Monday, April 25, 2016

Researchers contest to bags of renovation at the Higher Institute of Agronomy – RTP


 The ISA President Varennes Amarilis, who declined to provide information Lusa, justified the decision a `email` on April 01, with the Grant Holder Statute, which prohibits” the use of research fellows for needs satisfaction permanent service “, and the history of successive grants awarded to researchers.
 

 At issue is the `dispensa` just over a dozen research fellows, with several years’ casa`, but without an employment contract. However, the number will increase, some of the injured contacted by Lusa, as they rejected the application for renewal or grant is awarded.
 

 “I have almost ten years of work in this institution, and to be relieved in this way is an atrocious injustice,” he lamented a researcher Liliana Bento Lusa, noting that a part of the European project in which it participated, and ending in November, is compromised.
 

 The bag that ran, and which acts as a salary, but without the right to unemployment benefit in case of `despedimento`, has a maximum duration of six years, according to the research grant regulations which governs the ISA.
 

 Liliana Bento began receiving financial support, paid directly to the revenues of the project in October 2014, but the April 7, 2016, was not renewed, despite the favorable opinion of the research coordinator at the Institute of Agronomy, the University of Lisbon.
 

 For the researcher, not only “the chair of the ISA is to dispense with the fellows of the institution without any legal basis”, based on “incorrect interpretation of the legislation,” but “there is no willingness to integrate fellows over six years in institution through employment contracts. ”
 

 Scientist working, lately, a scholarship of Applied Ecology Center Baeta Neves, the Enhance project, coordinated by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and aims to examine ways to improve society’s response to the impacts of natural disasters.
 

 Now, “all scheduled tasks” and that was in charge, the dissemination of national results “are suspended”.
 

 “By failing to present the project results to the scientific community, the public and the European Commission itself, puts into question the success of the Portuguese component,” he affirmed.
 

 Ana Müller, scientist of the Research Centre for Agronomy, Food, Environment and Landscape, was unable, at the end of 2015 to renew the scholarship or apply for another ISA, with the argument that his scholarship sum exceeded the five years.
 

 The Regulation for 14 different grants, only limits the duration of each type of bag, which can go up to a maximum of six years, depending on the case, “not making considerations on the accumulation of different grants, different projects,” cautioned the researcher.
 

 “Can I apply [a bag] another university, but this [ISA], which already develop a consistent work and contribute to the deepening of a single research line in the country, I can not continue,” it deplored-, stressing that He continues to teach this semester, the Higher Institute of Agronomy, “without receiving any income.”
 

 The chairman of the Scientific ISA Council, Helena Pereira, believes “reserves” the president of the institute, such as “stay in a situation of illegality, of failure, given the rules for the Civil Service”, if you continue to renew successive contracts.
 

 However, it considers that the fellows “are a very important part for the operation of the projects’ research and it is against these that” the permanent needs of the services “have to be considered.
 

 “I admit that a project that is at the end, in the last year, this disorder [non-renewal of a grant] is serious,” he told Lusa, complaining of a “malaise” generated in the institution where he said it is intended to “increase the quality, research excellence.”
 

 The Scientific Council may propose “changes to the organization and scientific activity” ISA, but it is for the president of the institution approved the granting or renewal of scholarship contracts.
 

 In March, the government approved the gradual replacement of the award postdoctoral grants for hiring PhDs, by scientific institutions and higher education.
 

 However, according to Helena Pereira, most ISA `dispensados` fellows do not even have a PhD completed. The teacher regrets that no open vacancies for permanent staff.
 

 On the situation exposed to Lusa by researchers, the rectory of the University of Lisbon refuted any illegality, referring the solution of the dispute, since the knowledge of the parties with parliamentary seat, for ISA, “which has pedagogical and financial autonomy”.
 

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