Contratos de Investigación "Ramón y Cajal" (3)

Hoy ha salido publicado en la prestigiosa revista Science la siguiente nota:

ScienceScope [Science 23 June 2006: Vol. 312. no. 5781, p. 1727]
Young Spanish researchers are up in arms following recent comments by a government minister who referred to them as "postdoctoral and temporary." The roughly 2500 scientists, most Spanish-born, were lured back to their home country --many from tenure-track jobs abroad-- for a fellowship program that promised "their integration in the Spanish science system." Now, with the first 5-year contracts in the Ramón y Cajal program nearing their end, many institutions have yet to offer secure employment, despite recent funding incentives from the government, although precise figures are not available. Newly appointed Secretary of State for Universities and Research Miguel Ángel Quintanilla's words, published in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, have only added to the scientists' discontent. The National Association of Ramón y Cajal Researchers deplored Quintanilla's "disrespectful and burlesque attitude." But the Ministry of Education and Science says it gave "generous" incentives to universities and research centers and "can't oblige [institutions] to contract anyone."

Como ya dijo Francisco J. Tapiador en su Carta al Director publicada en el periódico de El País hace unos días (teneis su carta íntegra un poco más abajo), fastuoso ... Las recientes declaraciones del Sr. Quintanilla incluso tienen repercusión a nivel mundial ... ¡ahora si que somos europeos! ¡Hay que ver que nivel tenemos!