The government creates 70 positions to recruit high-level scientists fleeing the United States.

This year, the Catalan government will launch a program of 78 positions in Catalonia for "high-level" researchers. Catalonia Talent Bridge, as announced by the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, will be endowed with 30 million euros and will last three years. The objective, according to Isla, is to counteract the scientific "denialism" of the United States: "In the face of the denialism that we see in some countries, in this case the United States, by all those people who may see their academic freedom curtailed or their research projects frustrated, who feel that they are not in the right environment, we are launching the 'Catalonia' sion. The program will be endowed with 30 million euros.

This year, the Catalan government will launch a program of 78 positions in Catalonia for "high-level" researchers. , as announced by the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, will be endowed with 30 million euros and will last three years. The objective, according to Isla, is to counteract the scientific "denialism" of the United States: "In the face of the denialism that we see in some countries, in this case the United States, by all those people who may see their academic freedom curtailed or their research projects frustrated, who feel that they are not in the appropriate environment, we are launching the 'Catalonia' sion.

What will it consist of? The program is aimed at researchers who are at different stages of their careers and this 2025 the Government already plans to incorporate 26 scientists. The selection will be made through the ICREA, Pla Serra Húnter and Beatriz de Pinós programs. The project will be developed in collaboration with the 12 Catalan universities, but also the 42 research centers in the country and the 3 scientific and technical infrastructures such as the ALBA Synchrotron, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - National Supercomputing Center, and the National Center for Genomic Analysis.

"Catalonia has 40 research centers of excellence offering 70 places to those researchers who wish to participate, with a single requirement: a commitment to the highest level of excellence," stated Illa. The president emphasized that this program aims to place Catalonia "on the international talent circuit." The Catalan government maintains that this project "strengthens" the Catalan research system with international talent and "reinforces" alliances with scientific institutions in the United States.

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