She graduated MGS in Mathematics from the University of Valencia last year. He was never a poor student, but rather a brilliant student, and in fact received an unusual award after graduation. This impeccable file led him to seek FPU, training assistance. … Members of the university’s teaching staff. These are research scholarships offered by the Ministry of Science and their purpose is to provide students with an incentive to complete their doctoral thesis and train as future university professors. This is Valencia It was left at the doors on the last call He ranks second on the reserve list in the field of mathematics and statistics. But it is common for some researchers to reject the grant and I was confident of that, At some point, I’ll run the list, This also happens in any allocation of public places.
“The situation reflects a lack of transparency on the part of the ministry,” says one of the affected researchers.
“The Ministry chose to leave all resignations vacant, without giving any explanation. There are qualified candidates who could fill it, however It’s the places that are lost», MGS confirms to this newspaper. But their case is not isolated, as it affects dozens of researchers, and their number may reach hundreds. The ABC was able to access the latest decision published by the Ministry of Science and verify that 61 places were refused this year. But Diana Morant’s team did not reallocate these grants for three consecutive years. It happened in We pray for 2022, in 2023, and now in 2024. “They always told me the deadline to stop being vacant was before the end of the year, but it was never clear to us what they were referring to,” says MGS. He concluded, “The situation reflects a lack of transparency on the part of the ministry.”
This newspaper asked the Ministry of Science why the rejected FPU grants were not awarded, but it provided no explanation. but, Diana Morant’s team is aware of the issue. The FPU Investiga association held several meetings with the Ministry to try to find out why the supplementary decisions have not been published, that is, why the invitation list that relies on public state budgets (PGE) has not been published.
The arenas are in limbo
In the last meetings that this association held with the Ministry, they told it that “in the years 2023 and 2024, general intervention took place.” He was not inclined to publish the aforementioned decisions“, says Mar Cuartero, treasurer and member of FPU Investiga. He continued that by not granting this aid the rest is directed to other items in the budget. That is, the budget has been released. However, as this newspaper has been able to verify, the call-up orders stipulate that new places can be granted as long as the candidates meet the requirements and the availability of the budget allows it. They will be reappointed, according to the call, in the order of the result. “We also do not know how many people have remained in limbo since there is no public information about the resignations,” says Cuartero.
“Administrative silence”
The truth is that researchers on the waiting list do not know why new places have not been allocated and are demanding an explanation. The government will stop funding dozens (if not hundreds) of pre-doctoral contracts between PhD students and a university or research center for four years. The ABC learned of the case of other young people in the same situation as MGS who preferred not to appear in the report for fear that reporting the situation would harm them. «“We don’t know where this money is going.” Expose one of them. “The only thing we receive is administrative silence,” says the Valencian mathematician who dared to denounce it.