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Correspondence
Nature 410, 627 (5 April 2001) |
Spain is a closed culture to foreign researchers
Simon Pickin1
- IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France
Other signatories to this letter:
Peter Breuer, Carlos III University, Spain
Gennady Fiksman, Nortel Networks, Spain
Salvador López Mendoza, Autonomous National University of Mexico
Amparo López Gaona, Autonomous National University of Mexico
Carlos Sánchez Tarnawiecki, Fundacio Bosch i Gimpera, Peru
We wish to add a foreigner's perspective on the current debate (for example, see Nature 407, 659; 2000 and Nature 410, 14; 2001) about the Spanish research environment, in which we have each spent more than five years.In a policy at odds with the rest of the EU, posts for non-EU nationals are simply not available in Spain's huge public sector.
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