The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, celebrated today that 24 researchers destined in public R+D+I centers in Galicia will be able to consolidate their career with almost 4.4 million euros of the program "Consolidation Researcher 2024" of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Pedro Blanco reported on the impact in Galicia of the resolution of the program that was made public by this Ministry, through the State Research Agency. And he stressed that this call “confirms the firm commitment of the Government of Spain to create more and better opportunities for scientists to work in our country.”
The delegate explained that "Consolidation Investigadora" was born with the aim of encouraging the creation of permanent places and facilitating the start or strengthening of a line of research by financing an in-house R+D+I project. And he pointed out that this amount will also serve to improve and renew spaces and laboratories and for the improvement of scientific equipment.
Detail of the concession in Galicia
In total, there will be five entities in Galicia that will improve their research staff through this program: the universities of A Coruña, Santiago and Vigo; the CSIC-Galicia and the Galician Public Foundation Technological Center of Supercomputing of Galicia.
The entity that receives the most aid for research personnel is the University of Santiago, with about 2.7 million euros to consolidate the career of 15 people in the following centers: Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Geography and History, Faculty of Sciences of Lugo, Galician Institute of High-Energy Physics, and the CIQUS, CIMUS and CITIUS centers. It is followed by the University of Vigo, which reaches 576,455 euros to consolidate the career of research personnel in the faculties of Sciences of Vigo and Ourense and in the Higher School of Mining Engineers. The CSIC Galicia will be able to promote the career of three researchers in the Biological Mission of Galicia and in the Institute of Heritage Sciences, through an aid of 516,651 euros.
The next entities to reach funding are the Galician Public Foundation Technological Centre of Supercomputing of Galicia (two grants worth 399,854 euros) and the University of A Coruña, which reaches 199,840 euros for a research professional assigned to the CICA.