CARTA DE LA IUPAP AL PRESIDENTE MACRI

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   21 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2018
    
   > CARTA DE LA UNIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE FÍSICA PURA Y APLICADA (IUPAP)  
AL PRESIDENTE MACRI
>
>       International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
>
>       20 December 2018
>
>       To,
> THE PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA, MAURICIO MACRI
> AND
> THE ARGENTINE AUTHORITIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
>
>       The Executive Council of the International Union of Pure and  
> Applied Physics (IUPAP) took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 31st  
> October 2018 to 2nd November 2018. The Executive Council meets with  
> the Chairs of our 18 Commissions and 4 Affiliated Commissions to  
> continue the work of the Union between the meetings of our General  
> Assembly.
>
>       Two of the members of our meeting are Argentinians working in  
> Argentinian institutions. We learned from them, and from the  
> President of the Argentina Physical Society, that Argentina is  
> suffering significant cuts to its science budget, and that this is  
> happening after a twelve-year period of an expanding scientific  
> research effort. Many of our 55 member countries have experienced  
> economic developments that pushed their governments to make  
> significant cuts to the science budget of their country. We have  
> learned that the difficultiesfaced by the scientific community are  
> greater when the cuts occur after a period when the government has  
> been building up scientific capability and attracting talented  
> scientists to their institutions. It takes a significant period of  
> time to create excellent scientific institutions - the time involved  
> is decades, not years. But the time it takes to disrupt these  
> institutions is much shorter - perhaps one year - when they are hit  
> by dramatic budget cuts. As a result people, and the knowledge and  
> experience they have, depart the country. The skills which have been  
> developed are lost, and the flow of innovation from scientific  
> research to industry is cut off. Young scientists who had hoped to  
> make a scientific career in their home country will go elsewhere,  
> because the market for their talent is world-wide. After this  
> disruption to their careers they will be very reluctant to return to  
> their home country, fearing that it will happen again.
>
>       After the 2003-2015 expansion of the scientific research  
> effort, science support in Argentina has now contracted to the  
> extent that many research and academic institutions are having  
> difficulty paying for their basic services and maintenance, let  
> alone paying the salaries of their tens of thousands of employees.  
> The dismantling of internationally renowned research groups and a  
> brain drain involving some of Argentina’s best scientists will  
> occur. Scientific research will suffer, and as all economies are  
> ultimately built on the talents of its people, the wider economy  
> will also suffer. Noting that the salaries of the researchers and  
> scholars have become the lowest of the geographical region, we  
> foresee a new exodus of highly trained scientists.
>
>       The Executive Council appreciates the serious economic  
> difficulties faced by Argentina. However, it respectfully points out  
> that the severity of the budget cuts, personnel reductions, breach  
> of assumed commitments in research grants, international cooperation  
> and serious restrictions imposed by the current government will  
> inhibit recovery from those difficulties, and pleads that you  
> reverse these decisions before even more damage is done, and while  
> there is still a chance of recovery. That will avoid squandering the  
> investment that Argentina has made over many yearsin its scientific  
> capability.
>
>       The Executive Council resolved to write to you to explain the  
> effects that these policies will have on the scientific community in  
> Argentina, and how they will seriously jeopardize the economic  
> future of the country, and to publish that letter on its website.  
> This letter is the implementation of that resolution. It will be  
> published, together with your reply, on the IUPAP website,  
> www.iupap.org[1].
>
>       /KENNEDY REED/
> President
> International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
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