Scientists 'Take to the Streets' in Spain - The Mundo.es

In the hall of the Madrid headquarters of the National Research Council could not and a pin. The Charter of the collective effcient by Science, which groups the Spanish scientific societies, universities, trade unions and various groups and associations of scientists, did a reading from the second letter by science that try to deliver shortly after the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (which oversees the R & D + i in Spain). But as a metaphor brain drain that is occurring to foreign , the hundreds of researchers who did not have space to go into the auditorium crowded into the hall and outside the CSIC building. A group of scientists wearing white coats, bags and big brains painted on their heads as a hat held before the door of the institution with a banner reading: “Lack country to both brain.”

text prepared by the group of scientists, and has been signed by about 45,000 signatures, aims to “convey to the Spanish society with the message that I + D + i no future” and raises a series of demands to the government to “prevent the collapse of the R + D + i”. But nobody in government was for the work to receive the message . And after a march in which researchers, accompanied by citizens and politicians, as Soraya Rodriguez, spokesman for the Social Democratic Party, or Juan Lopez de Uralde, Green Party spokesman equo, nobody has come to welcome scientists and pick up the letter and signatures.

Carlos Andradas, president of the Confederation of Associations of Spain (Cosce), stated that “it is not because scientists feel orphaned, but despises government science.” And he recalled that the collective previously requested that a portfolio REPRESENTATIVE receive them and pick up the message signed by tens of thousands of citizens, which it did in 2012, when the first letter was delivered by science at the seat of Prime Minister.

up looked like a red tide due to red shirts with the slogan “No science no future” that led many of the protesters. Among the signs that could be read by highlighting the many young scientists covers that read “If you destroy our science, our future is destroyed.”

Rodriguez, the Social Democratic Party spokesman, told Efe that there has been a “historic setback” with the PP government investment in R + D + i, and warned that “no investigation is not out of the crisis.”