Source: MICIU
- This procedure will be open for 15 days to collect contributions and comments from those who are interested in doing so.
- The Minister of Science, Innovation, and Universities, Diana Morant, has highlighted that, with this procedure, the MICIU takes a new step towards the approval of this Royal Decree, so demanded by the scientific and university community of our country, as included in the Law of Science, Technology, and Innovation.
The Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (MICIU) has presented for public information the draft Royal Decree that develops the transfer six-year term and expands the scope of application of the research five-year terms, as included in the new Law of Science, Technology, and Innovation. This procedure will be open for 15 days to collect contributions and comments from those who are interested in doing so.
In the case of the transfer six-year terms, there is an objective expansion of their scope with incentives that will reach not only the research activity, as was the case until now, but also the transfer of research results carried out by career civil servant researchers belonging to the Public Research Organizations (OPIs) of the General State Administration.
In the case of the five-year terms for research personnel of the Public Research Organizations (OPIs), these will evaluate and recognize for the first time all the research merits previously achieved in the public sector and in any university, both in Spain and abroad. Until now, the five-year terms only recognized experience in the OPIs of our country.
The Minister of Science, Innovation, and Universities, Diana Morant, has highlighted that, with this procedure, “the MICIU takes a new step towards the approval of this Royal Decree, so demanded by the scientific and university community of our country,” as included in the Law of Science.
Morant explained that this Royal Decree “will promote the dissemination of science throughout society, to businesses and public administrations, as we incentivize the transfer of research results. It is essential that these results reach the public and that they can benefit from them.”
In short, Morant assured, “it represents a fundamental advance for Spain to become a knowledge-based country and to place science at the center of its policies.”