Of the more than 50 researchers with a grant from the University of Algarve, there are «three or four cases» that do not meet the eligibility criteria for funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), so the institution does not know how to resolve these situations. The words are from rector Paulo Águas, in the interview he gave, about a week ago, to the program «Impressions», jointly produced by Sul Informação and by Rádio Universitária do Algarve (RUA FM).
"The guardianship has to say where we are going to get the money" to solve these cases, he added. The fact is that, underlined the rector, "there is the law of scientific employment, but there is also the law of commitments." “If I don't have money, how can I be making a commitment?” he asked.
The person responsible for the University of Algarve, who considered this whole process to be of great "complexity", guaranteed, in the interview, that, after having already opened a first competition for part of the scholarship holders considered eligible, a second procedure for the rest , will be open «until the 31st of August».
The professors and researchers of the University of Algarve are still unhappy with this process, who this Monday, June 25, at 12:00, focus for the fourth time to demand compliance with the budget law and scientific employment.
Researchers and professors continue to demand compliance with the laws of the Republic and the Regulation of Performance Assessment of the University of Algarve, a topic that the rector also addressed in his interview to Sul Informação and STREET FM.
Paulo Águas also addressed the issue of the Program for the Extraordinary Regularization of Precarious Links in Public Administration (PREVPAP).
The fundamental question in relation to all these themes, underlined the dean, has to do with the financing of universities. Last year, he recalled, "the Government pledged to guarantee funding levels for Portuguese universities", but with the announcement that, if there was an "increase in costs" that was not the result of decisions by the rectors, "there would have to be some compensation'. And there came to be, in fact, "legislative changes that meant an increase in spending" on the part of universities and polytechnics. This “forced the tutelage to strengthen the budgets” of the institutions.
But the process, stressed Paulo Águas, "did not go very well": "the money didn't come all, it didn't come all for everyone, it didn't all come at the same time."
In relation to scientific employment and the increased costs with the integration of these fellow researchers, «the signs we have are that the reinforcements will not cover the increased expenses and this will cause serious treasury problems» to UAlg.
In the remuneration valuations for the decent, “we have an estimate [of costs] and what they say they will transfer us is about 60% of that estimate. And the other 40%?”, asks the dean Paulo Águas.
See here, in full, the statements by dean Paulo Águas on UAlg's financial issues:
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