Representatives from each district reported on the budgetary situation of their headquarters in the Chamber of Deputies.
This Tuesday, provincial representatives of the Federal Council of Science and Technology (COFECYT) They participated in an information meeting at the Chamber of Deputieswhere they described the conditions under which academic activity is carried out in each province.
The meeting took place at Commission on Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Deputieschaired by Daniel Gollan (UP), who narrated that they have summoned the authorities of the national administration without success: “You cannot naturalize this that there are no answers and there are no meetings of the Federal Council of Science and Technology.”
The meeting occurred simultaneously with the debate of the Budget 2025whose project proposes eliminate a minimum percentage of financing that corresponds to the National System of Science, Technical Professional Education and National Educationin addition to establishing an amount for universities around 50% of those claimed by the authorities of the study houses: a sum is set around the $3.8 billion to finance “operating expenses, investment and special programs of national universities.” The response of National Interuniversity Council (CIN) it arrived less than 48 hours later, demanding almost double that, $7.2 billion.
Provincial representatives of Science and Technology in Deputies
The first speaker was the representative of the province of The Pampa, Luz Lardonestressed the importance of Federal Council of Science and Technology: “It is an area where the country’s scientific policy has been discussed and these policies were articulated with the Interinstitutional Council of Science and Technology.” There they were addressed “realities, inequalities and asymmetries present in each of the provinces” and stated that “it is the budgetary issue is worrying and that the Financing Law is not being complied with.”
In turn, Hugo Vera (La Rioja) He pointed out that previously “there was an umbrella from the Nation with a very federal management where programs were leveraged and different lines of action were financed” and that he fears that “All of this is squandered, lost, diluted because we fundamentally need this National Science and Technology Plan to become a reality.”. “We need the necessary items to be incorporated into the current budget to provide continuity to the infrastructure,” he concluded.
The Córdoba example presented a different reality. “The budget we have for science has not been touched, in fact, we are reaching 100% execution. We have a financing program for science and technology“, said Gabriel Tonettiwho stressed that “institutionalism is important and that we can continue working and start with the sessions, meetings and joint work within the Federal Council.” In that sense, he asked to prioritize “the linkage and transfer to reach the 12 universities that we have, the 18 Science and Technology institutions, both national and provincial.”
Erica Hynes, of Santa Fecommented that his province “does not escape the national situation that those who preceded me have described”, but commented that in his province the activities are characterized by “a lot of industrial dynamism and biotechnology companies“that “have a relevance and an impact that is recognized throughout the country.” “This all has a very strong relationship with the production of knowledge and with the production of information data novelty that, later, is what will be able to become innovation in companies,” he added.
Source: Ambito
