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 La Rioja, with which the incorporation of 9 assistant professors doctor at the University of La Rioja will be financed.
In particular, the Government of Spain will finance the hiring of 5 assistant professors doctor and the Government of La Rioja 4 more places.
The Secretary of State has affirmed that “a dynamic, committed, autonomous, critical and well-resourced university is a powerful lever for society to progress, and for that progress to benefit all current and future society, avoiding social and territorial exclusion.”
Cigudosa has also highlighted the dynamism and impact of the University of La Rioja in the Community, highlighting that “between 2018 and 2022 alone, it obtained 11.7 million euros in public calls for R+D+I, of which 86% came from MICIU and other Ministries.”
The agreement has also been signed by the Minister of Education and Employment of the Government of La Rioja, Alberto Galiana García, and the rector of the University of La Rioja, Juan Carlos Ayala.
The ‘María Goyri Program’ will allow the incorporation of more than 5,600 teaching assistant doctor positions to Spanish public universities
With the signing of this agreement, 7 regional CCAAs, including Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Navarra, the Canary Islands and Aragón, have joined the implementation of this unpublished program, whose objective is to finance more than 5,600 teaching assistant doctor positions in public universities throughout Spain.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.”