The Community grants support 18 researchers from Murcia to investigate global reference centers.
The Ministry of Universities and Research Company has granted, through an aid program of the Fundacion Seneca, 18 incentives for teachers, researchers and technologists to perform Murcia stays at world rrence, as well as eight other aid 'brains 'to work with international research groups and departments of regional universities.
This program aims to promote research activities, the acquisition of knowledge and techniques, continuous, eve online isk, contact and exchange between academics and scientific researchers, as reported by regional government sources in a statement.
It promotes the mobility of these professionals to promote the development of quality technical research, the processes of transfer and assimilation of its results in strategic areas, as well as participation in international networks of innovation.
In this regard, the Minister for Universities, Salvador Marin,, fallen earth power leveling, has stressed that such initiatives "contribute to international excellence, as we get our best researchers to progress in the world rrence centers and return to the Region with leading knowledge, important contacts and collaborative projects. "
Thus, a total of 15 aid benefit to researchers belonging to the staff of a university or public or private research nonprofit based in the Region of, mortal gold, Murcia.
These researchers work in centers of Murcia United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Italy and Australia as the University of Massachusetts, Imperial College London, School of Medicine, University of New York, Humboldt University of Berlin, so such as Oxford and Duke and the School of Business at Columbia University, among others.
On the other hand, researchers collaborate with leading research groups on topics related to the treatment of obesity and its relationship with the chronobiology, the applications of new materials and insulin receptors, semantic web applications and genetic bases of virus. Also, investigate the progress in irrigation of citrus, human evolution, the astrophysics, the economy and the company or the International Criminal Court.
Similarly, three technologies of the network of technological centers of the Region and European centers of business and innovation activities carried out investigations in the United States, United Kingdom and Costa Rica on, for example, the development of a declaration of environmental product natural stone or link and network protocols for underwater communication.
Internationally renowned researchers
Moreover, aid to the realization of stay in the Region provide six foreign researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Colombia, Ukraine and Italy to work with departments and research groups in the Community, as the Science research group Cognitive or optics lab, both from the University of Murcia, or group of Bioinformatics and macromolecules of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
"The stay of researchers from other countries in the Region contributes to the development of R + D + i, the transfer of results to society and the systemproductive, "stressed the Minister.
The development of these initiatives is an investment of EUR 242 801 by the Community. Jointly involved in organizing these programs Seneca Foundation and the Institute of Development, within the Science and Technology Plan of the Region of Murcia, which coordinates the Ministry of Universities, business and research.