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Young Researchers in Spain:
Fighting for Employment Rights
Spanish Research, Education and Social
Protection System in the European Context
EU-15 Pos. from
the bottom
At the bottom of the pile...
 Investment in R&D [% GDP]
3rd
 # Researchers / 1000 workforce
4th
 # Patents / mill. population
3rd
 Composite Indicator of Investment in the Knowledge-based Economy
2nd
 Investment in Education
- Public & Private Tertiary Education Investment [% GDP]
3rd
- Total Investment in Tertiary Education per Student [PPP]
3rd
- Total Investment in Education per capita [euros]
3rd
 Social Protection:
- Investment per capita [PPS]
- Total Investment [% GDP]
 Development:
- Human Development Index (HDI)
- Readiness for the Future Index
 Situation of Young Researchers
1st
2nd
3rd
3rd
Among the worst...
The Initial Situation:
The Precariousness’ Paradoxes ...
income / labour relation
Studentships =
earned income
paying income tax
Work produces it is
formation and does not
create a labour relation
training / production
About half of Spanish
scientific production comes
from young researchers in
training
NO SS
Research activity of young
researchers is exclusively
training
How FJI has demolished Government arguments?...
Raising Society and Politicians’ Awareness:
Key Reports
 FJI’s Scientific Production of Research Training
Personnel in Spain Report (05/10/2001)
 Experts Committee’s Report on Research Training
and the Scientific Career in Spain (20/09/2001)
S&T Ministry’s bill
draft to regularize the
situation of young
researchers
Raising Society and Politicians’ Awareness:
Conferences, Media, Institutional Meetings
 FJI organizes ‘Eurodoc 2002’ in Girona (Spain);
is officially created (02/2002)
 FJI organizes the I Meeting of Young
Researchers in Spain, Cádiz (07/02/2003)
 During 2002, many high-level meetings with
National
and
Regional
Governmental
Representatives, Political Parties, Trade Unions,
and with Universities and Research Centres.
 FJI sent to the media more than 20 press releases during
2002; more than a hundred articles in local, national
and international press, several radio interviews, and a
few interviews/news on TV.
Pushing politicians to do something:
Demonstrations
 A big demonstration in
Madrid with more than
3000 young researchers,
from all over Spain
(25/10/2002)
 More than a dozen of
smaller concentrations and
protest acts through the
year and throughout the
country.
Resume: Actions, Outputs, Outcomes
Eurodoc
2002
Key
Reports
Orange
October
Highlevel Insti.
Meetings
Joint
Press with
Trade Unions
Young
Researchers
Meeting
> 20
press
releases
Great
Media
Impact
Government
and Parties use
our reports
Parliam
entary
bills
Maternity
Leave
Isolation
or Changes
A promise
towards
regularization
?
2+2
Grant-Contract
Scheme
”Orange pressure advances slowly but inexorably”
Toni Gabaldón, FJI/PRECARIOS
”The fight for recognition must go on”
Pablo Sánchez León & María Villarroya, February 2002, ED02 Abstracts
”Whatever happens, we won’t give up”
Diana Romero, February 2003, Science NextWave
Federación de Jóvenes Investigadores / PRECARIOS
Young Researchers Federation / PRECARIOS
http://precarios.org