Bridge international cooperation

2000/06/01 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Fisika

The Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) was inaugurated on 27 April. The new centre will be located on the campus of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian. In this way, it will be integrated into the university infrastructure and will be directly related. The project is in the first phase. The DIPC entity has been installed in the building of an old school next to the Faculty of Chemistry. The economic sponsors are the Department of Education and Industry of the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the City Council of San Sebastian, Kutxa and the University of the Basque Country. The initial budget is 60 million, but over the years the entity is expected to grow.

The original idea was from physicists Pedro Miguel Etxenike and Juan Colmenero. It is based in the school of Trieste and similar. The main goal is to strengthen and foster relationships with people who do basic science abroad. This means that it will generate job opportunities with foreign physicists, whether researchers here come to the outside or come from outside. In addition to high-level physicists, young scientists will receive an offer to come to the Physics Center. It will be a place for congresses, conferences and research. It will also be an airport. He wants to offer Basque scientists abroad a clue to return to us. As Pedro Miguel Etxenike has pointed out, they will be offered five-year contracts to carry out their research work and, incidentally, find the way for their integration into the Basque scientific and technological system. In addition, basic science will be encouraged. New fields that are not applied science will be treated, that is, it is intended to increase the deficiencies of basic research and, as history has shown, the most effective technological applications have come through basic science. It is the best example of this microelectronics that surrounds us. G. Roa bridge