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Nature 407, 941 (26 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35039725

Returners not welcome at Spanish universities

Pau Ferrer1

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra, Spain

    Other signatories to this letter:
    Anna Gavarró, Josep M. Palet, Jordi Surrallès, Lluïsa M. Mir-Martínez, Jordi Ortiz, Alexandra Uscatescu, Lydia Giménez-Llort, Teresa Férriz-Roure, Begonya Saez-Tajafuerce
    UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
    Josep Quer University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Maria A. Escobar ESERP SA, Barcelona, Spain
    Sandra Montón-Subías Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
    Carles X. Simó Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Ramon Herrero Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Nature has published several articles regarding some of the obstacles that the Spanish scientific community faces in matters of appointments and research funding policies (Nature 396, 709 (1998),Nature  396, 712 (1998), Nature 400, 203 (1999),Nature 405, 723 ( 2000)).We would like to draw attention to the case of many researchers who, having completed doctoral or postdoctoral training abroad, return to Spain with the financial support of very selective programmes sponsored by the EU, the state or the regional governments.