“We comply with a historic and unanimous demand from the scientific community, especially from the one that our country had to leave during the lost decade,” added Morant, who has demanded “adequate” funding from the Autonomous Communities for their expensive universities. to the “leap” that Spain is taking in science and research.
