SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 20. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Unidas Sí Podemos –Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Sí Se Puede– has promised to “give a decided boost from all institutions” to the financing of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), as reported in a press release
After meeting with the director of the IAC, Rafael Rebolo, the candidate for the Cabildo de Tenerife, Manuel Marrero, and the candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands for Tenerife, Laura Fuentes, highlighted the need for the island and regional governments to guarantee “a budget allocation commensurate with the relevance of this body”, as well as making progress in improving the working conditions of its professionals.
Marrero pointed out the need to “support cutting-edge projects from the Tenerife island administration such as the Solar Telescope, the TMT (‘Thirty Meters Telescope’) or the Cherenkov Project, clear examples of the productive fabric of the Canary Islands based on cutting-edge research and value added”.
“The councils should serve as tools to promote sectors and projects for the future, generators of qualified employment and that allow progress as islands, in the face of outdated models of cement and mass tourism like the ones we have seen for decades,” he said.
For his part, Fuentes highlighted the “firm determination” of United Sí Podemos to increase the regional budget to “guarantee that the IAC has all the necessary resources, both to investigate and to hire its staff in decent conditions.”
“We are talking -he continued- about an entity that puts the Canary Islands on the world map of scientific advances, that allows it to attract quality investments and that must receive the necessary support to carry out its work and offer the best conditions to the professionals who make it possible.”
Currently, the IAC promotes projects for large telescopes that attract investments of up to 400 million euros, which for Fuentes means “a true strategic pole for the future that Canarian institutions must promote.”
