The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Universities, Juan Cruz Cigudosa, has today signed the agreement for the implementation of the ‘María Goyri Program’ in Cantabria, with which the incorporation of 48 assistant professors doctor at the University of Cantabria will be financed.
In particular, the Government of Spain will finance the hiring of 29 assistant professors doctor and the Government of Cantabria 19 more places, which means an increase of more than 50% of the places for this type of teaching staff at the University of Cantabria.
The Secretary of State said that “the public university plays a key role in the territory: it is a clear resource to guarantee equal opportunities, forms local talent and produces scientific, technological and humanist knowledge that transfers to local companies, institutions and other organizations.”
The agreement has also been signed by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Universities of the Cantabrian Government, Sergio Silva Fernández, and the Rector of the University of Cantabria, Ángel Pazos Carro, in an act that counted on the participation of the Government delegate in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego.
‘Maria Goyri Program’
With the signing of this agreement, there are already 9 regional CCAAs, including Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Navarra, Canary Islands, Aragón, La Rioja and Comunitat Valenciana, which have joined the implementation of this unpublished program, whose objective is to finance more than 5,600 teaching assistant doctor positions in public universities throughout Spain.
In particular, Cigudosa pointed out that “the Government’s commitment to the ‘María Goyri Program’ means financing for six years 3,400 teaching assistant doctor positions throughout Spain, which will entail an overall cost of more than 900 million euros on the part of the Executive”.
In addition, he explained that “this Program involves the mobilization of another 2,236 places that will be paid by the autonomous communities, which are the ones with the competences.”
“The Government of Spain, the Autonomous Communities and the Public Universities are working to put an end, definitively, to a situation of inadmissible precariousness in our universities, as a result of a stage marked by the cuts and logics of disinvestment that have had different impacts on the territories,” said the Secretary of State.
He also recalled that “this is the first time that a Spanish Government has taken direct responsibility for the salary of university professors and researchers, financing a competition that is transferred to the CCAA”.