The new scientific career is another of the axes of the reform of the Law of Science, Technology and Innovation: creating a new scientific career and better supporting talent and its connection with the private sector. The new model of the scientific career aims to give stability to the research staff, while focusing on the objective external evaluation of scientific performance. To this end, this investment includes the reinforcement and updating of calls for the hiring of research personnel and, among them, the support of this new figure when the amendment of the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation comes into force.
The reinforcement and updating of calls for the recruitment of research personnel is specified in:
Call for grants “Industrial doctors” (4-year contracts for the training of doctors in companies, encouraging their stabilization) and Call for grants from the Torres Quevedo program (3-year contracts for the hiring of doctors in companies).
Calls for grants linked to the new scientific career. A set of three differentiated instruments covering the different stages of the scientific career is contemplated and for each of them the corresponding calls for aid are established:
- Aid for training. Grants whose purpose is to facilitate the transition from predoctoral training to the postdoctoral stage and which will include an aid to mobility.
- Aids to the incorporation. Aid for the consolidation of the postdoctoral stage that will include an aid for research.
- Support for the contracting of Stable Incorporation to the SECTI (figure type Tenure Track). Grants that will accompany the signing of a fixed employment contract that falls under the Public Employment Offer of the Public Administrations, in combination with an additional endowment for research (start-up package). The Recovery Plan funds this additional endowment for research. This procedure will allow stable access of the best scientific and research personnel to the public agents of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation, subjecting them in any case to an objective external evaluation four years after the signing of the corresponding work contract, in order to assess, from multiple perspectives, the scientific performance developed during that period and thus allowing the retention of the best talent.
