After two years of advertisements, debates and drafts of the new Science Law, four months of frantic work in the Secretary of Research to finalize a document and repeated statements full of high expectations by the Minister of Science and Innovation Cristina Garmendia - everything has led to a surprising act of political discretion after the draft of the new Law on Science, Technology and Innovation was approved at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 7.

Alicia Rivera | 18 may 2010

Friday, the 12th of March. This is the date appointed for Cristina Garmendia, Minister of Science and Innovation, to take the draft of the new Law of Science to the Council of Ministers. Two years have passed since the Socialist Party would incorporate it into their agenda. Two years resulting in a text full of chiaroscuro that does not resolve, according to members of the scientific community, the many challenges facing the Spanish system of science, technology and innovation.

Xavier Pujol Gebellí | 11 March 2010

The Spanish scientific system is immersed in a stirring very contrary to the stability (not only financial) and the clear horizon that the R&D system needs so much. Since the end of the summer last year, the sharp budget reduction scheduled for next year has seen a burst of protest, visible even out of the R&D system itself; it has reached the public opinion and the political activity at highest level.

Alicia Rivera | 22 desember 2009