With few research opportunities and lack of funding, Argentina's scientists are looking for a way out of the country
For more than a hundred years, Argentina’s education system, from kindergarten to postgraduate level, has been free of charge.
The pair oversaw funding increases for scientific projects and introduced programmes that attempted to repatriate Argentinian scientists working abroad by offering them similar contracts to the ones they had in North American and European states. There was reason to be optimistic at first, when Macri decided to keep Kirchner’s Minister for Science and Technology Lino Baranao. The decision gave hope to the scientific community that there would be a continuity of policies.Investment in science and technology stands at 0.23 percent of GDP and is expected to be even lower by the end of 2019. The figure is the lowest since 1991.
Becoming a researcher at CONICET involves applying for a limited number of scholarships. Winners are determined by a number of factors, including the number of published articles that a scientist has and the area of specialisation. The process is considered to be one of the most meritocratic in Argentina.Federico Hernandez, a 31-year-old chemist specialising in quantum mechanics told TRT World in a phone conversation that he was a “product of the country’s education system”.
Hernandez’s Chilean hosts offered to ensure his role in a research project that received $10m from the Chilean state, but that meant leaving Argentina in the long run. Bonafe said that developing countries still lagged behind developed countries when it came to advances in science, which he put down to the resources available.
Baranao is still in charge but now with the less senior portfolio of secretary instead of minister. The ministry itself no longer exists, and is instead a secretariat.
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