ForInDoc - Training and Incorporation of Doctors into the Science and Technology System of the Balearic Islands

The project

Scientific and technological progress is a key factor for long-term economic, social and environmental growth. In economic terms, generating and developing new technologies means lower production costs, improved production processes and increases in the quantity and quality of products (goods or services). This also has significantly beneficial effects on the economy as a whole and a positive impact on social wellbeing and productivity.  

The main limiting factor to ensure that R&TD (research and technological development) spending is in line with economic development is having highly qualified professionals available both in public centres and in private businesses.  

Consequently, the Training and Incorporation of Doctors into the Science and Technology System of the Balearic Islands project will help to reduce this limitation, setting the following specific objectives:  

- To train research staff as a way to foster scientific and technological research to strengthen the research capacity of R&D&I groups, in both the public and the private sector, and to improve technological capacity and help staff adapt to be incorporated into the innovation system.  

- To facilitate researcher mobility with the aim of collaborating with the internationalisation of the islands’ R&D projects.  

- To incorporate research staff into the system. This will help to attract talent and prevent the brain drain to the lack of job opportunities in the Balearic Islands. It also seeks to encourage research projects led by young researchers with promising scientific futures so that they begin their careers with a project based approach.  

These objectives will be implemented through competitive calls for proposals, one per course of action, with external scientific and technical quality assessments and an opportunity selection process. These calls for proposals will encompass all stages in a researcher’s career (from doctorate students to researchers in consolidated positions). All calls for proposals will be made in 2020. A total of 28 research contracts (both training and incorporation) will be made in 2020.  

These researchers will be working in areas that focus on the objectives and scopes set by the LIET (the legislation governing the tax on tourist stays in the Balearic Islands and measures to boost sustainable tourism) and the Science and Technology Plan:

- studying, recovering and reappraising historic and cultural heritage. Energy transition.

- Knowledge, protection and recovery of the natural environment.