Within the framework of the RAICES Program, a virtual meeting was held between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Network of Foreign Scientists, under the axis “Challenges to sovereignty, investing in Science”, in which the National Director for the Promotion of MINCYT Scientific Policy, Karina Pombo; RAICES coordinator, Carolina Mera; presidential adviser, Dora Barrancos and scientists from a network of Germany, the UK, Spain, France, Italy, the US East and the Czech Republic.

Carolina Mera points out: “Dr. Barrancos is important because he points to the need to continue to debate and strengthen the financing of science as a fundamental tool for advancing the process of sovereignty in all things (economic, territorial and political, scientific and technological, food, among others), fundamental to the development of an autonomous and inclusive state”.

For his part, Barrancos highlights “the role of public investment in Science to enhance social and humanistic knowledge, which is fundamental in any case to the critical role of Science and its central meaning: to enhance human dignity.”

They are present through the network: Germany: Silvia Braslavsky, Claudia Lozano and Fabiola de la Precilla; Czech Republic: Anabella Araudo; Spain: Sofia Jaime; France: Norma Sanchez; Italy: Sabatino Alfonso Annecchiarico; England: Isro Gloger; and the Eastern United States, Horacio Rotstein.

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About the Interredes Meeting Cycle

The RAICES program is a transversal space to connect Argentine scientists residing abroad based on their field of work.

The official responsible for implementing the policy under discussion and the Network members studying or working on this issue participate in each session.

The first meeting discussed “The Malvinas cause as State policy” and was attended by the then Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and International Worship, Ambassador Daniel Filmus.

The second meeting is about “Sustainable Mobility” and has as its protagonist Marcelo Kloster, Advisor in the Cabinet Advisory Unit of the Ministry of Productive Development.

The third meeting was attended by Rolando González-José, Director of the National Patagonian Center-CONICET and Coordinator of the new National Reference Program and Genome Biobank of the Argentine Population (POBLAR), who was discussed at the meeting.