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The Minister of Universities and Research Company, Salvador Marín, reported this morning that in January will be launched around thirty new research projects in the humanities and social sciences.

Marin made the statements at the opening of the international seminar 'The Century of Floridablanca (1728-1808): The Spain of reforms "organized by the Ministry, through the Seneca Foundation.

Marin said that "like Jose Monino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca, was a driving force in his time of science and education from the regional government is promoting policies to support research with a broad vision as a public good contributing to the development and growth of society Murcia applying knowledge in all social fields and in production processes. "

In particular, it is expected that in January the Ministry subsidized with about 600,000 euros thirty research projects in the humanities and social sciences have recently received a favorable report from the National Assessment Agency.

These projects were submitted by the Seneca Foundation to the state institution for evaluation in April this year and have recently been examined, so that now the government is solving the regional and proceeding to grant the subsidy for implementation during the next three years .

These studies will join the 51 research projects already under way, with a total aid of EUR 1133.251, and four strategic actions, which together received 463,416 euros of 'Specific Programme Support and Social Science Research Humanities. "

The Science and Technology Plan of the Region of Murcia 2007-2010 includes research groups who work in areas such as archeology, history, law, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and pedagogy, inter alia, to consider a scientist currently can not do without the knowledge of the great aspects of humanistic and social research.

Marin said that "the region is one of the very few regions that continuously and attends and supports this particular aspect of the investigation, and so we will continue to do so, not only maintaining but increasing, despite the economic situation, the envelope economic program.

For us, research in the humanities and social sciences is an asset of enormous value, a fundamental factor for change and modernization of society. "

International recognition of the Conde de Floridablanca

The adviser thanked the experts at the international seminar and its technical director, Professor José Luis Villacañas, the work of multidisciplinary debate to take place next Friday and he hopes "to contribute to international recognition of this illustrious Murcia, because it was a of the major references in the politics of that time and, in many ways a visionary. "

This seminar is part of the Science Programme, Culture and Society for the disclosure and dissemination of Science and Technology Regional Government.

Every year, the Ministry, through the Seneca Foundation, organized one of these international meetings for the panel discussion on a research topic relevant and of interest to a broad sector of society, which this year takes place on the occasion of two hundredth anniversary of the death of the Count of Floridablanca, the most influential minister of Charles III.

Source: CARM