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It obtains 9,3 million euros and also becomes the sixth Spanish university in terms of number of projects obtained. The campus achieves another success in the 'Ramón y Cajal' call to attract talent, which will allow it to hire eight scientists with outstanding careers.
The University of Zaragoza has obtained an amount of 9,3 million euros for a total of 83 national basic research projects, data that places it as the fifth university in Spain in terms of funding as well as the sixth in terms of the number of projects obtained. , as reported by the Aragonese institution in a statement.
These results allow it to recover the situation registered between 2008 and 2010 in the ranking of Spanish universities, after a drop in total amounts in subsequent years.
The public university institution has achieved these results in the call of the State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, within the R&D&I Projects of the State Programs for Knowledge Generation and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the Oriented System to the Society's Challenges, endowed with a total amount of 363 million euros.
Specifically, the University of Zaragoza occupies fifth place among Spanish universities in relation to the amount obtained in basic research projects, behind Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Madrid, Complutense and Seville, and becomes the sixth Spanish university in in terms of number of projects obtained, behind the universities of Barcelona, Autonomous of Madrid, Complutense, Granada and Seville.
"These data show the important capacity of our researchers to obtain financing for their work projects, as well as of the institution itself, which has opted for structures such as institutes and research centers for their empowerment, taking into account that the usual position of the University of Zaragoza in previous years was between 8th and 12th positions," highlights the acting vice-rector for Scientific Policy, M. Blanca Ros.
With this call, the Ministry of Science and Innovation promotes that the Spanish scientific community can undertake scientific and technical research projects of high quality, novelty and relevance that contribute to the progress of knowledge, as well as the resolution of society's problems and the economy growing. "The results obtained in this edition by our research community, with the support of the Research Management Service of the University of Zaragoza, show that we have enough muscle to be able to face the challenges that citizens are posing and that must be addressed. response from knowledge in diverse areas and in growing interrelation, technological, scientific, biomedical, agri-food, humanistic and social challenges", underlines the vice-rector.
Unizar will "sign" eight 'Ramón y Cajal' researchers
On the other hand, along with these data that confirm the attractiveness of the research activity offered by the University of Zaragoza, we must also highlight an increase in the response to the call for talent in recent years. In fact, in the last call of the 'Ramón y Cajal' program of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the University of Zaragoza has obtained funding for the incorporation of eight 'Ramón y Cajal' doctors from very different thematic areas.
Specifically, the aid from the 'Ramón y Cajal' program is aimed at promoting the incorporation of national and foreign researchers with an outstanding career in R&D centers by, on the one hand, granting financing for their employment and, On the other hand, the granting of aid for the creation of permanent jobs for their subsequent incorporation into the agents of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation who are beneficiaries of this aid.
"The response obtained in the last two calls in 2018 and 2019, with the incorporation of 15 very high-level researchers, demonstrates the ability of the University of Zaragoza to attract talent," says the acting vice-rector for Scientific Policy. . "The value and importance that our university gives to research as an indispensable engine for renewal in the transmission and generation of knowledge is also underpinned by the possibility that Unizar offers to opt for stable contracts once its Ramón y Cajal stage has concluded. All of this has "as a consequence, a considerable increase in the number of doctors from the Ramón y Cajal Program who choose to join our university and from diverse thematic areas."
