Reacción a "Reactions to the adoption of the new Science Law "

The new Law on Science and Technology, which amends Law 14/2011, was definitively approved this afternoon by Congress, without incorporating an amendment approved in the Senate last July, against the granting of indefinite contracts to research personnel linked to projects financed with European competitive funds. 

Separating competitive projects according to the source of their funding does not make much sense, although the necessary and beneficial mobility of scientists should be considered in all of them. Permanent contracts linked to competitive projects will entail significant economic costs in the medium and long term. 

In general, the new law represents an improvement in the science system as it takes up some of its historical demands, such as: regularly increasing public spending to reach 1.25% of GDP by 2030, reducing the precariousness of research careers, helping to retain and attract talent, and, very importantly, reducing the excessive bureaucratic burden suffered by the Spanish science system.