Federalization and incorporation of researchers to CONICET in 2019-2020: Easier said than done?
Abstract
This article analyzes the incorporation of new members to
the Career of the Scientific and Technological Researcher
(CIC) of the CONICET in 2019 and 2020, concerning
the objective of federalization (territorial redistribution)
and in light of two divergent strategies that have
been historically at the core of CONICET. The quantitative
analysis shows that the federalization of the CIC
in the last two calls has mainly gone through the program
for strengthening of R&D, while the results in the other
modalities suggest the abandonment of the geographical
criteria of years ago. This seems to indicate a return to an
academic approach, which is characteristic of the general
or free call with the balance between the different areas of
knowledge as the only additional criterion.
