translated from Spanish: Government announced increased funding for research

After the hyper-media tour of Marina Simion, the scientist who participated in the question and answer program that leads Santiago del Moro, the Secretariat of Science, technology and productive innovation of the nation announced yesterday a series of measures that, according to They say, they would contribute to normalize the functioning of centres and research institutes. The key points of this announcement are: an increase in the budget of 1 billion pesos to finance the approved and awarded research projects, both through the National Agency for the Promotion of science and technology, and through the CONICET and the Federal Council of Science and Technology (COFECYT). It is assumed that the increase would begin to effectuated with disbursements from the month of June, and would continue throughout the year.
The signing of the decree of appointment of Mario Pecheny and Alberto Kornblihtt as directors of the CONICET.
The opening of the call to the career of the scientific investigator 2019 from June 3, to cover 450 new positions. 
A budget increase of 300 million for the purchase of equipment, based on the last Call of the program for the improvement of equipment.
The signing of the decree amending the import regime for inputs for scientific and technological Research (ROECYT) so that the inputs and equipment necessary for the development can be imported in a more economical, simple and rapid manner. of investigations.
Many scientists, however, believe that these points do not solve the underlying problems. For this reason, today, since the 13th, they summon an open council for the science in which the budgetary situation will be announced and will be protested against the ex-Ministry of Science. 

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